Welcome to this week’s blog. This week we have a very special request for you! Alex is currently inviting feedback on the clinic, with suggestions for ideas, feedback on anything you feel we could be doing better, and basically just general comments on anything you think it would be helpful for us to know. You can do this either anonymously or not, we just want your feedback. We’ve put together a very simple four question survey, which you can fill out by clicking here. Alex has recorded a short video about why we are doing this – you can view the video below. You can fill in the survey by clicking here.
For those of you based in Cambridge, on Wednesday 15th September, Alex and Sanna will be giving a talk on “Nutrition and ME in the 21st Century” at the Cambrdige M.E. Groups Agm from 7-9. If you’d like more information, please e-mail carolinelouise@TheOptimumHealthClinic.com and we will send you the details.
Finally, we are at last ready to start releasing transcripts of some of our video blogs. The first one is on the critical role of stomach acid in supporting digestion and absorption in ME and CFS treatment. You can read the transcript here, and watch the original video here.
Welcome to this week’s video blog. This week we have the final instalment of Alex and Sanna’s talk in Stockport earlier this year. Alex and Sanna are taking questions from the audience about the various treatment options available at the clinic, along with questions about getting tests requested by the nutrition team at the clinic from your GP. This is a great simple introduction to the clinic’s various treatment approaches, so for anyone currently considering treatment it is a helpful introduction, and for anyone only on treatment on one side of the clinic, a good overview of the bigger picture.
We hope you enjoy, please do feel free to post any questions below, and we look forward to speaking with you next week where we’ll be getting started with releasing our transcripts as well!
Welcome to this week’s video blog. This week we have the second of our videos in our groundbreaking new series looking at the different symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome and ME from the perspectives of both the psychology and nutrition team. For this video Anna (Director of Psychology) and Tanya (Director of Nutrition) are looking at muscle pain, a symptom experienced by many patients, and obviously a lot more prevalent in fibromyalgia (which we have a specific video coming up on). This video explains the role of hyperventilation in muscle pain, the mechanisms of how stress affects muscle pain, the relationship of magnesium to muscle pain, and a lot more!
In response to feedback that two new videos a week is rather a lot for patients to go through (we do get a bit carried away!), we’ve decided to change the format of newsletters to one video a week, along with one transcript. The transcripts will be starting from late August, so in the meantime, you’ll be getting an easier load with just one video for a few weeks. Enjoy!
Welcome to this week’s video blog. We are very excited to be sharing the first of a new series of videos with Anna (Director of Psychology) and Tanya (Director of Nutrition) discussing each of the range of symptoms of ME and CFS from the perspectives of both departments at the clinic. These videos are a fascinating insight into the clinic’s truly integrative approach, whilst also really helping to understand how to best work with different symptoms and truly get to the bottom of them. The first video discusses Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and offers some powerful insightful perspectives.
The second of our videos this week is the latest instalment of Alex and Sanna live in Stockport. This video is the first of several videos from the talk taking questions live from the audience. Questions include extreme fainting in ME and CFS, and how to break out of boom and bust. As always, please do add your comments and questions to the videos.
Welcome to this week’s video blog. Our first video this week is with Alex and Sarah Marshall from our psychology team. They talk about why The Optimum Health Clinic approach is different, including the importance of creating your own individual roadmap to recovery, how the practitioner team work together as a team, and why the clinic’s approach is so unique compared to other approaches out there.
For our second video we have the latest instalment from Alex and Sanna’s talk in Stockport. In this video, Sanna explains mitochondrial function and its role in ME and CFS and Alex tells the story behind our free DVD “Freedom From ME: Journey’s to Recovery” (click here to receive a free copy with our “Freedom From ME Information Pack”). Please do post any comments below the videos!
We hope enjoy this week’s videos, and look forward to next week when we really do promise to have the next transript of one of our video blogs available!