Lloyd Gee Natural Health

08/01/2022

https://covidchroniclesmovie.com/ This is a really interesting documentary giving facts and views that are not being aired on mainstream media. One part highlights how metabolic issues like obesity and type 2 diabetes present the greatest risk for COVID to develop into serious disease and how important healthy nutrition is for the immune system. Quite obvious really but a message not being put out by the government who instead see the vaccine as the only solution. I think this is free to view for only a couple of days after which you have to pay a few £s - which is worth it.

Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP completed a Biochemical Engineering degree in 1990. His career specialty has been leading large corporate worldwide teams in complex problem-solving activity. Since 2012 his focus moved to metabolic science, and he has given technical lectures at nutritional and m...

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02/03/2019

I read a worrying BBC news item about "fake news" and vaccinations. The head of the NHS, Simon Stevens, is trying to get social media companies to clamp down on "fake messages" that are anti-vaccine. He quotes a parent who thinks that vaccines "block their immune systems from fighting disease as it should do". He has his opinion and others are entitled to their opinion. The NHS is putting out messages that imply that vaccines are totally safe. These ARE "fake messages" as it is clear that vaccines will do some harm to your body, however minor. Putting attenuated pathogens plus the toxic chemicals that accompany them into your body is a challenge that the body has to deal with.
We have the right to decide if that harm is worth it to prevent potentially more harm from the disease itself. This is not at all clear cut and I can see good arguments on both sides. I myself believe that vaccines do long term damage to our immune systems and should be avoided where possible. However I may still consider having a vaccine if I was entering a high risk environment where the risk of harm from a disease was clearly higher than that of the vaccine.
What is happening in parts of USA is even more worrying where vaccines are being made compulsory. In France it is already considered "child abuse" for parents not to vaccinate their children.
Non-consensual vaccination is assault in my opinion. We need to ensure that opinion is still allowed on this and other matters of our wellbeing. The issue of fake news is now being used widely to quash views, alternative opinions and sometimes genuine scientific evidence that the powers that be don't want to be in the public domain.

30/01/2019

I was reading this article on how LED lights can damage eyesight and cause sleep problems due to blue light so did a bit of research on what to do about it. The problem is that LED and CFL energy saving lightbulbs do not emit a full spectrum and emit more on the blue side of the spectrum. The light itself is made up multiple single frequencies rather than a full range of frequencies. The warm white bulbs help a bit, but they are still not full spectrum and are "tricking" our eyes to perceive a warm colour.

So what can you do about it? As Mercola says, replace bulbs in areas where you spend time especially in the evening with the old-fashioned filament bulb. But these have mostly been banned by EU - so halogen bulbs are almost as good and a bit more efficient. 42W is the same as the old 60W though of course this is rather less efficient than the LED or CFL bulbs most of us use now.

LEDs also illuminate most of our screens. Though not perfect, you can have a night mode on most devices. In Windows in display settings, turn this on and schedule it to automatically switch a blue light filter at sunset. With mobile phones download an app such as iBlue and you can set a timer of when this comes on to filter out blue light. TV is a bit more difficult. I have decided to put a Himalayan salt lamp next to my TV so that I am at least getting some red end spectrum light. Best thing is to not watch TV for at least an hour before bedtime.

LEDs are non-analog light that typically has excessive blue frequencies. Regular exposure will contribute to worsening of sleep and an increase in disease.

11/05/2018

Hawthorn is in bloom. The flowers and leaves make one of the most useful cardiac tonics and this is a herb that will appear in most formulas I make for people with high blood pressure, heart problems or other circulatory issues. Another name for this common hedgerow tree is Breed and Cheese as people used to eat the flowers when feeling hungry whilst out walking. It has a mild, slightly sweet flavour.

16/03/2018

The stinging nettles are coming up fast now and these young plants are great for a Spring detox as well as a nutritious vegetable. Nettles are very cleansing to the body and help liver, skin, blood and kidneys. Simply collect young plants- leaves and stems with gloves and cook like spinach. You can also have as a tea. Once nettles flower and become tough they must not be eaten though you can still have them as tea.

07/06/2016

Time to pick Elderflowers! Elderflowers are best picked just as the flowers are opening. I am on to making my third batch of elderflower cordial this year from Elderflowers I just picked up in Barnet. The first batch were locally picked as in the bottle here and the second batch from Warwickshire where I was at the weekend. I use a recipe similar to the River Cottage one on the web except I pack as many elderflowers as I can put in a large saucepan and make it stronger. This way you get full flavour using less cordial and therefore are having less sugar per cup. I also use more lemons. As well as making a tasty drink, Elderflowers are good for the upper respiratory system and help with colds, sinus problems and hay fever. They are one of the four herbs I put in my excellent colds and flu mix.

24/10/2015

Rather worrying that most cotton products have been found to contain carcinogenic herbicides with feminine products probably posing the greatest risk. GMO cotton has been modified to resist the herbicide, Glyphosate so that they can spray the whole field with this poison and it kills all weeds but not the cotton. There are two problems here - this toxic chemical stays in the cotton and now the weeds are also becoming resistant to glyphosate threatening cotton growing. Organic cotton is the only way to guarantee you are not putting glyphosate on or in your body.

Ever since the chemical glyphosate, which is of course the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, [...]

15/10/2015

Very interesting film about how the pharmaceautical industry have manipulated medicine globally. It's a bit long but worth watching. There are great quotes about how pharmaceatical companies take a molecule from a plant, recreate it synthetically so that they can patent it(as this it the way they make money) but it never works as well.

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14/07/2015

It is great when you see instant results with herbs.Today I had to pick up my daughter from school as she had a finger injury in PE. With considereable swelling, pain and limited movement, the school recommended to take her for an X-Ray to check for a fracture as after an hour or so with ice the swelling and pain had not diminished and she had some numbness in her fingertip. I brought her home and poured some comfrey leaf tincture on to a piece of kitchen towell and she wrapped that around her finger. Within 5 minutes she feeling less pain and could move her finger much more easily (so not a fracture). When she took this off, the swelling had gone. Comfrey is very good for sprains and strains and will help healing of fractures as well. You can use the fresh leaf mashed up as a compress so its a great plant to have around.

02/06/2015

The Pychoactive Substances Bill announced in the Queen's Speech may seem like a good idea, but the way it is worded seems to ban all sorts of substances including many herbs that herbalists prescribe. The defination of psychoactive is so loose, that you could be prosecuted for growing Valerian in your garden with intent to consume! I hope this is just an oversight and that The Lords and government will listen to sense rather than some conspiracy to ban a load of helpful herbs.

13/04/2015

http://www.shineholistic.co.uk/blog/?p=679

Despite a raft of regulations and guidelines it still remains almost impossible to tell at a glance whether a given packaged food is healthy or not. Let’s leave the politics to one side and simply offer you a guide to deciphering those food labels.

30/03/2015

It has been a frustrating time as for the last 15 years +, we have been working towards statutory regulation of herbal medicine. A report has been published that recommends that the government does not introduce such regulation despite that several previous reports going back to 2003 all recommended this. It seems that they are worried that this somehow legitimises herbal medicine which of course Big Pharma and much or the medical profession would not like. The main reason was the lack of high standard evidence on its effectiveness. Well of course there is a lack of such evidence as no money has been put into research. There is plenty of research into herbal medicine, but most of this is about drug companies producing synthetic versions which actually represent about 40% of drugs produced - and end up having many side effects that the herb itself never had.

30/03/2015

Here's another link on the story about a Mediaeval medicine being more effective than antibiotics. Shame there's no herbalists involved as we have plenty more to offer in what we use today.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2015/march/ancientbiotics---a-medieval-remedy-for-modern-day-superbugs.aspx

A one thousand year old remedy for eye infection from a manuscript in the British Library has been found to kill the modern superbug MRSA.

30/03/2015

Scientists have discovered that a thousand-year-old Anglo Saxon herbal medicine is more effective on resistant bacteria than antibiotics. This comes at the same time as another report says that there is not enough evidence that herbal medicine is effective - see next post.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27263-anglo-saxon-remedy-kills-hospital-superbug-mrsa.html #.VRmKheFRLIV

A potion made from a medieval medical recipe killed MRSA bacteria in the lab, raising hopes it could lead to new treatments for modern-day skin infections