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 …
Scottish Bid For Better #Thyroid and #Adrenal Care
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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Single Salivary Cortisol Testing Now Available
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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#Hormone Tests: #Neurotransmitters, #Adrenals and Sex Hormones
As I was writing your Adrenal Plan, I noted the massive link between brain neurotransmitters, adrenals and hormones. You can measure all of those separately, but I have found a way of doing them all together for you. The test will assess your hormonal status, adrenal function and neurotransmitter balance. The difference with this test that I haven't …
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New #Adrenal Plan Released!
Ta-dah!!! At long last, after six months of research and writing, not to mention over a decade of clinical experience with adrenal fatigue patients, I have just released your new Adrenal Plan. I am SO chuffed to have done it. It is one thing to know in your head as an experienced nutritionist what to …
#Adrenal Fatigue? Read This.
If you suspect or you know you are suffering from adrenal fatigue, you might be interested to read an account of my own trials and tribulations with actually the worst adrenal scores I have ever seen: my own a few years ago! Thankfully, they have now recovered according to my latest results - and all …
Six Common Signs You Could Be #Gluten Sensitive
Over on the TrulyGlutenFree site, I am always taking about complex issues to do with gluten and the gluten illnesses including, but by no means limited to, Coeliac disease. I saw this quick run-down of the top 6 symptoms to check for gluten sensitivity and I agree with every one of them. I had most …
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#Chronic Fatigue: #Gluten Sensitivity Under Another Name?
I was just reading a report on the provision of care in the NHS for ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers - which makes damning reading itself - when it struck me that I recognise these symptoms from most gluten-sensitives I currently deal with: ME or CFS (also known as Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome - PVFS) affects …
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Exercise: Less Is More
I have been discussing the importance of exercise for healing recently on the trulyglutenfree blog. Z, a gluten- sensitive, chronic fatigue and joint pain patient, had improved greatly but then hit a plateau. She wrote to tell me how she had used exercise to pull herself out if it. Z needed something gentle and recommended …
Do Agrochemicals Cause ME?
Interesting post on this in my inbox this morning: Could Pesticides Cause ME? ME – also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – could be, in part, caused by  exposure to organophosphate pesticides and insecticides. Conditions with similar symptoms as ME were noticed in farm workers in the early 1960s and identified as  neuro-behavioural abnormalities resulting …