A good reminder for us today from Yasmina not to forget parasites as a cause of an over-enthusiastic allergy or immune response: PARASITES TRIGGER MAST CELL HISTAMINE RELEASE "Pretty much any invader can cause this mast cell activation... "There are many causes of a high overall IgE level, but parasite infection is definitely one of them. …
New Cyrex 10-90 Food Tests
New Cyrex 10-90 food tests now on the shop for you as promised in a new section: Gluten, Cyrex and Autoimmune Tests http://ow.ly/r7g23006hyU
Silver Clothing For Eczema
This is an interesting approach for those of you with infected eczema who maybe can't tolerate the usual approaches. I was chatting to a lovely lady, J, the other day who was telling me about her severe issues and how she resolved it as she had not responded well to antibiotics or supplements. I asked …
Ah, I Wish It Was As ‘Simple’ As That!
As a multiple food sensitive, I was pleased to read Dr Janice Joneja's recent Q&A on identifying and managing food intolerance, written for foodsmatter.com. I have read and done Janice's food elimination and challenge process myself and I agree wholeheartedly with her approach. There's just one problem: what happens when you remove the foods, except …
New Leaky Gut Factsheet
For your delectation today we have a new Leaky Gut/Hyper-Permeability factsheet. Leaky Gut, or actually body barrier breakdown, as many of you know, is a specialist subject of mine so I did have to limit myself to stop this factsheet being enormous, ha! That said, it is jam-packed with useful stuff for you. It includes …
Life As A Multiple Intolerant: Not As You Know It!
A comment from our friend Michelle at Foodsmatter on this blog post the other day got me thinking about just what our daily life is like as severely multiple intolerants. At the same time I was thinking about that, I noticed a thread on the FB groups about how difficult it is to explain to …
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Healing Series: The Reintegration Phase & Bouncing Boundaries!
I have been far too busy actually doing this stage in my healing to have time to tell you about it before now! I take that as a good sign 🙂 Reintegration? What the heck am I on about now? Let's recap before I dive in, just so you can keep up. Do read the …
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The Allergic Denial
Great article here for you from Patrick Holford who, like me, has suffered all his life with conditions he was told had nothing to do with food sensitivity. It's always good to hear it from someone else, and I do think there is a lot more recognition of the food issue possibility in chronic …
What’s In Your Food? The Shocking Truth…
This is just too depressing for words if you are sensitive to foods, additives and the like. Joanna Blythman has done a great expose article about food industry 'tricks' in The Guardian and, quite honestly, anyone with sensitivity issues should have their head in their hands after reading this. It confirms why I have been …
What’s In Your Food? The Shocking Truth…
This is just too depressing for words if you are sensitive to foods, additives and the like. Joanna Blythman has done a great expose article about food industry 'tricks' in The Guardian and, quite honestly, anyone with sensitivity issues should have their head in their hands after reading this. It confirms why I have been …
