Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
It's Breast Cancer Awareness month in October, so I thought I would share a really good blog post from DUTCH, who do tend to do a lot of good blog posts on hormonal subjects. One of the reasons I like DUTCH is that you can see, not only what your overall oestrogen looks like, but …
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Shocking news item for you today. It comes from a review of studies so may not be exact, but the message is clear: avoid pollution as much as you can. For someone who was just considering moving closer to town to be a bit less isolated, it's given me pause! Daily Mail 27.2.27 “NEW AIR POLLUTION …
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Happy 2024 everyone! Hope you had a restful festive break and are now raring to with all the opportunities a new year brings. What do you plan to do professionally this year with your clinic work - do tell, maybe you'll inspire someone else?! Dr Crista was talking about the importance of killing mould in …
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Here is a brief rundown of some useful cancer markers. We don't often talk about these, but they can be life-saving and are easily available to test if you need to. Obviously, you should be talking to your GP if you have any suspicion of cancer, but I can test for these if you need …
We all know that wandering about in a forest or by the sea is good for us. But what you probably don't know is that it results in significant, measurable changes to the immune system. I came across this fascinating article from the Townsend Newsletter the other day, which really puts the benefits into scientific …
There has been a lot of attention in recent years about whether soya is safe for women or whether it can cause or exacerbate breast cancer because of the phyto-oestrogens it contains. My own view has always been that it is positively beneficial for women - because it contains the phyto-oestrogens. The weaker soya oestrogens …
Interesting for the future: plant compound for triple-negative breast cancer. http://ow.ly/ciQ8308uHDt
I have long debated the sense in subjecting millions of healthy women to radiation in the form of mammography when the statistics don't seem to stack up about them preventing deaths from breast cancer. Daily, I go from thinking it's worth it to catch cancer early to the worry that thousands of women get false diagnoses, …