Category: Therapies
Keto & fasting 3 – Introduction to meal spacing and fasting
Deb
More on what I learnt about health, weight loss and longevity in the Real Skinny on Fat online summit. I’m aiming to summarise 30+ hours of videos and many pages of notes into a series of posts that are simple to understand. Post 1 was about how we were made to […]
Keto & fasting 2 – Ancestral eating and being metabolically flexible
Deb
Before going on to explain how it all works, let’s put it in the context of ancestral eating. I think we can all agree that our ancestors would have eaten whatever they could find. There would have been no judgement on whether a food was good or bad – as long […]
Benefits of fasting & ketogenic eating – Part 1
Deb
Recently I listened to a summit called The Real Skinny on Fat – the Truth About Weight Loss and learnt a lot about ANYONE can use these tools for health, weight loss and longevity. Yes, there are even keto vegans, it’s not a way of eating just for carnivores. So […]
GAPS Diet Part 4 – What if I don’t or can’t eat animal foods?
Deb
Can we heal the gut, and the subsequent chronic illnesses, with limited (or no) animal foods? This isn’t what I planned for part 4 – I was going to give you a bunch of menu ideas. But after chatting with someone who can’t eat animal foods, I see there’s a need […]
GAPS Diet – Part 3 – the yummy foods you CAN have!
Deb
Can healing your gut help your mental & psychological, digestive, allergy or autoimmune issues? Before reading this post, you probably need to go and read: • Part 1 – an intro to the GAPS diet. • Part 2 – the foods that need to be avoided and why OK, if […]
GAPS diet – Part 2: which foods to avoid, and why
Deb
Can GAPS help people with autism and other mental, digestive, allergy or autoimmune issues? If you’re on the autism spectrum, we talked about why you might want to do this diet in Part 1 – an intro to the GAPS diet. If you have any other mental or psychological issues, […]
Can the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) Diet help those with Autism?
Deb
And can it help people with other mental, digestive, allergy or autoimmune issues? According to the CDC, in 2014, the incidence of ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) in the USA was 1 in 68. Back in the 70s and 80s, this was more like 1 in 2000. Image Source There are […]
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Deb
Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is an autoimune disease that can be treated effectively with diet, exercise, and therapies. Although Ankylosing Spondylitis is widely seen as a disease of old people who end up with severely curved spines, its actually a disease that commonly starts young, but is frequently misdiagnosed for decades […]
Arts on Prescription
Deb
This morning two items came up on my Facebook feed about the health benefits of participating in the arts. One of them was a study on the benefits of group drumming specifically. The other was about patients who were “prescribed” an hour a week in a variety of arts classes […]
Rheumatoid Arthritis Resources
Deb
Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Diet Alternative: Links & Books For Rheumatoid Arthritis the first focus needs to be getting the gluten and casein out of the diet. Sites by Individuals Recovery from Rheumatoid Arthritis is Joe Hackett’s site. Joe was another person who was helped by Robert McFerran (see books […]
Apricot Kernels Kill Cancer Cells
Deb
Apricot Seeds Kill Cancer Cells without Side Effects Are apricot seeds a source for a natural substance that kills cancer cells without destroying the cancer victim’s health and wealth? The essential ingredient has been called laetrile or vitamin B 17. If there is any merit to it, why is this […]
Antibiotics that kill gut bacteria also stop growth of new brain cells
Deb
Antibiotics strong enough to kill off gut bacteria can also stop the growth of new brain cells in the hippocampus, a section of the brain associated with memory, reports a new study in mice. Researchers also uncovered a clue to why — a type of white blood cell seems to […]
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
Deb
This is a quick intro to EFT I posted back in 2005 Many of you will have heard of EFT, maybe through Dr Mercola’s site. Although it’s not directly a whole food topic, it can support your whole food eating habits in a number of ways, by: Reducing cravings and […]
Treating cancer by working with nature
Deb
– One of the many great pages written by Ken Adachi on the Educate Yourself Website (Originally written in 2002) If I had any type of cancer, the LAST thing I would do is subject myself to any form of chemo therapy or radiation, no matter how fancily they dressed […]