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We are constantly told how important a sense of purpose is to us in life. Without one, we can become depressed and, sort-of, rudderless. I totally agree with that. But how do you find a sense of purpose, and what if you just lose it? I think there can be lots of factors in this …
Great article for you from Nutri Advanced today explaining how hormone change can affect mood because of the effect they have on our neurotransmitters . It also goes over how the balance shifts through the stages of female hormone change ie. when is oestrogen likely to be high, low, progesterone changes etc - and some …
Clinic News to start with... TECH TRIALS: ORAL HEALTH, MIGRAINE. Remember I said I was going to try some new health tech - a water flosser, sonic toothbrush and the Cefaly Dual for migraine? Well, it didn't go that well, unfortunately. I had to send both the toothbrush and flosser back. The toothbrush was great, …
Just to say I have added the new Sensate wearable device to the Vagus Nerve Factsheet as an easy way to improve your vagal tone. Why a picture of a cat? Keep reading... For those of you who have the factsheet already, here's the added bit. For those of you who don't - you are …
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% …
Funnily enough, I am just doing a Case Review to help someone work out why they are suffering with quite severe anxiety, and then this pops up in my Inbox today. I thought I'd share it. I often have to try and explain to patients that anxiety - and depression often come to that - …
Continue reading "Why Anxiety Is Not Always All In The Mind"
Great piece from our friend, Michelle at FoodsMatter today on studies showing the importance of trees if you're feeling depressed. Check it out. https://michellesblog.co.uk/being-around-trees-helps-with-depression/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=being-around-trees-helps-with-depression
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 …
When I show people the list of symptoms for histamine 'intolerance', there's always that look of doubt as it does seem you could literally get symptoms anywhere in the body. People distrust that unsurprisingly - a bit snake-oily, isn't it?! The reason is because histamine plays so many roles in the body and there are …
Continue reading "Histamine Intolerance – Why Do We Get Symptoms Everywhere? Part 2"
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 …
Continue reading "Coeliacs Suffer Neurological and Mood Disorders Too: The Researchers Catch Up.."