Energy, envy, balance ... Seasonal strategies to re-harmonize your bod

We are in the fifth season. Not that of Game of Thrones , but that of the Chinese calendar. And this is, at the gates of winter, an eighteen-day interval that, for the Jon Snow of holistic medicine, begins on October 20 and ends on November 6, and corresponds to a change of strategic state. An area of turbulence between what is more and what is not yet, particularly conducive to push our energy meters to the zenith. It is during this window of fire that our ability to face the great return of winter is measured.

Our first ally? Our immunity. During this fifth season, we therefore more than ever interest to adopt immunostimulatory lifestyle rules. This is the art of approaches that like prevention better than cure ( Chinese medicine , acupuncture , herbal medicine , yoga , meditation...). Another key to counter chills and viral attacks: a perfect return to the balance of our intestinal flora.

It is more than ever the moment to have a heart in your stomach: "The six to eight meters of our intestine contain from 70% to 85% of the immune cells in our body," says Dr. Didier Chos, president of the European Institute of Dietetics and Micronutrition. And this tube concentrates nearly 100 to 200 million neurons, produces 95% of serotonin, neurotransmitter anti-gloom and anti-insomnia. But like any competition machine, this second brain is fragile. It can be harmed by our diet, antibiotics, stress ...

Dr. Nadia Volf insists: "Against the hazards of winter - from gastro to flu, through ENT infections, blows and blues - our first line of defense is our intestines . So we pamper him. With fermented dairy products, no preservatives, green juices, alkalisants, and a cure of probiotics. These alone can reduce the risk of infectious episodes by 25%. Among the proven strains: Lactobacillus casei, Helveticus and Gasseri, and Bifidobacterium longum.

We want answers: dog owner’s anguish over pet’s eye injury

A DISTRAUGHT woman is demanding answers after her pet returned from dog daycare with her eye hanging from the socket.
Lesley Elder has launched a desperate appeal for information and wants to find out what happened to her beloved Winnie who has had to undergo surgery to remove her eye.

The dog carer says shih tzu Winnie was mauled by a mystery runner’s staffie-cross dog on Sunday evening at Canford Heath before she dropped her home.
However the vet has told Lesley the injury to the six-year-old dog’s eye was not consistent with an attack.

Certain breeds of dog with shorter faces or bulging eyes are susceptible to their eyes popping out under trauma, known as ocular proptosis.
And now Lesley is desperate to know how her dog’s eye came to fall out and if it was caused by an aggressive dog, she wants to warn the public.
The 49-year-old mum-of-two said: “My heart is broken. They are my life saviours.
The pair rushed Winnie to an emergency vets where she stayed overnight to have her right eye removed at a cost of more than £800.
Lesley said: “We just want to raise awareness and find out exactly what happened to her.
“When you pay for a dog carer, you put your trust into them and don’t expect this sort of thing to happen. I feel totally distraught.”