Lauren Slade : A Spiritual Journey
Discovering the Body, Mind, Soul & Spirit Connections
Far from being ‘all in the mind’ as some doctors still insist, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is caused by bacterial overgrowth in the gut, researchers have confirmed this week.
It affects up to 60 per cent of IBS patients who regularly suffer from diarrhea, and in 30 per cent of patients overall.
The link is so clear, say researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, that a test for Continue reading “New Research: IBS caused by bacteria in the gut”
Every so often something happens that restores my faith in the power of the truth. This rarely happens when it comes to health care. Modern medicine is one of the big, dangerous monoliths of our time, a stark symbol of the competitive mindset and the industrial age – the triumph of the machine over the human being.
Besides being one of the largest industries in the world, Big Pharma is probably one of the most dangerous.
Not long ago, the Journal of the American Medicine Association, the official organ of the primary organization representing physicians in America, publicly admitted that diseases caused by doctors—that is illness created by correctly prescribed medication —is the third leading cause of death in America, responsible for a quarter of a million deaths per year. Continue reading “Homeopathy More Effective Than Conventional Medicine says Research Study”
PORTSMOUTH, 2011 – A PhD thesis at the University of Portsmouth has revealed that manually applied reflexology can increases both pain treshold and pain tolerance in healthy volunteer subjects!
Reflexology, one of the many complementary medicine modalities available, may be a suitable adjunct to pain management by helping to reduce the number of medications and associated side-effects from continued drug use. Continue reading “Reflexology and Pain Relief – Research”
In the UK and European Union (EU), the European Parliament is about to pass a law that will see all supplements and 
alternative remedies with un-approved health claims disappear from health food store shelves within 6 months… especially if they are added to the EU’s register of rejected claims.
Crazy isn’t it?
Yet, concoctions like Flora Cuisine — the liquid margarine-buttery-looking cooking oil is allowed to make the health claim that it can provide better frying, roasting and cooking for heart health!
Anyone with a bit of common sense will tell you that the relentless global campaign against alternative medicine is simply ridiculous… not to mention the clampdown on ordinary food products!
That cup of coffee in the morning may be one of the healthiest ways to start the day, new research suggests. Coffee lowers chronic inflammation and can even raise our level of the ‘good’ HDL cholesterol. It may also have a protective effect against type II diabetes. Continue reading “A cup of coffee – one of the healthiest starts to the day”