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All About Aloe: Polysaccharides and Acemannan!

All About Aloe: Polysaccharides and Acemannan!

In the first of a series of special blog posts about aloe vera, I am going to talk about polysaccharides!  This will probably be every bit as boring as it sounds, but to make the most of later posts, it seems like the best place to start!  Hopefully by the end you will have a better understanding of how aloe vera works and what makes our own new range of aloe vera products so impressive. Before I begin, let me politely ask any chemistry professors to look away now!  This will be very much a simple guide to polysaccharides, focussing particularly on acemannan.  We won’t be drawing out molecular structures and concerning ourselves with acetylated bonds or any of that!  I only want to clear up a bit of confusion around polysaccharides, GAGs and acemannan, not get my PhD in biochemistry! Let’s start with some terminology. Polysaccharides are large molecules made up of chains…

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Which Tiny Pioneer Aloe Vera Product Should I Buy?

Which Tiny Pioneer Aloe Vera Product Should I Buy?

As we add two new aloe vera capsules to our range of Tiny Pioneer aloe vera products, I thought it might be useful to have some sort of guide to help you choose the best product for your individual preferences and requirements. I will be writing a detailed piece comparing all our aloe vera products in the coming weeks, but for the time being I have made a simple flow chart that might help you decide!  Further details about each product can also be found on each item’s own page – these are linked at the bottom, under the flow chart. As you can see, I am no graphic designer!  This flow chart was hastily made on Sunday morning and I will try to make a prettier one in the future when I have a bit more time to devote to it!  I think it will be helpful for people to have…

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Do You Know The Secret of the Three Lines?

Do You Know The Secret of the Three Lines?

Hello!I apologise for not uploading a blog last month.  I was ill for a few days and before I knew it, March was over!  I thought I would upload a short post now and hopefully get something more comprehensive to you soon! This belated March post is certainly not my normal kind of content, but I think you’ll find it quite life changing to be honest!  I sometimes get phone calls from people who are trying to find a particular product or page on the Tiny Pioneer website, but can’t see it.  If you generally visit from your computer, you will probably find this surprising, as I have done my best to make the website as easy to navigate as possible!  I used to be worried by these calls, but now I always know what the problem is:  the caller is viewing the website on their mobile phone and does not…

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Welcoming A Few New SC Nutra (Sweet Cures) Products!

Welcoming A Few New SC Nutra (Sweet Cures) Products!

The eagle-eyed among you might have noticed that we have recently welcomed a few new SC Nutra products to the Tiny Pioneer store!  In this month’s blog post I thought I would formally introduce them and tell you a bit about them! Before I begin, I will just clear up some possible confusion:  SC Nutra is the new name for Sweet Cures!  You will very possibly already know this, as Sweet Cures sent out emails to customers to let them know of the forthcoming change.  The changeover still seems to be in progress, as the company website remains www.sweet-cures.com and the Sweet Cures logo still appears on it.  However, the new SC Nutra logo now appears on product packaging.  I am going to leave the link on the Tiny Pioneer website as ‘Sweet Cures’ until I am given the go ahead to change it and until I am confident that people have got…

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A Tiny Guide to Antifungals

A Tiny Guide to Antifungals

Last year, in my blog post about antibiotics, I wrote that I thought I should do a dedicated post about antifungals at some point. I’ve decided to do that this month! I am not going to talk about gut health in any detail, because I have already done that at length in previous blog posts.  If you haven’t seen those and are unsure why I place so much importance on gut health in interstitial cystitis and other inflammatory conditions, you can check out:Tiny Tips for Dietary Approaches to Chronic Health IssuesAre Interstitial Cystitis and Leaky Gut Connected?Food Intolerance Testing for Chronic Health IssuesHow to Look After Yourself During and After AntibioticsI’m going to assume that you already know about the role of the gut in maintaining our general health and get straight onto the subject at hand. Antifungals are used to treat all sorts of fungal and yeast conditions, including:Candidiasis, also known…

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Ten Tiny New Year's Resolution Ideas!

Ten Tiny New Year's Resolution Ideas!

New Year is almost upon us and I don’t know about you, but I always quite like the feeling of freshness and potential that a new year brings.  I’m not very keen on the New Year’s Eve part – I can err towards melancholy and excessive reflection if I think too much about the old year ending!  However, I am partial to a New Year’s Resolution and, if I do say so myself, I am generally quite good at sticking to them. This was not always the case.  In my youth, there were times when I was so desperate to reinvent myself completely that I would become overwhelmed with self-improvement choices and would find myself unable to commit to anything properly because I was spreading my good intentions too thinly.  While we all probably know an exceptional person who seemingly transformed every aspect of their life overnight, I think it’s fair…

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Ten Ways to Make Cystitis and Interstitial Cystitis Worse

Ten Ways to Make Cystitis and Interstitial Cystitis Worse

Please note that I am not a doctor and nothing in this post is intended to constitute medical advice. Always consult with a qualified healthcare practitioner before embarking on any treatments or making dietary or lifestyle changes. The clue to this month’s blog is in the title really!  I often speak to people who are unwittingly doing things that could be aggravating their bladder pain symptoms.  They might even be doing some of them under the advice of their health professional, because many health professionals are not aware that certain ingredients can be irritating to the bladder.  If you already know a lot about cystitis and interstitial cystitis, there won’t be anything new for you in this list.  However, a lot of people who visit the Tiny Pioneer site are only just starting out on their journey and I thought they might appreciate a list of exacerbating factors!  So here they are:…

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Home Blood Testing Services with Medichecks: Tiny Reviews!

Home Blood Testing Services with Medichecks: Tiny Reviews!

I recently had a great experience with a company called Medichecks, so I want to devote this month’s blog to telling you all about them in case you’d like to use them too! Regular readers will know that I sometimes recommend people to get their hormone, thyroid hormone and iron levels measured.  In fact, I have written a dedicated blog post in the past about getting reproductive and adrenal hormones comprehensively checked via salivary hormone testing and DUTCH (dried urine) testing.  I’ve also talked about getting thyroid hormones thoroughly checked using private blood tests via Thyroid UK, although I don’t think I’ve done a complete blog post about this.  While these sorts of tests represent the gold standard in diagnostics, they are expensive and so are not within everyone’s reach.  They can also be difficult to interpret without the guidance of a qualified practitioner. In the UK, the best way to get basic blood…

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Welcome to Our New Website!

Welcome to Our New Website!

Hello! This month’s blog feels a bit like cheating, because although I’m writing it in September, it’s all about the new website which won’t be launching until 1st October!  That means you won’t get to read this post in September, because obviously I can’t welcome you to the new site while we’re still using the old one.  I hope you’ll be able to keep your excitement for my latest words under control for an extra couple of days – I’m sure you will!In last month’s post, I gave you all fair notice that we were going to be moving to a new website provider soon.  We have taken the opportunity to make some changes to the site which we hope will make it easier to use.  I wanted to tell you about some of these changes. Firstly, all the old customer accounts have been lost.  There was a way to bring them…

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A Few Tiny Announcements!

A Few Tiny Announcements!

It’s just a quick blog post from me this month, as I have a few announcements I want to share with you!Firstly, as some of you might already have discovered, we have recently changed the way that we ship parcels. We will still be using Royal Mail, but we will now be using a tracked service instead of ordinary First Class post. You know when you order something online and then you get one of those fancy text messages or emails that says, “Your parcel from Tropic is going to be delivered today,” and gives options about how to track it and what to do if you’re not in? Well, now you should get something similar when you order from us!I must confess that I don’t know at exactly which point you get the text message and/or email, so I apologise if it comes as soon as we print and…

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