I was asked today if I knew of a different kind of pain relief product for joint pain and I remembered about hops. Hops contains a natural pain relieving action from alpha acids that has been shown in research to help lower inflammation so I thought I would share some info on it for …
Success Story on Grain Free: Rheumatoid Arthritis
You know how much I like you to listen to success stories (a factor discussed in great depth in the Healing Plan!), so here's another one for you. I don't much like Dr O's marketing emphasis currently, but the protocol with diet, testing and supplements/meds she follows is pretty much what we go through in …
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Can You Test For CSS – Central Sensitivity Syndrome?
In the Healing Plan (HP) and on a previous post, I have discussed the fact that many of us with multiple sensitivity, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and chronic pain are probably suffering from some form of Central Sensitivity Syndrome illness. So, of course, I started trying to work out if we could get any clues. What could …
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Arthritis and Pain Factsheets
I have today updated the Arthritis, Aches and Pains and Pain Disorders factsheets for you in the Health A-Z. Lots of tips and specific protocol stuff on acute and chronic pain. Hope they help.
Anxiety, Pain, Intolerance? Try This Free Meditation Programme, Starts Today!
Do you need to calm down? Is your anxiety or pain level too high, or your body reacting to stuff all over the place? Then, one of the techniques I recommend, and am using myself for food hyper-sensitivity, is meditation. You can read a much larger blog post about the steps I am taking to …
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Multiple Sensitivity? Chronic Pain? Read This.
I have just written a very long post on the TrulyGlutenFree blog about multiple sensitivity and chronic pain, and whether it could be central sensitivity syndrome. Have you heard of it? It's basically where someone suffering from any pain or sensitivity to stuff has neurotransmitters that have gone awry and their pain and perceived threat …
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The Link Between #Nightshades and #Pain
Here is a useful well-referenced article that lists the nightshades and explains a lot more about them for you. Consider it particularly if you suffer from chronic pain, especially muscle and joint pain as nightshades are very linked to arthritic-type conditions.: The Link Between Nightshades, Chronic Pain and Inflammation Here, for ease, is the full …
The Importance of Magnesium: It’s Not Just About Calcium!
I must talk about magnesium in some way or another most days. Quite often, it is to explain that magnesium is actually far more important to us than calcium when people are worrying about their calcium levels and taking shed-loads of it, but that is a whole other blog post! (See here, for example). So, …
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Top Supplements and Therapies For #Arthritis Pain
Just what can help the ongoing chronic pain of arthritis? Arthritis UK have just launched a couple of reports that might help us answer that question. You can download both reports in full from here. Note that actually the title of the report is rather negative in that they suggest they have found a lack …
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Glucosamine, Chondroitin and Fish Oils Show Lower CRP Inflammation Marker
We all know about glucosamine helping to lower the pain of arthritic joints and that fish oils are, by their very nature, anti-inflammatory. But, I do like to see a measureable marker reduce on test results. We know it works, but it's nice to see it on paper sometimes isn't it? So, here are …
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