Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
I think I said right at the start of this in my Covid factsheet that I would be tempted to make sure there was no blood brain barrier (BBB) breach or neuroinflammation (NI) ongoing after Covid infections. I was worried that some people were having hallucinations etc. Ongoing NI can cause all sorts of problems …
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Pam from the South West asks: "I am feeling anxious with the pandemic and now Christmas on top. What can I do to calm my anxiety down?" In this video, I'll take you through my top 5 tips to calm acute and long-term anxiety. We'll go over why the vagus nerve and amygdala are important …
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When I did my neuroinflammation course last year, I learned something. It never occurred to me that if a patient is not getting well, no matter every intervention I and others tried, that it might be the result of a brain injury years before causing ongoing inflammation throughout the nervous system. I started regularly asking …
Most people - and physicians - think gluten illness stops at coeliac disease and problems with the gut. That is a BIG mistake. Gluten related disorders including non-coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) are rife, certainly according to my clinical experience - and I must have tested at least 300 people by now for gluten reactivity. And …
There's nothing worse than waking up in the early hours or even at your normal time feeling like your heart is racing and your mind won't shut up. I swear as I go into menopause time, my sleep is disrupted more by anxiety now than ever before. That's quite common. But then I've also had …
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 …
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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:Â 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 …
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