Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Our ability to weather storms like COVID-19 is crucial to our ongoing mental and physical health. It's called being resilient. This is one I've struggled with over time. Thanks to my ACE disorder, my symptoms come back with a vengeance with any major stress, mostly probably because my amygdala - the old part of the …
Continue reading "Keep Calm & Boost Immunity 18: Resilience – How’s Yours?"
One thing we do know about all this coronavirus stuff is that stress and anxiety suppresses immunity. So, by encouraging a calm, healing state, we are much less likely to succumb to infections or get them as severely. With that in mind, following on from Deepak's meditation on the subject here, I thought it might …
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Saw this today and thought you'd like it. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You …
This popped into my Inbox this morning and, given the difficulties with family illness and moving house currently that some of you know about, it was rather timely, so I thought I'd share it. RICK'S REFLECTION: ACCEPT DIFFICULTY Sometimes things are difficult. Your legs are tired and you still have to stay on your feet another …
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When I show people the list of symptoms for histamine 'intolerance', there's always that look of doubt as it does seem you could literally get symptoms anywhere in the body. People distrust that unsurprisingly - a bit snake-oily, isn't it?! The reason is because histamine plays so many roles in the body and there are …
Continue reading "Histamine Intolerance – Why Do We Get Symptoms Everywhere? Part 2"
For those of you following one of the Adrenal Plans, you will know about the brilliant anti-anxiety, cortisol-lowering Allergy Research Group Zen product. It's worked for most like a dream. But it has just been delisted in the UK - aargh!! I wish they would stop doing this. The reason is because we now not …
For those of you following one of the Adrenal Plans, you will know about the brilliant anti-anxiety, cortisol-lowering Allergy Research Group Zen product. It's worked for most like a dream. But it has just been delisted in the UK - aargh!! I wish they would stop doing this. The reason is because we now not …
Ooh, we could have told them this about 6 years ago at least couldn't we? However, it is nice to see published research backing up the fact that coeliac disease is not 'just' a gastrointestinal disorder; it affects us psychologically and neurologically too. And that's to say nothing of the people who have NCGS (non …
Continue reading "Coeliacs Suffer Neurological and Mood Disorders Too: The Researchers Catch Up.."
I've felt all of those at some point or another and certainly when I was feeling really poorly most of the time. You can't help but feel sad, fearful and negative when every day seems to be a struggle, can you? We're only human. What I learned was the the brain can easily get stuck …
Continue reading "Lost, Sad, Fearful, Flat, Negative? Two-Step Programme for Happiness."
I must hear this kind of story almost daily. When is mainstream medicine going to wake up to the fact that most gluten related disorders are neurological and not (just) gut? If Catherine were my patient, I would be suggesting she go Truly Gluten Free (grain and dairy free), wouldn't you? Either way: let's say …