Category: Chronic Illness

Melanoma is scary. It’s real and potentially deadly.
The major risk factor for the appearance of melanoma is exposure to UV radiation.
Or so we are lead to believe by News and Current Affairs pieces such as Campbell Live on Monday 1st March 2010 on TV 3. The story centered around an incredible woman from Wellington who [...]

Positive or Negative?
It feels great to be out in the sun, but surely that’s hardly warrants an addiction label!
And is there anything wrong with being addicted?
As is so often the case – context is King. Wikipedia suggests addictions can be positive, negative or neutral. Some would say an addiction to exercise is a positive thing [...]

Anyone reading spending more than a few seconds on this site will quickly understand my strong views on Vitamin D and it’s potentially life changing impact on many chronic illness sufferers. The arrival of an autistic child is a life changing challenge for all family members.
Unsurprisingly parents go through a range of emotions when they [...]

Paranoia Reigns Supreme
Recent advertising on local television is capitalising on the hysteria created by the Swine Flu Epidemic.
You remember what happened earlier this year when the media storm pushed fear and loathing into every human such that a mere sniff or cough from a passing human was side stepped or scorned with the arrogance of [...]

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Earlier this year while researching a disease in farm animals caused by eating toxin producing fungal spores I came across a natural remedy I had never heard of.

Cow’s skin photo-sensitised after liver damage caused by fungal spore toxins.

The primary target of the toxin from the fungus is the liver. The damage to liver of these [...]

Two weeks ago I published an overview of magnesium – that you can read here.
Towards the end of the article I promised a review of the different forms of magnesium supplement and its taken me this long to get through all the material. There are more forms of magnesium than I ever imagined and so [...]

One of the rewarding aspects of what I do is to hear about benefits that readers and customers gain from using information and products they get from this web site.  It seems a real waste of experience and so from time to time I’ll share stories to inspire others on their path to increasing health.
This [...]

Although the title sounds like a character from a children’s storybook – this headline is far from a fairy tale.
This mineral has been dubbed an orphan by Creighton University’s Professor Robert Heaney and yet it is the fourth most abundant mineral in your body. And just like an Olympic sporting event, remembering who won the [...]

There is a war raging.
Not a racial or religious war but a war that is costing millions of dollars. There are already hundreds of millions of people affected by this struggle and most of them are silent victims. They are blissfully continuing their lives struggling to deal with their weight. Caught in an endless dietary [...]