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GloJo, Leigh-on-Sea (2025)

13/11/2025

⛑️ I have definitely gone to many GP / hospital appointments expecting them to tell me what was going wrong with my body and hand me the answer on a silver platter. And quickly!! I did that at the start of my journey. Begging them to tell me what was wrong and how long it was going to go on for.

I did get my diagnosis of M.E and POTS. And then MCAS. But no treatment plans or how to heal.

This lead me to feel drained, frustrated, and going round in circles.

Here’s the truth:
The modern medical system is what it is.
It has its strengths, but it’s not designed for complex, multisystem dysfunction. Medical science simply hasn’t caught up yet. And expecting a GP to solve something the textbooks don’t yet fully understand? That’s a fast track to disappointment.The NHS essentially offers three routes: meds, surgery, therapy. That’s the model. Anything outside of that — nutrition, root-cause work, functional approaches, quantum health, lifestyle — lives beyond the standard pathway.

And that’s where your power comes in. ⚡️

The day I stopped bouncing around the system waiting for someone to “fix me,” my trajectory changed. I realised I had to become my own medical detective — grounded, informed, and in the driver’s seat.

✨ Do your research. Go to BMJ, The Lancet, PubMed. Understand the basics of what you’re asking for.

✨ Go into appointments with intention.
“What’s the one thing I want from this today?”

✨ If you want to try a medication, arrive prepared.
Know the dose range, the evidence, the rationale. Your GP can only prescribe within what’s evidence-based — help them help you.

✨ Collaborate, don’t hand your power over.
Work with your GP. Partnership beats passivity every time.

✨ Accept the system for what it is.
When you stop expecting it to be something it isn’t, the frustration melts away, and you actually start getting more out of it.

💚 All said with love — and hard-won experience from someone who spent years bouncing through the system. I know how hard and challenging it is. But you’ve got this. FAW&NGU*
*Find a way and Never Give Up
Big love
Jo
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12/11/2025

🚙 A younger version of myself would have reacted to my car failing it’s MOT. It would’ve sent me into a spin — the stress, the money, the drama of it all. The unfairness. Why why why! Yes. Very dramatic!

Now? I just sighed, had a cup of walk through the park and thought: well, at least it’s not my body.

When you’ve lived with a health condition for over a decade, you get perspective — real, grounded, unshakeable perspective.

You stop reacting to life’s smaller fires because you’ve already walked through the big ones.

The gift (yes, gift) of long-term health challenges is that they recalibrate your sense of proportion.
Car fails its MOT? Annoying, not tragic.
Day goes off plan? Fine, we adapt.
Someone cuts you off in traffic? Whatever, maybe they’re having their own ‘MOT fail’ kind of day.

When you’ve rebuilt yourself piece by piece, nothing external holds quite the same power.
You just crack on.
Stoic. Grounded. Calm.
Because the things that used to break you… don’t even make a dent anymore.

And responding rather than reacting is a key part of the healing journey!

Can you relate?

Big love.
Jo
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08/11/2025

⚡️Are you fed up with the push–crash cycle?
Tired of mysterious symptoms that suck the joy out of life — the fatigue, flushing, itching, heart palpitations, food reactions, and “why is my body doing this?!” moments?

You’re not crazy, and you’re not broken. The missing puzzle piece might be histamine overload.

I created The Histamine Handbook to help you finally connect the dots. Inside, you’ll find:
✨ Calm, doable, evidence-based steps that actually make a difference
✨Practitioner insights and frameworks
✨ Real insight into how histamine affects energy, hormones + nervous system
✨ Practical tweaks you can start today — no fear tactics, no fluff, no overwhelm

It’s everything I wish I’d had when I was stuck in survival mode — a clear roadmap to help you take back control of your health, one week at a time.

💚 This weekend only: get £10 off with code THANKYOU10
Investing £20 in your health could save you months (or years) of confusion, frustration, and wasted energy. That’s health economics done right.

👉 Grab your copy via the link in my bio or just ask me in the comments and I’ll send it to you! No bots or automations here - just me - so bear with me!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚

Big love
Jo
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Peace, love + health,
Jo 💚✨

07/11/2025

⭐️Better health is always possible.

It won’t be easy. It will be challenging. It might not seem obvious. But as Diana Nyad said after swimming from Cuba to Florida at 64 — “Find a way.”
And never ever give up.

That line lives in me. Because sometimes the way isn’t clear, conventional, or doctor-approved. Sometimes you have to trust your gut, follow your curiosity, and experiment — gently, wisely, intuitively.

Find someone who’s achieved what you want, study what they did, and take what resonates.
Not everything will fit — that’s okay. Healing is personal, not prescriptive.

Is it time too stopped handing your power over to a person in a white coat.
Start asking: What do I think? What feels right for me? Do I need a diagnosis before I start acting?

You’re not broken. You’re becoming.
Keep going. 💫

I’ve written up the full details of what I’ve done for myself and my clients to help navigate their way to better health in my Histamine Handbook. Link in bio.

06/11/2025

💊 Famotadine is an H2 histamine blocker, and it can be really useful in calming mast cell activity — especially in the gut. It helps reduce symptoms like nausea, reflux, abdominal pain, and that overall “inflamed” feeling that comes with MCAS.

But here’s the bit that often gets overlooked…

Famotidine is also an acid blocker. And stomach acid isn’t the enemy — it’s essential for breaking down food, digesting protein, and absorbing key nutrients like B12, iron, and zinc. It also helps keep unwanted bacteria under control in the stomach and small intestine.

When acid is reduced for long periods, digestion can slow down. Food doesn’t break down as well, meaning it can linger and ferment in the gut — feeding the wrong bacteria. That imbalance (often called dysbiosis or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) can actually increase histamine production, making MCAS symptoms worse over time.

So while famotidine can definitely help with symptoms short term, it’s worth being aware of the trade-off.

If you’re using an acid blocker like famotidine, support your digestion alongside it — especially with a good digestive enzyme at meals. This helps keep food moving, reduces bloating, and supports proper nutrient absorption while you’re calming the mast cells. I’d also highly recommend steering clear of starchy carbs.

You can think of it as keeping both sides of the equation in check — less histamine activity, but still strong digestion.

Questions? What’s your experience with this?

Big love
Jo
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02/11/2025

🪣 THE HISTAMINE BUCKET: WHY YOUR SYMPTOMS CAN SEEM RANDOM

You can eat avocado or spinach one day and feel totally fine… Then have them again the next and suddenly your face flushes, your heart’s racing, or you can’t sleep.

Here’s what’s actually happening 👇

We all have a histamine bucket — it’s your body’s way of managing incoming histamine from food, stress, hormones, the environment, and your own immune system.

When that bucket stays half full, you’re fine.
But when it starts to fill faster than your body can empty it… it overflows — and that’s when symptoms hit.

It’s not always the food’s fault.
It’s the timing, load, and clearance.

🕓 Your immune system is naturally more active later in the day and at night — which means histamine levels are higher too.

So eating a higher-histamine meal in the evening (or after a stressful day) can push you over the edge, even if that same meal didn’t bother you before.

💧Think of it like this:
Monday – spinach = fine.
Tuesday – avocado = fine.
Wednesday – leftover chicken + stress + full moon = bucket overflow.

It’s cumulative. And it’s totally figure-out-able.

In The Histamine Handbook, I walk you through the exact tools, strategies, and frameworks that help you:
✨ Identify your histamine triggers
✨ Reduce total bucket load (without going ultra-restrictive)
✨ Support your body’s natural clearance pathways
✨ Sync food timing with your body’s rhythm

Because managing histamine isn’t about fear — it’s about strategy, rhythm, and regulation.

⚡️Ready to stop guessing and start balancing your bucket?

Grab The Histamine Handbook via the link in bio 💚

29/10/2025

➡️ What people are saying about my Practitioner’s Guide to Fast-Track Healing for people with M.E. | POTS | Fibromyalgia | Long Covid | Histamine Intolerance ➡️

⭐️ Thank you for the incredible reviews and feedback already coming in — it means the world to see how much this guide is helping people reclaim their energy, clarity, and confidence after years of fatigue, inflammation, and symptoms no one could explain.

💫 Massive respect to those who’ve already invested. You’ve chosen to stop scrolling for answers and start finding them — through a framework that brings together the science of nervous-system regulation, mitochondrial support, and low-tox / connected to nature living.

You’re not waiting for another doctor to gaslight you or dismiss your symptoms.

You’re not waiting for someone to finally say, “Yes, you’re unwell — here’s your label, now here’s some medication…”

You’re taking control. Learning your body. Identifying what’s triggering it. And getting your energy, stability, and life back.

PS: As I say time and time again — none of this is your fault. But it is your responsibility to find your way out. 💚

This is how we take our health back — informed, empowered, and done with waiting for permission.

Well done for backing yourself. 💚

“You’ve always had the power, my dear.” – Glinda the Good Witch ✨

27/10/2025

💫LDN. (Low Dose Naltrexone) What’s your experience with it? Questions?

What is LDN?
Low Dose Naltrexone = tiny doses of a medication originally used for addiction — but at low dose it behaves completely differently.

How it can help M.E.:
• Calms brain inflammation (microglia chill the hell out)
• Supports immune balance + NK cell function
• Boosts the body’s own endorphins (aka feel-good, pain-easing chemistry)
• Helps reduce pain, fatigue, PEM + hypersensitivity for many

It’s one of the few things that actually targets the drivers of M.E., not just the symptoms.
Still not mainstream… but those who know, know. 🧠🔥

Save this for when you’re ready to explore options 💛✨

Ps. I still say I am someone with M.E, MCAS and POTS but I am no longer someone imprisoned by any of these labels / diagnoses. There will definitely be one day when I used the past tense for this. I’ve navigated my way to better health over the last 11 years…. On a very very bumpy journey. With almost full recovery in 2017. And then wallloped again a few years later.

I will keep going and sharing my learnings and experiences as I go.

LDN was something I was too scared to try for years. But boy. I’m so glad I did. I think timing is everything. And I needed to learn what I’ve learnt first before going in with this beauty.

Let me know how you fared with it?

Big love
Jo

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25/10/2025

💫My mission is to share my learnings both as a health professional AND someone who has gone through the experience of M.E, POTS and MCAS. If I can shorten someone’s healing journey and reduce the pain of that then I will have done my job!!

💫If you have Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), Chronic Fatigue, POTS, Long Covid, or Fibromyalgia—or even a diagnosis of MCAS or histamine ‘intolerance’ then calming the histamine reactions and the overall load can be a very big part of getting that inflammation under control and getting your life back.

I know too well those symptoms that swing from calm to chaos in a heartbeat. Quite literally. Pin you to the floor fatigue, anxiety to the max, skin flushing, , skin rashes, vasodilation that makes it hard to stand, heart palpitations, trouble sleeping, itching at night, reactions to food, inflammation that seems to come from nowhere.

The way I got to better health was researching and reading voraciously. Learning from others as to what was going on in my body and most importantly - what action I could take to take control and feel better.

I’m sharing with you what I have learnt and applied to myself but also with clients - with beautiful healthy outcomes.

So. If you feel that the missing puzzle piece might be histamine overload, my guide might be a good place for you to get stuck in and be guided by me - but without me wanging on in your ear!!

This guide gives you calm, doable steps to bring the bucket back under control—one tweak a week.

I wish I could give everything away for free, but this is also how I make a living. Every purchase helps me keep creating other free resources and content like this that help people heal. 💚

Drop a 💚 below and I’ll send you the link.

Start your journey to better health today 💫💚

Muchos love
Jo
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