Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
This is one of my favourite ranges of all time - so much so we sold it in the dispensary and used it in the natural facials in the clinic. As part of my mission to encourage non-toxic toiletries use as always, I have added the Borlind range to the shop for you in the …
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I'm always on the look-out for things that help repair the body barriers such as leaky gut, leaky blood-brain barrier, leaky skin (think allergic dermatitis, eczema etc). So, I was interested to see this early research on Vitamin D for sunburn. High doses apparently helped lower inflammation, which the researchers expected, but they were surprised …
Yay, I love this list when it comes out. Of course, I am biased as a former judge! Some really excellent and worthy winners and shortlisters this year - and it was won by a humble lip balm, which does look lovely! Now, if we can only get people off the ruddy petroleum-lip-drying vaseline type …
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It's the Psoriasis Association's Awareness campaign this week, I note, so here is a link to my Psoriasis factsheet for you. On that, I have put several links for you to follow up - including a few success stories and approaches that have worked well for people. There are several factors normally involved in …
New eczema cream using luteolin. Try it and let me know how you do? http://ow.ly/QUWh304l3rn
This is an interesting approach for those of you with infected eczema who maybe can't tolerate the usual approaches. I was chatting to a lovely lady, J, the other day who was telling me about her severe issues and how she resolved it as she had not responded well to antibiotics or supplements. I asked …
Quick: go and have a look at the shortlist for this year's freefrom skincare awards and see if your favourite is on there! As you know, I am honoured to be a judge for these awards and, even if I wasn't, I would always look forward to seeing what allergy-friendly, toxin-free skincare goodies have …
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Haven't I always said it: if one barrier is down, others will be and you have to consider all body barriers in cases of food sensitivity? Here we have a research study showing a link between allergens going through a compromised skin barrier going on to cause immune cell reactions in the gut which trigger …
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Eczema and food allergy--is there a causal relationship? This new paper is saying that eczema may not be an IgE allergy but may actually be a delayed or cytotoxic reaction to haptens, smaller molecular components in foods and substances. Er, that's intolerance then, isn't it?! It does make me laugh when researchers state something as …
Here's an interesting one for you - levels of bacteria in your nose may give a good prediction of later skin infections. I spied this and it reminded me of something that happened the other day. I went to a friend's house and one of her children had a nasty flare up of something on …
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