Natural Health News By Rachel Wild
Rachel Wild, the founder of Wild As The Wind, is a professional writer. She has produced several volumes of well researched, complementary health information over the last couple of decades.
Please read on to see the most recently published articles…
Older articles can be found on the Wild As The Wind Information Website.
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A Word From Rachel Wild
I really hope that you find the following advice deeply beneficial, and that, like so many others, you find long waited answers to chronic health conditions, and natural health dilemmas, such as all conventional sun creams being cancerous, and conventional treatments to acne causing birth defects etc…
Nevertheless, this information is likely to make me unpopular with certain factions of the commercial world, and with those who fastidiously subscribe to mainstream opinion. But, before you dismiss, out of hand, the insights provided, please know that all the natural health articles, listed below, have been thoroughly researched, and are supported by the latest peer reviewed scientific research.
It takes, on average, 17 years for the latest scientific discoveries to filter down to patient delivery, via our doctors and nurses.
And, please also remember:
- I am completely independent (not funded by corporate pharmaceutical entities).
- I am not being paid by anyone else.
- I am providing you with this information for free… so, my voice is truly independent
- I don’t benefit in any way when I publish free-to-access natural health articles. In fact, the opposite is true… I actually lose a lot of time that I could be using to devote to my own wellbeing and entertainment, or even channelled into making Wild As The Wind more profitable, etc…
So, before deciding to judge me harshly, I hope that you will give me the benefit of the doubt, and realise that I am providing this information because I genuinely care.
But, of course, I am human, and I have biases. I try to remain as objective as possible, but I know that I am as fallible as the next person, to subtle biases. So, as with all else you read, you need to engage your discernment and intuition to determine if what I have written resonates with you.
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Essential Oil Articles
UK Essential Oils – A UK Essential Oils Report focussing on the alarming trends negatively impacting UK essntial oil quality and the questionable business practices of UK essential oil vendors, causing trust issues among large numbers of UK essential oils consumers. It explains how ‘fake’ essential oils will not deliver the benefits expected, and, worse still, are likely to be toxic.
Essential Oil Quality – A brief companion piece to the Essential Oils UK Report which goes into more detail in relation to the issue of toxic ‘fake’ aromatherapy oils, and outlines how good quality essential oils are produced.
Boosting Natural Immunity With Sun Exposure & Essential Oils
Essential Oils For Antibiotic Resistant Bacterial Infections
Essential Oils For Sun Protection: includes a list of phototoxic essential oils
Using Essential Oils For Prayer
Essential Oils Versus Fragrance Oils
Carrier Oil Articles
Carrier Oils For UV Protection
Ultimate Guide To Carrier Oils – details the bounteous benefits of carrier oils, & why we should all be using them… provides all the information you need to quickly understand & compare carrier oils, so that you can make informed, individuated choices, with complete confidence, in no time at all.
10 Carrier Oils We Need In Our Bathroom Cabinet
Healthy Fats & Oils – for dietary uses & skincare.
Castor Oil Compress – for eyelash & eye health + eyelash & hair growth + detoxification + wound healing + abnormal soft tissue & bone growth reduction.
Linoleic Acid [AKA Omega-6] Is Disastrous For Our Health [When ingested]
Skincare Articles
Natural Ways Of Avoiding Sunburn – we don’t need to apply topical products to avoid sunburn… we just need common sense! This article lists the best cost-free ways of avoiding sunburn and getting that all-important exposure to the sun! (Sadly, because we are living lifestyles that are not in sync with nature, it is not so easy for many of us to apply the sensible approach to sun exposure covered in this article… but, nature comes to our rescue again, as detailed in Carrier Oils For UV Protection and Essential Oils For Sun Protection
Carrier Oils For UV Protection – details a good number of sun protective natural oils, some of which have an official SPF value, attributed via peer reviewed scientific research. It also explains how to assess oils that haven’t been scientifically tested for SPF values to determine whether they are likely to provide sun protection, or not.
Essential Oils For Sun Protection – includes the best antioxidant essential oils to use in Carrier Oils For Sun Protection, some of which have an official SPF value, attributed via peer reviewed scientific research. This article also lists phototoxic essential oils that must be avoided during periods of sun exposure.
Natural Facial Oils – Many facial oils contain synthetic ingredients that can be very problematic, as detailed in this article, and the Best UK Facial Oil article.
Root Cause Of Problem Skin – the things that we think are causing skin issues are not the problem… it’s the things that we think have nothing to do with it that are causing all the problems. This article will be very enlightening for many!
Best UK Facial Oil – lists what makes for an excellent UK facial oil, and details ingredients to avoid, along with the devastating outcomes of using facial oils containing ingredients that have no buisness being in UK personal care products.
How To Make Your Own Skincare Products
[Third Party resource] The Comprehensive Guide To Getting Rid of Loose & Saggy Skin
General Health Articles
Sleep is the most important thing we can do for health. Being in nature, especially walking through woodlands, is also deeply important, especially for mental, spiritual and digestive health. Diet and exercise come next.
In this section of Health News you will find articles relating to the many things we can do to restore balance and bolster optimal health. A lot of the suggested protocols are free, yet too many of us are not taking advantage of them. Hopefully, drawing attention to them here will inspire us to change all that?
Universal Law – The Roadmap To Natural Health
Sleep Issues & The Mineral Connection – insomnia & poor sleep quality undermine our natural resilience & impair our enjoyment of life, but can often be rectified with the right mineral balance. We heal when we are asleep, so resolving sleep issues is vitally important.
Healthy Fats & Oils – omega-6 fatty acids are destroying our health – what are the alternatives?
Linoleic Acid [AKA Omega-6] Is Disastrous For Our Health – when ingested
Circadian Rhythm – Why We Can’t Live Without It – resolve low energy & poor attention span.
Vagal Breathing For Relaxation & Optimal Immunity – get out of ‘fight or flight’ back into ‘rest and digest’ mode
Vital Importance Of Grounding – improving focus & attention levels & significantly reduce chronic inflammation.
Why Do We Need Sunlight? – realigning bodily rhythms for optimal energy & proper assimilation of nutrients.
Blood Pressure, Dehydration & Oedema – proper hydration is fundamental to our health, yet many of us are chronically dehydrated.
Linoleic Acid [AKA Omega-6] Is Disastrous For Our Health [When ingested]
Adaptogenic Herbs – for anxiety & depression, immune boosting & stress reduction.
Lymphatic Drainage – detoxifying the body.
Detoxification
Lemon & Cayenne Drink For Liver Support & Weight Loss
Shilajit For Digestive Health – Shilajit is a mineral-rich compound that supports digestive, hormonal and immune health.
Castor Oil Compress – for liver & kidney detoxification.
Lymphatic Drainage – detoxifying the body.
Digestive Health
Castor Oil Compress – for constipation relief.
Vitamins & Minerals
Several vitamins and minerals must be taken together to avoid excesses and deficiencies in these constituents. Any excess or deficiency will compromise our health and immunity severely, and so must be avoided at all costs.
Where you see a vitamin or mineral coupled with a corresponding vitamin or mineral in the list below, this is because there is a co-dependency for the coupled items.
Vitamin D & Vitamin K – for immune health & proper systemic function.
Zinc & Copper – for immune health & proper systemic function.
Shilajit For Digestive Health – Shilajit is a mineral-rich compound that supports digestive, hormonal and immune health.
Why Is A Health News Section Necessary?
There are many important reasons for creating this Complementary Health News Section.
We Don’t Always Need Interventions To Get Well
Our bodies are gorgeous, mind-blowing, self-healing systems. Given half a chance, we can recover from anything. The fact that our body is a wondrous self-healing system is getting lost in the pursuit of profit by the health industry.
Hopefully, this Health News section of the Wild As The Wind website will help redress this idea, a little.
A Time Of Elevated Toxicity
But, sadly, we live in an increasingly polluted world, and systemic toxicity is undermining our ability to self-heal.
So, focussing on detoxification, and being out in nature, has never been so important. This is why this Health News section began with all of the articles in the General Health section.
Getting The Right Answers Takes Time
- It takes 17 years for cutting edge medical research to filter down into medical practice.
- There have been many revelatory medical discoveries within the last few years, but the medicine being practised today does not, in any way, reflect these new understandings.
- The latest research and medical understanding does not only make the medicine being practised today obsolete, these new medical understandings actually make a lot of current medical practices dangerous.
- We don’t have to wait for medicine to catch up… we can use the latest medical research to support and improve our health, instead of allowing our outdated medical provisions to actually cause us more harm than good.
- Modern Western Medicine is all about splitting things up and making them into separate areas of specialisation, whereas our bodies are fully integrated systems, with every aspect influencing every other aspect…
Wild As the Wind Health News Is Free
Whilst a few Wild As The Wind customers have even suggested Rachel Wild should charge for her health writing, this will not happen… This means that all health news articles published via Wild As The Wind online will always be free.
Disclaimer
The information provided is not intended to replace the medical directives of your healthcare provider. This information is not meant for the diagnosis or treatment of health issues. If you are pregnant, have serious or multiple health concerns, consult your healthcare provider before using essential oils or associated products.
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Hi Rachel.
Louise again. Thanks for your reply.
I was just wondering if you could go e me some advice.
I have a teen with crohns, eczema (and possible psoriosis) and DGBI (gut disorders.
He is currently on azathioprine and infliximab which are both steroids.
I also give him turmeric, probiotic and oil of oregano plus multi vitamin.
He eats a very limited processed diet of pizza and breaded chicken fillet. I struggle to get him to eat anything.
I have been looking at your nigella sativa but I am not sure if this would interfere with anything he has going on and with what he is taking.
I am sure I read that not great with immunosuppressive situations?
I have enjoyed reading on your website about many things and will continue to read.
Thanks for any advice Louise
Thanks for your enquiry Louise. I am very sorry to hear about your son. But hopefully the following will help…
According to the latest research, it is estimated that 90% of our decisions are made by our gut… The unhealthy microbes in our gut demand processed carbs, including pizza, other breads and refined sugar.
The following advice is likely to make me unpopular with more people than just your son, but, please remember, I am completely independent (not funded by corporate pharmaceutical entities), I am not being paid by anyone else to say what I am about to say, and I am providing you with this information for free… so, my voice is truly independent, and as I don’t benefit in any way, I hope that you will give me the benefit of the doubt, and realise that I am providing this information because I genuinely care.
Your son is clearly dysbiotic, in other words, suffering from digestive dysregulation. It is likely that his condition is severe, owing to the variety and severity of his symptoms. (Psoriasis alone, is considered a pre-cancerous condition, according to Dr Jack Kruse [Neurosurgeon], and all skin conditions are inflammatory, which means that the immune system is being over-taxed, and your boy is more likely to catch everything that is going round, thus compounding the issue.)
Most hormones are produced and regulated in the gut. Hormones are chemical messengers that help the body to maintain homeostasis, in other words, keeping the body in normal balance so that your boy can develop normally.
The gut also produces B vitamins, vital for many functions within the body, and particularly important for mental and emotional health.
All of these things combined will mean that you are likely to be met with a meltdown if you try and feed your boy anything other than what he wants. But the solution is to get him off junk food, for good, and start feeding him real grass-fed organic meat and organic veg, particularly cruciferous veg and carrots. Unless you can get good food into your child, and keep him away from junk food there is no point in attempting any other protocol to help.
You would effectively be papering over the cracks when there would be at least 3 earthquakes going off a day.
Incidentally, the steroids will ultimately be compounding the issue and depreciating your boy’s bones.
Processed food is essentially sugar as it instantly converts into sugar in the body.
Sugar is touted to be six times more addictive than cocaine. I can believe it. I have seen junk food addicted children who are coming off processed food behave just like a crack head coming off the drugs.
Thankfully, rehab only lasts a few days… but, they will likely be hellish! Make sure you have plenty of support, and that you prepare well, to ensure you succeed, and never have to go through an episode like that again!
Once off the junk food, healthy food starts to taste good.
Please understand that Nigella Sativa Oil is gentle, and Oregano Oil is tremendously strong / harsh, and if used for more than 10 days, without a break, it can cause more problems than it heals. It will be making your son even more dysbiotic, in the same way that using a single form of probiotics for more than a couple of days, will make your son even more dysbiotic.
I would advise you to stop giving your boy Oregano Oil and never give it to him for ingestion again.
He also needs bone broth to fix his gut. Along with woodland walks, getting his hands dirty in nature, and a good amount of exercise in nature – all of which will repopulate his gut with good bacteria. Taking probiotics only creates a severe imbalance of a very few strains of good bacteria… A healthy gut is one that has a diverse microbiome, which equates to thousands of different types of microbes making up the microbiome.
Berberine, found in Barberry Tincture, amongst a few others, is vitally important for gut health.
Other things need to be addressed…
Reducing stress: including emotional stress, excessive physical stress, environmental pollutants, including conventional cleaning products, and conventional personal care products, conventional sun creams, which are all cancerous, environmental mould, wireless technologies etc, etc…
You essentially need to restore mitochondrial health (supplementing with Co Q10 and PPQ would help), and you need to restore gut function. I would actually advise you to get a good book on each subject. I like Eating Dirt by Dr Josh Axe, and The Wahls Protocol by Terry Whals.
Ultimately, digestive health is a massive topic, because the gut is 80% of our immune system, largely responsible for our hormonal health, and is also largely responsible for absorbing the nutrients we need for brain and body health etc, etc… Poor gut health also causes problematic skin conditions. So, if you want to understand it enough to make a difference, you need to buy and read a couple of books on the subject.
But, in the meantime, taking Nigella Sativa Oil would be a really good idea!
I really hope this advice is helpful.
Sending love. X x x x
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.
You have sent me a great deal of information that I will definitely be taking the time to look into.
Some of these things are not going to be popular with him but I have to start somewhere.
Thank you again x
Thank you again Rachel.
I am reading over and over trying to take in all you have said.
I have ordered 1 book already and have been talking to my son.
I just wanted to edit as I don’t know why I wrote that his drugs are steroids. They are immunosuppressants.
Will stop the oregano. He has only been doing this for a week so I am glad I messaged when I did.
I feel very appreciative that you have taken the time to write such an in-depth reply with so much information.
Thanks 😊
Hi Louise,
Really glad you are making headway with the info I responded with. And, I’m so glad you are talking to your son. x x x His condition is serious… but, he can turn it around with discipline and perseverance… The problem with modern medicine is that it downplays the severity of these conditions, and then tells you that you need to be on their drugs for the rest of your life… neither of these things are usually true. More often than not, the illness is serious, and the drugs are going to make you more ill over time…
Immunosuppressants make a bit more sense… but, it’s our immune system that protects us from everything that’s doing the rounds… and it’s what keeps us clear of cancer! We need our immune systems!
Your son is clearly suffering from raging inflammation – [inflammation is what the body does when we are having an immune response]. And, I’d be willing to bet my house that he has Mast Cell Activation Syndrome… you are lucky, I have written an article about this: https://wilddigital.co.uk/mast-cell-activation-syndrome-essential-oils/
I’m very sorry to say that if you don’t stop your son from eating junk, his life is almost certainly going to be a miserable, debilitating affair… I am so sorry… but, there’s no way of saying this in any other way. Sugar-coating only leads to people not taking things seriously… and your son’s condition needs to be taken very seriously, indeed.
I really hope that you are getting through to him.
I am sending you lots of love and support!
Rachel x x x x
Suncreams are a minefield with all the nasties in them… What would I need to use along side my face oil to add an spf? Is it Raspberry Seed Oil?
Just for my face this time, then I can explore which oil to get with an spf for my body at a later date.
Hi Anne,
You can decide which sun protective carrier oil you’d like here: Carrier Oils For UV Protection
Raspberry Seed Oil is tending to be the most popular for body, and Marula Oil is the most popular for facial application. But, Broccoli Seed Oil, Pomegranate Seed Oil (which is in your Facial Oil No. 2) and Buriti Oil, along with Tamanu Oil, are all proving popular too.
I would definitely add the Sun Tanning Essential Oil Blend to the carrier oil of your choice.
With love, Rachel x x x
Your “read more” is not working on the Health News page.
Hi Margaret, lovely to hear from you. Thanks for pointing out the issue. I have emailed the developer, so hopefully it’ll be working again soon. In the meantime, you will find books worth of health info at https://www.wilddigital.co.uk… Thanks again.