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Interesting research here showing the effectiveness of taking CoQ10 and selenium together to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease. I have definitely seen CoQ10 help symptomatically over the years in people after heart attacks so can attest to that. This is the first research I have seen combining the two elements - it is known that …
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Purehealth has officially gone international! I am aware, over the last year or so, that more and more of you getting in touch, getting tests done and downloading info are based in Europe, the US, Canada, New Zealand and, well all over the place, which is just lovely. I recently set up the 10% discount …
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 Our lovely friends at FoodsMatter.com have just launched the updated FreeFrom Supplements site - and I am chief supplement reviewer! You know how much I love scouring labels and giving my two penn'orth on products, especially supplements, so I was delighted they asked me to help. Basically, the premise is that many people on restricted diets have …
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Just to let you know I have today sent your free TrulyGlutenFree safe supplements master list update for you so check your in-boxes. Highlights include a new herbal range, a D3 5000iu, a comparison of some safe, some not papaya extracts, green tea granules (something ready-to-use, I know!) and some new magnesium sprays. Stuff that …
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Really useful forum discussion here sent in by C actually referencing the importance of Vitamin D for inflammatory bowel diseases like Coeliac Disease, Crohn's and Colitis but giving really good general Vitamin D guidelines in the process. C said: I am attaching a copy of an interview between a member of Crohns Forum with Dr …
Interesting piece for you today from LEF on the importance of manganese for bone. As I am always saying, bone density is far from being just about calcium and it is important to get all the co-factors in place for the calcium to actually be deposited in bone. Is Manganese the Missing Mineral in Osteoporosis? …
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If, like many of us in this high pollen season, you are suffering with hayfever - or indeed any other sensitivity reaction regularly, you might want to pop over and see the post I have just written on the TGF blog about antihistamines. Obviously, I am pointing TrulyGlutenFree readers to grain free versions of the …
  Just to let you know I have today released a load of updates for the TrulyGlutenFree Supplements Master List. This is the list of grain and dairy free supplements we have found so far. All are corn-free - I say this for the benefit of our US readers, I know many of whom need corn-free …
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Most people would think that continued diarrhoea is a sign that their coeliac disease is causing damage still. It is, but actually researchers believe that people who present with anaemia are the ones with the most villi damage and worst coeliac disease. In a recent study, researchers concluded: Anemic patients were more than 2-fold more …
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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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