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One of the most important things, as well as eating healthily, is to consider your blood sugar levels, which we look at in the Kinesiology triangle of health. Every time you eat - and not necessarily just sweet things - there is a whole digestion process going on to break down the food. The body breaks it down into energy so that it can either use it and if it can't use that energy up to fuel the muscles, then it just feeds that whole metabolism and digestion process. So why

How we use kinesiology to test for food intolerances When food testing in Kinesiology, we are checking to see if are foods are: Biogenic - nourishing for the body, Biostatic - neither good or bad, fillers or Biocidic - deplete the body of energy or over stimulate the body. When your body is in balance and a muscle test is performed (see our blog on kinesiology for more info on this ) a working muscle will lock, and unlock when asked to switch off. When an item of food is plac

This month we have been looking at Allergies and hormones, so this week's Wellness Wednesday Remedy suggestion is Calcium D-Glucarate. A vegetarian and vegan formula, Calcium D-Glucarate helps to: 👉 Remove carcinogens, toxins and steroid hormones 👉 Remove excess oestrogen 👉 Reduces LDL cholesterol 👉 Inhibits beta-glucuronidase which reduces histamine response and increases detoxification. Available from Nutri Advanced. #wellnesswednesday #wellnesswednesdaytips #selfcarehe

Your eyes are itchy, your nose is running and your throat is sore but what has that got to do with the hormone histamine? Did you know that histamine is a neurotransmitter? They can be found in mast cells which reside in the connective tissue. Histamine hormones are involved with gut, immune and nervous system function and there are four types of receptors. As a neurotransmitter histamine sends chemical messages alerting our system of the presence of a threat or danger. They

According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation America (AAFA), an allergy is a reaction where the immune's defence mechanisms are stimulated as an immediate response to substances eg food, drugs, insects, latex, mould, pets, pollen. An intolerance or sensitivity to substances is when the reaction experienced is due the accumulation of exposure resulting in a variety of symptoms or signs, eg pain, aches, headaches, irritation, inflammation, gut issues, running nose, and more.