Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
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 …
Phew, hot on the heels of Julie (clinical hypno), Victoria (nutrition: metabolic, gut and hormones) and Anne (nutrition: genetics), let me introduce you to Deborah (nutrition: mental health) who joins us now too on the clinical referral team. Oh, and there's me - I keep leaving myself out! Micki (director, chronic disease, gluten and ACE disorders). …
It's not often I see something that validates the use of essential oils as much as this does. I have a soft spot for aromatherapy since it was the first therapy I seriously trained in. I still use it pretty much every day for something. For example, today I have made a scar treatment gel …