Learning difficulties

If your child has learning difficulties

* Test for allergies, metal poisoning and other toxins such as pesticides, except in cases of autism. (The effects of autism are due to toxicity of foods, rather than allergies per se, and the tests w... more »

Brilliantly wheat-free

When Nathan Moscrop, a 12-year-old with severe dyslexia, suffered a bout of food poisoning, his GP placed him on a wheat-free diet. Almost immediately, his reading improved by leaps and bounds, and hi... more »

The peptide connection

Paul Shattock and his colleagues first discovered the opioid-peptide connection with autism when studying the research on the behavioural effects of opioids, such as morphine, on animals. more »

The biochemical connection

For an increasing number of children returning to school this fall, the experience of learning is a guilt-ridden, fear-inducing and often pointless exercise. The numbers of children considered to have... more »

Autism: a gut feeling

In the early days, up until the mid 1960s, it was generally believed that autism was a mental illness. ... more »

The effects of Lead on cognitive function in children

Early exposure to lead, whether in utero or as a young child, may cause lasting harm in a child's cognitive (brain) development. more »

It could all be biochemical

Around 10 per cent of all children in the UK and the USA are labeled with some learning difficulty, such as ADHD or dyslexia. more »

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3 Nov 2009 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

The poisoned generation

Perhaps the most underappreciated health scandal in modern times is the fact that, every day, we are all subjected to some 80,000 drugs—virtually all of which have not undergone a single regulat... more »

23 Oct 2009 | Health from your Gar... (bshubbard)

Your good health is down to yo...

One thing is sure in this world:  only you can establish total wellness and health. Unless you want it, and are sufficiently motivated to gain it and keep it, no amount of outside support will su... more »

1 Oct 2009 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

DNA: it's not destiny

When we become ill, most of us lay the blame at the feet of our ancestors: my heart problem is like dad’s, who had a dicky ticker; I’m likely to get breast cancer because it’s what m... more »

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23:36 | Health Conditions (KiwiGal)

Re: Lung Cancer

Thank you for replying, Talia. And you are right in that it wasn't necessary for me to focus on her statement that her friend was highly intelligent (even though he had 7 chances in 8 that his can... more »

17:57 | Health Conditions (meike)

Re: eczema

You have to remember with excema, it is not the skin that is the problem, but the fact that your immune system (fight anmd flight mechanism) is overproducing anti-bodies or histamines. these erupt fro... more »

15:34 | Health Conditions (talia)

Re: Lung Cancer

Kiwigal, you are right, there was no specific question, but I sensed that some help and advice was being asked for and yours, being the first, gave a rather negative and slightly unenlightening r... more »

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