Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
I am currently doing a lecture series with the renowned Dr Datis Kharrazian and am working through his Gut Course over the next couple of weeks to refresh myself - it has reminded me that I really am quite obsessed with bowels 😉 I thought it might be nice if I picked out one useful …
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A good reminder here that if you are on proton pump inhibitors or anything that regularly decreases your stomach acid, it could be only a matter of time before you become more sensitive to foods. Why? Because one of the first issues that causes food sensitivity is lack of stomach acid. The acid is needed …
I'm always on the lookout for advanced methods of food sensitivity testing. It is a simple fact that we don't yet know all the mechanisms that cause us to react to food and we have been dependent very much on IgG antibody and some cellular testing like ALCAT up to now. However, as useful as …
If you are avoiding foods because of autoimmune disease or chronic illness generally, it can sometimes involve knocking some spices out of your diet, which leaves much of your food bland as heck. I love spicy food and used to make a mean curry, but I've not been able to get spices in for a …
Someone asked me this yesterday and I suddenly realised I hadn't updated you since the start of the year (here: What Happened in 2017?). Doesn't time fly! So, here is an update for you so you can see where I'm up to if you are following my healing story. The foods... Food-wise, if you remember, …
This is a way to test substances like foods, meds or supplements to see if they will benefit you or not; whether you might react to them or not. It's quite fascinating and is gaining traction in the functional medicine world. Essentially, you take a baseline measurement of some kind. That might be a pulse …
Really great article here on how to plan ahead and cope if you are going on hols this year or even if you are a person living or travelling abroad for work. Full of tips and experience from Catherine that will help you stay safe: Travelling with allergies Not quite so easy for TrulyGlutenFree peeps …
It’s been 6 months since my last confession (or big post in the Healing Series anyway!). At that point, we were discussing brain retraining techniques to add to our calming-amygdala strategies and I was wishing I had time to devote six months to getting better. Well, the good news is: I didn’t need to… THE FOODS …
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It's been 6 months since my last confession (or big post in the Healing Series anyway!). At that point, we were discussing brain retraining techniques to add to our calming-amygdala strategies and I was wishing I had time to devote six months to getting better. Well, the good news is: I didn't need to... THE …
Continue reading "Chocolate, Wine, Nuts, Eggs Back In..Is This Really True?"
It's always nice to see new flours to play with, so I was pleased to see Foodsmatter.com's recent recipes using pea and fava bean flour - new ones on me. I particularly like the sound of the courgette and wasabi pancakes which turn out literally pea-green because of the flour! Look yum and would make …
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