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Functional Medicine vs Conventional Medicine

Functional Medicine vs Conventional Medicine

I refer to the practice of conventional medicine today as The Sickness Industry, and i accept that it sounds disrespectful, and I am aware that I am generalising and that there are good and caring docs out there, but my experience in 53 years of life, 2 children, 20...
Food Has Become a For-Profit Industry

Food Has Become a For-Profit Industry

Recently, Carte Blanche blew the lid off fraud in the honey industry. It follows on a recent expose of flavoured olive oil. Its resonant of the fact that the industry that was set up to look after our health doesn’t care about our food, and the industry that...
What is Colostrum?

What is Colostrum?

We have had a strange number of people asking us for Colostrum Supplements, only to decide they are too expensive when they learn the price, so let me dip into colostrum as a supplement: Colostrum, a nutrient-rich fluid produced by female mammals immediately after...
Supplements are a minefield.

Supplements are a minefield.

Supplements are a minefield. People’s belief systems range from ‘waste of money, expensive pee’ to ‘I can’t function without these’ and every shade in-between. Let me try and clear up a few misconceptions, and by all means if you have any specific questions that...
We need time to heal!

We need time to heal!

As usual at this time of the year we see lots of strange ‘sickness’ – when your biology wants it to be winter but the weather here won’t play along, germs and bacteria flourish. So we see tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, sinusitis, otitis, and even dermatitis… all...