Sonia Jones ND The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic
Bromelain
Is an enzyme that is found in the stems of pineapples. When this supplement is taken with food, it acts like a digestive enzyme aiding in the digestive process, especially protein. However, when taken in between meals it has a profound affect on pain and inflammation. [...]
Sonia Jones ND The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic
Magnesium rich Foods
Epsom Salt is magnesium sulphate
Most people today eat a diet sadly lacking in magnesium, magnesium is vital for optimum functioning of the body in so many ways.
Magnesium has both anti-inflammatory and anti- arthritic properties, the skin is highly absorbent (this is why hormone replacement [...]
Sonia Jones ND The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic
We all know about furring up of the arteries and how that can have a detrimental affect on the heart and blood pressure. Did you that furring up of the arteries can cause back degeneration and pain?
Smoking and/or poor diet has been linked with the condition [...]
Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic
Gluten is a substance that is very difficult to digest and as we get older this substance becomes even more difficult to digest. This substance is found in foods that most people over dose on eat day. Large amounts of gluten is found in [...]
Sonia Jones ND The Haven Spa and Natural Treatment Clinic
What are prostaglandins?
They are hormone-like substances that can promote or quell inflammation depending on the type of food you choose to eat. You have a direct control of the type of prostaglandins your body produces by the foods and drinks you choose.
We eat far [...]
Sonia Jones ND The Haven Spa and Clinic
High-fructose corn syrup verses fructose in Fresh fruit
It is of great concern to me that people are getting confused between high fructose corn syrup and fructose in fresh fruit. People are telling me they are not eating fresh fruit because they have read about fructose and how bad [...]
Sonia Jones ND
The more you help the organs of elimination work at optimum the more toxins your body will remove, the better your system will cope, the less pain you will suffer.
There are 5 major organs of elimination busy working every second of the day, come what may. Give them more than they can handle [...]
Sonia Jones ND
There are five inflammatory substances the body produces in response to various factors – environmental pollution, metabolic by-products, nutritional deficiencies and poor food choices, structural stress, digestive problems, infections, and pharmaceutical drugs.
1) Histamine – the mast cells produce histamine, I am sure you have heard of anti-histamine medication. Histamine is involved in [...]
Sonia Jones ND
As we get older our bodies tend to release more chemicals known as cytokines, they encourage degeneration, inflammation and pain. Research has revealed that taking DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) found in fish oil can suppress the release of these cytokines. DHA is an omega-3 essential fatty acid.
Flaxseeds also known as linseeds, these [...]
Sonia Jones ND
Sugar is seriously acid forming encouraging pain, highly addictive, interferes with digestion and your immune system. It is so addictive that most people find it hard to give it up, in most of its forms. It is found in one form or another in so many products today. You are probably consuming [...]