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			In this Expert Column, the author looks at how reducing the amount of fibre in your diet can help people who suffer with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) to reduce their symptoms. We...more 
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			This topical article explodes many of the myths surrounding low-carbohydrate diets and provides heavily referenced evidence of how these diets can provide a more effective and ofte...more 
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		   Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) for Hard-to-Heal Conditions In this article, the author focuses on the power of light and colour to heal, a form of treatment that can be traced back to ancient Egyptian times. She also looks into the disco...more 
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			Most people with back problems, and back pain suffer in the Lumbar region. Lower back pain has many causes but the vast majority are caused through bad posture and overuse conditio...more 
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		   Lubricating The Joints And Fighting Allergies in Winters Come winters, the complaints of joint pains increase. The change in atmospheric pressure causes joints to swell, the cold causes muscles to contract and blood vessels to constrict, ...more 
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			A 'lucid' dream is one in which you suddenly become perfectly aware – while still asleep and dreaming – that you are actually dreaming. Recounting some of his own research from ove...more 
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		   Lyme Disease Tracking and Treatment Chronic Lyme disease is becoming a hot new topic and with it all the classic drama we are so used to with many medical issues. Denial by much of the mainstream that Lyme disease can...more 
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		   Macrobiotics and Cancer and Whole Grains with High Phytonutrient Activity - Research Compilation Reporting a number of interesting and informative research studies about macrobiotic diet and cancer, including experience with macrobiotics for tinnitus. Following is a compilation...more 
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		   Macrobiotics for Breast Cancer Two years ago Faye Baxter was diagnosed with cancer. She was given six weeks before the hospital could operate to remove her tumour. In those six weeks she decided to find a Macrob...more 
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		   Macrobiotics for Healthy Living and Delicious Eating I would like to take the mystery out of macrobiotics and demonstrate that this ancient approach to food and well-being is of paramount significance to us all right now.more 
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		   Macrobiotics for Optimal Balance Macrobiotics, meaning great (or long) life, is a diet that seeks to achieve balance, harmony and healing and is based on the philosophy that everything is made up of two opposing f...more 
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		   Macrophage Polarization and IDO Enzymes, Immunity, Cancer and Depression The subject of macrophage polarization has many practical applications in treating immune dysfunction in diseases like cancer, diabetes, chronic fatigue, AIDS, sepsis and any diseas...more 
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		   Macular Degeneration – Impact and Treatment Options Macular degeneration, often referred to as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), is a progressive eye condition that affects the central part of the retina, called the macula. Thi...more 
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		   Mad Man Disease or the Nut Case When the BSE scandal was first disclosed, many were rightly shocked to hear that cows had been fed on a flesh diet; that, in other words, herbivores have been turned into carnivore...more 
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		   Magical Piers: The Lovers Journey In the days of old when stories were told of how love blossomed and marriage was sacrosanct, it was these stories that captured the imagination about what love was supposed to be ab...more 
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		   Magical Piers: The Lovers Journey Part III This is the third part of the Lovers Journey, continued from Part I and Part II.more 
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		   Magnesium - The Magnificent Macro-Mineral There is more to magnesium than you might think. We need relatively large amounts for our bodies to function at their optimum. And the simple fact is that most of us are deficient....more 
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		   Magnesium – The Master Mineral Magnesium, the seventh most abundant mineral in the earth’s crust, was first recognised as an element by Joseph Black in 1755, and isolated by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1808. The human b...more 
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		   Magnesium Supplementation: When and With What? This article begins with an explanation of the importance of magnesium, particularly for athletes. It has been shown to increase physical performance, improve sleep, improve hydrat...more 
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			The application of magnetic fields as an aid to maintaining health and assisting the natural healing process (Magnotherapy) is not new. The therapeutic use of natural magnets goes ...more 
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			A middle-aged, previously healthy woman suddenly started having epileptic fits. Going from specialist to specialist, she was fortunate to find another doctor specialising in comple...more 
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		   Magnifying On The Question Of Reading Glasses Presbyopia generally starts to become evident in the early 40s and forces millions of people to start wearing reading glasses. Of UK's 60 million people, 23 million fall between th...more 
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		   Maintaining Standards in Massage and Bodywork Osteopath and bodyworker Mario-Paul Cassar begins his piece with the case of a 72-year-old woman with severe lumbar pain who had been advised to keep moving her back. This resulted...more 
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			The author looks into the process of right decision making by attending a workshop on Discernment. She watches her own choosing mechanism in action, and also how other people make ...more 
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		   Make Your Own Natural Skin Care Products Kolbjorn Borseth explains how we can make own skin care products and how beneficial these can be. With the development of the oil industry, many cosmetic products are now based on ...more 
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		   Making a Change: Useful Tips on How to Change your Life A voyage to happiness begins with the journey into the mind in order to change what you have in your heart.... In order to understand the process of gaining clarity on this issue we...more 
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			Daoism encourages us to admit and to be honest about fear - true Daoists still retain their basic innate fear and see it as an opportunity...more 
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		   Making the Best of Breast Feeding This column focuses on the vital role of good nutrition in the quality and quantity of milk production for breastfeeding. Breast milk provides complete food for a baby in its fir...more 
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		   Making the Most of Your Purpose: A Transpersonal Approach to Moving On A resident notion within us makes us feel like we have nowhere to go when we are feeling tired, exhausted or out of sorts. We often make it feel like we are to blame for many of our...more 
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		   Making the Right Medical Choice The author discusses traditional herbal medicine and allopathic medicine, and concludes that the more complex, layered and holistic approach of traditional herbal medicine, and the...more 
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		   Malocclusions Linked to Abnormal Foot Motion This article focuses on the impact abnormal foot motion can have on the cranial bones and occlusion, based on clinical data that statistically suggests a link between the two. Re...more 
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			Linda Lazarides discusses 'cardiac spasm' as a common cause of heart failure, especially in young people. She describes the case of Peter, a young computer engineer, who collapsed ...more 
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			We all started life bent double. Cramped for space, we had to adopt a humble position to fit in our uterine home. Curled up, bowed and rounded was our foetal posture. We had food, ...more 
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		   Management and Treatment of ME - Part I Part I - People with ME have suffered over many years as a result of a lack of knowledge of the disease among many health care professionals, accompanied in many cases by lack of s...more 
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		   Management and Treatment of ME - Part II Part 2 - People with ME have suffered over many years as a result of a lack of knowledge of the disease among many health care professionals, accompanied in many cases by lack of...more 
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		   Management of Hypothyroidism in Ayurveda This article focuses on the Ayurvedic approach to handling hypothyroidism. According to the author, there is growing demand for treatment of this condition through the Ayurvedic...more 
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		   Managing Fibromyalgia Requires Accurate Diagnosis and Addressing Mitochondrial Function Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition affecting more than a million people in Australia that is characterized by widespread and diverse types of pain, including burning, stabbing, thr...more 
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		   Managing Food Intolerance: The Pros and Cons of the ALCAT test This article focuses on food intolerances and nutrients and the ALCAT process for testing. Today, more and more people suffering health issues, with conditions such as irritable bo...more 
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			There are nearly 100 trillion cells in the adult body. In each cell there are many thousands of metabolic processes occurring at any one time. It is astonishing how the organism ma...more 
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		   Managing Stress with Nutrition It’s easy to ignore stress, accept it as normal or not even be aware of it. Yet of all the factors that impact health, it’s one of the most significant. Nutritional therapist Penn...more 
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		   Managing Times of Change and Transition Amidst the Chaos of Everyday Life Have you ever thought of journal-writing as a powerful and effective way for managing times of chaos, stress and decision-making? Taking time out to express your thoughts, feelings,...more 
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			Anxiety is everywhere. No matter who you are, or where you are, anxiety can affect anyone. This is especially true at work. While avoiding anxiety at work isn’t feasible, you can st...more 
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		   Mandatory Gratuities - Oxymoron I was settling up with a new client when she asked "And what is the recommended gratuity?" I explained that "while I appreciate the thought it was not necessary". She was very surp...more 
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		   Manifest Hope - Crisis Brings Opportunity The author points out that the concept of ‘action and reaction’ occurs in physics as well as many other philosophies. Taoist philosophy, and the theory behind Chinese Medicine stat...more 
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		   Manifesting Your Dreams: The Art of Wish-Practice Ulli is a Buddhist meditation teacher who has been an accredited psychotherapist and life coach for 15 years. She explains her technique of wish-practice by distinguishing it from ...more 
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		   Manipulation to the Foot (Medial Border) The most important anatomical landmark of the medial border is the navicular tubercle.more 
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		   Mantak Chia - A Modern Taoist Master Famous for his books on cultivating male and female sexuality, Mantak Chia is probably the most quoted, misquoted and plagiarised of writers on esoteric sex. Less well known is his...more 
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		   Manual Lymphatic Drainage - Therapeutic Applications Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) involves light, rhythmical massage that aids the body in collecting and moving lymphatic fluid, which plays a key role in delivering nutrients, anti...more 
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		   Manual Lymphatic Drainage and its Therapeutic Benefits MLD is a highly specialised form of massage, which uses light, rhythmical, very precise hand movements, pressures and sequences and requires the therapist to develop a great degree...more 
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		   Mapping a Path to Enlightenment The author bases this article on her latest book, Passage to Freedom, and looks at the seven steps to achieving enlightenment. She states that peace, contentment and knowledge are ...more 
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		   Marrying Theatre with Personal Transformation The author focuses on the therapeutic benefits of theatre. Her fascination with the theatre and quest for self-exploration led her to the discovery of dramatherapy – the healing po...more 
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		   Marshmallow the Most Soothing of Herbs Marshmallow (Althea officinalis) is a handsome and stately perennial from the Malvaceae family, with soft velvety leaves and pink flowers. As its name suggests, it is found growing...more 
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		   Massage and Cancer-Related Fatigue: Benefits and Cautions One of the most common symptoms associated with cancer and its treatment is fatigue. For many people, it is the major troubling symptom and the primary cause of distress, being even...more 
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		   Massage and Complex Trauma: A Case Study In this column on Body Massage, the author presents a case study of massage techniques regarding a client who suffered complex trauma as a result of prolonged, overwhelming abuse a...more 
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		   Massage and the Importance of Medical Input The author, a Massage, Craniosacral and Psychotherapist, focuses on the importance of medical input in relation to body massage. As her brother is a Medical Consultant, she is in t...more 
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			This article describes what toxins are, the different types that exist, where they originate, and how different body functions work to get rid of them. The latter part of the art...more 
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		   Massage in Schools to Reduce Stress and Anxiety Soveig Berggren looks at how massage can be used in schools to relax and centre children. She started her first project in 1996 with a class of 10-year-olds in a school in southern...more 
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		   Massage is Relaxing. Discuss... The author touches on EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Therapy), the internationally recognized and well-researched treatment for trauma, and the Holosync technology - develope...more 
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		   Massage Matters: Massage and Medication This column focuses on the use of proper medication and massage techniques on an elderly woman with a complex medical picture....as she suffers from lower back pain due to wear and...more 
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		   Massage Techniques for Childbirth Touch, in the form of a positive massage during labour, was an area I wanted to explore to determine whether it is a useful way of shifting the focus of active support away from th...more 
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		   Massage Therapy for people with Cancer: A Practitioner's Experience In this article, Louise Roy describes her experience with one cancer patient and discusses the challenges facing massage practitioners. During training, many massage students are w...more 
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			This article focuses on the erotic aspect of body massage and why practitioners and clients rarely get turned on, despite there being some similarities between some of the rituals ...more 
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		   Mastering Your Emotions - Waking WREMS State WREMS – Waking REM State is a skill. Not therapy or pop-psych or new age magic – it is a practical tool that allows you direct access to your subconscious mind and the power to cal...more 
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			In Energy Field Therapy there is conscious manipulation of the energy flow for the purposes of healing and personal transformation. It aims to access disruptions to the energy flow...more 
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		   Matrix Repatterning(tm) - The Structural Basis of Health In this authoritative feature, Dr. George Roth, the originator of Matrix Repatterning, explains how symptoms, especially in chronic conditions, are often the result of the compensa...more 
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			Walk into any regular supermarkets and read the ingredients in all the nicely packaged foods they sell. Most will contain toxic substances, whether it is colorants, trans-fats, pres...more 
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			As the largest healthcare profession in the world after medicine and dentistry, and in the light of the new legislation regulating its practice in the UK, chiropractic is fast beco...more 
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			McTimoney chiropractic is a particular branch of the profession in the UK which developed for some years outside of the apparent mainstream, so to speak. There are over 300 McTimon...more 
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		   McTimoney-Corley Spinal Therapy This article focuses on McTimoney-Corley Spinal Therapy, a treatment that involves gentle whole body manipulation. The therapy works at the level of adjusting the bones and realign...more 
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		   ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Causes and the Amygdala Retraining Recovery Programme This article focuses on ME, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), which affects approximately 250,000 people in the UK. However, as yet, there is no agreement in the medica...more 
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		   ME a misunderstood and much maligned disease Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is an illness which for years has divided the medical profession, yet no-one who has experienced it, or who has had the responsibility of caring for ...more 
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		   ME-CFS: Redefining Rest and Learning to be a Psychopath At this moment, I am struggling with at least three themes: Getting ‘rest’ recognized as ‘treatment’, getting the influence of certain psychiatrists recognized as part of our societ...more 
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			I was dreading the outcome of the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on ME/CFS. All of us who have this illness (or one of these illnesses) know from bitter experience that phy...more 
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		   ME: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Mercury Exhaustion? The author looks at connections between musculature, the nervous system and the brain and examines similar symptoms of toxicity given different diagnostic “labels” by the medical sy...more 
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			I apologise in advance to both those who already know and practise much of this, and to those who will find it much too complicated and long-winded. ME/CFS is a big and complicated...more 
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		   ME/CFS, Covid, Long Covid: Rest and Ivermectin This article is a discussion of the role of old-fashioned rest, and the widely used drug, Ivermectin in the treatment of Covid 19. We are now well into the second year of a pandemic...more 
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		   ME/CFS, NLP and the Lightning Process™ in the Looking Glass The purpose of this article is to provide an explanation of the theoretical model and practical processes underlying both appropriate and inappropriate use of NLP in the treatment o...more 
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		   ME/CFS: Ethical and Unethical Uses of NLP This article will not be welcomed by those who practice and believe in the use of NLP as an effective treatment for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - ME/CFS.more 
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		   ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Under or Misdiagnosed? ME is not a very useful term. It has evolved from a diagnosis used in the 1950s, Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, stemming from the Ancient Greek meaning painful and ‘inflammation ...more 
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		   Meat, How to Keep it a Healthy Part of your Diet Last month saw more good news for vegetarians. An announcement from the World Health Organisation (WHO) informed us that processed meat definitely causes cancer. Processed meat has ...more 
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		   Medical Astrology - The Four Elements in Therapy The author is qualified in Nutritional Medicine, Iridology, as well as being a student of Medical Astrology. The article describes the four major astrological elements, earth, fire...more 
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		   Medical Education Needs Booster Dose What is the purpose of medical education, especially in today’s context – when it continues to struggle in the face of the Covid-19 tornado? The answer is simple – medical educati...more 
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			When the roof and the foundations of a house begin to collapse, the demolition guys get called in. Likewise, as the foundations of conventional medicine begin to collapse, the medi...more 
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		   Medical Intuition - Interview with Lori Wilson BA MSW Medical intuition can often pinpoint pre-clinical information, imbalances or weaknesses in specific areas, subtle issues, as well as the strengths in a person's energy field. This ...more 
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		   Medical Ozone as a Potential Alternative for Knee Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis is the most common musculoskeletal condition in older people. It is estimated that a third of people aged 45 years and over in the UK have sought treatment for osteoa...more 
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		   Medical Qigong - An Innovative Treatment for Hypertension In this article the author maintains that hypertension, more commonly known as high blood pressure, is the number one morbidity factor in developed countries. Allopathic (conventio...more 
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		   Medicinal Application of Caribbean Herbs The Caribbean region is more than just a sun and sand holiday destination. It is considered to be one of 34 biodiversity hotspots in the world and is certainly a 'hotspot' for medic...more 
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		   Medicinal Mushrooms - Ancient Medicine in Modern Times Although mushrooms have been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years, their medicinal properties and health benefits have now been proved through clinical studies, p...more 
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		   Medicinal Mushrooms - The New Addition to Western Herbal Medicine This article focuses on Medicinal Mushrooms, which have been used for millennia in traditional medical practices in the East. Fungus, such as Ganoderma Lucidum (resihi, ling zhi) w...more 
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		   Medicinal Mushrooms: Natural Supplement for Diabetics Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease where the body has increased blood sugar levels due to two reasons, in the majority of cases: the regulatory anabolic hormone, the ins...more 
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		   Medicinal Plants for Curing Common Ailments in India The Patalkot forest is so well hidden that people on the outside didn't even know it existed. It is a very special place, rich with plants and animals. The natives who live there k...more 
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			It goes without saying that neurobiology holds fresh hope for individuals suffering from emotional as well as other developmental disorders. This is because of the prospect of quic...more 
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		   Meditating On a Plastic Bottle! The author discusses the subject of meditation, and of retreats, in which people experience an environment conducive to re-evaluation of their lives, meditative development, a se...more 
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		   Meditation - A Practical Approach to the Art of Relaxed Awareness The author, a meditation teacher, emphasizes important aspects of his role, such as reassurance and encouragement, as well as the wide knowledge he needs to impart in terms of the ...more 
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			So much time is spent living in the relative dream worlds of the future or the past, we would do well to remember that both come from the present moment. The more we are able to li...more 
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		   Meditation - Antidote to Stress Nancy Goudie, public speaker, author, broadcaster, singer and teacher, looks at the possibility of alleviating stress through meditation.more 
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		   Meditation & Mindfulness Toward Positive Transformation and Fulfilment We all exist in two different worlds. One is the external world; the other is our inner world. We tend to spend all of our time in the outer world but very little, if any, in our i...more 
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		   Meditation and Stress Coping using Kabbalistic Techniques and Techniques for Releasing Anxiety This article focuses on the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah and how it can be applied in our lives to help us cope with various situations such as stress.more 
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			Put simply, meditation is a way of slowing down. By sitting for maybe twenty or thirty minutes at a time, focusing on your chosen process, you can move into a space where you may e...more 
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		   Meditation for ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Conditions The author explains that stress, and the stress response, play an important role in the factors which lead up to ME, and then even more so as a response to the symptoms, as the s...more 
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		   Meditation for Personal Transformation This article is not written to your intellect. It is addressed to someone deeper within you. Read slowly. Do your best to just read it without judgment, and soon you will begin to ...more 
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		   Meditation for Self-Realization This article describes an ancient form of pure meditation, involving learning and practising given breaths. It is a deeper meditation than the meditative states that can be achieve...more 
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		   Meditation: Staying Present to the Now To live fully in the present is to become awakened to what is truly real and to our own natural power. Much of our life is spent living in the past, and in the process, attempting ...more 
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		   Meditations To Boost Back Health As a known and published spinal surgeon, Dr Ken Hansraj has dedicated more than 20 years of his life to helping people across the globe improve their spinal health. He is a prominen...more 
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			In this Expert Column, Leon Chaitow looks at our body’s ability to produce virtually identical chemicals to those that appear in cannabis. He tells us that through exercise and t...more 
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		   Memories of My Trip to Domaine de L'Ylang-Ylang This is the story of the author's first inspiring visit to Mauritius in January 2001 and first long-haul flight. It was there that she discovered a remote site called Domaine de L'...more 
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		   Menopause - A Chinese Approach The author has been practising acupuncture since she qualified with The College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in 1984 and is a founding member of the Scottish Post Polio Netwo...more 
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		   Menopause - Natural Approaches Natural approaches using a variety of complementary therapies to alleviate menopausal symptoms are known and can be exceedingly effective for both constitutional and symptomatic cl...more 
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		   Menopause Nutrition for IBS and your Gut Many women experience gut symptoms in midlife. Bloating, gas, discomfort around your middle, diarrhoea or constipation are all common gut problems. They may be labelled as IBS and ...more 
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			There are few women who would turn down the chance to look and feel younger if a magic pill were offered. But is HRT really such an elixir, or could it actually shorten life? New...more 
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		   Menopause: Gateway to Better Health The Chinese do not have a name for the Menopause. Interestingly, the ending of periods is not considered an illness in China, but instead a natural and healthy transition from one p...more 
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		   Mental Health Benefits of Nature What if there was a natural way to uplift your mood, destress, promote a sense of wellbeing, leave you calm yet energised, without side-affects, dependency or prescription? What if ...more 
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		   Mental Health Concerns during the Pandemic The raging Corona pandemic has taken a heavy toll on human lives and health. Grim statistics stare you in the face every morning. Apart from people dying and hospitals bursting at t...more 
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		   Mental Health: the Psyche's Journey to Wholeness Transpersonal psychology is a school of psychology that encompasses the transcendent, the spiritual dimension, 'trans' meaning 'beyond' the personal.more 
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		   Mercury Amalgam Fillings - Removal & Detoxification Catherine Crawford, an aromatherapist with a diploma in nutritional medicine, describes how, at the age of 46, she decided to seek help from a sympathetic dentist to remove her ama...more 
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		   Mercury and Selenium - The Battle of the Elements Dental students are taught that amalgams are composed of a mixture of metals with varying composition of mercury, silver, zinc, tin and copper. They are told that these individual ...more 
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			We are dentists. Definitely not normal dentists. We realised over ten years ago that mercury from amalgam fillings could injure patients, so we became "Mercury Free". Now we are of...more 
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			The author is a journalist who writes about her friend Pam Calyton's experience of and recovery from poisoning by the mercury in her fillings.more 
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		   Mercury Poisoning from Amalgam Fillings Mercury, the most toxic metal in amalgam fillings, has a long history of use and an equally long history of known toxic effects. Despite man's efforts to use mercury, its poisonous...more 
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		   META-Kinetics: A Synthesis of META-Medicine and Cyberkinetics The article covers two topics: META-Medicine and Cyberkinetics, then explaining how the two fields can work together to form a comprehensive system for helping people achieve good ...more 
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			Body typing focuses on such factors as the personality, appearance and biochemistry of the client rather than on the disease to determine specific body type and make nutritional an...more 
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			This article continues the study of metabolic typing introduced in Issue 65, looking in greater detail at the testing procedures used in William Wolcott's system and presenting a c...more 
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		   Metabolic Typing: A Highly Individualized, Fine-Tuned Nutritional Guideline This article looks at why certain diets and nutritional guidelines work on some people and not others. It questions why some people still do not feel fit even when they eat healt...more 
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		   Metamorphic Technique - Tool for Inner Change The Metamorphic Technique was created in the 1960s by Robert St John, a British naturopath and reflexologist, and further developed by Gaston St Pierre, founder of the Metamorphic ...more 
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		   Micro-element Therapy and Mineral Imbalances - A Practitioner's Case Studies As a therapist, I have used Micro-element Therapy (MET) for some 12 years and never cease to be amazed at its effect. This paper aims to give an outline of how it works in practice...more 
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		   Micronutrient Tips for Protecting your Eyes It is very important to look after our eye health all year round, even more as we head into warmer weather thanks to bright sunshine, air-conditioned offices, dry atmospheres, dust...more 
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		   Midwifery Practice and Complementary Therapy - A policy point of view Midwifery practitioners in many parts of the country receive requests from pregnant women who are interested in or are already using complementary therapies. The holistic ethos of ...more 
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			Migraine is a painfully intense, pulsating severe headache, usually affecting one side of the head (hemi crania) and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, visual and digestive dist...more 
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		   Migraine Sufferers Top 10 Million in UK – How Can we Manage Migraine Attacks more Effectively? Just why are more Brits in pain and how can we manage migraine attacks more effectively? Suzie Sawyer, Clinical Nutritionist, provides her Top Tips.more 
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			The article examines the differences between migraines and headaches and states that the most common type of headache is muscular. It gives the causes for headaches as follows: p...more 
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		   Milk - Review of its Composition, Ingestion, Dietary and Health Profile ‘Drink your milk, it’s good for you’ was a phrase we heard frequently as children. As CAM Providers over the last few decades, we have been finding that ingestion of milk or dairy ...more 
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		   Million Dollar Health Secrets - Standing Meditation In my twenty-five years as a body therapist I have come across the words "million dollar health secret" three times. The term denotes a simple technique or practice which can easil...more 
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		   Mind and Body Health with NLP and EFT This article focuses on how best to achieve mind and body health. The author believes the best place to start is by looking at our emotional state as the baggage we carry drives ou...more 
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		   Mind Mapping for Positive Health Mind Mapping was devised as a memory tool by Tony Buzan in the '70s and since that time, it has evolved considerably and its applications have extended substantially. A Mind Map® i...more 
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		   Mind Matters: The Physics of Consciousness The essence of time, along with space, holds the pivot to metaphysics. It also finds representation in a host of things that exist in nature. How? With the passing of every event in...more 
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		   Mind Over Matter: The Fuzzy Logic of our Inner Self Mindful meditation is the practice of intentionally focusing your attention on the present-moment – and accepting it without judgment. It relates to open receptivity and awareness o...more 
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			Complementary medicine can be a minefield. Sometimes a battlefield. Its typical freelance sole proprietor can be as fiercely competitive as any ruthless corporate giant.more 
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		   Mind The Gap: From Fashion to Form and Function Have you ever heard of the thigh gap? I hadn’t before reading an article titled Body language (The Guardian 12.11.13). This ‘essential’ reading is all about identifying anatomical b...more 
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			Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung articulated that the most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. He also underlined th...more 
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			Pain is a message from our body that there is a problem that needs to be sorted out, and if the pain signals are just shut off, the problem can get worse because we haven’t tackled...more 
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		   Mind, Medicine and the Placebo Effect Conventional paradigms in medicine decree that a living creature is nothing more than complex of molecules and electromagnetism which have somehow self-organized themselves into ...more 
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		   Mind, Miracles & Meaning Part 1: Manage your Mind to Train your Brain This is the first of a three part series of articles that describe the process of creating miracles and meaning by challenging your current mindset to think differently. The first i...more 
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		   Mind, Miracles and Meaning Part II: Miracles ‘are’ Meaning A simple sound such as “mmmmm’ can carry so much meaning that we make it up in our minds that it’s actually real. This has us thinking that what we believe is going to happen - actu...more 
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		   Mind, Miracles and Meaning Part III: The Answer to Life’s Mysteries Learning to live your life through meaning that others have bestowed on you is by no means an easy task. What has transpired through your mind are those things that have been ‘post...more 
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		   Mind/Body Talk: NLP as 'Software for the Brain' - Chunking The author expands the subject of chunking, a relatively straightforward concept taught in NLP training, and shows how it can lead to very powerful interventions in the context of ...more 
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		   Mind/Body Talk: NLP Talking Therapies - The Brooklyn Program Many of the basic techniques used in the Brooklyn Program were taken from NLP, therapy tools and strategies developed in the mid-1970's by Richard Bandler and John Grinder who mo...more 
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		   Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility The author reports on the similarity of his work as a social psychologist and that of Ellen Langer, the author of Counter Clockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Th...more 
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		   Mindfulness and Meditation are the Steps to Wellbeing during COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has not been kind to anyone. Externally, we are maintaining social distancing norms and stay-at-home orders, but internally, we are absorbed with feel...more 
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			We are usually unaware of our breathing. The authors, a holistic medical doctor and an osteopath, both find that how we breathe is of fundamental importance in maintaining health, ...more 
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		   Mindfulness for People Living with Long Term Conditions As the numbers of people living with a Long Term Condition (LTC) increases worldwide,[1] a new study ‘Starting Where I Am’[2] explores how practising mindfulness can positively affe...more 
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