Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Just have a look where allergies is! And check below for my top tips and resources on each condition. Chronic Health ConditionsAlmost half of the UK population reported having a disease or chronic health condition (45.7% of men and 50.1% of women).The most common health problems by age-standardised percentage rates were:Allergy of any type (30.4% …
Michelle at FoodsMatter has let us know that the Food Standards Agency is finally tackling the bugbear that is 'may contain' labelling on freefrom foods and they need our input. A long-time annoyance, frustration and no small risk for anyone who's not sure whether to believe the warnings or ignore them. What does it even …
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Saw an article here today that reminded me how confusing gluten illness is for people. Most people only consider coeliac disease, but it is much more complex than that, as my TrulyGlutenFree intro page here explains. Types of Gluten Disease Are you just not digesting gluten down properly? Are you IgE allergic to gluten or …
Just to say Christine and I have just finished updating one of the most popular Purehealth books - the Histamine Factsheet. I noticed it was being downloaded a lot and we have checked and corrected all links and updated some of the info. Download the Histamine Factsheet here This 40 page factsheet will help you …
Yep, I have dusted off my video software and created a video for you today to show you this new food allergy and sensitivity test that I launched last week. I think it always helps to show what a test looks like and I've given lots of hints and tips as I've gone through it …
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My friend and colleague, Ruth, of What Allergy has just released her new book: The Reluctant Allergy Expert, published by Curlew Books - the (very wise!) publisher of my 8 Step Healing Plan: Recovery from Chronic Illness with Mind-Body Medicine book. I've not got a copy yet, but hopefully I'll review it when I get …
As a former judge for these awards in the early days, I always love to see what new and exciting, innovative products skincare companies catering for all of us with sensitivities have come up with each year. Here are this year's winners for you - and I've asked Christine (TGF woman!) to see if she …
Essentially, official recommendations have been made that restaurants should label all ingredients in the meals they serve. For example (from the BBC News story here): Supermarket sandwich:Â already has to list full ingredients including allergens Over-the-counter sandwich:Â if it's made to order in front of you, it doesn't currently need a label. This will not change under …
I've been doing an awful lot of work on loss of oral tolerance recently in a bid to uncover the myriad biochemical reasons someone might be multi-sensitive. I have a lot more to do on it; I'm trying to do the research between patients for us and come up with a plan we can use …
Recently, I've been thinking about histamine intolerance - mostly because I was finding if I slather my head in antihistamine cream, it seems to help my headaches/migraine and also I realised that my core diet fits very well with the histamine diet. Ooer, I thought. So, of course, off I went researching it. I know …