Apologies for the tardy arrival this week’s insights. Thanks to the dedicated use of Calpol amongst my children classmates parents to keep their kids at school even when they have a temperature & are clearly infective, I spent Friday fighting off a round of viruses & bacteria. Fear not my immune system knows exactly what to do, it’s had millions of years to get the…
By the time this you read this I will be nestled into the welcoming (if slightly damp) bosom of Dublin. I am lecturing at the Chiropractic Association of Ireland (CAI) this weekend on why vitamin B12 deficiency is creating an epidemic of missed diagnosis and mis-diagnoses. The three things I want attendees to know when they leave are: 3 Key symptoms of B12 deficiency: Persistent…
Treating patients with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and/or chronic fatigue syndrome can be at best daunting, at worst depressing. There are many, many root causes involved in both these conditions. But at the heart of both and indeed arguably all health conditions are inefficient mitochondria. The number one source of free radicals/oxidative stress is your metabolism. You have to burn glucose (or ketones if you…
Back in 2007 I was on a week long functional medicine intensive training seminar in Atlanta with the Institute for Functional Medicine, and during one of the breakout case study sessions one of the MD’s began talking excitedly about Vitamin D. In fact he was really REALLY excited. Discover the 3 Top ‘Writer-Downers’ In This Email: Why calcium carbonate is the most commonly prescribed calcium…
Welcome back and today we are going to explore why “Let them eat chalk!” is not in your patient’s best interests… Discover the 3 Top ‘Writer-Downers’ In This Email: Why calcium carbonate is the most commonly prescribed calcium by the NHS Why most patients hate taking it The superior, better tolerated alternative you should stock starting today I’ve received lots of comments from yesterday’s email…
Some patients have very short memories, have you noticed? One day they are in persistent pain, depressed and exhausted. Then as they recover, they (understandably) want to forget it ever happened. I sometimes wonder if this is to preserve their self-identity as healthy people to avoid cognitive dissonance that maybe they are not infallible. The challenge is once they “forget” how they used to be…
Today’s Top 3 ‘Writer-Downers’: Why calcium carbonate is the most commonly prescribed calcium by the NHS Why most patients hate taking it The superior, better tolerated alternative you should stock starting today I had lots of comments from last weeks email concerning not only Vitamin D but also on using calcium carbonate aka chalk as a source of calcium, which was new for a lot…
Back in 2007 I was on a week long functional medicine intensive training seminar in Atlanta with the Institute for Functional Medicine, and during one of the breakout case study sessions one of the MD’s began talking excitedly about Vitamin D. In fact he was really REALLY excited. The 3 Top ‘Writer-Downers’ In This Week’s Newsletter: GP’s/NHS often miss the true diagnosis of Vitamin D…
DD Palmer said the causes of dis-ease were trauma, thoughts and toxins. He was pretty much spot on. He also had some amazing miraculous results and loved the “hole in one” upper cervical and over a hundred years later we are still here, changing lives and trying to fight for our patients. But in hindsight DD & BJ had it relatively easy. Our lifestyles today…