Well, we had a hell of a summer, glorious warm weather, but you can now feel it, the autumn is well and truly on its way. The shadows are getting longer and fingers crossed you all know what that means – no more natural vitamin D production (at least, unless you have a vitamin D UVB lamp like me, I love 10 mins on my…
Last week we acknowledged that I love dressing up like Stevan Seagal in the evening by strutting about the place in my jazzy orange glasses. Let’s not make a big deal about it, call it sleep foreplay. Read to the end for the Seagal trivia that will blow your mind….. But beyond that, an easy win to achieve what we call in the course “treatment…
Did you know that 20-30% of the population suffer from insomnia? With 10-20% classified as “clinically significant”. Amongst those in pain, these rates are even higher and may show association, cause or effect? That can be hard to tell. Either way, once it is established, you have to break the vicious cycle. One of the first things we do with patients is assess sleep via…
268 people with “stress disorders” aka depression and anxiety, confirmed on the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) 42, plus magnesium levels tested. Half got 300mg magnesium on its own, the other half got 300 mg magnesium plus 30mg B6 (note that is a 10:1 ratio – the exact same ratio we use in Magnesium Plus). They were assessed at 4 and 8 weeks after baseline. The…
If you have been reading my work for a while now, you will know that at this time of year, you can pretty much guarantee a majority of your patients are either deficient or insufficient in vitamin D. It is also worth remembering that amongst the population with ongoing pain as a symptom, the rates tend to be even higher. What you might not know…
The power of diet, hope and remission from diabetes type 2. Below is a modified version of an article soon to be published in various association magazines on a recent study on the treatment of diabetes with a low carb diet in an NHS GP surgery: https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2023/01/02/bmjnph-2022-000544.abstract The NHS currently spends £1.5 million an hour or 10% of its total budget on diabetes. This totals…
Before we get into this week’s newsletter, hot off the press is another review of statins for the reduction of LDL cholesterol and it seems the authors may have been reading my work…… Note in the results section they split it up into reduction of all cause mortality reduction and myocardial infarction (because if you die of a drug induced cancer of some kind…
Well, it has been a heck of a week here at ACN, we are loving the influx of brand new members of the evolution of neuro-mechanical care! Remember enrolment ends tonight at midnight. Don’t get left behind with an outdated model, a wave of health and wellness is coming and you need to integrate the metabolic world into your neuro-mechanical practice. In other news, I…
Tragically, the universe has conspired to stop my mac from being repaired, so the next intake of practitioners ready to evolve into the next leaders in neuromechanical care will have to wait a little longer (it is not part of a clever sales pitch, I just cannot record 2 simple videos). On the plus side by the time you read this I will be in…
Did you know that folic acid and folate are different things? Folic acid is a synthetic, inactive product not found in nature. The term “folate” has a few different meanings but in general, it means the natural forms found in foods (not fortified, that is folic acid again) and the active form known as METHYL-folate (or more technically correct, 5-Methyl tetra-hydro folate, 5-MTHF to her friends). The…