Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Another brief WDDTY report for you, this time on how Vitamin D deficiency could well be exacerbating insulin resistance. I think that is highly likely. I honestly think that checking your D3 status is becoming really important - and you can't guess it. I was taking what I thought was plenty, checked and found I …
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Report in the Independent on the Diabetes drug Actos/Competact (active ingredient Piolitazone) with people showing an 88% increased risk of bladder cancer! That's pretty high. Independent 1.6.12 “DIABETES DRUG INCREASES CANCER RISK” People prescribed Actos (piolitazone) for type-2 diabetes were found to increase the risk of bladder cancer by 83%. Montreal researchers studied NHS records …
I just read this sentence in a report and had to pass it on as I am feeling smug! Obesity and diabetes have been linked to leaky gut and new treatments that target this pathway are needed. Enter the Barrier Plan. I thank you. Personally, by following the trulyglutenfree Barrier Plan, I have lost over …
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I know quite a few of you who have been offered Metformin for diabetes and PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome). But, if you are on it, did you know that it is quite likely that you will become folic acid and B12 deficient if you are on the drug for more than a year? Most people …
You can't fail to have seen the news this week that diabetes cases are rising so much that managing diabetics will soon be costing a sixth of the whole NHS budget. That is truly shocking. It is mainly Type 2 cases that are on the rise, and this is a disease of Western civilisation and …
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Processed meat – such as bacon, burgers and sausages – is a major cause of type 2 diabetes. Eating just 50g of processed meat each day – equivalent to one sausage or two slices of bacon – increases your risk of developing diabetes by 51 per cent. This is according to a recent study by …
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What happens if you travel frequently, don't speak the lingo and have a flare up of a health condition or, worse still, an emergency like an anaphylactic allergic reaction? Skyguard, which provides a panic service to companies, individuals and police forces, has today launched an international service whereby you simply enter details of meds, conditions …
First I read this story: Guardian 27.7.11 “STUDY SAYS BOWEL CANCER RATE HAS DOUBLED IN MEN” The chances of men getting bowel cancer have doubled since the 1970s, says Cancer Research UK. In 1975 1 in 29 men got bowel cancer, but by 2008 this had risen to 1 in 15. The rate among women has …
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What was I saying earlier about the dangers inherent with diagnosis? Look at this quote in today's Daily Mail explaining why even the President of the Royal College of GPs refuses to have a mammogram: "The potential dangers of over-diagnosis have even led the president of the Royal College of GPs, Iona Heath, to decline …
D. Telegraph 22.5.11 HIGH DOSE STATINS LINKED TO DIABETES. 100s of 1000s of people on high dose statins are increasing their chance of developing type 2 diabetes. 80mg of simvastin or atorvastin increases the chance of type 2 diabetes by 12% over 5 years. Researchers from Glasgow Uni looked at 5 studies of 32,700 patients. …