Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Older women have a higher risk of Alzheimer's than men and researchers may have found one reason why. It seems that the disease causes could be different in men and women. Essentially, researchers have found that women had much lower levels of the essential fatty acids in their blood. For women, the disease seems to …
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Inflammation is behind pretty much every disease we know - it's not just about obvious inflammation from painful conditions like arthritis and muscle pain, although those are significant, I know. Think also: IBS and gut diseases, heart disease, cancer, asthma, depression, eczema, neuroinflammation (brain fog, migraine, anxiety etc), dementia. Every person has their 'inflammatory load' …
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 …
Hope you enjoyed the switch to a digest last time rather than lots of little separate posts - do let me know which you prefer - I write these for you, so I want it to be what you need/enjoy most. Recipe of the Week Ooh, this looks like a yummy, spicy version of a …
Need to lose weight or to encourage your body to get itself into a better, less inflamed cellular and metabolic healing state? To do that, we want to encourage a metabolic process called autophagy. And to do that, we usually need to fast and go full-on ketogenic diet. No more! The New Body Re-Set Plan …
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 …
Calprotectin is one of the most useful inflammatory markers on a gut test. It can be a bit of a shock when it looks high, but actually the numbers mean different things. It can be a very useful way to differentiate between IBS type issues causing mild inflammation or Inflammatory Bowel Disease like Crohn's or …
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Never heard of MCAS? No, not many have. But boy, once you know, it explains an awful lot of chronic illness that's not responding to usual interventions! here's the A-Z factsheet on MCAS for you. I will release the full, much more extended version, in a bit when I have just finished a few more …
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Did you know that we can have different reactions to eg. gluten, wheat, egg, corn, bacterial pathogens or toxic chemicals in two different immune systems? The mucosal system and the systemic system are connected but can act independently of each other. So, we are merrily doing blood tests to look for antibodies to pathogens, food, …
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