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Accommodating the ageing body part 2 – trigger finger!!

10/08/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Well, strictly speaking this is not to do with ageing as you can get a trigger finger at any age – even if they are more common in women over 40. However, it does have to do with the wonderful Ernest Keeling* so I thought I would slip it in while I remembered. According to the …

Category: Alternative/Complementary HealthTag: drug-free treatment for trigger finger, Ernest Keeling, NHS Choices, NSAIDs, treatment for trigger finger, trigger finger

Could Omega 3s solve our mental health crisis?

12/09/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

For those holistic souls who see good nutrition as an essential requirement for both physical and emotional/mental health, it is self-evident that a dearth of the Omega 3 essential fatty acids, DHA and EPA, could affect mental capacity and well being. DHA is, after …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Behavioural conditions / autism, Conventional Medicine, Environmental Issues, Food/Health Policy, NutritionTag: 10% children have mental health problem, 9 in 10 prisoners have mental health problem, algae, algae and photosynthesis, algae as a source of DHA, algae as a source of Omega 3 fatty acids, algae fed on fermented sugar, blood tests for DHA status, depletion of fish stocks, Depression affects 20% older people, DHA, DHA a building block of the brain, DHA improves reading skills, docosahexaenoic acid, DOLAB, Eicosapentaenoic acid, EPA, failure of government health campaigns, financial cost of mental health problems, fish as a source of DHA, fish farming, fish food for fish farms, fish oil supplements, fish supplies, fortification of food, free supply of fish oil supplements, free vaccination, HUFAs, Mental Health Foundation, nanny state, NHS Choices, Omega 3 fatty acids, Omega 3s and reading ability, over fishing

In favour of fever

28/12/2011 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Our Christmas celebrations were slightly marred by one of our number coming down with a nasty bug – probably Norovirus or the 'winter vomiting bug' – that  causes vomiting, diarrhoea, a temperature, headaches and stomach cramps. For everyone's information it normally goes away …

Category: Allergies, Conventional MedicineTag: allergic symptoms, Allergy, anaphylaxis, Asthma, biological purpose of inflammation, Blocked nose, British Society for Ecological Medicine, bronchial tubes, BSEM, bugs, Dr David Freed, Dr. John Briffa, Fever, germs, High temperature, inflammation, Journal of Leucocyte Biology, mucous, mucous membranes, NHS Choices, Norovirus, raised body temperature creates virus-killing cells, Virus, Winter vomiting bug

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