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Conventional Medicine

Are your mitochondria struggling?

11/08/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Beyond being aware that they are important, do you, like me, have only the sketchiest idea of what your mitochondria are or do? If so, you need to log in to Biolab's Mitochondria day on September 17th when a range of mitochondria experts will not only explain what they are, but …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional Medicine, Environmental IssuesTag: Biolab's Mitochondria day, Dr Sarah Myhill, Dr Sarah Myhill and CFS, It's Mitochondria not Hypochondria, mitochondria, mitochondria and apoptosis, mitochondria and CFS/ME, mitochondria and chronic disease, mitochondria and dementia, mitochondria and MS, mitochondria and obesity, mitochondria and Parkinson's Disease, Mitochondrial Biology Unit, organelles, Professor Eija Pirinen

‘Our daughters’ deaths could have been avoided’ – we need an allergy Tsar to stop this happening again

02/08/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Natasha, only 15; Shante, one week short of her 19th birthday. Both healthy and happy teenage girls at the start of their lives - both dead because, unwittingly, they ate a food to which they were severely allergic. In Natasha's case the sesame seeds that killed her were not …

Category: Allergies, Charities, Conventional Medicine, Peanut allergyTag: Allergy tsar, Allergy Tsar petition, Anaphlyaxis, death from anaphylaxis, Emma Turay, hazelnut allergy, lack of allergy awareness in Primary care, Lack of specialist allergy clinics, narf.org.uk, Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, NICE guideline for allergy management, sesame allergy, Shante Turay-Thomas, Tanya Ednan-Laperous

Could a diet heavier in oily fish help migraine sufferers?

23/07/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

New research published in the BMJ this month and reported in the Guardian  and by FAB Research suggests that raising intakes of Omega 3 fatty acids by eating more oily fish and using Omega 3-high oils or 'butter's reduced both the frequency and length of people's headaches …

Category: Conventional Medicine, NutritionTag: FAB Research, migraine, Migraine and oily fish, Migraine and Omega3/6 ratio, Western diet and the omega 3/6 ration

Could Long Covid benefit ME sufferers?

12/07/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

There is now no question that Long Covid is 'a thing'; the Office for National Statistics confirmed in December that an estimated 700,000 peple were still suffering from symptoms a year after their initial infection. And possibly not surprisingly, given that COVID is a viral …

Category: Conventional Medicine, COVID-19Tag: Amali Lokugamage, CBT for ME/CFS, Chronic fatigue syndrome and long covid: moving beyond the controversy, Furstration in ME community over focus on Long COVID, Graded Exercise Therapy (GET), Jennifer Trueland, Jennifer Trueland's BMA news Long COVID – we’ve been here before., Link between Long Covid and ME/, Long Covid, Long COVID symptoms, Melanie Newman, Melanie Newman's articleBMJ

The Shape of Skin

18/04/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

My Skin Me: Why do you hate me? My skin: I don't! Me: You do. You hurt me. My skin: You ignore me when I ask for help. Me: But you're so aggressive, I get scared. Why can't you ask nicely? My skin: I've tried that. You're so thick skinned. You never listen. Me: You're …

Category: Conventional Medicine, EczemaTag: Eczema, Kintsugi, Kintsukoroi, Ruth Holroyd of What Allergy?, Steroids for eczema, The itch of eczema, The Shape of Skin, Topical Steroid Withdrawal, What allergy?

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