Dive into the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine and discover how food can transform your daily life.
ADHD: the documented deficiencies (omega-3 EPA, ferritin), the effect of food colourings (the Southampton study), the oligoallergenic diet and what belongs to the child psychiatrist.
IBS: the Rome IV criteria, the 3 subtypes (diarrhoea, constipation, mixed), the role of stress and dysbiosis, and dietary management (FODMAPs + the TCM Liver-Spleen reading).
Pregnancy in Chinese dietetics: Jing and Blood at the service of the foetus, the energetic specifics of the three trimesters, contraindicated food-medicines and safe prescriptions.
Yin, Yang, Interior, Exterior, Cold, Heat, Deficiency, Excess: how the Eight Principles (八纲 Ba Gang) organise TCM diagnosis and guide dietetics.
Varicose veins and lower-limb oedema in TCM: Blood Stasis that descends, Qi Deficiency that no longer lifts, Dampness that weighs down, and the foods of rising.
Acid-base balance explained rigorously: blood pH vs urinary pH, the PRAL table, latent metabolic acidosis (evidence and limits), and practical alkalinising prescription.
MS: immunomodulating vitamin D (Th1/Th17→Treg), the microbiome, the historical Swank diet and the Wahls protocol, what nutrition can honestly document.
The three months that prepare: rebuilding Kidney Jing, strengthening the Blood and the Uterus, moving the circulation: the TCM preconception dietary protocol.
SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth): immediate bloating after meals, breath-test diagnosis, TCM terrain (Spleen deficiency + Dampness) and a specific dietary protocol distinct from colon dysbiosis.
Tongue diagnosis in Chinese medicine: what the colour, coating, shape and cracks of the tongue reveal about your energetic terrain.
PCOS as Dampness-Phlegm obstructing the ovaries, on a background of Kidney and Spleen Yang deficiency: drainage, warming and cycle regulation.
The documented interactions between common food-medicines (ginger, garlic, goji berries, liquorice, turmeric, grapefruit) and conventional treatments: anticoagulants, antidiabetics, antihypertensives, immunosuppressants.
The main families of dietary endocrine disruptors (bisphenols, phthalates, pesticides, PFAS), their mechanisms on hormone receptors and dietary strategies to reduce exposure.
Cognitive decline and early Alzheimer's: cerebral insulin resistance (« type 3 diabetes »), the MIND diet (-53 % risk), neuroprotective foods and the TCM reading of Jing deficiency.
Endometriosis read as settled Blood stasis, often doubled with Cold in the Uterus: a long-term anti-inflammatory, circulation-moving strategy alongside medical care.
Tae Yang, Tae Eum, So Yang, So Eum: the four Sasang constitutions of Korean medicine and what each type should favour on the plate.
The four major medicinal mushrooms in Chinese medicine: TCM properties (Shen, immunity, sugar metabolism), modern correlates (beta-glucans) and everyday culinary use.
Telling apart dysmenorrhoea from Blood stagnation (clots, fixed pain) and from Cold (relieved by warmth), with the dietary protocols for each profile.
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