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Mental Health

Heavy Metal and chemical toxicity

02/08/2023 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Are you worried about the amount of metal and the number of chemicals that we come into contact with on a daily, indeed hourly, basis? Not all of them (at a rough estimate there are over 150,000 chemicals in constant circulation) are bad. Indeed, many are crucial to our daily …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Behavioural conditions / autism, Chemicals, Environmental Issues, ME/CFS, Mental HealthTag: chemical toxicity, heavy metal toxicity, Joanna Malaczynski, Kristin Homme, Mercury: the Quintissential Anti-Nutrient, Sara Russell, Silent Spring Rachel Carson, Silent Winter: Our Chemical World and Chronic Illness, Townsend Letter

Beyond Pills – kill over prescribing

16/12/2022 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

'Social prescribing' - prescribing excercise, dance, writing classes, diets, yoga, singing with a choir, gardening or almost anything else that the patient fancies - instead of another drug prescription has been the buzz treatment on the NHS for several years now. And when  you …

Category: Conventional Medicine, Mental Health, Music, Nutrition, Prescription DrugsTag: 10% of prescribed drugs are unnecessary and may cause harm, Adverse drug reactions account for 10-20% of hospital in-patient admissions, annual cost of prescription drugs, Beyond Pills Campaign, College of Medicine and Integrated Health, does social prescribing work?, money wasted on prescription drugs

Psilocybin for depression starts to gain acceptance

09/11/2022 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Recent headlines have suggested that psilocybin (what many will know as magic mushrooms) genuinely do offer a promising treatment for drug resistant depression. This is undoubtedly good news - but is actually only picking up where research left off 50 years ago. Psychedelics, …

Category: Mental HealthTag: Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception, Professor David Nutt, Professor David Nutt at Imperial College, psilocybin, psilocybin in the treatment of severe depression, psychedelics in the treatment of severe depression, Vietnam and psychedelics

Healthcare: the Future – Three day on line conference

11/08/2022 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

31st August to 2nd September - a three day on line conference focused on integrative, whole person, optimum healthcare with medical experts from around the world. 31st August - Whole person health: Food on prescription Five medical doctors provide insight into why they …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Behavioural conditions / autism, Mental Health, NutritionTag: Camilla Sherr, Dr Aseem Malhotra, Dr Jayne Donegan, Dr Jeremy Sher, Dr Sam White, Dr Sarah Myhill, Dr Tess Lawrie, Dr Zenobia Storqh, Health: the future, Hugh McCarthy, Peter von Maltitz, Saidi Matahabashy, Sarah duff, Sarah Waters, Traditional African medicine

FSA’s Food Hypersensitivity Symposium 2022

30/03/2022 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Earlier this month the Food Standards Agency held one of its annual food allergy/hypersensitvity (FHS) symposiums. We were in the middle of the FreeFrom Food Awards judging so I couldn't be there in person but fortunately they offered on line access to all of the talks and …

Category: Allergies, Charities, Coeliac/celiac disease, Conventional Medicine, Food, Food/Health Policy, Mental Health, Peanut allergyTag: Allergy risk from insect based proteins, Anaphylaxis Campaign - a new Model Policy for Schools, Ashleigh Moore from Greggs, danger of allergic reactions from recycled packaging, Dilys Harris Senior Trading Standards Officer Caerphilly County Borough Council, Dr Rebecca Knibb, Food Standardss Agency, FSA, FSA Consultation on Precautionary Allergen Labelling, FSA Director of Policy Rebecca Sudworth, FSA's Food Hypersensitivity Symposium 2022, impact on Quality of Life of food hypersensitivity, multi-lingual allergy resource pack for food businesses, Professor Adam Fox, Professor Robin May, psychological burden of living with food hypersensitivity, Reporting allergic reactions and near misses, Speak up for Allergies

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