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Questions vary when women have health problems and a common one in particular comes from older women who have a problem with vaginal dryness. They find it quite embarrassing even though they relate it to menopause changes. So the question is, is there anything to relieve the problem apart from using HRT treatment, which many are not happy about doing?

Talking to my mother, who is well into her 90’s, I was surprised to learn that none of her sisters, none of her brothers wives, none of her large extended family and none of her friends or any body she knew in her church ever had trouble getting pregnant.

I spent the summer of 2004-5 in the northern third of the South island, New Zealand on holiday with my wife. We returned a week early than expected because I became ill, possibly affected by toxins while staying in a camping ground adjacent to what is described by the local council as ‘the most contaminated site in the country’.

One common question that naturopaths hear quite often is: “My daughter suffers from severe bloating prior to her periods and quite often severe pain and cramping during the menstrual cycle. She is just 15 years old and tends to become very upset during this cycle. Her GP has suggested that she should start using a contraceptive pill to help prevent these symptoms, but we would like to, if possible try and help her without going to these lengths. She is not in a relationship and therefor we do not feel that the pill is quite appropriate”.

It is not unusual for one to have depleted energy levels and a general lack of get-up-and-go after a busy lifestyle, or holiday. Exhaustion and fatigue are usually caused from overindulgence, less desirable lifestyle habits, and a lack of B group vitamins, especially vitamin B12 and the mineral magnesium.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (commonly called IBS) is a condition that affects the entire gastrointestinal tract. It alters intestinal modality resulting in phases of diarrhoea alternating with constipation and sometimes accompanied by pain. Women are affected three times more often than men, starting from the teenage years onwards.

Under the Alexander technique, one learns that within the visual system resides an entire map of the human body in all its parts, and that the eyes themselves link to corresponding structures in the brain. Thus the visual system contains links to our immune nervous system - the reptilian brain, our emotions -the limbic system and our ability to think and reason, also known as the neocortex.

The mechanics of blood type’s influence have to do with the way the genes influence one another. This mechanism explains why your blood type can have an impact on such a diverse number of bodily systems and from digestive enzymes to neuro-chemicals.

This is part of a trio of articles on detox. The article outlines the main reasons why toxins can make you fat and why herbal detoxification can trigger weight loss.