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Check Your Symptoms - Part One focused on two major causatives factors such as antibiotics and alcohol. This issue we look at a few home tests you can determine your Candida status and some case examples. Part Three is about suitable eating plan and how to get rid of these bugs tso you can return to a normal level.

This is a personal story of one mother’s battle with her daughter’s diagnosed cancer and the challenge of different types of treatment. In June 2004, my 13 year old daughter Kestra was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphatic cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma. This disease, we were professionally informed, usually presented itself in adults, but very rarely in children. At the time of the diagnosis Kestra’s medical records listed no previous illnesses, as she was the youngest of four healthy children.

A number of factors impact on the function of the immune system – stress being one of them, and this effect has so interested science so much that a whole field of research has grown around it, known as psychoneuroimmunology.

People often think of homeopathic medicines as natural medicines that are good for coughs and colds, accidents and injuries. This is of course quite true, but did you know homeopathic medicines are taken for all chronic illnesses, such as menstrual disorders, migraines, autoimmune disorders, chronic viral infections, paralysis and many other mental and emotional problems?

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks its own body. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is caused by genetic mutations (single nucleotide polymorphisms) that impair the central nervous system’s ability to adapt to stressful situations, according to a summary released by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, USA.

This article is about what is best to eat when you have cancer? Before we go any further, it is important for you to bear in mind that your doctor or oncologist has had literally no training in understanding how nutrition has had any impact on human health, and would you believe, it is very recently that medical science would accept that a person’s diet had any bearing on their level of health and disease at all.

A healthy body has a range of friendly lacto flora bacilli (bacteria) in the colon in which normal digestion and elimination of food takes place. Without this natural gut flora one has a challenge with breaking down digestible foods.

Most sleep apnoea sufferers complain of daytime tiredness and extreme fatigue. They can fall asleep during daytime activities, struggle with morning headaches and have trouble concentrating.

Glaucoma is characterised by abnormally high intraocular pressure- a pressure within the eye as a result of an imbalance between production and outflow of fluid in the eye. If untreated, the increased pressure can damage the optic nerve and cause impaired vision or even total blindness.