Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
This week: Is your arthritis worse since menopause and what do you do about swollen legs? Straight in with our subscriber questions this week…two of them for you - bonus! Is my osteoarthritis caused by menopause? First, L says she used to have one finger with arthritis but since menopause, it is now appearing in …
This one surprised me, to be honest. Something everyone can do, it's easy and takes hardly any time - I like that kind of tip! So, if you have any kind of inflammatory condition - arthritis, fibromyalgia, heart disease, IBS, listen up... When people think of the causes of inflammation, they think of leaky gut, …
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A quick digest for you this week as I'm moving to a new rental tomorrow... We are battery-powered! Fascinating study where researchers can now observe the battery-like activity of our mitochondria. I do like Holford's health reports. Good one on arthritis being a metabolic disorder, not necessarily a localised joint problem, this week. Some excellent …
Interesting piece today for you on the use of steroid injections for joint inflammation eg. knee, shoulder or hip pain. Dr Brownstein used to give them until, as he says, he discovered that they can do more harm than good. He now advocates ozone injections instead and finds they help about 80% of his patients. …
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You know how much I like you to listen to success stories (a factor discussed in great depth in the Healing Plan!), so here's another one for you. I don't much like Dr O's marketing emphasis currently, but the protocol with diet, testing and supplements/meds she follows is pretty much what we go through in …
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I have today updated the Arthritis, Aches and Pains and Pain Disorders factsheets for you in the Health A-Z. Lots of tips and specific protocol stuff on acute and chronic pain. Hope they help.
I had to share this one with you in case anyone out there has a poorly dog suffering with inflamed joints. We all know that fish oils are anti-inflammatory in humans and this story shows how one of my colleagues used it to great effect to help her own dog. Heart-warming.. Nutri’s Marketing Supervisor, Jo …
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Just what can help the ongoing chronic pain of arthritis? Arthritis UK have just launched a couple of reports that might help us answer that question. You can download both reports in full from here. Note that actually the title of the report is rather negative in that they suggest they have found a lack …
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We all know about glucosamine helping to lower the pain of arthritic joints and that fish oils are, by their very nature, anti-inflammatory. But, I do like to see a measureable marker reduce on test results. We know it works, but it's nice to see it on paper sometimes isn't it? So, here are …
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