Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
About flipping time people started looking into the fillers that we find in many meds - and even some supplements, I'd say! It is the bane of many of our lives. Researchers in the US have recently published their warnings about the potential of these fillers for causing reactions in those sensitive to them. “Inactive” …
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Ooh, we could have told them this about 6 years ago at least couldn't we? However, it is nice to see published research backing up the fact that coeliac disease is not 'just' a gastrointestinal disorder; it affects us psychologically and neurologically too. And that's to say nothing of the people who have NCGS (non …
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Fascinating studies starting to come out about different non-gluten proteins possibly being (one of) the causes or at least exacerbators of gluten related disorders. The latest suggests that ATIs (amylase-trypsin inhibitors) - the stuff we've known for yonks block effective absorption - may yet turn out to be a major cause of NCGS (non coeliac …
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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 …
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