Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Hope you enjoyed the switch to a digest last time rather than lots of little separate posts - do let me know which you prefer - I write these for you, so I want it to be what you need/enjoy most. Recipe of the Week Ooh, this looks like a yummy, spicy version of a …
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 …
This is a subject I am being asked about more and more. Many people are leaping straight into saunas and anti-fungal treatment – and feeling terrible! So, I’ve written a lovely new free factsheet in the A-Z to take you through the first stages – which, fingers crossed, might be all you need! The reason …
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Many of us are 'empaths' people who feel pain and emotions strongly and particularly pick up on others'. I am, and I notice that many people who suffer chronic illness are too. It's often perceived negatively - the number of times I have been told or tell myself I am 'too sensitive' are too many …
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Never heard of MCAS? No, not many have. But boy, once you know, it explains an awful lot of chronic illness that's not responding to usual interventions! here's the A-Z factsheet on MCAS for you. I will release the full, much more extended version, in a bit when I have just finished a few more …
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Deficiency states of certain B vitamins (B12 in particular) increase in frequency with age but can occur at any age depending on many modifiable factors[13]. The use of oral supplementation of B vitamins provides a clinically relevant input, where sub-clinical and clinical deficiency exists[14],[15].There are multiple interactions between the eight B vitamin forms, and collective ingestion via supplementation or enhanced …
Just have a look where allergies is! And check below for my top tips and resources on each condition. Chronic Health ConditionsAlmost half of the UK population reported having a disease or chronic health condition (45.7% of men and 50.1% of women).The most common health problems by age-standardised percentage rates were:Allergy of any type (30.4% …
Trust me: you'd rather be complex than mysterious! Another of these gems from Dr Yanuck today on being a patient with a complex case and how to manage it. This is just so true. The real take-home point in this is that you start with a treatment strategy based on the info you can work …
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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? …
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), …