Having just reduced the third saucepan this week to a blackened remnant of its former self, I know what I want for Christmas – a Thermomix! Yes, I know it looks like a cartoon character in the making – but it genuinely is an amazing creature – the result of over 40 years of …
Allergies
FMT also known as stool transplants or faecal bacteriotherapy…
...and, as you can imagine, a whole load of less scientific terms of which 'transpoosions' is one of the less cringe-making... But, whatever about the terminology, as the conviction grows that the health of inhabitants of our bowels, be they bacteria or parasites, may play a …
Total food intolerance – a lethal condition
'Less than a year ago I was a bright, happy, energetic, slightly overweight 45 year old. Now I am a shadow of my former self. My husband and children are worried sick about me, I am having to re-home my beloved dog as I can no longer walk him and and I so fear that my days are …
Weird allergies
Working my way through John Scott's weekly round-up of research (see our research forums for the full nine yards – and to subscribe to a particular thread of research if it especially interests you) I was just amazed, last week, by the weirdness of some of the allergies that he …
You got eczema – and love rhubarb?….
If so, you are on a winner! According to this bit of research from the College of Pharmacy in Chunchon, Korea, rhubarb can ease eczema – or to quote them in full, Inhibition of experimental atopic dermatitis by rhubarb (rhizomes of Rheum tanguticum) and 5-lipocygenase inhibition …