Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
This week, I’ve got a breakfast and lunch recipe for you, we discuss the shocking childhood obesity forecasts in The Lancet and a note about lead levels in children too, which I thought more people should see, especially given the advice to just wait for symptoms to appear! Hope you find something truly useful x …
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I saw a great new term today which I thought I would share with you: the obesity syndemic, rather than epidemic. Here's the quote I saw: Over the past three decades we have witnessed an exponential increase in both the adverse metabolic impact of obesity and the exposure and accumulation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), …
I've been doing my advanced functional medicine Hormone course the last week or so (hence the dearth of posts, sorry!) I've sort of avoided it as I've suffered with my hormones my whole life - thanks PCOS - and hormones are flippin' complicated! One thing I have learned is just how much impact PCOS has …
IMPORTANT: EASTER '24. Please don't order or return any tests to arrive after 17th March or they will probably get stuck in post/labs over the holidays. Labs tend to re-open Tuesday 2nd April. Ta. Stop Killing Our Rivers The Soil Association has issued a petition to help save our rivers. They ask UK Governments to implement …
Losing weight as we age gets harder and harder, doesn't it? And the approach we maybe used in our 20s and 30s will no longer work so well now. Why? I came across a video discussing this very subject and thought I would share it with you. From JJ Virgin, who is talking a lot …
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Ooh, the $60m question! If I had a pound (money, not weight, thanks!) for every time I have been asked that question, I would indeed be very rich. A recent study looks like it has finally provided us with the answer: ...if you are wanting to modify visceral fat, control blood sugar and improve muscle-to …
Quick tip for you today. As we start a new year, many of us think we need to improve our health and weight - lose or gain! So, here's a quick tip to help you with that. I've been using these and it is really helping. Purition make several vegan and non-vegan nutritional food/protein powders. …
It's Summer, and we're all considering how our waistlines have managed to grow again during the colder months! I am anyway - thanks new MCAS meds and peri-menopause fat fairy! I am being asked regularly what is my best diet for weight loss and I always point them to my Belly Fat book. This is …
Quote of the week today comes from Dr Kharrazian, the author of Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms When My Lab Results Are Normal? I see this all the time: people told they don't have thyroid issues, even though their autoimmune antibodies are higher than they should be. It's an early warning sign, folks! …
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I was reminded this week of the importance of looking after your liver health if you are trying to lose (or not gain) belly fat. This is especially true once you get into middle age when hormones start messing about. I know this to be true as I woke up about 8 months ago and …