Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Many cases of chronic pain syndrome are due to a neurological phenomenon called negative plasticity. Brain plasticity refers to neurons connecting together through repeated activation, and it can be positive or negative. Examples of positive plasticity include adopting a new habit, learning a new language, or learning a new skill.PTSD is an example of negative plasticity. An adverse event activates the …
In the news recently, NICE changed the guidelines for people with chronic pain: In a major change of pain treatment policy, the National Institute for health and Care Excellence (Nice) say that in future, doctors should advise sufferers to use physical and psychological therapies rather than analgesics to manage their pain.Sufferers should not be started …
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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 …
OK, so here is Gut Tip #4 for you if you are following the series. Many people take probiotics to help their bacteria balance, to establish a good 'microbiome', in the gut. However, sometimes I see that, even when someone has taken billions of bacteria daily for weeks or months, the bacteria balance is still …
Well, cannabis oil has certainly come a long way when I see it available from suppliers like Nutrigold! They have just released their new product, presumably on the back of the new legislation. CBD OIL FACT: Potent levels of CBD found in reputable CBD oil food supplements can support a variety of different areas including: …
I'm always on the lookout for alternatives to painkillers like aspirin and ibuprofen because of the damage they do to the system. So, I was pleased to see this report today from Nutrigold about using a mix of EPA and DHA, the fatty acids in fish and krill oil, with Hop Alpha Acids for inflammatory …
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Low dose Naltrexone (LDN) therapy is becoming quite common in the US and is used in pain cases like fibromyalgia and inflammatory conditions such as Crohn's and Rheumatoid Arthritis. But, I know some of you here in the UK are also trialling it. I mentioned it as an option in the Healing Plan too for …
Two interesting snippets if you are a chronic pain sufferer today. First, a study suggesting a once or twice weekly session of Tai Chi can really be beneficial: Fibromyalgia sufferers go ga-ga for tai chi I have personally found that my FM-type pain is better for doing Qi Gong, so I can vouch for this. …
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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 …
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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