CIRS in the COVID-19 Age
Many patients with chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS) and other chronic fatiguing illnesses are concerned regarding whether they are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 compared to others in the community. In practice, we [...]
pH – How is it relevant to Your Health and Wellbeing?
By Dr. Edward Osborne pH is a scale used to specify how acidic or basic (alkaline) a water-based solution is. At room temperature (25 degrees Celsius or 77 degrees Fahrenheit) pure water is neither acidic [...]
Metabolic Syndrome – A symptom of collective imbalance
Metabolic syndrome is the name for a group of conditions that all share a common cause. The shared cause is known as insulin resistance. The accumulation of fatty tissue in the body’s midsection is [...]
My experience with float therapy
Floatation tanks, otherwise referred to as “isolation tanks” or “float tanks” have also been referred rather scarily to as “sensory deprivation chambers” or more recently (and more eloquently) referred to as “flotation-REST (restricted environmental stimulation [...]
The vital importance of sleep
Sleep is such as important function fo the human body that it can hardly be emphasised enough. Without deep restorative sleep it is hard to heal from chronic ill health, especially if the brain or [...]
Study links Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the microbiome
Researchers from New York recently published an amazing study in the journal Microbiome.1 With 48 ME/CFS patients and 39 controls a sophisticated technique (sequencing ribosomal RNA genes) was performed to comprehensively profile the bacteria within [...]
Could you be suffering from CIRS – A chronic form of sepsis?
I worked in intensive care medicine for around five years. During this training I was fascinated by sepsis syndrome, or what is now called “Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome” or SIRS. This syndrome often started with [...]
Important new findings on gluten and health
Comments from Sandeep Gupta: I first experienced the fact that many patients who were not diagnosed as having Coeliac disease still appeared to experience significant improvement in their condition with excluding gluten-based grains from their [...]
Coping emotionally with chronic illness
Introductory comments by Dr Sandeep Gupta: I have recently been struck by the tremendous amount of suffering that those with a chronic disease may go through. In addition to the direct effect of the symptoms [...]
Holistic solutions for menopause
Health-wise and also emotionally, menopause can be an extremely difficult period in a woman’s life. The menopause and peri-menopause (which includes the years leading up to menopause) can require a few tricks to navigate successfully [...]