Welcome to my blog entitled ‘The 8 C’s Of Caring’. This blog is heavily based on the paper ‘Eight ‘Cs’ of caring: A holistic framework for nursing terminally ill patients’ however I feel relates to my work. Before we start, other blogs that you might be interested in, include: Wisdom: What Is It? What Is
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Welcome to my blog entitled ‘What Is Spiritual Intelligence?’. What Is Spiritual Intelligence? Emmons identified five components of SI: The capacity to transcend the physical and material. The ability to experience heightened states of consciousness The ability to sanctify everyday experience. The ability to utilise spiritual resources to solve problems. The capacity to be virtuous.
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Welcome to my blog entitled ‘Psychedelics and Cluster Headaches’. Several studies and reports over the past 50 years have shown potential analgesic benefit in cancer pain, phantom limb pain and cluster headache (1). Chronic Pain States: The Mechanisms The mechanisms by which chronic pain develops are not completely understood but likely involve “a complex interplay
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Welcome to my blog entitled ‘The Critical Link Between Diet And Depression’. Before we start, other blogs that you might be interested in, include: The Ultimate Guide To IBS SIBO: What Causes It Can the gut microbiome cause depression and changes in mood? Globally, more than 250 million people are affected by depression. Currently available
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In this blog entitled ‘Psychedelics: A Treatment For Alzheimer’s Disease’ I am going to discuss the potential benefit of psychedelics in Alzheimer’s. It is inspired and based on the paper entitled “Psychedelics as a Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia“. Before we start, other blogs that you might be interested in, include: Can Psychedelics Help With
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In this blog entitled ‘Everything You Need To Know About Fusobacterium’ I am going to discuss the bacteria Fusobacterium with the aim of highlighting how this bacteria influences both health and disease. Before we start, other blogs that you might be interested in, include: The Ultimate Guide To IBS SIBO: What Causes It Can the
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Can Psychedelics Help With Chronic Pain? In this blog I will discuss the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelics in chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia. It is inspired by a paper entitled Chronic pain and psychedelics: a review and proposed mechanism of action. Before we start, other blogs that you might be interested in, include:
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What Is Alexithymia? The term “alexithymia” was introduced by Peter Sifneos in 1973, to designate a cluster of cognitive and affective characteristics that were observed among patients with classical psychosomatic diseases (1). Messina et al. have postulated that at least three forms, primary, secondary, and organic, might characterize alexithymia. What Is Primary Alexithymia? It is
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Before we start, other blogs that you might be interested in, include: Psychedelics As Anti-Inflammatory Agents: A New Hope Psychedelics as a novel approach to treating autoimmune conditions There were > 1000 clinical papers published on classic psychedelics, collectively involving approximately 40,000 patients between 1950 and the mid-1960s. Psilocybin: The Potential Health Benefits Over 100
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In this blog entitled ‘Prevotella: Context Matters!’ I am going to discuss the bacteria Prevotella with the aim of highlighting how this bacteria influences both health and disease, why the contradictory findings and how we can modify it via dietary changes. Before we start, other blogs that you might be interested in, include: The Ultimate
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