Tag Archives: diet

CFS and ME treatment: Stomach Acid Transcript

You Tube – ME and CFS Treatment – Stomach Acid Alex:  Hi, I’m Alex Howard and I’m with Tanya Page from the nutrition team at the clinic.  And today we’re going to be talking about stomach acid and its role in CFS and ME treatment, Fibromyalgia, Lyme disease and that group of illnesses.  And I […]

Video Blog – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS: The Stages of Treatment

Welcome to this week’s video blog. When the first draft of this was written, the sun was shining in London, England were still in the world cup and it hadn’t yet rained at Wimbledon. Alas, one of these has already changed at the time of sending. It just goes to show how much can change […]

Video Blog: The OHC vision for ME and CFS Recovery

Welcome to this week’s video blog. You may have noticed that our video blogs have been a little less frequent the past month. This has been because we have all been madly busy setting up our new Head Office in North London (same building, just more rooms!) and also recruiting some additional practitioners. We’ll let […]

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS: Talk from the Optimum Health Clinic part 1

Welcome to this week’s video blog. Our first video this week is the introduction to Alex and Sanna’s talk in Stockport a few weeks ago. Although the video finishes on a bit of a cliffhanger, we promise to bring you the next part very soon! In the video, Alex talks about his own recovery story, […]

Video Blog: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS – Leaky Gut

Welcome to this week’s video blog. Our main video this week is with Sanna Anderson from out nutrition team talking about the role of Leaky Guy in CFS, ME and Fibromyalgia. For a subgroup of patients with CFS, this explains not only many of the digestive problems they can experience, but also can be the […]

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS Treatment: Candida

Welcome to this weeks video blog. For this week’s first video, we have Tanya Page (Nutrition Manager) talking with Alex about the role of candida in ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia. In the mid 1990s there were a lot of nutritionists that believed M.E. and candida were one at the same thing, and many patients ended […]

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Restrictive Diets

Thank you to everyone for the fantastic feedback on our report “The Art of Pacing”. We really feel that it is one of the most important documents we have produced, and judging from the feedback you guys feel the same. For this week’s video blog (in two parts), we have a video filmed in Alex’s […]

CFS and ME Treatment – Constipation

For this week’s main video, we have the latest in our series of videos from our nutrition department, this one is on Constipation, and is with Amy Pamment from our nutriton team.  Constipation can play a significant role in ME and CFS.  In the video Amy and Alex discuss why regular bowel movements are so […]

Case Study by Niki Gratrix

Case Study by Niki Gratrix Director of Nutrition The Optimum Health Clinic 17th December 2008 University of Bedfordshire Aims and Objectives The aim of this case sudy is to analyse the effectiveness of natural dietary and supplement therapy prescribed by a licenced nutritional therapist for the treatment of a patient diagnosed with with Chronic Fatigue […]

Raw Food and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Symptoms

Chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms are greatly reduced by the introduction of raw foods. Uncooked foods are living. Their nutrients and enzymes actively interact with the body when consumed and cause a live energy effect. When food is cooked above 120 degrees farenheit the enzymes and nutrients are destroyed. Cooked foods cause an energy depleting reaction […]