After 16 years of suffering with inhalant allergies to chemical irritants, and getting sicker each winter, crashing completely (twice) in unsuitable rental housing with damp concrete, and another time, a leaking roof, that, when finally I did pay a visit to a Doctor of Integrative Medicine, that that doctor knew within an hour of speaking to me that I had CIRS, Going to … [Read more...] about Integrative Medicine: My Experience; My Submission (partly)
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Podcast ‘Chronic Illness and Suicide: Looking after Patients and Practitioners’
This Friday, from FX Medicine, we have a podcast with Dr Mark Donohoe and Andrew Whitfield-Cook, titled, 'Chronic Illness and Suicide: Looking after Patients and Practitioners' Those patients for which medicine has no answers or solutions are very often the ones ending up in front of an integrative medicine practitioner. The time spent with patients is often longer, the … [Read more...] about Podcast ‘Chronic Illness and Suicide: Looking after Patients and Practitioners’
Repost: How to Get Fragrance Free Glasses!
Earlier, this year, I wrote about 'Doubling up on Chemical Exposures for the Sake of Convenience'. Odd title, I know but—as I found out from that post—that's just what so many of us do when there's an appointment to go to: we double up, even triple up. (Wrongly, so wrongly, some of us can't go out at all, even.) On that day, I didn't want to drag myself anywhere, let alone … [Read more...] about Repost: How to Get Fragrance Free Glasses!
Integrative Medicine: Freedom of Choice at Risk
Please pass this information on if you know someone with a chronic illness who seeks alternative care or uses complementary medicine in-conjunction with conventional care. Patients are at risk. The Australian Medical Association (AMA) plan to censor integrative and complementary medicine. The censorship aims to restrict the practice of any doctor who offers, or treats … [Read more...] about Integrative Medicine: Freedom of Choice at Risk
MCS Denier, Herman Staudenmayer: The erroneous presumptions in his research undertaking that anti-MCS propagandists waved like a national flag
Herman Staudenmayer: The erroneous presumptions in his research undertaking that anti-MCS propagandists waved like a national flag. Whenever you scald your tongue on hot tea, your tongue will still feel the scalding sensation, if you drink cool water shortly after having been scalded. There's a similar phenomenon in the lives of the chemically … [Read more...] about MCS Denier, Herman Staudenmayer: The erroneous presumptions in his research undertaking that anti-MCS propagandists waved like a national flag