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There is nothing wrong with farting, we all do it, but do you feel like you may have too much gas or wind? I’ll bet it is because of fermentation going on in the inside your digestive system. Having flatulence is normal in bed, when you lie down the gas can easily escape through the anus, but if you pass wind when you are upright, you have a considerable amount of fermentation going on and I would suspect either a candida problem or dysbiosis in general.

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.

Picture this – you’re waiting outside the exam room, your hands are clammy and shaking slightly. Questions are going round and round inside your head. Will I be able to answer anything? Have I done enough study? The butterflies in your stomach are lumbering around like elephants.

Minka Fuhs, director of the Holistic Learning Institute in Vienna, Austria, says: “Sleeplessness is a serious problem. Nearly 40 per cent of all people over 40 years of age suffer from sleeping disorders and even the number of children sufferers rise constantly. A body that does not relax properly is endangered because of increased potential of elevated blood pressure and heart attack. Insomniacs may endanger others because of the lack of concentration that can precipitate accidents. If we sleep right, it helps us to stay healthy and recover from our daily challenges”.

So what herb would you like to choose to add to your cooking? First choose a range of herbs that you enjoy using. Buy the plant from your local nursery and re-pot into a larger container, or plant in the garden close to your kitchen.

“We don’t really know what is really wrong with you” was not great news to hear after a week in hospital, surrounded by confused doctors, as my body mysteriously raged against itself. It was February and I had just started a full-time course studying counselling, around which I was trying to squeeze swim coaching and time with my young family. It had been a stressful and busy week.

There is that moment in time when your child, or the child you are looking after is building up for a tantrum. Every child at some stage of there childhood (even as an older child) will throw a tantrum. A tantrum is when a child exhibits an uncontrollable physical, emotional outburst of noisy, sometimes tearful and frustrated bout of anger called a temper tantrum when they also stamp their feet or throw items around.

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.