Your best protection against colds and flu this winter is your own immune system! With the events of the last two years, you might be forgiven for not realising that you actually have an immune system whose job is to go after viruses and other invading microbes.

The biggest mistake I have seen patients make is trying to run their own case if they have a chronic, complex condition. I am all for people taking control of their own health but there is a world of difference between taking responsibility for improving your health and random treatment choices based on guesswork or Dr. Google.

How To Avoid Supplement Pitfalls

Supplements are needed to support the best organic nutrient-dense diet you can get today because of the depletion of vitamins and minerals from our soil over the last hundred years. However, not all supplements are created equal. Some are valuable; some are a waste of money. Do you really know what you should be taking and when? This article highlights the common mistakes people make when choosing and taking supplements blind.

Three Overlooked Strategies in Autism

Some autism therapies have failed to deliver the hoped for or anticipated results. I have observed that families with autistic children or adults do better thinking outside the box and accessing research such as that published by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt and similar autism pioneers.

Parents generally do a good job researching vitamin and mineral deficiencies. However, nutrient status is only one of a number of pieces of the autism puzzle. Brain inflammation is a hallmark of autism. Here are three important autism strategies relating to brain health that should not be overlooked.

Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of The Nuremberg Code

The Nuremberg Code is the most authoritative internationally recognised document in the history of medical ethics. This landmark document was formulated in August 1947 in response to evidence of medical atrocities committed by Nazi physicians and scientists. The court laid out ten basic principles which must be observed to satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts.

Just as applicable today, perhaps more so, then 75 years ago.

Proofing Yourself Up Against Illness

There is no better time than the present to proof up your body against illness. To “proof your body up”

means to render it less susceptible to illness, whether the challenges come from inside or outside your body.

Examples of challenges that come from within include reactivation of previously sleeping infections like shingles and Epstein Barr Virus. Examples of challenges from outside the body include exposures to toxins of all kinds, pesticides, chemicals in foods etc.

Our environment has become full of potential challenges to our health over the last few years. These challenges include: viruses, bacterial and mould infections, increased radiation, increased chemicals, metals and food contamination. Add a large dollop of economic and other major stressors and you have a population that needs to wise up, take responsibility and work hard to survive well. Gone are the days when you can simply leave your wellbeing to the “experts.”

Addictions - The Road to Health Ruin

Addictions present huge health challenges to patients and practitioners alike and these challenges are not just confined to street drugs! Some of the biggest obstacles to getting well include more commonplace addictions to sugar, coffee, alcohol and wifi!

Professor Oxford defines the word “addiction” as “the condition of being unable to stop using or doing something as a habit, especially something harmful.”

Addictions control the person rather than the person controlling them. The nature of addiction is such that people are less able to confront this as a problem. They use all kinds of justifications to explain away their addiction e.g. “I’m a social drinker” or “I don’t really have a problem, I can give up any time.” When a person loses the ability to make a rational choice about whether or not to use a food, drink or substance, he or she is addicted.

Staying Healthy on Holiday

We are now in the high holiday season complete with a burst of continental sunshine across the British Isles. This may be too hot for some, but for others, it is great opportunity to enjoy a Mediterranean style holiday right on your own doorstep.

Inherent in the word ‘holiday’ is the idea of taking a welcome break from one’s job and every duties, doing something one enjoys and at the same time, recharging the batteries so one comes back refreshed and ready to face the tasks ahead. Too often, however, I see patients return from holiday worn out and worse for wear.

This is a Newsletter for people who react to
everything - chemicals (MCS - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity), perfumes, carpets, light, sound, electromagnetic radiation. They can’t tolerate supplements or foods and this makes it difficult to start a programme. Why does this happen and what can we do about it?

There is a growing concern among parents,
teachers and tutors that children are finding it
more difficult to concentrate, focus and learn
effectively, with some even experiencing anxiety
and other mental illnesses. As a parent, you
want the best for your child. But how can they do
their best if they feel unfocused, stressed and
brain fogged?

It is a falsehood to call Lyme a ‘tick-borne’ illness. It is most definitely a ‘vector-borne’ illness, meaning that it can be transmitted not only by ticks but by insects such as spiders, horse flies and mosquitos too. Research indicates that around 40% of mosquitos are infected with Lyme. I have never been bitten by a tick in my life yet my lab results of a few years ago indicated that I have had Lyme infection.

As mould biotoxin illness is such a hot topic, I would like to share some new insights on mould illness recently related by environmental medicine specialist Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt. As many of you will know, Dr. Klinghardt has been a pioneer for a number of decades of effective natural treatment methods for conditions like chronic infections, autism and neurodegenerative diseases.

Why Iron Regulation Is Central To Health.

To have good health, your body needs to create energy and clear its exhaust. If you are depleted in the key vitamins and minerals that drive this process, you won’t be able to make enough energy.

The key players needed to create energy in your cells are Magnesium, Copper, Iron and Caeruloplasmin (the taxi that ferries Copper round the body). When these get out of balance, you cells become dysfunctional and you will experience fatigue.

The results of emerging Covid studies highlight the fact that previously dormant viruses can reactivate in the body and create chronic fatigue. Long Covid is all about the reactivation of viruses that reside in the viral reservoirs in the body (a popular place is the gut). Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) is one of those viruses that can reactivate and bloom again, with or without the help of Covid.

On 25th March, I attended Long Covid Day, a workshop hosted by Biolab Medical Unit to help practitioners in assisting increasing numbers of patients with extended illness following Covid-19 infections. The panel of speakers included academic researchers, medical doctors and naturopathic/nutritional medicine practitioners who shared their expertise in treatment strategies. Below, I have summarised some key points from the workshop which you may find useful to help yourself, your family and friends.

The Covid pandemic has certainly succeeded in turning the spotlight onto the condition known as ‘post-viral fatigue.' Prior to Covid, post-viral fatigue tended to be dismissed by many health professionals, at best with a recommendation to go to the gym (unfortunately people feel too tired to exercise) or at worst, “you must be depressed, dear, so just take an antidepressant.”

On Tuesday, 1st March, Dr Armin Schwarzbach, Director of Armin Labs in Germany, gave a fascinating lecture to the Academy of Nutritional Medicine (AONM) about the subject of Covid and viral co-infections. In a nutshell, Dr. Schwarzbach summarised the main infections that have been seen to cause damage in Covid and Long Covid situations. It’s not just Covid!

What is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and why are we seeing so much of it in children as well as adults? Fatty liver occurs when the cells in your liver are replaced with fat cells. This means there is fat deposited within your liver. This means your liver can’t work as well as it should because it doesn’t have all the liver cells doing the jobs they should. Fatty liver is the number one cause of liver transplants. We all know that alcoholics end up with fatty liver. However, there are thousands of people who don’t drink alcohol who also end up fatty liver and this we call non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). And most of them don’t even know they have it until disaster strikes in the form of diabetes or a heart attack.

Chronic dental infections are often a missing part of the illness puzzle that keeps people chronically sick. One of the most common dental infections is the root canal filling. This occurs when a tooth dies, and your dentist fills it with preservatives, like the ancient Egyptians preserved dead bodies by mummification. It is essentially a dead organ. In fact, it is the only dead organ that the medical profession encourages you to keep in your body. If you had a gangrenous toe or infected appendix, you would be whisked into the operating theatre to remove the diseased organ to save your life. What effect does keeping a dead tooth in your mouth have on the rest of your health?

Early on in my clinical practice, I realised I would not be able to help the majority of people get well unless I addressed their chronic infections. One infection stands head and shoulders above the rest as regards numbers of people who test positive for it - Coxsackievirus. I have kept statistics on the infections I have seen in my clinic over the years and have seen a whopping 97% of patients with active Coxsackie infection!