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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 …
This one surprised me, to be honest. Something everyone can do, it's easy and takes hardly any time - I like that kind of tip! So, if you have any kind of inflammatory condition - arthritis, fibromyalgia, heart disease, IBS, listen up... When people think of the causes of inflammation, they think of leaky gut, …
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Happy February everyone, hope it's a goodie. Here we go with this week's Clinic Notes for practitioners and expert patients... Have you heard of Kratom? It was a new one on me until I noticed a piece on overdoses of it becoming quite common in the US. Kratom is a tree native to Southeast Asia …
Hello, I have just set up this new category: Clinic Notes, primarily for practitioners. Focused on practical stuff I see that you can use immediately in-clinic to help improve your practice and get more people well. If you’ve ever wanted someone to just get to the ‘clinical pearl’ quickly and save you time, these posts …
Whenever I come across one of the 'syndromes' such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, IBS, I always test for gluten issues - NCGS, not just coeliac disease - and I very often find it! Even if I don't test or it doesn't show up, I will normally advise a trial off gluten, dairy and often grains. …
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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 …
News from the Gupta Programme here for you, and I have also managed to negotiate a discount for you if you think the programme might help you. New Study Shows Neuroplasticity “Brain Retraining” Program Is An Effective Treatment For Fibromyalgia It is believed that around 10m people in the USA, and 2m people in the …
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If you suffer from one of what I call the 'hypersensitivity syndromes' like ME, chronic fatigue, multiple sensitivity to food and/or chemicals or fibromyalgia (or all of them together which is pretty common in my personal and clinical experience so I tend not to differentiate between them much nowadays), then you will have heard the …
Two interesting snippets if you are a chronic pain sufferer today. First, a study suggesting a once or twice weekly session of Tai Chi can really be beneficial: Fibromyalgia sufferers go ga-ga for tai chi I have personally found that my FM-type pain is better for doing Qi Gong, so I can vouch for this. …
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It is National ME month in May so I thought I would share this lovely success story of a lady beating her chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia with transdermal magnesium therapy (ie. through the skin). Not my patient, but useful nevertheless for you. I use the magnesium spray she uses myself. It is a good choice …