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This week features my favourite anti-viral approach to Long Covid, shingles, CFS etc, clinic news, a protein bowl recipe and some newsy/research bits. Enjoy x TEST SERVICE REINSTATED! Photo by Louis Reed on Unsplash I sent this out last bank holiday weekend, quickly, before I changed my mind! Just wanted to say I have been listening to you …
A quick digest for you this week as I'm moving to a new rental tomorrow... We are battery-powered! Fascinating study where researchers can now observe the battery-like activity of our mitochondria. I do like Holford's health reports. Good one on arthritis being a metabolic disorder, not necessarily a localised joint problem, this week. Some excellent …
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 …
Most people - and physicians - think gluten illness stops at coeliac disease and problems with the gut. That is a BIG mistake. Gluten related disorders including non-coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) are rife, certainly according to my clinical experience - and I must have tested at least 300 people by now for gluten reactivity. And …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …