Indigo Wellbeing

07/09/2025

A new study from Yale School of Medicine has uncovered a link between skin injuries and the development of food allergies.

A new study from Yale School of Medicine has uncovered a link between skin injuries and the development of food allergies. In mice, researchers found that when a new food was introduced into the gut at the same time as a skin injury, such as a cut or even sunburn, the animals developed food allergies to that food. This connection may explain why children with chronic skin conditions like eczema are three times more likely to have food allergies, with skin inflammation sometimes preceding allergic disease.
The findings suggest that the immune system may “remember” foods introduced during times of skin damage as dangerous, even though the gut is normally tolerant to new foods. This challenges the notion that allergens must enter the body directly through broken skin, suggesting instead that signals between the skin and gut may drive allergic responses.
Read more here: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/skin-injury-may-bring-on-food-allergies/

03/02/2025

To all my TSW warriors, I see you and support you 🩵💛

22/09/2024

🍁🍂 The Autumn Equinox 🍂🍁

Night and day are again of equal length and in perfect equilibrium - dark and light, masculine and feminine, inner and outer, in balance. On the cusp of transition the year now begins to wane and from this moment darkness begins to defeat the light.
It is time to complete projects, to clear out and let go of what is no longer wanted or needed as we prepare for descent, so that the winter can offer a time for reflection and peace. And it is time to plant seeds of new ideas and hopes which will lie dormant but nourished in the dark, until the return of Spring.

~ The Goddess and Green Man ~

25/11/2023

Our gut microbiome is fascinating! I think I have so many plants in my home that they are probably the dominant microbiome 😆 🌿

30/08/2023

Blue moon in Pisces… magic, dreams and letting go 🥰

18/11/2022

This is a visual journey of Topical Steroid Withdrawal (TSW).
It is a relatively unrecognised and poorly understood condition affecting eczema sufferers or those prescribed topical steroids to manage their skin conditions. It affects children and adults and long term use of topical steroids is considered as little as 8 weeks. It's a condition I am passionate about working with and supporting naturopathically. I have gone through TSW myself.
If you'd like to know more or get support with TSW please reach out via my website. https://www.indigowellbeing.co.uk/blog/topical-steroids-linked-to-skin-withdrawal-side-effects

https://fb.watch/gTvgfsPcaR/

19/10/2022

Today people from around the UK come together to celebrate Emergency Services Day, also known as 999 Day, and honour the 2 million people who work and volunteer in the NHS and emergency services. I'm proud to be one of them.

As well as recognising the dedication and selflessness of those who work in the emergency services, 999 Day aims to promote efficiency and educate the public about using the services responsibly.
Emergency Services Day

09/10/2022

To all my PANS PANDAS families. I'm here to walk this journey with you 🥰 If you'd like to know more about PANS PANDAS or think your child may be affected please take a look at the PANS PANDAS UK page and reach out to this wonderful charity.
https://fb.watch/g2Y36gmok1/

30/08/2022

Beautiful Mother Nature 🥰 🌱🌸🌻

29/03/2022

It's the last week before Easter holidays begin here in sunny Surrey. If you need any herbs or supplements please drop me a message before the end of the week.

17/03/2022

This is an important distinction.
We have been focussing on counting calories rather than counting nutrients for too long.

Would your grandparents recognise the ingredients?

16/01/2022

Perhaps like me you needed to read this tonight 🙏🏼

LET YOURSELF REST

If you’re exhausted, rest.

If you don’t feel like starting a new project, don’t.

If you don’t feel the urge to make something new,
just rest in the beauty of the old, the familiar, the known.

If you don’t feel like talking, stay silent.

If you’re fed up with the news, turn it off.

If you want to postpone something until tomorrow, do it.

If you want to do nothing, let yourself do nothing today.

Feel the fullness of the emptiness, the vastness of the silence, the sheer life in your unproductive moments.

Time does not always need to be filled.

You are enough, simply in your being.

- Jeff Foster