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Taking Care of Cholesterol Through Fasting
Another piece of feedback from my fasting blog is that I’m still communicating like a doctor using words that not everyone might understand like metabolic health and lipid profile. Many of you may have seen your lipid profile on a readout from a doctor which includes the cholesterol, the triglycerides, low density (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL) and their ratio plus non-HDL lipoproteins which is a measure of everything that isn’t the good type of cholesterol! So out of this complex array of measures let’s focus on HDL because we want more of that.
Fasting in the Menopause
Fasting as a means to finding greater health and wellbeing. Some of the advantages of the five day fast are that it teaches your body flexibility and how to move from burning sugars to burning fat more easily. This means that hunger is not so stressful and the prolonged fast triggers a repair response. But the emotional and psychological response to depriving ourselves is important to discuss also.
My Secret to Good Digestion – Fennel
As ever we are always looking for sustainable change with things we can incorporate easily and enjoy, so hail to my next herb tea Fennel! It’s a wonderful digestif, calms the bowels and helps with digestion – plus it’s delicious.
Using Fasting as Preventative Medicine
At the heart of Integrative Medicine lies the potential for preventative medicine so that we can stay well longer into later life. This might sound an obvious thing to aim for but we all need a wake up call to making changes in our life because we’re hardwired as humans to enjoy being comfortable.
The Spiritual Dimension of Fasting
Fasting can strengthen one’s connection to the divine and with other traditions like Ayurveda the body is also seen as divine and ancient traditions of fasting and cleansing are being researched and shared within the Integrative Medicine model.
Detoxing with Nettle Tea
Detoxing with nettle tea plus the benefits of fasting at home and supervised fasting at a special retreat
Learning to Love My Liver
Learning to love my liver – as part of my journey with fasting, to help reduce my visceral fat, I am learning how to look after the health of my liver.
The Highs and Lows of the Fasting Mimicking Diet
Days four and five of Prolon’s Fasting Mimicking Diet: the highs and lows and some tips for fasting.
Day Two and Three of the ProLon® Fasting Mimicking Diet
Day Two and Day Three of Dr Elizabeth Thompson’s five day Fasting Mimicking Diet with ProLon®.
The First Day of ProLon’s® Fasting Mimicking Diet
The everyday practicalities of undergoing the fasting mimicking diet by ProLon® and some of the science behind it.
Inflammation and Fasting
Top tips on reducing inflammation based on Michael Mosley’s radio programme. Includes fasting and how this can help reduce inflammation.
Sowing the seeds for a career in Integrative Medicine
As a medical student, I was formally introduced to integrative medicine (IM) through a ‘Student Choice Placement’ during the beginning of my second year at the University of Bristol. Out of 60 different projects I chose the one titled “Integrative Medicine for Optimum Health in Later Life”, supervised by Dr Elizabeth Thompson, founder of the National Centre for Integrative Medicine (NCIM). At this point I had been practicing mindfulness meditation for two years, and had felt first-hand the profound impact the practice could have on one’s health. I was curious to explore other aspects of the field of IM, so the project seemed like an obvious choice.