Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
I keep seeing reports that Long Covid sufferers are having cognitive issues like brain fog and neurological/brain/nervous system issues like anxiety, depression and PTSD. Here's one for a start: More Evidence COVID 'Brain Fog' IsBiologically Based (which basically says it is neuroinflammation in many cases) Treating Long Covid Trauma & PTSD The PTSD is totally …
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Two-thirds of people with a gluten sensitivity experience neurological symptoms instead of gut symptoms. This is because the tissue most affected by a gluten sensitivity is nerve tissue.The majority of Hashimoto’s [autoimmune hypothyroid] patients are gluten-sensitive or have celiac disease, which means gluten can play a role in their depression and anxiety.Gluten cross reacts with dairy, meaning the …
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 …
This is a new one on me, I have to say. Doing my Neuroinflammation training course, I have recently been astounded at the impact a trauma to the head can have on future illness. Think playing footie and being knocked out momentarily or smacking your head a good one during a car bump; even being …
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Useful podcast from Chris Kresser recently about B12 being under-diagnosed. I am being asked about the holotranscobalamin II, or holoTC form of B12 which detects early stage problems, which is why I was looking at it. I realised I have been a daftie recently because people have been asking me if I can get the holoTC …
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 …
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