With your expert panel: Yalda Alaoui, Dr. Barbara Sturm, Dr. Tamsin Lewis & Tish Weinstock
WHEN: 27th January, 1.30pm – 2.30pm GMT.
The Stables, 40 Earlham St, London, WC2H 9LH
Anti-inflammatory Pioneer and Founder/CEO of Eat Burn Sleep Yalda Alaoui co-hosts an anti-inflammatory and anti-aging masterclass with Skin Expert Dr. Barbara Sturm, Medical Doctor Tamsin Lewis (BSC in neuroscience and the biology of aging), and Beauty Director and Journalist Tish Weinstock.
Learn how Dr. Barbara Sturm, a pioneer in the anti-inflammatory movement with 25 years of science expertise, transferred her clinical insights into skincare innovations. Plus, discover the causes of chronic inflammation, the benefits of leading an anti-inflammatory lifestyle, and how to reduce chronic inflammation to improve well-being and longevity and achieve your best, most healthy skin yet with Yalda, Dr. Lewis, and Tish.
51 Marylebone, High Street, London, W1U 5HW, United Kingdom
Join Anti-inflammation Pioneer Yalda Alaoui, the founder of Eat Burn Sleep, for her insights into how to change simple habits and make different choices to live a healthier life WITHOUT compromising things that you love!
Yalda has helped thousands of people worldwide achieve and regain optimal mental and physical health and reduce chronic inflammation through her evidence-based and science-backed, ground-breaking anti-inflammation program on the Eatburnsleep platform.
The Organic Pharmacy’s homeopaths will also recommend bespoke remedies for your body’s needs.
Enjoy complimentary mini facials, vitamin and mineral scans, and homeopathic consultations.
Collagen shots by House of Roxy and gut healing drinks by Tease and Hallstein.
Yalda Alaoui talks about the effects of chronic inflammation on physical and mental health and how gut health education is critical to reducing the damage and the risk of developing chronic inflammatory conditions.
WHEN: 19th March, 2022, 2 pm GTS.
YPO, Dubai Downtown Chapter, United Arab Emirates.
Heightening the Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Hello Everyone! A Danish study wanted to determine if dosing and timing of antibiotics were important factors in the development of IBD.
More than 6.1 million individuals were included in the study derived from medical data ranging over 18 years, and the results showed that another critical factor increased the risk.
This article delves into why the side effects of antibiotics are linked to Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis, how age is associated with the likeliness of diagnosis, and how you can treat your IBD in the most effective, safest way.
If you are new to Eat Burn Sleep, many factors play pivotal roles in inflammatory bowel disease development. There are many ways to put it into remission, which are all included on this platform.
In the study (Faye et al. 2023) determining whether antibiotics were factors in the development of IBD, individuals had to satisfy specific criteria, and they ranged from 10 years old upwards, with no previous diagnosis of IBD—the years from January 2000 until December 2018 were studied.
It concluded that the frequent use of antibiotics that targeted gastrointestinal infections increased the risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease among males and females over 40 by 50%.
However, it also revealed that antibiotic use at any age, including 10 years old and upwards, increased the risk of developing Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
Each added course of antibiotics over the years from January 2000 until December 2018 created additional risk – the highest risk is seen after 1-2 years following antibiotic courses.
Can You Get IBD at Any Age?
Yes, you can get inflammatory bowel disease at any age, following antibiotics. The study showed the percentage of individuals that would be more likely to be diagnosed with IBD were:
28% for 10 – 40 years old
48% for 40 – 60 years old
47% for those over 60 years old.
Why Do You Have Crohn’s Disease?
Please explore this platform to delve into the cause of Crohn’s disease and, indeed, become a member to put your Crohn’s disease into remission, but one reason could be down to antibiotics.
The study mentioned above revealed that the risk of developing Crohn’s disease after a course of antibiotics was:
40% for individuals aged 10 to 40 years old
62% for 40 to 60 years old
51% for those over their 60s.
Each course of antibiotics added an additional 11%, 15%, and 14%, respectively.
The figures were slightly lower for the risk of developing ulcerative colitis but still as significant.
The outcome showed that anyone at any age who has had five lots of antibiotic courses or more was twice as likely to develop an inflammatory bowel disease than someone who has not been on antibiotics.
What Are the Side Effects of Antibiotics?
Antibiotics change the microbial environment in the gastrointestinal tract, decreasing diversity and increasing susceptibility to disease development.
Our gut microbiota, which we carry around 4-5lbs of in our gut, changes continuously. It is home to an array of microorganisms that consist of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses. They are paramount to our health.
Our microbiota is made up of our genes, food, drink, and what we are exposed to.
Everything we imbibe will feed the good or harmful bacteria or wipe out all the good.
This includes everything around us. The air we breathe, how we live and eat, and even our thoughts.
Everything we do impacts our gut microbiota.
Everything our gut microbiota does affects us.
This includes aging.
Age impacts our microbiota.
It was found that aging adults have decreased Bifidobacterium in their gut, also seen in IBD patients.
Age-related changes like lifestyle factors can be made worse by antibiotic use, which depletes microbiota diversity, increases candida and thrush, and can have long-term effects.
Recovery from antibiotics takes younger people less than a month to recover, but it takes much longer in older people.
Can Too Many Antibiotics Make You Sick?
Gut microbiota is affected by antibiotics, medication, drugs, sickness, and stress.
So, the antibiotics cause gut dysbiosis, which is linked to chronic inflammation and IBD: Crohn’s, Colitis, and Diverticulitis, as well as other chronic inflammatory diseases.
So, you can imagine that repeat prescriptions over a period of time limit microbiota recovery.
Children are still at risk of developing IBD after antibiotics, but much less. The slow and limited recovery that comes from aging, combined with repeated dysbiosis (unbalanced gut microbiota diversity) from the antibiotics, puts a person over 40 in a perpetual state of susceptibility to disease.
Antibiotic use is a trigger for Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis development.
Which Antibiotics Trigger IBD?
All antibiotics and medications cause microbiota diversity and metabolic changes. The overgrowth of pathogens occurs, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria multiply, for instance.
Antibiotics can wipe out all the good bacteria, leading to inflammatory diseases and immune dysregulation. 70% of immune cells reside in your gut, you see.
So, by using antibiotics to fight an infection, you are actually making your body more susceptible to disease and viruses.
Wiping out good bacteria and pathogens results in the body being even less healthy than before.
This also highlights how medication can cause chronic inflammation and reduced immunity through gut dysbiosis and how medicine can not be effective after a while.
Gut microbiota is imperative to human health and can be disrupted by many lifestyle factors, antibiotics, and medication.
It is constantly changing.
It can be changed positively to an optimal state as our environments allow.
Have you read NSAIDs, Gut Health & Inflammation, Painkillers Not Helping Your Headaches?, Why Aspartame Is Linked to Cancer, & Can Food Poisoning Cause Inflammation?
How Do You Reset Gut Health?
Resetting your system starts here. Our 6-week reset enables you to recover from antibiotic use and dysbiosis, regardless of age.
The 6-week reset reboots the immune system and reduces inflammation, which improves your mental well-being and will cause weight loss, give you more energy, and make you feel and look incredible.
I would suggest that in addition to week 1 advice, follow the advice that I share for Candida Overgrowth for more recommendations to reduce bacterial overgrowth.
It’s a powerful protocol for resetting your health and taking control of your IBD, reducing Crohn’s and colitis triggers.
It takes 21 days to revive your mind and body and 42 to feel absolutely incredible!
Then, you maintain your lifestyle with 300+ microbiota-loving recipes, keeping you in tip-top health, having what you like now and again, which will keep you happy.
The platform has amazing craving hacks, but remember, it is not about perfection. Follow the EBS method 80% of the time. Have those foods and drinks that you love, too.
Nothing is cut out 100% (keeping the bacteria), which keeps many people feeling unrestricted.
Aiming for an 80/20 mindset most of the time allows you to dip to 70/30 and sometimes 60/40. You just jump back when you can. It is all about damage limitation, and it works!
The wonderful thing is that you feel it, and as you get to know your body more through the marked changes that Eat Burn Sleep promotes, you are more likely to be on this IBD and chronic disease-reducing lifestyle effortlessly.
Incremental changes over a year make a massive difference.
Plus, your gut microbiota won’t want those trigger foods one day.
It’s hard to believe right now, but it’s true! It’s amazing. Don’t just take my word for it; check out the testimonials.
Remember to go easy on yourself, and have a wonderful day.
Hello Everyone! If you are tired all the time, with no energy and low moods, and feel that you sleep well, consider getting tested for anemia.
Chronic inflammation and conditions like IBD, Crohn’s, colitis, celiac disease, and Hiatal Hernia often cause anemia due to nutrient malabsorption and blood loss. Still, if you don’t have a known condition and are feeling exhausted, it may come down to your eating and what you are not eating.
This post is worth a read because many so-called healthy and trendy diets could lack essential nutrients that can cause irreversible damage to health, and yes, your gut health can help you!
Anemia causes fatigue and shortness of breath, as does chronic inflammation. I advise that you have blood tests with your healthcare professional.
Anemia is a severe global public health problem, affecting over two billion individuals. It is caused by loss of blood, lack of red cell production, and high rates of red blood cell destruction.
It is problematic by itself, but it can also impact other global public health concerns like obesity, for instance, due to the symptom of having no energy to exercise.
Sedentary lifestyles, diabetes, and chronic inflammation are linked to anemia.
Gut dysbiosis causes chronic inflammation.
Chronic inflammation alters nutrient availability, and this includes iron.
Sometimes, the cause of anemia is unknown, but it is usually caused by a condition, factor, trigger, and mostly, according to the World Health Organization, iron deficiency.
Anemia can occur when we don’t eat enough foods containing essential nutrients like B-12 and B-9 that promote iron-absorbing microbiota.
A significant concern is not the source of the iron but the type of iron and absorption. The kind of iron ingested is essential from many foods that provide iron, but there is also a specific microbiota that improves dietary iron absorption.
This article focuses on protecting yourself from anemia through gut health, reducing inflammation, and increasing nutrition absorption.
What Is the Best Diet to Avoid Anemia?
Gut health is essential to protect yourself from anemia, and many factors cause an imbalance; this includes your diet, how you live your life, how you move, breathe, think, sleep, de-stress, and so on.
Well-being affects gut health, which affects iron absorption.
Anemia is showing particular prevalence lately with this growing trend of veganism. Also, with other unhealthy diets, such as following a calorie-controlled diet.
Vegetarians also risk anemia due to limited essential daily nutritional requirements.
Following an anemia diet devised by a qualified gut health nutritionist is crucial since you have the right amount, depending on your body’s needs and functions.
Addressing any chronic inflammation condition and autoimmune disease causing your anemia and healing it through Eat Burn Sleep will aid in iron, B-12, B9, and other essential minerals and vitamin absorption.
For times when your body may need more red blood cells, with physical changes like trauma or pregnancy, for instance.
Women need more iron than men due to menstruation, but an iron deficiency can also come from regular blood donation.
The primary way to get iron is from food, and many excellent sources exist. Without it, we don’t produce heme, the molecules in blood that host iron.
Heme and non-heme iron absorption in the digestive system involves various processes and proteins.
Many factors, including foods and additives that are eaten, inhibit iron (and other essential nutrients needed to avoid anemia) absorption. As I mentioned above, the gut microbiota is a significant factor. Stimulating the growth and colonization of beneficial gut bacteria will increase iron absorption.
Reducing chronic inflammation through balancing gut microbiota will increase nutrient bioavailability. Improved immune function also occurs!
What is also imperative to iron absorption is lifestyle!
Dietary changes are never enough to achieve optimum health.
Are You Short of Breath When Resting?
Shortness of breath, even when resting, is a sign of iron-deficient anemia. Again, I advise visiting your doctor for a health assessment.
Iron-deficient anemia is when there is a reduced hemoglobin level in your blood. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carry oxygen around the circulatory system.
When this dips below a healthy level, oxygen is not circulated to bodily tissues, and body homeostasis is not maintained, causing anemia. Iron isn’t absorbed optimally in your gut, either.
This is when you can experience those feelings of exhaustion, low moods, shortness of breath, and irritability attached to anemia. The tiredness you get with anemia differs from the tiredness from lack of sleep! You can feel so drained!
You may like to read How to Ease Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME, How to Recover From Virus Infections.
Do You Need Iron?
Iron is imperative to health, as it participates in various metabolic processes.
Iron is needed for electron transfer, DNA, cell cycle control, hormone synthesis, nitrogen fixation, and antioxidant properties. It is essential to a healthy immune system, and you are more likely to pick up infections when you are depleted of iron.
Still, its volume in the body has to be regulated because too much can lead to tissue damage and neurodegenerative diseases.
Iron deficiency and excess iron levels are essential to gut health. Fluctuating levels can impact gut microbiota. Gut microbiota dysbiosis is, of course, the link to chronic inflammation, compromised immunity, and the development of chronic diseases that are linked to 78% of deaths worldwide.
You don’t need to be anemic to be iron-deficient!
Why Do You Feel Depressed and Sick?
Feeling low, depressed, and nauseous are signs of anemia and chronic inflammation, and it would be a good idea to request a blood test from your doctor.
Pernicious anemia, a type of Megaloblastic anemia, can occur without B-12 and B9 (folate).
Not enough nutrients cause pernicious anemia in the diet, and it is also an autoimmune condition that can be inherited. It is when antibodies to intrinsic factor are produced, so the body cannot absorb B-12 (because it needs intrinsic factor to do so). This means that it cannot make enough red blood cells.
Damage to the terminal ileum, which can happen when chronic inflammation is present, can cause impaired B-12 absorption because that is the part of the intestines where B-12 is absorbed.
Gastric bypass surgery is a cause, too, because the area (parietal stomach cells) where intrinsic factor is produced is now bypassed!
Autoimmune conditions also cause an inability to make intrinsic factor due to the body attacking its own tissues and gastrointestinal disorders.
Nutrients are not absorbed, and malnutrition, particularly anemia, can kick in.
Gut health and mental health are connected through the brain-gut axis. Eat Burn Sleep is a successful diet and lifestyle for improving depression and anxiety.
You may be interested to read Depression Diet & Lifestyle Intervention, Signs of Inflammation That May Surprise You, Come Off Antidepressants, Feeling Depressed, Not Jolly? and Do You Often Feel Like Crying?
What Is B-12?
B-12 (cobalamin) is a water-soluble vitamin from red meat, eggs, and dairy.
Intrinsic factor is produced in your parietal stomach cells that help your intestines absorb vitamin B12. It aids in synthesizing DNA, fatty acids, and myelin through its use as a cofactor for the enzymes involved in the process.
Myelin is an insulating sheath that forms around nerves, such as the spinal and brain cord. If it is not functioning, which can happen with a B-12 deficiency, then important electrical impulses slow down.
B-12 Deficiency Symptoms
Not only does B-12 deficiency cause symptoms like fatigue, lack of energy, irritability, brain fog, headaches, weight loss, chronic infections, a tender tongue, and shortness of breath, but it also causes neurological problems.
B-12 deficient-neurological problems can be irreversible, and they include:
Memory loss
Pins and needles
Vision issues
Damage to the nervous system, which affects walking
Loss of coordination
B-12 deficiency can affect your unborn child, increase heart conditions, put you at risk of jaundice, and compromise surgery recovery.
A doctor recently told me about a vegan patient who was depleted in B-12 and was paralyzed after an injury involving myelin from the waist down. That’s how vital B-12 is!
B-12 deficiency is tricky to pick up since symptoms may be subtle in the early days, and you may have grown accustomed to living with them.
Symptoms of Anemia:
Lack of energy
Fatigue – it feels so different than ‘lack of sleep’ tiredness
Shortness of breath – even when you are resting
Cold hands and feet
Chest pain
Depression
Loss of appetite
A smooth tongue
Nausea
Restless legs
Cravings for non-food items
Can Vegans Get Anemia?
If you are a vegan, you will not have essential B12, heme iron, and other minerals needed for optimum health. You won’t be having essential complete amino acids, etc.
B12 (cobalamin), B9 (folate), and iron are essential for optimum health and protection from anemia. Without them, megaloblastic anemia can settle in, which symptoms include: shortness of breath, palpitations, shortness of breath, weakness, heart murmurs, and some irreversible neurological issues.
Although folate is abundant in many foods a vegan can eat, being vegan is unsuitable for your body. I know this is a hot topic, but if you have to supplement for something that your body needs and nutrients are not absorbed efficiently because of what you eat, it isn’t an optimum healthy diet.
If you have been thinking about changing from being a vegan to introducing animal products into your diet again, which I strongly advise, then in the Premium Membership, there is specialized advice guiding you gently through the process, emotionally and practically—Reintroducing Animal Products.
It is imperative to get all of the nutrients that you need from food.
(If you have an IBD condition like Crohn’s or Colitis, you will possibly be having iron supplements or transfusions to treat anemia due to the nature of your condition).
The bioavailability of food is far superior to any supplement, and many nutrients do not work without their synergistic allies!
There are consequences to not taking care of your health.
Gut health will soon be compromised by not getting all the essential macro and micronutrients your body needs and eating ultra-processed foods. You may be living with stress or not getting enough sleep. You could be overloading your liver and not exercising properly for optimum health.
Many people feel that they live a healthy life. Then they realize that they eat a limited diet and have learned to live with symptoms like feeling tired and cold all the time. Or are burning the candle at both ends and have a sedentary job, and so on.
There are many external factors that you can blame for your lack of energy, like having young children or a busy job and not having enough sleep, but it is always a good idea to keep an eye on your health.
Your microbiota needs your attention, not just for iron absorption.
Sustained inflammation running in your body may not present itself at the moment. How to Silence Hidden Inflammation.
It may not mean anything to you now if you feel semi-okay and are not overweight, and manage your weight by counting calories. your body needs to absorb essential nutrients to age beautifully and live fully. Gut microbiota needs to be balanced to keep chronic inflammation at bay.
Without counting calories and having fantastic food, effective workouts, sweet treats, neuroplasticity, better mental well-being and sleep, energy, joie de vivre…
Eat Burn Sleep is not just a lifestyle. It is a life changer!
There’s no finer way to start your journey to optimum health. You won’t be disappointed if you join our fantastic community.
Hello Everyone! A very happy new year! I hope that you are well. A lot of people don’t realize that it is your thyroid gland that has a significant influence on muscle mass, weight, skin, testosterone, hair, mood… and the list goes on.
So, if your new year’s resolutions include prioritizing health, you may want to consider the thyroid-gut connection.
If you want to know how you can improve how you feel, look and burn energy, for instance, and look after your thyroid health, manage your thyroid condition, and improve overall health significantly, this article is for you.
The thyroid gland (butterfly-shaped at the front of your neck) is a small but almighty organ. Its function affects the whole body, as every cell in the body depends on thyroid hormones for their metabolism regulation. Its dysfunction is one of the most common chronic endocrine diseases.
Oftentimes, thyroid health can get overlooked, and yet it is one of the most commonly encountered incidental findings, along with chronic inflammation, at the time of autopsy, in cases where there was no apparent cause of death.
You see, chronic inflammation affects the thyroid gland.
An estimated 20 million Americans and one in 20 people in the UK have some form of a thyroid condition. Over half of them are unaware of their thyroid condition. Symptoms of thyroid conditions are often overlooked as something else.
An estimated 40% of the world’s population is at risk of thyroid diseases due to deficiencies.
One in four adults over 65 has thyroid dysfunction, but they go undetected because symptoms can be linked to other age-related issues.
Thyroid diseases, like Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and Graves Disease, affect both men and women. Autoimmunity conditions usually affect the thyroid also.
Your thyroid makes the hormones that control a significant amount of essential functions that nearly every organ.
Its good health is imperative to functions like your metabolism, body temperature, lipolysis (fat burning), heartbeat, increased cardiac output, digestion, fatty acid and triglyceride synthesis, glucose generation, and absorption, proteolysis (breaking down protein into smaller amino acids essential for the body), and development and growth of bones in children.
It also has a massive role in the maturation of the central nervous system during fetal development.
How Does a Healthy Thyroid Function?
The primary function of the thyroid is to synthesize thyroid hormones, which are needed to regulate metabolism in every single cell in the body, as I mentioned above.
These are:
Triiodothyronine (T3) and Tetraiodothyronine (commonly known as Thyroxine) (T4).
T4 is made from tyrosine, which is an amino acid.
They do this by taking essential nutrients found in foods and converting them in the liver, mostly.
So, when thyroid hormones drop too low, it all starts with the hypothalamus in the brain.
The hypothalamus regulates the pituitary and produces TSH Releasing Hormone (TRH). Which then signals to the pituitary to release TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone).
The pituitary gland then releases thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), which tells the thyroid gland to release T3 and T4 into the bloodstream.
This then speeds up the metabolism of the cells in the body, which then does all of its important functions, as mentioned above, generating energy, controlling temperature, burning fat, and so on.
When blood levels contain a certain amount, the pituitary stops producing TSH.
The Best Foods for Thyroid Health
The impact of what you eat and how you live majorly affects thyroid health. Dietary micronutrients, as well as an anti-inflammatory lifestyle, play an imperative role in thyroid hormone synthesis.
I know that many varied thyroid diets online give contradictory information, and I would always advise a qualified nutritionist or dietician with credentials that you can check who has studied thyroid health and inflammatory conditions extensively. Check that they have legitimate clients with thyroid disorders that have positive, long-term results.
I also advise that the focus should never be on food alone. Going ‘on a diet’ is restrictive, unsustainable, and unhealthy for both physical and mental health.
Let’s face it: restrictive diets make you miserable!
Restrictive thyroid diets online don’t contain all the essential micronutrients needed for overall good health.
Oftentimes, popular diets have initial results, which is what gains their popularity, but they negatively impact the body and mind further down the line, opening the body up to more health issues.
The best food you can eat when you have any chronic condition must be targeted at gut health. Again, if you search online for gut-health food, you will be met with an array of contradictory information that may negatively impact gut health.
Your gut microbiota helps your thyroid, so it is essential to eat the right gut-healthy food and drinks, with specialized thyroid advice, along with an anti-inflammatory lifestyle.
Some so-called health foods that are promoted extensively increase the likeliness of a thyroid function impairment to escalate to a more serious thyroid condition, for instance.
Certain foods and drinks can particularly affect thyroid hormone levels in the blood by increasing T4 and parathyroid (regulator of blood calcium levels) hormones and lowering T3 and aldosterone (a hormone produced in the adrenals that balances water and sodium in the kidneys) levels.
There are additives in foods that directly affect thyroid axis activity through increased inflammation, as I so often talk about.
The ingredients we eat and drink affect the gut microbiota and gastrointestinal barrier integrity and can dysregulate immune response.
They can also hinder the absorption of medication. Medication can also cause gut dysbiosis, too.
What Can Cause Thyroid Disorders?
Gut dysbiosis is a common occurrence in thyroid disorders. This is because of a couple of reasons.
Firstly, an unbalanced microbiota alters the immune response by promoting inflammation and reducing immune tolerance. It damages the intestinal membrane and causes intestinal permeability, exposing the body to antigens and local inflammation.
Inflammation can interfere with the important conversion and functions of thyroid hormones.
What happens also is that gut microbiota influences the absorption of nutrients, and in particular, the minerals that are imperative for thyroid health.
It is also important to note that components like iron are essential for good microbiota composition. Good composition influences iron’s availability, allowing for the utilization of vital nutrients for optimum thyroid health.
The right balance of antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, and immune-regulating nutrients all work synergistically together.
A good microbiota composition also provides a reservoir for T3 (one of the hormones the thyroid makes) and can prevent thyroid hormone fluctuation and disorders.
It truly is incredible how it all works.
What Are the Symptoms of Low Thyroid Function?
Symptoms of thyroid issues are shown and felt all over the body, and you will usually have multiple symptoms.
Hypothyroidism affects men and women of any age and occurs when your TSH is high and your T3 and T4 are low.
Hyporeflexia (reduction or absence of normal bodily reflexes – tested with a reflex hammer)
Water retention
Facial swelling
Chronic hypothyroidism increases total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein concentrations, which increase cardiovascular diseases. A T3 blood test will confirm a low level of T3 if you have hypothyroidism.
Symptoms of Hyperthyroidism
Hyperthyroidism occurs when your TSH is low, and your T3 and T4 are high.
Symptoms of Hyperthyroidism include:
Weight loss
Tremors
Decrease in muscle strength
Anxiety
Eye bulging
Fatigue
Frequent bowel movements
Increased heart rate
Restless legs syndrome
Low tolerance for heat
A T3 test will show high levels of T3.
Men’s Health: Symptoms of Thyroid Issues
The symptoms for men’s thyroid health issues include most of the above, but I am repeating some, just in case you came here directly. It would be multiple symptoms, not just one or two. I advise having a thyroid test if you have any concerns.
Decreased muscle mass – no matter what you do, your muscles are not building
Muscular skeletal symptoms – weakness, cramps and aches
Elevated testosterone
Decreased body temperature
Low libido
Erectile dysfunction
Hair changes – baldness, bald spots, thinning, coarse…
Lifestyle significantly influences thyroid function and the development of thyroid conditions.
Gut dysbiosis, as mentioned above.
Stress – causes gut dysbiosis.
Chronic prolonged stress – undealt with, leads to metabolic stress and a multitude of issues where inflammation rises, and neuro, endocrine, and immune imbalances occur. Chronic inflammatory conditions develop, blood pressure increases, and, of course, thyroid and hormone imbalances.
Chronic inflammatory conditions – like obesity, for instance. Thyroid cancer risk and impaired thyroid function can occur with obesity.
Autoimmune conditions – like Hashimoto’s disease, Diabetes, vitiligo, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Sleep duration – too little and too much!
Lack of nutrition.
Iron-deficient anemia.
Allergies – where the immune system becomes hypersensitive and attacks thyroid tissue by mistake.
Physical activity – too little and too much!
Drugs and medications, and more!
Members: you will be doing the absolute best for your thyroid health by following this optimum healthy lifestyle and keeping inflammation and stress at bay with the array of motivational stress management strategies on the platform.
If you have a thyroid condition, follow the specialized thyroid healing advice on what to avoid and what to do to optimize thyroid health in the Personalized Advice.
Also, access the Masterclass Lives to access all of the ones that you missed, and look out for the reminders in your inbox!
Detox Your Liver For Thyroid Health
The liver plays a crucial role in thyroid health because the conversion of T4 to T3 mostly takes place there.
A well-functioning liver will assist your thyroid health because it plays a vital role in thyroid hormone activation, inactivation, transport, and metabolism.
A less-than-optimum liver is overtaxed by medication, lifestyle, food, drinks, alcohol, and stress, and it will not perform its duties like lipolysis (fat burning).
Liver diseases are frequently associated with thyroid test abnormalities and dysfunctions, but you can’t always detect thyroid issues yourself.
Indeed, if you have any signs like a lump around the thyroid, get it checked out. They are ubiquitous; only 5 out of 100 lumps are cancerous, and thyroid cancer treatment has a high success rate, so don’t worry, but get it checked out as soon as possible.
So, to give your mind and body a good start to the year, check on your thyroid health and keep an eye on it.
Health can soon go off-kilter without us realizing it. Inflammation rising, sustained, leaves your body vulnerable to diseases and ‘switches on’ genetics. Unbalanced gut microbiota really can slow your thyroid and your whole system down.
How to Improve Thyroid Health
If you are looking for a thyroid ‘diet’ to manage your thyroid disease, autoimmune disease, hypothyroidism, or hyperthyroidism, alongside your medication, in the very best way, for optimum health, you have landed in the right place but got more than you expected (a complete lifestyle change is essential).
Implementing an inflammation-lowering lifestyle with good nutrition and specialized thyroid advice with motivational guidance daily over a long-term period will ensure your success.
You will have good thyroid health, metabolism, reduced adiposity with balanced gut microbiota, a supported liver, a strong immune system, and improved mental well-being. To say the least!
Investing in your health is always worth it, and aging beautifully without health issues is possible!
Health isn’t something we can outsource, and trusted health education is the most powerful tool.
For long-term adherence, and inspiration, an optimum healthy lifestyle has to be thoroughly enjoyable and not restrictive, nor have you feel guilty when you don’t stick to it 100%. You have to live, and you have to love to live!
It’s all about damage limitation! Not perfection.
For continued motivation, results must be seen and felt early for people to realize its power.
When excellent results continue, and you feel in the best health, you don’t look back.
Hello Everyone! A very happy new year! I hope that you are well. A lot of people don’t realize that it is your thyroid gland that has a significant influence on muscle mass, weight, skin, testosterone, hair, mood… and the list goes on.
So, if your new year’s resolutions include prioritizing health, you may want to consider the thyroid-gut connection.
If you want to know how you can improve how you feel, look and burn energy, for instance, and look after your thyroid health, manage your thyroid condition, and improve overall health significantly, this article is for you.
The thyroid gland (butterfly-shaped at the front of your neck) is a small but almighty organ. Its function affects the whole body, as every cell in the body depends on thyroid hormones for their metabolism regulation. Its dysfunction is one of the most common chronic endocrine diseases.
Oftentimes, thyroid health can get overlooked, and yet it is one of the most commonly encountered incidental findings, along with chronic inflammation, at the time of autopsy, in cases where there was no apparent cause of death.
You see, chronic inflammation affects the thyroid gland.
An estimated 20 million Americans and one in 20 people in the UK have some form of a thyroid condition. Over half of them are unaware of their thyroid condition. Symptoms of thyroid conditions are often overlooked as something else.
An estimated 40% of the world’s population is at risk of thyroid diseases due to deficiencies.
One in four adults over 65 has thyroid dysfunction, but they go undetected because symptoms can be linked to other age-related issues.
Thyroid diseases, like Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and Graves Disease, affect both men and women. Autoimmunity conditions usually affect the thyroid also.
Your thyroid makes the hormones that control a significant amount of essential functions that nearly every organ.
Its good health is imperative to functions like your metabolism, body temperature, lipolysis (fat burning), heartbeat, increased cardiac output, digestion, fatty acid and triglyceride synthesis, glucose generation, and absorption, proteolysis (breaking down protein into smaller amino acids essential for the body), and development and growth of bones in children.
It also has a massive role in the maturation of the central nervous system during fetal development.
How Does a Healthy Thyroid Function?
The primary function of the thyroid is to synthesize thyroid hormones, which are needed to regulate metabolism in every single cell in the body, as I mentioned above.
These are:
Triiodothyronine (T3) and Tetraiodothyronine (commonly known as Thyroxine) (T4).
T4 is made from tyrosine, which is an amino acid.
They do this by taking essential nutrients found in foods and converting them in the liver, mostly.
So, when thyroid hormones drop too low, it all starts with the hypothalamus in the brain.
The hypothalamus regulates the pituitary and produces TSH Releasing Hormone (TRH). Which then signals to the pituitary to release TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone).
The pituitary gland then releases thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), which tells the thyroid gland to release T3 and T4 into the bloodstream.
This then speeds up the metabolism of the cells in the body, which then does all of its important functions, as mentioned above, generating energy, controlling temperature, burning fat, and so on.
When blood levels contain a certain amount, the pituitary stops producing TSH.
The Best Foods for Thyroid Health
The impact of what you eat and how you live majorly affects thyroid health. Dietary micronutrients, as well as an anti-inflammatory lifestyle, play an imperative role in thyroid hormone synthesis.
I know that many varied thyroid diets online give contradictory information, and I would always advise a qualified nutritionist or dietician with credentials that you can check who has studied thyroid health and inflammatory conditions extensively. Check that they have legitimate clients with thyroid disorders that have positive, long-term results.
I also advise that the focus should never be on food alone. Going ‘on a diet’ is restrictive, unsustainable, and unhealthy for both physical and mental health.
Let’s face it: restrictive diets make you miserable!
Restrictive thyroid diets online don’t contain all the essential micronutrients needed for overall good health.
Oftentimes, popular diets have initial results, which is what gains their popularity, but they negatively impact the body and mind further down the line, opening the body up to more health issues.
The best food you can eat when you have any chronic condition must be targeted at gut health. Again, if you search online for gut-health food, you will be met with an array of contradictory information that may negatively impact gut health.
Your gut microbiota helps your thyroid, so it is essential to eat the right gut-healthy food and drinks, with specialized thyroid advice, along with an anti-inflammatory lifestyle.
Some so-called health foods that are promoted extensively increase the likeliness of a thyroid function impairment to escalate to a more serious thyroid condition, for instance.
Certain foods and drinks can particularly affect thyroid hormone levels in the blood by increasing T4 and parathyroid (regulator of blood calcium levels) hormones and lowering T3 and aldosterone (a hormone produced in the adrenals that balances water and sodium in the kidneys) levels.
There are additives in foods that directly affect thyroid axis activity through increased inflammation, as I so often talk about.
The ingredients we eat and drink affect the gut microbiota and gastrointestinal barrier integrity and can dysregulate immune response.
They can also hinder the absorption of medication. Medication can also cause gut dysbiosis, too.
What Can Cause Thyroid Disorders?
Gut dysbiosis is a common occurrence in thyroid disorders. This is because of a couple of reasons.
Firstly, an unbalanced microbiota alters the immune response by promoting inflammation and reducing immune tolerance. It damages the intestinal membrane and causes intestinal permeability, exposing the body to antigens and local inflammation.
Inflammation can interfere with the important conversion and functions of thyroid hormones.
What happens also is that gut microbiota influences the absorption of nutrients, and in particular, the minerals that are imperative for thyroid health.
It is also important to note that components like iron are essential for good microbiota composition. Good composition influences iron’s availability, allowing for the utilization of vital nutrients for optimum thyroid health.
The right balance of antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, and immune-regulating nutrients all work synergistically together.
A good microbiota composition also provides a reservoir for T3 (one of the hormones the thyroid makes) and can prevent thyroid hormone fluctuation and disorders.
It truly is incredible how it all works.
What Are the Symptoms of Low Thyroid Function?
Symptoms of thyroid issues are shown and felt all over the body, and you will usually have multiple symptoms.
Hypothyroidism affects men and women of any age and occurs when your TSH is high and your T3 and T4 are low.
Hyporeflexia (reduction or absence of normal bodily reflexes – tested with a reflex hammer)
Water retention
Facial swelling
Chronic hypothyroidism increases total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein concentrations, which increase cardiovascular diseases. A T3 blood test will confirm a low level of T3 if you have hypothyroidism.
Symptoms of Hyperthyroidism
Hyperthyroidism occurs when your TSH is low, and your T3 and T4 are high.
Symptoms of Hyperthyroidism include:
Weight loss
Tremors
Decrease in muscle strength
Anxiety
Eye bulging
Fatigue
Frequent bowel movements
Increased heart rate
Restless legs syndrome
Low tolerance for heat
A T3 test will show high levels of T3.
Men’s Health: Symptoms of Thyroid Issues
The symptoms for men’s thyroid health issues include most of the above, but I am repeating some, just in case you came here directly. It would be multiple symptoms, not just one or two. I advise having a thyroid test if you have any concerns.
Decreased muscle mass – no matter what you do, your muscles are not building
Muscular skeletal symptoms – weakness, cramps and aches
Elevated testosterone
Decreased body temperature
Low libido
Erectile dysfunction
Hair changes – baldness, bald spots, thinning, coarse…
Lifestyle significantly influences thyroid function and the development of thyroid conditions.
Gut dysbiosis, as mentioned above.
Stress – causes gut dysbiosis.
Chronic prolonged stress – undealt with, leads to metabolic stress and a multitude of issues where inflammation rises, and neuro, endocrine, and immune imbalances occur. Chronic inflammatory conditions develop, blood pressure increases, and, of course, thyroid and hormone imbalances.
Chronic inflammatory conditions – like obesity, for instance. Thyroid cancer risk and impaired thyroid function can occur with obesity.
Autoimmune conditions – like Hashimoto’s disease, Diabetes, vitiligo, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Sleep duration – too little and too much!
Lack of nutrition.
Iron-deficient anemia.
Allergies – where the immune system becomes hypersensitive and attacks thyroid tissue by mistake.
Physical activity – too little and too much!
Drugs and medications, and more!
Members: you will be doing the absolute best for your thyroid health by following this optimum healthy lifestyle and keeping inflammation and stress at bay with the array of motivational stress management strategies on the platform.
If you have a thyroid condition, follow the specialized thyroid healing advice on what to avoid and what to do to optimize thyroid health in the Personalized Advice.
Also, access the Masterclass Lives to access all of the ones that you missed, and look out for the reminders in your inbox!
Detox Your Liver For Thyroid Health
The liver plays a crucial role in thyroid health because the conversion of T4 to T3 mostly takes place there.
A well-functioning liver will assist your thyroid health because it plays a vital role in thyroid hormone activation, inactivation, transport, and metabolism.
A less-than-optimum liver is overtaxed by medication, lifestyle, food, drinks, alcohol, and stress, and it will not perform its duties like lipolysis (fat burning).
Liver diseases are frequently associated with thyroid test abnormalities and dysfunctions, but you can’t always detect thyroid issues yourself.
Indeed, if you have any signs like a lump around the thyroid, get it checked out. They are ubiquitous; only 5 out of 100 lumps are cancerous, and thyroid cancer treatment has a high success rate, so don’t worry, but get it checked out as soon as possible.
So, to give your mind and body a good start to the year, check on your thyroid health and keep an eye on it.
Health can soon go off-kilter without us realizing it. Inflammation rising, sustained, leaves your body vulnerable to diseases and ‘switches on’ genetics. Unbalanced gut microbiota really can slow your thyroid and your whole system down.
How to Improve Thyroid Health
If you are looking for a thyroid ‘diet’ to manage your thyroid disease, autoimmune disease, hypothyroidism, or hyperthyroidism, alongside your medication, in the very best way, for optimum health, you have landed in the right place but got more than you expected (a complete lifestyle change is essential).
Implementing an inflammation-lowering lifestyle with good nutrition and specialized thyroid advice with motivational guidance daily over a long-term period will ensure your success.
You will have good thyroid health, metabolism, reduced adiposity with balanced gut microbiota, a supported liver, a strong immune system, and improved mental well-being. To say the least!
Investing in your health is always worth it, and aging beautifully without health issues is possible!
Health isn’t something we can outsource, and trusted health education is the most powerful tool.
For long-term adherence, and inspiration, an optimum healthy lifestyle has to be thoroughly enjoyable and not restrictive, nor have you feel guilty when you don’t stick to it 100%. You have to live, and you have to love to live!
It’s all about damage limitation! Not perfection.
For continued motivation, results must be seen and felt early for people to realize its power.
When excellent results continue, and you feel in the best health, you don’t look back.
Hi Everyone! My feature: ‘Unlock the Secret to a Healthier and Much Happier You,’ was in the Sunday Express yesterday and appears online here.
It includes a 10 Step Health Reset. Here’s the brief version:
Look at the food ingredients on the packaging. Most additives are inflammatory-inducing because they cause dysbiosis, which leads to chronic inflammation conditions like obesity. Have you heard the podcasts I have had with Dr. Dawn Sherling? Click here to hear one.
Sleep to manage hunger hormones, which are regulated during good sleep. Poor sleep induces a rise in ghrelin, the hunger hormone, and a drop in leptin, which tells the brain to stop eating. Poor sleep makes you hungrier; no matter what you eat, you are unsatisfied. Read Weight Loss & The Link to Sleep.
Stop high-intensity workouts. They create inflammation in the body. Movement that reduces inflammation involves the mind and will not cause chronic conditions in the long run.
Eat well and enjoy food slowly, without distractions. Optimum digestion allows for maximum nutrient absorption and reduces bloating.
Don’t waste your money on supplements and prebiotics. Just eat good food, well.
Ditch the guilty mindset. If you have to lose weight, don’t feel guilty or ashamed, and start today on this safe obesity reduction platform that will reduce weight quickly and in the long term.
Meditate. Prayer and gratitude reduce cortisol, improve mental well-being, and aid gut health.
Build a good core. The vagus nerve links the gastrointestinal tract to the spine. A good core supports a healthy back and spine. Three of Eat Burn Sleep’s 20-minute anti-inflammatory movements a week will help you get there.
Breathe correctly. Shallow breathing increases cortisol, promotes a blood sugar spike, and leads to fat accumulation around the waist.
Hi Everyone! Many members have amazed their oncologists by following this lifestyle. It’s for a good reason. Gut health and inflammation play a role in cervical cancer treatment and development.
This post is about protecting yourself from cervical cancer and managing cervical cancer, not just through treatment, diet, and lifestyle but through something so powerful that it has a massive role in remission recovery.
Run this anti-inflammatory lifestyle by your doctor if they haven’t already prescribed it!
Cervical cancer is the most common gynecological cancer, the fourth most frequent cancer in women, and cervical cancer is treatable. The lower the number, the less chance it has spread, and many women who have cervical cancer put their condition into remission.
Members, access your personalized advice for Cancer here.
If you have been diagnosed with cervical cancer, there are many factors that influence your outlook. Indeed, there are also many factors for reducing the risk of developing cervical cancer.
Reducing the risk of cervical cancer is possible by:
Regular screening. Symptoms don’t present themselves in the early stages.
Protecting yourself against sexually transmitted diseases by using barrier methods and practicing safer sex. HPV (common sexually transmitted disease) vaccination and regular screening. Reducing lifestyle contributing factors like smoking, lack of exercise, malnutrition, etc.
Reduce psychological stress. Encourage diverse, healthy microbiota in the gut.
Improve sleep. Boost immune cells.
Detox liver. Increase nutrition. Do regular anti-inflammatory movements. Practice neuroplasticity exercises.
Remember that information about cancer advice and treatment online does not replace your doctor’s advice or treatment. There are some strange cancer-cure diets and suggestions online! Run everything by them.
This anti-inflammatory lifestyle is BUPA-Global-approved and is prescribed by doctors worldwide. Check the testimonies under cancer for our members’ cancer treatment success stories.
How to Keep Your Cervix Healthy
Although HPV is a pivotal factor in cervical cancer development, it is not HPV alone that causes it, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Most HPV viruses are harmless and can go away on their own, or the immune system clears them up.
For ones that don’t go away, many contributing factors increase HPV persistence.
Keep your cervix healthy by keeping your inflammation down and your immune system boosted with healthy gut microbiota composition.
This will reduce the environment that creates optimal conditions for HPV to thrive and for cancer to grow. Chronic inflammation has powerful effects on cancer development.
In studies (Mhatre et al., 2012; Di Paola et al., 2017, Gosmann et al., 2017, Casellie et al., 2020), elevated inflammatory cytokines are found in the vaginas of patients with cervical cancer or precancerous lesions.
Inflammatory cells have potent effects on the development of tumors, a mass of tissue that forms when cells grow, divide more than they should, and do not die.
It isn’t the growth of cells alone that causes cancer. It is the environment in which they are, along with other responses to tissue injury.
Many processes happen alongside the inflammatory cells, DNA-damage-promoting agents, and other factors that promote the risk of tumors.
Inflammatory cells promote tumors early in development
This is because the state of inflammation and the chemokines and cytokines that are produced provide an environment for the growth, survival, and spreading of cancer.
Reduce Chronic Inflammation for Cancer Protection
Chronic inflammation and oxidative stress lead to the production of reactive oxygen species and the release of pro-inflammatory factors, decreasing antioxidants.
This reduces the activity that antioxidants play since fighting reactive oxygen species at the cellular level does not occur, and this inactivity increases oxidative DNA damage.
Persistent, sustained inflammation encourages disease and can turn on genetic expression. If non-communicable diseases exist in your family, you have more chance of developing these diseases if you don’t reduce your inflammation.
Chronic inflammation is one of the critical drivers of cervical cancer.
An anti-inflammatory lifestyle will protect the body from the development and the progression of cervical cancer tumors by decreasing tumor-promoting properties such as pro-inflammatory cytokines and increasing tumor-reducing properties like anti-inflammatory cytokines.
When the homeostasis of microorganisms is compromised, the microorganisms themselves cause immune responses in the organism.
How to Keep the Female Reproductive System Healthy
Focusing on gut health will assist here because certain microbes trigger inflammation which contributes to cervical cancer development.
Like in the gut, there is a diversity of bacteria in the female reproductive tract, and imbalances and inflammation can occur through various factors. Some of which we are in control of.
For instance, our dietary patterns, sex life, contraception, and cigarettes, as well as where and how we live, influence the composition of a vaginal microbiome. It can also be affected by hormones like estrogen and the immune system.
Of course, estrogen fluctuates throughout a woman’s menstrual life. It reduces in menopause, of which we have no control, but a weakened immune system can be something that can be controlled and managed, too (as in autoimmune diseases, which are treated successfully on Eat Burn Sleep).
Numerous studies show that healthy women have one or more good bacteria in the vagina and a small diversity of other bacteria.
This suggests that healthy microbiota composition is a potent defender in the female reproductive tract, as it is in the gastrointestinal tract.
When the female reproductive tract is in disorder, bacteria that destroy tissue or release toxins are dominant, and this counteracts the positive effects of good bacteria, which change the pH, promote oxidation, pro-inflammatory cytokines, and so on, and epithelial cells (which maintain structural integrity) can be damaged, disrupting the mucosal barrier (which is essential to health).
When microbiota is disturbed, physiological changes can lead to disease development like cancer.
An effective immune system clears most HPV that enters the reproductive tract. However, a compromised immune response sparks up the pathological process and aids in the development.
HPV, inflammation, and microbiome dysregulation all influence each other.
Which Foods Increase the Risk of Cervical Cancer?
High-inflammatory diets almost always open the body up to chronic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, joint issues, depression, and autoimmune and skin disorders like psoriasis.
Countless studies suggest a direct association between high-inflammatory diets and cervical cancer.
High-inflammatory foods that are highly processed, low in dietary fiber, and high in sugars, carbohydrates, saturated and trans fats, protein, cholesterol, sodium, and additives with very little nutrition increase dysbiosis and inflammation and dysregulate the immune system. This all contributes to the development of cancers.
Consumption of processed, high-inflammatory foods will increase your risk of an array of diseases, leaving your body susceptible to cervical cancer and less robust to fight illness.
A pro-inflammatory lifestyle induces chronic inflammation. Cervical cancer is associated with women with a pro-inflammatory diet, a sedentary lifestyle, and an HPV infection.
Best Cancer Diet
Eating gut-healthy, nutritious foods to keep inflammation down will fight cervical cancer and, indeed, can prevent the development of cervical cancer.
Increase nutrition and good gut bacteria composition, boost immunity, and lower inflammation to protect against HPV and reduce proliferation and migration if HPV is already present.
A diet rich in powerful antioxidants, prebiotics, probiotics, omega-3, and other cancer-fighting vitamin and mineral essentials, micronutrients, and compounds found on Eat Burn Sleep will encourage and maintain an excellent antioxidant balance. It will reduce oxidative processes and inflammation, protecting cells from DNA damage and proliferation and mitigation, preventing cervical tumors.
It is important to remember that the mind and body should be treated holistically to recover well.
Successful cancer treatment is possible. But it is never just by diet and medication combined. Nor just regular anti-inflammatory exercise and boosting immunity. It also includes something so powerful that it is often overlooked and has a massive role in remission recovery.
What Helps Cancer Recovery?
Health status and mindset are vital for responding to cancer treatment.
A focus on health recovery as well as protection from cancer and chronic disease also includes the powerful tool of the brain. Neuroplasticity exercises are as important as what we put into our bodies and how we move, breathe, destress, etc.
This is what Sofia, our member, who also kindly appeared on a recent podcast, said was the missing link that she was looking for on her cancer recovery journey, which she found on Eat Burn Sleep.
All areas of Eat Burn Sleep promote the lowering of chronic inflammation and protection from disease. It promotes the mental power to get through and keep stress and inflammation down through neuroplastic exercises.
Plus, members can access the Cancer Prevention and Recovery Protocol in the Personalized Advice section. This includes advice on nutrition, supplements, mental wellness, exercise, and what to avoid for cancer protection and cancer recovery.
Plus, the forum is valued for being in touch with fellow members. Drawing on others’ experiences, support, and sharing our journeys helps us so much.
When Sofia returned for her blood results, her Oncologist was so impressed with her blood results, going down the list, saying, ‘Wow! Wow! Wow! What did you do?”.
An Anti-inflammatory Lifestyle for Cancer
Chronic inflammation is modulated by what we eat, how we live, and how we mentally deal with recovery.
Listen to my conversation with Dr. Tamsin Lewis about the links between mental and physical health here.
Encouraging a diverse microbiota, regulating immune cell production, and reducing pro-inflammatory factors are well documented in mitigating types of cervical cancer strategies.
Of course, Eat Burn Sleep detoxifies the liver, which is essential for good health, and was especially protective during medical treatment for Sofia. Your liver has to process many chemicals in cancer treatment and perform its regular functions, of which there are 500.
Cancer Recovery Success Story
If you haven’t heard Sofia’s uplifting cancer recovery story yet, please head over there when you can. Sofia is in remission from squamous cell carcinoma. She is raising awareness about this common cancer that presented itself in her anal canal.
Her approach in how she dealt with it, through what we practice on Eat Burn Sleep, visualizing the cells and holding the tumor, and leading it all out of her body as quietly as it came, is precisely what neuroplasticity is all about.
She appreciated the help she was getting and embraced each day of treatment, knowing that she was getting better. You have better chances of recovering with this mindset.
It is so powerful and a reminder not to fight with your body but to treat it with kindness and hold it in your hand.
The truth is, we are not our bodies. We are a soul within our bodies. Our body acts as a vessel.
The vessel changes as we go from being a baby to a child, to a teenager, to an adult, to an elderly person until we die.
The vessel has nothing to do with who we are. It doesn’t make you less of a person or less strong to have health issues. If you have been diagnosed with a health condition, see it as a dent on the vessel that needs to be fixed.
And you have the tools and the power to fix it.
I urge you to have cervical screening, protect your body, and arm yourself with the most powerful tools to get through anything!
Hi Everyone! Many members have amazed their oncologists by following this lifestyle. It’s for a good reason. Gut health and inflammation play a role in cervical cancer treatment and development.
This post is about protecting yourself from cervical cancer and managing cervical cancer, not just through treatment, diet, and lifestyle but through something so powerful that it has a massive role in remission recovery.
Run this anti-inflammatory lifestyle by your doctor if they haven’t already prescribed it!
Cervical cancer is the most common gynecological cancer, the fourth most frequent cancer in women, and cervical cancer is treatable. The lower the number, the less chance it has spread, and many women who have cervical cancer put their condition into remission.
Members, access your personalized advice for Cancer here.
If you have been diagnosed with cervical cancer, there are many factors that influence your outlook. Indeed, there are also many factors for reducing the risk of developing cervical cancer.
Reducing the risk of cervical cancer is possible by:
Regular screening. Symptoms don’t present themselves in the early stages.
Protecting yourself against sexually transmitted diseases by using barrier methods and practicing safer sex. HPV (common sexually transmitted disease) vaccination and regular screening. Reducing lifestyle contributing factors like smoking, lack of exercise, malnutrition, etc.
Reduce psychological stress. Encourage diverse, healthy microbiota in the gut.
Improve sleep. Boost immune cells.
Detox liver. Increase nutrition. Do regular anti-inflammatory movements. Practice neuroplasticity exercises.
Remember that information about cancer advice and treatment online does not replace your doctor’s advice or treatment. There are some strange cancer-cure diets and suggestions online! Run everything by them.
This anti-inflammatory lifestyle is BUPA-Global-approved and is prescribed by doctors worldwide. Check the testimonies under cancer for our members’ cancer treatment success stories.
How to Keep Your Cervix Healthy
Although HPV is a pivotal factor in cervical cancer development, it is not HPV alone that causes it, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Most HPV viruses are harmless and can go away on their own, or the immune system clears them up.
For ones that don’t go away, many contributing factors increase HPV persistence.
Keep your cervix healthy by keeping your inflammation down and your immune system boosted with healthy gut microbiota composition.
This will reduce the environment that creates optimal conditions for HPV to thrive and for cancer to grow. Chronic inflammation has powerful effects on cancer development.
In studies (Mhatre et al., 2012; Di Paola et al., 2017, Gosmann et al., 2017, Casellie et al., 2020), elevated inflammatory cytokines are found in the vaginas of patients with cervical cancer or precancerous lesions.
Inflammatory cells have potent effects on the development of tumors, a mass of tissue that forms when cells grow, divide more than they should, and do not die.
It isn’t the growth of cells alone that causes cancer. It is the environment in which they are, along with other responses to tissue injury.
Many processes happen alongside the inflammatory cells, DNA-damage-promoting agents, and other factors that promote the risk of tumors.
Inflammatory cells promote tumors early in development
This is because the state of inflammation and the chemokines and cytokines that are produced provide an environment for the growth, survival, and spreading of cancer.
Reduce Chronic Inflammation for Cancer Protection
Chronic inflammation and oxidative stress lead to the production of reactive oxygen species and the release of pro-inflammatory factors, decreasing antioxidants.
This reduces the activity that antioxidants play since fighting reactive oxygen species at the cellular level does not occur, and this inactivity increases oxidative DNA damage.
Persistent, sustained inflammation encourages disease and can turn on genetic expression. If non-communicable diseases exist in your family, you have more chance of developing these diseases if you don’t reduce your inflammation.
Chronic inflammation is one of the critical drivers of cervical cancer.
An anti-inflammatory lifestyle will protect the body from the development and the progression of cervical cancer tumors by decreasing tumor-promoting properties such as pro-inflammatory cytokines and increasing tumor-reducing properties like anti-inflammatory cytokines.
When the homeostasis of microorganisms is compromised, the microorganisms themselves cause immune responses in the organism.
How to Keep the Female Reproductive System Healthy
Focusing on gut health will assist here because certain microbes trigger inflammation which contributes to cervical cancer development.
Like in the gut, there is a diversity of bacteria in the female reproductive tract, and imbalances and inflammation can occur through various factors. Some of which we are in control of.
For instance, our dietary patterns, sex life, contraception, and cigarettes, as well as where and how we live, influence the composition of a vaginal microbiome. It can also be affected by hormones like estrogen and the immune system.
Of course, estrogen fluctuates throughout a woman’s menstrual life. It reduces in menopause, of which we have no control, but a weakened immune system can be something that can be controlled and managed, too (as in autoimmune diseases, which are treated successfully on Eat Burn Sleep).
Numerous studies show that healthy women have one or more good bacteria in the vagina and a small diversity of other bacteria.
This suggests that healthy microbiota composition is a potent defender in the female reproductive tract, as it is in the gastrointestinal tract.
When the female reproductive tract is in disorder, bacteria that destroy tissue or release toxins are dominant, and this counteracts the positive effects of good bacteria, which change the pH, promote oxidation, pro-inflammatory cytokines, and so on, and epithelial cells (which maintain structural integrity) can be damaged, disrupting the mucosal barrier (which is essential to health).
When microbiota is disturbed, physiological changes can lead to disease development like cancer.
An effective immune system clears most HPV that enters the reproductive tract. However, a compromised immune response sparks up the pathological process and aids in the development.
HPV, inflammation, and microbiome dysregulation all influence each other.
Which Foods Increase the Risk of Cervical Cancer?
High-inflammatory diets almost always open the body up to chronic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, joint issues, depression, and autoimmune and skin disorders like psoriasis.
Countless studies suggest a direct association between high-inflammatory diets and cervical cancer.
High-inflammatory foods that are highly processed, low in dietary fiber, and high in sugars, carbohydrates, saturated and trans fats, protein, cholesterol, sodium, and additives with very little nutrition increase dysbiosis and inflammation and dysregulate the immune system. This all contributes to the development of cancers.
Consumption of processed, high-inflammatory foods will increase your risk of an array of diseases, leaving your body susceptible to cervical cancer and less robust to fight illness.
A pro-inflammatory lifestyle induces chronic inflammation. Cervical cancer is associated with women with a pro-inflammatory diet, a sedentary lifestyle, and an HPV infection.
Best Cancer Diet
Eating gut-healthy, nutritious foods to keep inflammation down will fight cervical cancer and, indeed, can prevent the development of cervical cancer.
Increase nutrition and good gut bacteria composition, boost immunity, and lower inflammation to protect against HPV and reduce proliferation and migration if HPV is already present.
A diet rich in powerful antioxidants, prebiotics, probiotics, omega-3, and other cancer-fighting vitamin and mineral essentials, micronutrients, and compounds found on Eat Burn Sleep will encourage and maintain an excellent antioxidant balance. It will reduce oxidative processes and inflammation, protecting cells from DNA damage and proliferation and mitigation, preventing cervical tumors.
It is important to remember that the mind and body should be treated holistically to recover well.
Successful cancer treatment is possible. But it is never just by diet and medication combined. Nor just regular anti-inflammatory exercise and boosting immunity. It also includes something so powerful that it is often overlooked and has a massive role in remission recovery.
What Helps Cancer Recovery?
Health status and mindset are vital for responding to cancer treatment.
A focus on health recovery as well as protection from cancer and chronic disease also includes the powerful tool of the brain. Neuroplasticity exercises are as important as what we put into our bodies and how we move, breathe, destress, etc.
This is what Sofia, our member, who also kindly appeared on a recent podcast, said was the missing link that she was looking for on her cancer recovery journey, which she found on Eat Burn Sleep.
All areas of Eat Burn Sleep promote the lowering of chronic inflammation and protection from disease. It promotes the mental power to get through and keep stress and inflammation down through neuroplastic exercises.
Plus, members can access the Cancer Prevention and Recovery Protocol in the Personalized Advice section. This includes advice on nutrition, supplements, mental wellness, exercise, and what to avoid for cancer protection and cancer recovery.
Plus, the forum is valued for being in touch with fellow members. Drawing on others’ experiences, support, and sharing our journeys helps us so much.
When Sofia returned for her blood results, her Oncologist was so impressed with her blood results, going down the list, saying, ‘Wow! Wow! Wow! What did you do?”.
An Anti-inflammatory Lifestyle for Cancer
Chronic inflammation is modulated by what we eat, how we live, and how we mentally deal with recovery.
Listen to my conversation with Dr. Tamsin Lewis about the links between mental and physical health here.
Encouraging a diverse microbiota, regulating immune cell production, and reducing pro-inflammatory factors are well documented in mitigating types of cervical cancer strategies.
Of course, Eat Burn Sleep detoxifies the liver, which is essential for good health, and was especially protective during medical treatment for Sofia. Your liver has to process many chemicals in cancer treatment and perform its regular functions, of which there are 500.
Cancer Recovery Success Story
If you haven’t heard Sofia’s uplifting cancer recovery story yet, please head over there when you can. Sofia is in remission from squamous cell carcinoma. She is raising awareness about this common cancer that presented itself in her anal canal.
Her approach in how she dealt with it, through what we practice on Eat Burn Sleep, visualizing the cells and holding the tumor, and leading it all out of her body as quietly as it came, is precisely what neuroplasticity is all about.
She appreciated the help she was getting and embraced each day of treatment, knowing that she was getting better. You have better chances of recovering with this mindset.
It is so powerful and a reminder not to fight with your body but to treat it with kindness and hold it in your hand.
The truth is, we are not our bodies. We are a soul within our bodies. Our body acts as a vessel.
The vessel changes as we go from being a baby to a child, to a teenager, to an adult, to an elderly person until we die.
The vessel has nothing to do with who we are. It doesn’t make you less of a person or less strong to have health issues. If you have been diagnosed with a health condition, see it as a dent on the vessel that needs to be fixed.
And you have the tools and the power to fix it.
I urge you to have cervical screening, protect your body, and arm yourself with the most powerful tools to get through anything!
Hello Everyone. I hope that you are well. This post comes out on Christmas Day, and I hope everyone is having a stress-free, happy time. It can be challenging when you have health conditions and need to be near a bathroom or somewhere quiet to lie down.
You see, I have ulcerative colitis (and hemolytic anemia), and I used to suffer so much with the symptoms, flare-ups, medication, hospital admittances, medical procedures, exhaustion, frustration, stress, juggling family and work life with two young boys, and worried whether I would survive.
I am now in remission, feeling fantastic and enjoying life, with the best body composition I have ever had, and I cannot remember the last time I had a flare-up.
If you, or anyone you know, has colitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s, an inflammatory disease, and autoimmune conditions, read on and share. It could very well be the lifeline that you/they need.
I took supplements and medication and tried everything that was suggested to me by nutritionists and doctors. I traveled the world seeking help for my autoimmune conditions, going from specialist to specialist, following their advice. Nothing helped me get well.
It felt like many plasters were being put on many cracks to cover the symptoms up, but no healing was going on. Nothing was healing the cause of the problem, and some treatment was contributing to the problem.
In a way, what saved me was that my body wasn’t responding to medical treatment, and I ended up being kept alive with weekly blood transfusions.
I was so overwhelmed and almost wanted to give up! I had no choice but to find a solution to this, which I could apply to my daily life as a busy Mother of two young boys.
This is what led me to start researching.
It is understandable people are not getting their symptoms under control despite taking on specialist advice for their ulcerative colitis, colitis, Crohn’s, and so on. You are given medication and supplements and told to watch your diet and keep up with tests and procedures.
You may be given a supplement for this and something for that, and the problem is, if you already have poor gut health, these will only exacerbate the issues, adding to a more unbalanced gut microbiota, which then leads to more inflammation in the body, which leads to more flare-ups.
Coping with ulcerative colitis can be exhausting. Physical, social, financial, and emotional complexities may be running alongside your inflammatory condition.
Dealing emotionally with ulcerative colitis symptoms is challenging, and not everyone understands what you are going through. The impacts on relationships can be difficult.
You could very well be dealing with bone and joint issues like arthritis, which presents itself in the cooler months, which throw extra challenges at you (have you read Prevent Knee Osteoarthritis Progression?). I developed hemolytic anemia.
What Is the Best Management of Ulcerative Colitis?
The other issue is that you may have excellent care and doctors around you, but they cannot think for you, eat for you, exercise for you, or follow you around and advise you.
Finding resources to help you reduce stress, reduce ulcerative colitis symptoms, heal your body, get good nutrition, and calm your system down is essential, as well as your medication.
I know that finding a resource of education and helpful tools in one place to aid in healing ulcerative colitis is tricky. This is why Eat Burn Sleep exists and is available to you 24 hours a day, every day. Your own nutritionist advice, which doctors worldwide recommend and is Bupa-global-approved, is there on your app, following you around, guiding you on what to eat, how to exercise, etc.
I searched everywhere for something like Eat Burn Sleep through the years. I have read anything and everything to heal myself and then qualified at a top London naturopathic nutrition school.
There’s a minefield of information about ulcerative colitis out there. Believe me; if there’s a diet recommended for ulcerative colitis, I will have tried it.
Some, like medication, worked briefly, and I was so happy that symptoms died off for a while, but sure enough, they came back with a vengeance. It is so disheartening—one step forward, three steps back.
Unfortunately, once you get one autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease, the pathways are open, putting you at high risk for developing another disease. Like I did. The toll on your physical and emotional health is intense.
A Recommended Diet for Ulcerative Colitis
A recommended diet for ulcerative colitis on the internet by many medical authorities is the low-residue diet so that your intestines won’t need to work as hard as usual. The low-residue diet is restrictive and does not meet nutritional needs, so it is only for temporary measures under medical supervision.
This restrictive diet plays a role and is often recommended after bowel surgery or preparing for a colonoscopy, for instance. For a minimal time only because it won’t reduce inflammation or treat ulcerative colitis and will likely cause more inflammation.
It is no wonder that people with ulcerative colitis often have to seek a nutritionist or dietician because many ulcerative diet recommendations will cause more inflammation and malnutrition.
If you already have weakness, headaches, anemia, and fatigue due to ulcerative colitis malnutrition, these diets will only contribute to gut dysbiosis, weaker immunity, and less-than-optimum health. This, of course, opens the body up at high risk for other illnesses and conditions.
Nutrition deficiency will present symptoms like mouth ulcers, tingling in your limbs, itchy rashes, feeling drained, weight loss, and so on. If you have Diabetes, a low-residue diet will impact blood sugar, present more challenges, and so on.
Medical professionals worldwide recommend Eat Burn Sleep, which pertains to clinical practice and has shown excellent results.
What Is the Best Natural Remedy for Ulcerative Colitis?
A nutritionist experienced with ulcerative colitis can provide a detailed gut health nutrition plan with a day-to-day schedule. They can devise weekly menu ideas and hopefully give advice on eating out (they are all here in the Lifestyle Guide, members).
They will help you recognize your triggers and reduce flare-ups (members can find it here) but also ensure that you get optimum nutrition that will be absorbed.
Gut microbiota contains trillions of bacteria that change continually with lifestyle factors such as food and drink we have, stress, what we breathe, medication, health conditions, and so on.
An alteration of your intestinal microbiome is a significant factor in the pathogenesis of a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract.
This means that promoting good microbiota with the right type and quantity of foods regularly will reduce gut dysbiosis. It will promote regular immune activity, reduce inflammation, and aid the healing and repair of the inflamed, permeable digestive tract, putting ulcerative colitis into remission.
Optimally modulating gut microbial diversity and stability will prevent gut dysbiosis. This will prevent chronic inflammatory diseases. Eating the right balance of good foods is imperative for further absorption of nutrition.
Pairing this ulcerative colitis nutrition protocol with an anti-inflammatory lifestyle will help you turn this around. I assure you! It frees up a lot of thinking time.
When you have any inflammatory or autoimmune condition with flare-ups, you are continually thinking about food and flare-ups:
What food will not create a flare-up, or how hungry you are, or trying to work out what was in something that caused a flare-up, how to navigate a day without one, and so on.
Check out what others say on the Testimonials page. There are also video testimonials in most of the chronic inflammatory conditions under the Conditions tab.
Does an Ulcerative Colitis Diet Have to Be Bland?
So often, when you want to avoid the issues that come with colitis, Crohn’s, inflammatory bowel disease, and autoimmune diseases, you can stick to very few foods that seem safe. This means that you can miss out on nourishment, even when you have your bowels under control.
Fearing an attack at unpredictable times can make you not trust what you are eating. It affects you when you are out and about, traveling and visiting (which is all worried about, I know); what can you eat that won’t cause a flare-up?
All of this worry increases the chances of abdominal pain and needing the bathroom.
Chances are also that your body will not absorb enough nutrients because of the attacks, causing dehydration, fatigue, anemia, and headaches.
You can often be starving, but that is easier to deal with than worrying about navigating public transport, attending a meeting, being social when you need a bathroom, etc.
You may know your triggers and head to a health food store for alternatives, only to find yourself in pain not long after eating. The thing here is that the food industry relies on good marketing. We are leading such busy lives that we are not reading the small print.
What Common Thing Can Make Ulcerative Colitis Worse?
Even with known triggers, you can miss the fact that there are inflammatory ingredients in millions of ‘healthy foods.’
For instance, soy lecithin. It’s practically in everything. Check the packets of the box of healthy crackers that you may have picked up or the healthy cookies. It is linked to gut inflammation, obesity, metabolic disorders, and Diabetes.
People are misled because soy lecithin is also known as a health supplement. The fact is that the soy lecithin promoted as a health supplement is supposedly different from the soy lecithin processed to be used as a food emulsifier.
Soy lecithin, as a food additive, goes through a multi-step chemical process that strips it of soy and protein, and it involves pesticides, solvents, and goodness knows what else.
Whether the purified soy lecithin supplement is healthy is also under debate since supplement companies are not FDA-regulated. Many supplements contain bulk items that will cause inflammation.
It is good to keep in perspective that shielding ourselves from chemicals would be near impossible, but limiting damage and reducing the amount we are exposed to in foods is possible.
An ulcerative colitis diet can be the complete opposite of bland. All of the anti-inflammatory recipes on this platform have been devised by me using carefully selected anti-inflammatory ingredients that have nutritional properties. I then test them on myself and others before uploading them to the Eat Burn Sleep platform.
The personalized advice section includes extra support, advice, and flare-up protocols for many symptoms, situations, and conditions. Again, all were tried and tested by me and recommended by me.
What Is Good Comfort Food for Ulcerative Colitis?
People are often surprised at the variety of food I eat to keep my ulcerative colitis in remission. They are amazed by my having wine and champagne, a steak now and then, and the cake I eat.
Oftentimes, they are shocked when they see me have a slice of pizza at a party.
When I devised this anti-inflammatory lifestyle to put my inflammatory conditions into remission, I knew that it had to be exciting, and the foods had to be delicious and varied. It could not be in any way boring, restrictive, or bland. That is not how I would ever want to live.
Food is life! It is beautiful. We need it and nutrition for vitality to enjoy our lives.
No compromises!
So, this platform has 300+ comfort foods for ulcerative colitis and all inflammatory conditions. Sweets, savories, snacks, breakfasts, lunches, dinners…
Life is to be enjoyed. It is not about perfection. That is unattainable and unsustainable. It is about damage limitation.
Reducing Stress With Ulcerative Colitis
If you have ulcerative colitis, there is no doubt that your days will be challenging. The debilitating symptoms and the psychological stress that can come with your condition are so significant, and what that entails puts extra pressure on you.
Ultimately, extra stress is the last thing that you need because stress can trigger a flare-up.
Comfort is what you need and what will calm your system down.
Although there may be some things that you cannot control, there are things that you can control to live your life well with ulcerative colitis and other inflammatory diseases, which may control the rest.
To have a chronic condition every day is a challenge (let alone the holidays), but I am here to say that you can live life well (if not better) with an inflammatory disease.
How to Put Ulcerative Colitis Into Remission
You may feel even better than before because you may like me; after being so ill for so long, without light at the end of the tunnel, feeling amazing feels miraculous.
To have a fitter, nourished body without flare-ups, and to plan and enjoy holidays and every day and not have compromised time with my boys, family, and friends.
I am grateful that there are things I do now that I didn’t do before. I know they help me and others tremendously.
If you have an inflammatory condition, know that you are not alone and that others understand. Reach out to me, my team, and our beautiful community forum. Being part of a community of understanding people who know precisely what you are going through is incredibly supportive and inspirational. Your physical, mental, and emotional health can be improved immensely.
Alternatively, you could book a 15-minute Zoom Call with me in the new year. We can work through your ulcerative colitis condition in a private consultation or an extensive Bespoke Coaching Session.
I hope that you have a wonderful, stress-free holiday.
One in which you can enjoy some stress-less activities, which will help your condition.
I wish you all comfort, good health, and joy.
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