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This week features my favourite anti-viral approach to Long Covid, shingles, CFS etc, clinic news, a protein bowl recipe and some newsy/research bits. Enjoy x TEST SERVICE REINSTATED! Photo by Louis Reed on Unsplash I sent this out last bank holiday weekend, quickly, before I changed my mind! Just wanted to say I have been listening to you …
Happy February everyone, hope it's a goodie. Here we go with this week's Clinic Notes for practitioners and expert patients... Have you heard of Kratom? It was a new one on me until I noticed a piece on overdoses of it becoming quite common in the US. Kratom is a tree native to Southeast Asia …
Lowering lipids causing more dementia? WDDTY did a recent piece about the importance of high-enough lipids to protect the brain - are statins behind the increase in dementia? I wouldn't be at all surprised. A reader recently sent me this fascinating case study/article about using B1 and B2 for mitochondrial CFS. A good reminder (thank …
Whenever I come across one of the 'syndromes' such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, IBS, I always test for gluten issues - NCGS, not just coeliac disease - and I very often find it! Even if I don't test or it doesn't show up, I will normally advise a trial off gluten, dairy and often grains. …
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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 …
A useful little snippet of video here today for you which nicely illustrates two points. First, this person with ME/CFS describes how she became hypersensitive to any form of stimulus, be that noise, light, food etc, and was controlled by anxious, racing thoughts and a sense of 'existential dread' all the time. That was me …