Painkillers -How does someone become addicted? Medication including painkillers, depletes the body of magnesium. Other things like caffeine, alcohol and fizzy drinks also deplete the body of magnesium. Magnesium is also lacking in our food supply because the soil is depleted. Depleted magnesium levels in the body cause among other things, muscle pain from spasms […]
The dire consequences of not eating salt When the government, through the Food Standard Agency, decided to issue guidelines to reduce the public’s intake of salt, they started a roller coaster of tragic ill-health issues. People are 5 times more likely to die from a lack of salt a study revealed. It was an incredible statement for […]
Click here to listen to Russell Blaylock’s podcast on Magnesium. A mineral supplement containing magnesium has been the most beneficial supplement to my health. When I took magnesium on its own the benefits were not so obvious. I needed to take it with calcium and zinc. Magnesium restores gut health. Reduces instability of the gene that […]
Water is essential for life? Water’s function in the body is to carry dissolved substances (solutes) to the cells and to take toxins to the kidneys for excretion. This is what sustains life. Transport mechanism What perhaps is not fully appreciated is that water is a transport mechanism. The significant aspect of water is twofold, […]
The Symptoms of Narcolepsy Narcolepsy was brought sharply to my attention, when a friend of mine kept falling asleep during the day. The main symptom of narcolepsy is exactly that: excessive daytime sleepiness commonly referred to as EDS. This type of sleepiness causes an individual to fall asleep without warning, which can be during a conversation, […]
Calcium. In my treatment room where I work using remedial massage I talk endlessly about calcium because it effects the functioning of the muscles. However despite my passion on the subject sometimes I cannot get across the vital, essential importance of this nutrient that must have other nutrients alongside it. In my book A Happier […]
Calcium and ME-CFS Update May 15th 2009 If you read the full research document towards the end of this article it shows that calcium supplements generally from rocks do not break down well in the body, and that it goes on to suggest that the effect of this lack of breakdown the paper says may […]