Tag Archives: digestion

Benefits of Fermented Foods

OHC Nutrition Practitioner Kerry shines a light on fermented foods and details a number of ways they may be a supportive addition to your health journey. From the potential to improve digestion and therefore aid immune function, incorporating fermented foods into your eating plan could be a wonderful piece of the puzzle to explore with […]

OHC Live 89 – The OHC approach to supplements

Alex talks to Helen Lynam, Director of Nutrition at The Optimum Health Clinic, about our approach to supplement, why we recommend what we do, how individualised each patient’s protocol is, and why we use the suppliers we do.  Sign up for a free information pack from The Optimum Health Clinic or sign up for a […]

Reactions to supplements part 5: Detoxification Part 2

Welcome to this week’s video blog. This week we have the latest in our series of videos looking at some of the reasons we find people have reactions to supplements. In this video, Alex is talking with Tanya Page (Director of Nutrition at The Optimum Health Clinic) about the role of lymph congestion, the impact […]

Reactions to supplements part 4: Detoxification Part 1

Welcome to this week’s video blog. This week, we have the latest video in our series on the reasons why we find people have reactions to supplements, and how we effectively work with this at The Optimum Health Clinic. In this video, Alex is talking with Tanya Page (Director of Nutrition at The Optimum Health […]

Reactions to supplements – first video in new series!

Welcome to this week’s video blog, where, as promised we have the first in a new series of videos from our nutrition team.  One of the biggest reasons we hear of why people have given up on nutrition treatments with other practitioners before coming to The Optimum Health Clinicis due to reactions to supplements.  There […]

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 – 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Menopause and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Some of the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome and menopause overlap. Joint pain, headaches, lack of energy, depression and anxiety are present in both conditions. Menopause patients experience hot flushes, decreased libido and aging skin. The three stages of a women’s lifecycle are pre, peri and post menopause and all three of these stages can […]