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Sometimes euphemistically called 'Morning sickness', nausea and vomiting can unfortunately be a common issue for pregnant women, especially in the first trimester. By week 14 many women find that their nausea symptoms are often improved and for some completely gone; however for some pregnant women nausea and vomiting can continue until birth (although this is rare.)

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Three Useful Homeopathic medicines

These three Homeopathic medicines are very effective  in treating morning sickness or any other nausea if the symptoms match the description given. For more homeopathic medicines to treat morning sickness or nausea, check out The Homeopathic Coach's NEW Treat Yourself Natural Pregnancy System which I believe is the most comprehensive natutal pregnancy system available:)

Did you know that coconut oil is a superfood? Did you know that it is a healthy fat? I have been researching coconut oil for some time and decided to start eating it myself daily 6 months ago. This article explains why it is so good for you and what can happen if you include it in your diet.

I am going to start with a seemingly contentious statement:

There is absolutely NO evidence that coconut oil contributes or creates heart disease. In fact all the research says that it actually protects the heart from disease.

So now I have got that off my chest (no pun intended) I can explain why this is so. The biology is complicated but I have tried to simplify it so it is easy to understand.

About Coconut Oil Fats

Fats come in three types: short, medium and long-chain fatty acids. Animal fats in meat and animal products are long-chain. Coconut oil is a mixture of mostly medium (and some short chain) fatty acids. Many of the health benefits of coconut oil are due to the way coconut oil is digested. This process also means that it can aid weightloss very effectively. More on that later but first let me explain the background.....

The digestion of Coconut Oil is Different!

Our bodies digest fats in different ways according to the size of the chain. Eat a meal containing animal fats such as cheese or meat and the long chain fatty acids require digestion by pancreatic digestive enzymes. They are then absorped through the gut wall as something called lipoproteins and in that  form start circulating in the blood stream. It is while they are circulating that they can be deposited as fat in fat cells and form plaque in our arteries. With coconut oil however, the medium chain fatty acids are already broken down by the time they get to our gut, and so do not need the pancreatic enzymes. They are absorbed through the gut wall and instead of circulating around like the long chain animal fatty acids, they go straight to the liver and are used as a fuel source.

They do not have the same lipoprotein stage as long chain fats which is one of the crucially important differences.

Coconut Oil health benfits

The way in which coconut oil is digested is the reason behind its weight loss effects, but first let's look at some seriously good health benefits of this superfood:

• Coconut oil supports thyroid function
• It lowers cholesterol by promoting the conversion of cholestrol to the key 'mother' hormone prednisolone
• Quick, easy metabolised source of excellent nutrition so it is used in hospitals for babies and malnourished patients
• Stomach and duodenal ulcers with the bacteria h.pylori present can be successfully treated by coconut oil
• It produces an energy surge when it is metabolised in the liver
• It appears to have healing properties for digestive disorders
• Coconut oil reduces our needs for adrenal or stress hormones
• It evens out blood sugar peaks and troughs

G. W. Crile and his wife found that the metabolic rate of people in Yucatan, where coconut is a staple food, averaged 25% higher than that of people in the United States. In a hot climate, the adaptive tendency is to have a lower metabolic rate, so it is clear that some factor is more than offsetting this expected effect of high environmental temperatures. The people there are lean, and recently it has been observed that the women there have none of the symptoms we commonly associate with the menopause. (1996 Raymond Peat)

My personal Coconut Oil Experience

If you are familiar with my story you will already know that I had cancer of the lymphatic system when I was 18. The treatment I received at that time was extremely high dose radiotherapy and as the cancer was located in my neck and torso, so my thyroid gland received a huge blast, and has been struggling to cope since.

As soon as I found out about coconut oil supporting the thyroid gland and looked into the physiology of how it does this, I decided to use myself as an experiment. I started on 1 table spoon a day with my morning veggie juice at breakfast. Over the course of 10 days I increased this to two tablespoons a day with the second one being taken before dinner in the evening. What I found was very interesting:

• I had more overall energy
• I was less hungry
• I actually experienced an energy surge (not usual with an underactive thyroid gland)!
• I also started to lose some weight without changing anything else which was a nice bonus
• My blood sugar was more balanced
• Not to mention good skin, shiny hair and happy thoughts :)

So How does coconut oil contribute to weight loss?

• Coconut oil is used as a fuel source rather than stored in fat cells
• It has fewer calories than other fats
• Coconut oil helps to raise our metabolic rate as it stimulates our liver into action
• This means our matabolic rate stays higher for 24 hours after consumption of coconut oil which in turn means we burn more calories
• Reasearch shows it is very satisfying to eat so reduces appetite
• It supports the thyroid which in turn supports metabolism

Coconut Oil is also Antimicrobial

The benefits do not end there! Research has shown repeatedly that coconut oil destroys invading pathogens. The monoluarin substance in coconut oil deactivates bacteria, fungi and viruses by disrupting the workings of their lipid membranes.

So you can see that the health benefits of coconut oils are massive. So what else is important about coconuts?

Coconut Water aids Exercise Recovery

Coconut water that comes from young coconuts is the most natural isotonic drink. (Isotonic means it has the same concentration as our blood and cells in the body). I conducted a recent experiment on my partner and son who ran the world's largest fun run of 14km in Sydney this month called the City to Surf. I stood waiting for them on a very long and steep hill commonly referred to as "heartbreak Hill" (you can guess why) in order to give them some coconut water. After drinking it as they ran they both reported an amazing difference in their muscles and energy levels that was quite remarkable shaving 8 minutes off their race time!

You can see from the length of this post that the health benefits of coconut oil are numerous and considerable. Isn't it about time that you started including it in your diet?

Happy Health and Homeopathic prescribing!

When we want to protect ourselves and our loved ones, sometimes it's hard to know which way to turn for information regarding important things like Swine Flu vaccination.

I have been closely following all the hype and information regarding the Swine Flu vaccine that will be hitting all our shores in the next 4 weeks, and I want to share the information that our govenments and politicians are not being open about.

Firstly I have to put my stake in the ground regarding vaccination generally because Homeopaths world over are known to most often choose to NOT support general vaccine use. There are many reasons for this stance, but one of the most important, is that vaccines by-pass the immune system's normal defenses.


When you catch measles for example, it is a droplet borne viral infection and the mucous membranes in your upper respiratory tract respond first. When we stick a vial of live or infectious agents (that have been rendered less potent) straight into the blood stream, we are asking the body to mobilise its immune system at its deepest level immediately, without all the natural immune pathways that come first.

It has not been proven at any stage that vaccines actually STOP people catching the infectious agent...rather it has been shown that vaccines stimulate antibody production in the blood. We know that our immune system is much more complicated than that and antiobodies are just one part of it.

Many of my patients vaccinate themselves and their children and many do not. I support whatever my patients want to do, but I find that I treat vaccinosis (chronic ill-health after vaccination) often. But this Swine Flu vaccine is crossing all kinds of health boundaries and so here are my Top 6 Reasons NOT to have this Vaccine.

1. Predictions of Pandemics are notoriously inaccurate

In the Uk for example, there have been 31 deaths so far attributed to the H1N1 virus compared with the normal 8000 people that die most years of 'normal' flu (source The Week Issue 726).
In 1976 another Swine flu pandemic was feared and never materialised. In the early 90s a measles epidemic was predicted and did not happen either. The most recent Bird Flu pandemic never occurred.
Almost all the deaths so far across the world from Swine flu have been due to complications such as pneumonia. As it is highly unlikley that you will die from the influenza, then the best way for a normally healthy person to protect themselves is to have a healthy immune system in the first place.


2. It is likely to contain highly toxic Mercury.

There are 3 main pharmaceutical companies manufacturing the vaccine: Baxter, Glaxosmithkline and Novartis. Thimerosol is the commonly used Mercury preservative that was removed from many of the standard children's vaccines in Australia (please note, it is still used in adult vaccines),and around the world due to the link with vaccine reactions and public outcry. It has been said that the Swine Flu/H1N1 vaccine will contain mercury. Read here for more mercury toxicity information.

3. Flu vaccines are highly ineffective.

In a review of 48 reports including more than 66,000 adults, "Vaccination of healthy adults only reduced risk of influenza by 6% and reduced the number of missed work days by less than one day (0.16) days. It did not change the number of people needing to go to hospital or take time off work." Reference: "Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults." The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 1 (2006).

In a review of 51 studies of the flu vaccine in children 6-24 months it was decided that it was not more effective then a placebo and asthmatic children who get the flu vaccine [Flumist in activated flu vaccine - Ed] are more at risk for hospitalization than children who do not get the vaccine." Reference: The American Thoracic Society's 105th International Conference, May 15-20, 2009. (Thanks to an excllent report by Dr tenpenny.com for this data).


4. They contain highly dangerous substances such as adjuvants.

These are substances added to allow faster manufacturing of the vaccine and to 'boost' its action. If they work I ask myself...why do we need to 'boost' them? Novartis and Glaxosmithkline are both using an oil based adjuvant called Squalene in their H1N1/Swine flu vaccine. (ALL oil based adjuvants have been categorically shown to be toxic to rats).

Squalene is a substance present in our body in the nervous system but when we inject squalene into our bloodstream from an outside source, the body attacks it as something to resist and consequentially, attacks the squalene in our own body. This is why vaccinations appear to cause auto-immune diseases such as MS, lupus, Guillan-Barre syndrome and Rheumatoid Arthritis. See this excellent Mercola post for more information about squalene.


5. The last Swine flu vaccine in 1976 was a health disaster!

Swine flu broke out in a military base in 1976 and people were vaccinated with a hurriedly prepared "Swine Flu Vaccine". The result has been catalogued and reported as an unmitigated health disaster. People dropped dead soon after the vaccine was given and many suffered paralysis. The vaccine was withdrawn and there was no pandemic! More here.


6. Normal vaccine SAFETY procedures are being by-passed!

The US government has recently given the vaccine manufacturers leave to expediate the manufacture of this vaccine by by-passing normal safety tests and procedures that are in place to protect YOU. The adjuvant Squalene will not be tested in spite of knowing that in tests on rats it caused ALL rats to develop an MS-like disease that left them crippled, dragging their paralyzed hindquarters across their cages. The vaccine itself is currently being tested in several nations including Australia, the USA and the UK on our children. They will be given the vaccine and then followed up with blood tests afterwards. This is too LATE for your child if they have a serious reaction.

This is what a report 5 days ago in The Lancet said:

"Many national regulatory agencies have set-up fast-track approval processes for the H1N1 vaccine, which means that a vaccine might be licensed without the usual safety and efficacy data requirements. Vaccine safety will therefore have to be monitored through post-marketing surveillance. But some fear a repeat of the 1976 H1N1 outbreak in the USA, where mass vaccination was associated with complications, which stopped the campaign and led to the withdrawal of the vaccine." (The Lancet, Volume 374, Issue 9687, Page 358, 1 Aug. 2009.)

These are just 6 reasons to say no and there are many more.

What can you do?

Firstly STOP worrying!

If you are concerned about the flu you might like to take the following immune boosting supplements:

Vitamin D3 (3000IU daily for adults)
Vitamin A
Vitamin C (1000mg daily minimum for adults)
Homeopathic Oscillococcinum 200 once a day for 3 days AND weekly after that

Be prepared Yourself!

Finally Homeopaths treat flu effectively all the time. If you want to get yourself a homeopathic kit go here. To find out for free how to treat infuenza with Homeopathy read my influenza article. This might be the best health investment you make right now!

Happy Homeopathic prescribing :)

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© Sam Adkins 2009
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Homeopathy is very efffective in treating coughsCoughs can be tricky things to treat sometimes. Homeopathy can treat coughs very successfully but sometimes as a beginner prescriber, it is tricky to know what symptoms to take into account when choosing a homeopathic cough medicine. This article describes what to look for when taking a cough case, and oulines the 6 key reasons to treat a cough. Part 2 in the next issue,will share the specific homeopathic medicines I recommend for cough cures.

Should we always treat a cough?

We live in a culture in the western world where we have a tendency to think that every time we have a physical symptom that makes us slightly uncomfortable, we should remove it at all costs. Homeopaths see symptoms as effective ways for the body to get better. An acute cough is the body's usual way of clearing the chest or throat of mucous or sputum so it has a very important function in your body. So if a cough is productive, loose and only slightly uncomfortable; and in addition, changes as the infection it is clearing progresses in a positive direction, it is best to let nature take its course. This is when we can marvel at how clever our body really is!

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