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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 …
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 …
Part of the way I approach any chronic illness nowadays is psychological - mind-body-healing and vagus nerve work mainly - as well as the biochemical/nutrition/functional medicine side. When someone experiences a traumatic event, the sympathetic nervous system activates the fight or flight response to respond to danger. For some people, the nervous system gets stuck …
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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Yep. I confess I'm mad as heck, at the end of my tether, spitting feathers-angry just at the moment. Sometimes you have times like that with a chronic illness, don't you? Well, I do. Why do I - and so many of us - have to be so ruddy sensitive to stuff all the time? …
Christine & I have been working hard to update both versions of the Adrenal Plan and I have just released them on the shop for you. It's hard work keeping up with product changes, broken links and the latest research, but we've done it and they are ready for you 🙂 Here's the standard Adrenal …
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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 …
That's the number one question I have been asked - only about 20 times a day for the last 10 years, ha! So, I thought a kind of cheat-sheet based on my experience might help. What tests should you do - for an MOT (40s and 50s take note!), for preventing illness (20s and 30s), …
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 …
I am aware that whilst some people get only mild cases of Covid-19, others really go through the mill with it and the recovery process can be lengthy and arduous. I was considering how we might be able to aid recovery in some way and a few things have occurred to me, so I thought …
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