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The Main Areas Affecting Good Health continued
Sleep Sufficient sleep is essential for good health. I mentioned the areas affecting good health in Blog 3. We tend to overlook how important a good night’s sleep is in our busy lives. A lack of sleep can lead to increased risks of hypertension or high blood pressure,...
Parasites – How Likely Is It You Might Have These?
I like to run a stool test on anyone who comes to me with any kind of digestive problems. The first test, if the budget allows, always includes a parasite test. This is because I find that around 80% of those who do the test come up positive to at least one parasite....
What Happens To Your Body After Drinking Coke and Diet Coke
We looked at the importance of hydrating your body a couple of blogs back. I would like to explain what consuming a can of Coke or even Diet Coke (or any Diet Soda) actually does to your body apart from dehydrate it. There are four types of sugar: Best known is sugar....
London Tap Water – Why You Don’t Want To Drink It
We have spoken about the importance of hydrating. It is important what you drink (hydrate with) since all water is not equal. I am sure you know that fizzy drinks don’t hydrate. Very little of their content is actually water. Although just so you are clear, I...
Silicon-Rich Water Benefits
What have increasing levels of Alzheimer’s got to do with recommendations to drink Silicon-rich water? Professor Chris Exley, at the University of Keele, has been researching the effectiveness of drinking water high in silicon to remove aluminium from the body for...
Sunshine and Vitamin D
Sunshine is important for our health. Vitamin D is a steroid hormone that we get from exposure to sunshine or from supplementing with Vitamin D. Vitamin D improves our immunity. It helps us fight colds, flu, bacterial and viral infections. Cancers Optimal Vitamin D...
Start Addressing Hayfever In The Autumn
Most of us only think of addressing hayfever symptoms when the pollens have hit the air and we are suffering. This is too late, as our immune system benefits from support several months in advance of any pollen onslaught. Hayfever is a chronic allergy. Taking...
How To Reduce Your Chances of Catching This Year’s Flu
In my last blog I spoke about how the flu vaccine possibly doesn’t protect you from catching flu. In this blog I feel it’s important to cover what we can do to protect ourselves and improve our immunity through the winter months if we choose not to have the flu jab....
What You Should Know About the Flu Vaccine
My 87 year-old mother was invited to have her annual flu jab this year. Until now she remembered she doesn’t have these, because she knows they don’t work. My late stepfather was a GP and he knew this too and advised her against having it. But her slow onset...
Hydration
I mentioned the importance of hydration in blog 3, the areas affecting good health. Water makes up about 60% of your body weight1. Your body needs water to function properly. Every cell, organ and tissue in your body needs water. You need water to flush out...
Constipation part 2: natural remedies to relieve
Click here to read Constipation part 1: health issues and causes Apart from the discomfort, there are other important reasons we want to avoid becoming constipated. Constipation can lead to serious health issues: Colon polyps and Colon Cancer Diverticulitis – where...
Constipaton part 1: health issues and causes
I wanted to touch on this as it is closely related to the topic of dietary fibre we covered earlier. Many people don’t understand what constipation is. I found this out in a consultation some years ago when I asked a gentleman if had regular bowel movements. “Yes”,...
Sugar is Behind Many Disease States Including Cancer
Table or refined white sugar is made from sugar beet. It consists of one molecule of glucose and one of fructose. The processing of sugar strips it of all the vitamins, minerals and enzymes required to metabolise it. Refined sugar is a chemical of no nutritional...
The Main Areas Affecting Good Health
It is generally accepted that there are several main areas affecting good health. These are: Nutrition Hydration Stress Sleep Exercise Activity Mobility Toxins Sunshine Most of us will do well in some areas and less well in others. Let’s begin to explore what these...
The Functional Medicine Holistic Approach to Health
I want to explain the Functional Medicine or naturopathic approach to health before we go on to explore health and dietary issues together in further articles. Seeking the root cause All Functional Medicine practitioners view your whole person rather than just your...
The Importance of Fibre in Your Diet
We ideally want to be eating five servings of vegetables and two pieces of fruit a day to be getting enough fibre. One serving is 75gr of fruit or vegetables or ½ cup. One small apple is one serving of fruit. Our bodies need fibre for optimum function. Let’s look...
How to Wash Herbicides off Your Fruit and Vegetables
I mentioned that ideally you want to be consuming organic fruit and vegetables to avoid eating herbicides and pesticides. Pesticides are known to be toxic to the nervous system, cause many kinds of cancer (especially among farm workers using pesticides), disrupt...
The Benefits of Eating a Rainbow Diet
Let’s look at why it’s important for us to eat a range of different coloured fruit and vegetables. Different fruit and vegetables make our plate look more enticing and interesting. Chefs use different coloured foods to creatively to produce beautiful and artistically...
Digestive Problems: The Main Area Affecting Good Health (part 1)
Digestive problems affect every aspect of our wellbeing including our overall immunity. If our gut is out of balance then our health will suffer. Symptoms of poor gut health include: Asthma Brain Fog Candida Constipation, Diarrhoea, IBS or IBD Depression Eczema,...
Candida detox: The Link Between Mercury Toxicity and Candida
What Causes Harmful Candida to Grow? Several things can change our beneficial Candida into a harmful yeast. It can even start in utero. If your mother lacked beneficial gut bacteria she couldn’t pass these on to any of her babies. Or maybe you or your mother took...
What causes arthritis? A Functional Medicine view
What causes arthritis? It is an auto-immune disease which is caused by inflammation. If you want to treat inflammation you need to put out the fire and not treat the smoke. Functional Medicine always looks for the root cause. We don’t treat symptoms, we treat the...
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