Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Quote of the week today comes from Dr Kharrazian, the author of Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms When My Lab Results Are Normal? I see this all the time: people told they don't have thyroid issues, even though their autoimmune antibodies are higher than they should be. It's an early warning sign, folks! …
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Two-thirds of people with a gluten sensitivity experience neurological symptoms instead of gut symptoms. This is because the tissue most affected by a gluten sensitivity is nerve tissue.The majority of Hashimoto’s [autoimmune hypothyroid] patients are gluten-sensitive or have celiac disease, which means gluten can play a role in their depression and anxiety.Gluten cross reacts with dairy, meaning the …
I mentioned this in my DUTCH Test video and the Hormone Test Results Guide. I saw this info on it today and thought it might be useful for you to see why it is so important.. The Cortisol Awakening Response From the moment your eyes open in the morning, your cortisol levels should rise by …
Fatigue is the number one condition I come across in-clinic; it's almost as if people expect it now, it's often presented as a 'given' and normal to have it. It isn't. There are tons of causes of fatigue and we could be here all day, but let's focus on one: poor mitochondrial function. Think of …
OK, so here is Gut Tip #4 for you if you are following the series. Many people take probiotics to help their bacteria balance, to establish a good 'microbiome', in the gut. However, sometimes I see that, even when someone has taken billions of bacteria daily for weeks or months, the bacteria balance is still …
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 …
I see many people who have low iron and who can't seem to get their iron levels up even when on supplements. Most of the time this is because they have been given rubbish iron as ferrous sulphate, which drives me nutty because you have to take shed-loads of this constipating form to actually get …
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I've had a lovely morning today. Nice emails, success stories and a donation: makes all the work worthwhile when you hear it's hitting the mark. First, I helped a lady yesterday with her chronically-poorly daughter just by giving some ideas in an email for her to think about. She replied: Crumbs. I feel as if …
I had a fascinating talk with one of you the other day (thank you Lesley!) about the lack of diagnostic and treatment help for adrenal and thyroid conditions on the NHS. Lesley told me about a brave couple of women who have put a petition before the Scottish parliament to help doctors identify and treat …
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Just a quickie as I know some of you have been asking about this and you may not have noticed it in my last post: we can now do single cortisol samples!! Sometimes you need to see what your cortisol is doing at specific times of the day or night. You can do single saliva …
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