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  To some people, grief can a dirty word. It often incites awkwardness and embarrassment. When I was a teenager, my father died. I was completely incapable of expressing the feelings inside me, so I went straight back to school and pretended everything was normal. I didn’t deal with it, then my best friend died …

Cyrex is our preferred lab for food antigen testing. These food antigen tests look at multiple forms of foods, including raw, combined foods, processed foods and cooked forms because it has been recognised that reactivity may vary due to protein changes in processing or cooking. By testing, and then excluding problematic foods, you will be …

You walk into a pharmacy or health shop, or you go online, and you see hundreds of vitamins, minerals and superfoods that supposedly you cannot live without.  People buy them.  People are then confused because they pop these pills and they do not work.  So why do we use them? Why do they exist? To …

Thinking of formulating a herbal tea, or adding herbs to your new food product? Or perhaps you want to come up with the next big superfood, nootropic, functional food or supplement? Do you understand the legislation? If not, read on… Traditional Herbal Registration TheEuropean Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, or THMPD (Directive 2003/24/EC), came into …

What is cancer? Cancer is a complicated illness.  There are many different types of cancer and prognosis can vary enormously between individuals.  We all know someone who has been diagnosed with cancer and sadly, it’s becoming more common. There is a natural process for cell replication –  when cells age and die by undergoing natural …

Dementia Dementia is the primary cause of death in the UK and the third most common cause of death in the US.It’s on the way to becoming a major public health catastrophe. There has been no successful monotherapeutic approach for neurodegenerativedisease because pharmaceuticals have not been able to address all the underlying drivers of the disease. …

How Oxalates Can Affect You Limiting oxalates in the diet can be very beneficial if you suffer from inflammatory conditions, autoimmune conditions or if you are minerally depleted.   High oxalates have also been linked with autism.  Symptoms of high oxalates include pain, burning, fatigue, muscle aches, foggy brain, frequent urination and kidney stones.  The thyroid will also suffer …

All adaptogenic herbs help to increase the body’s resistance to stress but some of these have specific individual quirks that make them a bit special so I’ve singled out some of my favourite adaptogens to create a top ten list, which was very difficult as they all have such wonderful and useful properties.  Ashwaghanda – …

The incidence of acute infections, chronic diseases and metabolic syndromes has become a matter of major concern for scientists and medical professionals. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 65 percent of the world’s existing population is at a higher risk of dying from obesity as compared to complications associated with malnutrition. Advancements in research …

Why would you want to know what are the top 10 cancer-fighting herbs? Cancer statistics are getting scary – it is the second most common cause of death in the Western world and, according to Macmillan Cancer Research, an estimated 2.5 million people in the UK have had a cancer diagnosis in 2015. This is …

It’s very hard to give a top 5 or a top 10 because it really depends on the person! I had a good think about what my overall, ultimate herbs are and you can read about my top 5 life-changing herbs over at Welltodo.

Milk protein or casein intolerance occurs when the body has a food-specific IgG antibody response to the protein found in milk. This is not to be confused with lactose intolerance, which occurs wheninsufficient amounts of lactase are produced by cells in the small intestine. If lactose is not broken down into smaller, simpler forms that …