Babies go through birth sometimes with easy and sometimes with difficulty. Sometimes the stress of being born it is quite shocking for their little system, combined with the parent’s change of the entire world that is a big stress all together. Sometimes the physical trauma and change can affect the mood and behaviour of both mother and baby. Baby primitive and survival nervous system can be quite active, which it means the other part of the nervous system cannot give the signal to relax and make enzymes to digest the milk. Resulting in colic’s, frequent reflux and constant crying with a need of being held and having that comfort touch of the mother and or father. During birth there is a lot of compression and de-compression of the baby body, with that some of the nerves can get stuck, which can over stimulate the system, which make the baby unable to let go completely and fall asleep easily. Continue reading “Why babies and mothers need Cranio-Sacral Therapy”
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Breakfast and focusing on learning and behaviour in children
As a nutritionist I know the importance of having breakfast because food is what makes our body function. The type of food that we eat is also important on how our body function. As a person and a mother I never thought of skipping breakfast anyway as that was never an option. My mother never let us go out without the breakfast no matter how early she would go out of the house or how much in an hurry she would be. Breakfast was there for us to have.
Now in a modern life, many adults with stressful jobs and tiring jobs or even as non-working mums we do feel that everything is overwhelming and we cannot cope with it. However I am sure many do it is just having the knowledge and the understanding of what happens without that breakfast or healthy meals. I am not going to talk about the sugar content of food or the sugary drink and their damage on the kid’s brain, for now I am just mentioning the breakfast. Continue reading “Breakfast and focusing on learning and behaviour in children”
Lactose intolerance and dairy allergies: what is the difference?
I have heard many times at work and out what is the difference between lactose intolerance and milk allergy. There is a lot of confusion of the difference between lactose intolerance and dairy allergy in babies and adults. Here I am outlining the difference between the two and the different symptoms with babies and adults.
- Lactose intolerance is a lack of or low enzymes that break down the sugar in milk lactose. Usual symptoms in adults is diarrohea and abdominal cramps and bloating. In babies the symptoms can be mild colic to extreme and diarrhoea (diarrhoea in babies is a bit difficult to distinguish).
- In babies the reason for the lactose intolerance is probably due to the enzyme not yet produces at a full speed or enough of it, or if breastfed a diet high in sugary foods, where the baby is not quite ready for that much sugar. For adult the reasons are different. The enzyme lactase in most individual will stop being produced after weaning.
- Some populations such as Chinese, Japanese and Africa have a genetic trait which stop them producing lactase after weaning. Therefore cannot eat any dairy products (cows or goat) that contain high lactose, such as milk and most cheeses.
- Dairy allergy on the other hand involves the immune system, where one of the anti-bodies (IgE, IgG, IgM, IgA) would over-react to the protein of the milk or any of the food mentioned below. In milk is usually casein and can go from a mild to extreme reaction. Also from immediate reaction to delayed reaction, depending on the anti-body that is over-reacting to the protein once it enters the intestinal tract or the blood stream. The extreme reaction in babies and adults can lead to blood in the stools and/or eczema, dry skin, joint pain etc.
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Allergies and sensitive bodies: Nutrition and cranio-sacral therapy response
I have come across a lot of adults and children in the past few years that have allergies and intolerances from very low symptoms to higher ones. In very sensitive people, the allergies or intolerances get worse when stressed and at time of being overwhelmed with a lot of things, from emotional overwhelming to physical one.
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Hypoglacemia: Effect on body and mind
BLOOD SUGAR IMBALANCE
Hypoglycemia what is it and are the symptoms:
In sensitive people and genetically predisposed people, blood sugar level balance can be a challenge. At times we feel like eating more sugars than other time. For women during our periods, or during pregnancy or breastfeeding. We feel like we need sugar very quickly at times. In time of stress or if you have a stressful job some people men and women tend to go for the quickest meal that they can get and sometime no meals at all. Having more coffee, teas and anything that can give the quickest fix possible, including reaching for the red bull and caffeine 3 to 4 times a day. So what goes wrong at some point with the hypoglycemia, why does it happen? Well quite often happens because we keep asking the pancreas to deal with a lot of sugary foods and or with stress in our lives that our organs cannot keep up. Continue reading “Hypoglacemia: Effect on body and mind”
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) Transformational healing, of body, mind and soul
Craniosacral therapy is a subtle and profound healing form. See your life transmuting into a bliss, healing from inside out!
In a typical craniosacral session, you will usually lie fully-clothed on a treatment couch. The therapist will make contact by placing their hands usually lightly on your body and tuning in. The first thing you will probably notice is a sense of deep relaxation, which will generally last throughout the session. This release of tension often extends into everyday life.
Often traumas from childhood are stored in our body or even cells, and those unconscious traumas, can be triggered at any time in the life of the adults. Quite often with a body injury or illness. Craniosacral therapy allows the body system to feel safe enough to show the trauma, big or small, at the time that the person is ready to deal with, usually when they feel safe enough to share or deal with whatever emotion is attached to that trauma. With mindfulness meditation and heart meditation, the person has a tool to be able to connect with their heart and deal with whatever comes up in a loving space. My work is to connect to my heart and the person heart to reach a stillness where anything is possible, and any healing is allowed to happen in a loving experience. Craniosacral therapy, does not force any trauma out without the person being ready. That is the magical part of this wonderful therapy.
Sometimes the benefits are not immediately noticeable but become obvious on returning to a familiar environment. The work is often deeply moving and exhilarating.
The benefit can also be noticed after few days in some people. The experience is different from each baby, child or adult according to their own need of balance and adjustments.
Quite often the body will start unwinding, this is the fascial unwinding, which often happens in people with high stress, old and new chronic injuries to free the body, and in babies and children.
Our body system can get tight and rigid due to tension from the head to the toe, and often it leads to chronic pain, sleepless nights, and vagal nerve being trapped and hard to function well, leading to possible palpitation, anxiety and much more. Below is a sample of fascial unwinding.
Below are some of the issues that I have seen with fascial unwinding and craniosacral therapy with adults:
- Digestive system and IBS problems, including bloating
- Chronic pain from past injuries
- Chronic pelvic area and back pain
- Whiplash, old and new
- Headaches and Migraines
- Anxiety
- Post-traumatic Stress disorder
- Post operations and injuries
- Post-partum
- Pregnancy physical and emotional issues
- and much more
I use CST by itself or with Nutritional advice and NAET treatments to integrate the entire body mind system at a deeper level. I notice that the body respond much more to the NAET treatments and the person feels more complete and healthier in body and mind, each time by releasing old patterns and old issue stored in the body.
CST has been used for babies as soon as they come into life to help the baby system to settle into a normal rhythm and vitality. Very helpful for mothers as well as it help with rebalance the normal rhythmic motions of their system after their labor that is traumatic or not.
Mothers that have seen me for CS also see a benefit from the therapy when their children are teething. I would put an big advice to all mother to have their own treatments after birth and in time of stress as that helps the children as well. As mothers we are connected very much to our children and vice-versa. Quite often we forget that our emotional and physical health is as important as our children…
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My experience of Craniosacral therapy and my clients experience of what it does:
It is called craniosacral, because the of the spinal fluid going from the cranio to the sacral is what makes everything function well and properly. All the nerves and nerve communication from the brain to the body and from the body to the brain go through there and it is all connected like a tree with branches and roots. What the craniosacral therapist does is listening to the rhythm of that fluid and feel if there is any blockage in the body, memory cells of the tissue and the mind as well as the energetic field around that body to see if it is breathing well and properly. If there is a blockage just our training and knowledge will help the mother, baby and adult unblock the blockage and rebalance the system or body function.
Memory cells – my experience with Craniosacral therapy was amazing. My labor and my son birth were very traumatic. My son kept having colds and coughs from the time I stopped breastfeeding at 14 months. As I did not want to give antibiotics all the time I sought for other ways of dealing with that. Homeopathy vitamin C and nutrition helped to get rid of the colds or reduce them when he had them but he still kept having more colds and coughs that he should have had. So I took him to cranio-sacral and it took a while as I took him to the Student clinic but they got rid of his traumatic birth and finally his colds and coughs were reduced to once a year and now not even once a year. He can now fight the colds very easily and usually gets over anything much easier than any other child that I know. My own experience with CS was that even after 7 years since the labor my memory cells body still retained that trauma. I had epidural so I did not feel mentally any pain, but my body did. And all that pain and trauma was still pretty stored in my tissues. Finally I got rid of it with CS and it is amazing the difference it made even to my personal life physically and emotionally.
Some of the children and babies that I treated with CS had some traumatic birth or even not and what some of the issues that reduced were:
- Colic’s which are very frequent in babies,
- Frequency of throwing up the milk
- Tight Jaw and fascia, leading to reflux and colic without a tongue tie and after a procedure
- Sleeping better and more peacefully
- Stronger connection with mother and babies (the mother needs to be treated as well as the baby for both Reflux and connection with the baby)
- clinging babies or toddlers
- Mild and medium torticollis
- Suckling reflex problems due to possible fascial tightness and birth trauma
- Constipation and Dyschezia
I have also seen babies and children with
- Teething problems,
- Coughing that does not go away easily,
- Frequent colds for the babies,
- Toddlers and children with anxiety,
- Over reaction to food and the environment
- Irritation, which have led to a happier and more communicative toddler,
- Night terror in toddlers and children in general.
- After flu and illness to restore their system
Starting life with a great balance system is one of the huge benefit that the baby will have in coping any of the issue that life brings. Babies treated with CS have a more positive and happier attitude in life and feel more confident of their journey. They have a happier attitude in life and feel more confident of their journey.
The Wonder of craniosacral therapy from babies to children to adults to pregnancy, cycle of life!
Chia Seeds, benefits
Chia seeds:
Chia is a plant that grows biannually and is considered to be from the mint family. The plant is grown for its seeds mainly and it is one of the foods used in South America and Aztec. Chia seeds contains protein, fats and carbohydrates, as well as fiber. It is high in omega 3 and 6 and hens fed on chia seeds have higher omega 3 versus other eggs. Chia has vitamins and minerals and is high in anti-oxidants. It is one of the newest superfoods in our modern society and England as well. The content of the chia omega 3 and 6 depends on where they grow. The plant frown in high altitude had less of omega 3 and 6. The plant grown in the hottest months had less protein contents. hotter it is the less of omega 3 and 6 there is. As a snack in yogurt (any type of yogurt) soaked for 10 minutes added to your porridge it adds the extra protein, essential fatty acid and anti-oxidant benefit of your breakfast as well as being slow blood sugar release and keep you more focused during the day. Add fruits into the yogurts (cow, sheep, goat, soya or coconut yogurt will do),with chia seeds and you have a delicious and nutritious breakfast and snack.
Trapped emotional can lead your life in a different direction
My thought today is how much our emotions can makes us ill or well. As a child I used to have coughs all the time but no allergies or any physical cause was ever found. I kept having bronchitis up to when I moved to London. I had them twice e year and had to take penicillin to get rid of it. I was wandering why I had those. I stopped having bronchitis twice a year when I moved to London even though I felt the London air was much heavier than the countryside air and the sea air where I was living. So what changed! Well I moved away! Even though Italy is wonderful I felt it was time to have a wider look at the world from a different angle. A client had a similar experience. She had a cough for a year and stopped after she had a treatment with Cranio-Sacral Therapy. She managed to find the courage to change her life and move on to another country.
Continue reading “Trapped emotional can lead your life in a different direction”Vitamin A – what is the importance of it? what is its function in the body
Vitamin A has had a bad reputation for a while and many people think that they have to be away from it. The most danger from vitamin A is if you eat the liver of a bear or liver everyday, which can contain a lot of the vitamin A and other nutrients. The following are facts about vitamin A:
Vitamin A is one vitamin that has a bed reputation for being bad in pregnancy. But a vast majority of pregnant women and children in the third country and some in the western world are deficient of this vitamin. This leads to many problems in the foetus and pregnancy as well as reducing the activity and function of the immune system. Continue reading “Vitamin A – what is the importance of it? what is its function in the body”
Do you know the role of vitamin C?
Do you know the role of vitamin C? and Why it is important? Where would you get it from?
- Vitamin C is made by many animals such as primates, fruit bats, guinea pigs and some birds. Because of a lack of the last enzyme in the vitamin C pathway, humans are among the species that lost the ability to make it (Murray, 2005).
- Main sources of vitamin C are vegetables and fruits. The highest are acerola (berries found in Mexico, Barbados, California, in dryland,) red chilli, guavas, bell peppers, kale and parsley; many others contain much less of vitamin C including oranges, lemons, limes, which they are most consumed (Groff, 2000).
- Vitamin C is a very unstable molecule; heat, processing, exposure to light, alkali will destroy it. Even though vitamin C is easily absorbed, zinc and pectin (found in apples), will reduce its absorption (Barasi, 2003).
- Vitamin C function is mainly as an anti-oxidant, it is a reduction agent; it donates a hydrogen molecule to reverse oxidation.
- Vitamin C is co-factor for a number of reactions that makes collagen (found on the skin, ligaments and tendons). It supports the structure of the arteries and capillarie (Murray, 2005).
- Vitamin C interacts with iron, lead and copper, and vitamin E (they work together to and sometimes against each other such as for lead).
- Ascorbic acid deficiency will cause scurvy and some of the symptoms are bleeding gums, petechiae (rupture of small blood vessels), poor wound healing, excessive bruising and joint pain.
- Other symptoms of low vitamin C include susceptibility to infections, depression, low iron uptake, especially in vegan and vegetarians. People with alcohol abuse, diabetes and poor diet have a higher need of the vitamin (Groff, 2000).
- It is a natural anti-histamine. He breaks down much quickly the histamine overload in allergic people. In many of my clients just taking vitamin C during the day up to 1000 mg a day spread during the day, made a huge difference.
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