HeyJaredGrowing Medicine
Growing Medicine. Medicines that 'grows'. I make it, I use it, I teach it.
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Saffron could lift your mood (opens the original)
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If you suffer from extreme low moods that teeter on the brink of depression, I might have some useful information for you.There are known pathways in the brain that are implicated in the development of the state of depression. If we know what these ‘triggers’ are, we may be able to head them off before depression takes hold.And while orthodox drugs can be effective for some people in some ways, they are designed to do just one job [like SSRIs inhibit the reuptake of serotonin into neurons after
I was told off! (opens the original)
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Recently I got a mild rap on my knuckles from a senior herbalist about what I had been teaching students in Herbal Therapeutics. The particular problem seemed to be my approach to Tuberculosis [TB]. The reasoning went thus; TB is such a serious problem that we mustn’t give the students the impression that they can ‘treat’ it, and that the patient can use herbs instead of antibiotics.This is a statement that I more or less agree with.However, my feathers were so ruffled by the criticism of my app
Stress is not an emotion; (opens the original)
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Although we say that we ‘feel stressed’, we are not really describing an emotion. Rather we are describing an experience; the shifts in our physiology which occur when our bodies are trying to maintain integrity while experiencing a threat. It can be really uncomfortable, and it can also have physical consequences. I think there are three types of stress on our body, and each comes with its own pattern, and each could be approached differently.But for each type of stress our adrenals, nervous sy
Do you have agency? (opens the original)
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Agency means one has the capacity to act on one’s own behalf with understanding.It is the opposite of passivity.It is the opposite of being carried along with everybody else by accepted systems or instructions without understanding.Agency, when used concerning health, is the sense that your choices or opinion or objections deserve consideration, and that having them doesn’t mean that you should be dismissed as weird, or worse.I think that most people want this; although they do not describe it a
It’s that time of year…. (opens the original)
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It’s a long time since I had kids of my own starting a new school term, but I do have a new term starting and I must say [for me] it’s a lot more fun.So firstly, I have sent in my Dissertation which means that my MSc is done, and I can forget about deadlines, and research, and making sure I have the right citations, and references in the right font, and spacing. No more starting terms for me….The new term I am talking about is the intake we shall be getting on the 12th September when we welcome
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