Back in the day when I was diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis, it was my horrible, embarrassing secret and no one except my girlfriend (now wife) knew, absolutely no one. But then when I developed psoriasis, there was no hiding it. My shame was plain to see across my hands and legs, a daily reminder of my own perceived failings. Ultimately, the majority of skin issues…
I have prepared a special video for you this week with an update on covid – 19 and vitamin D with a look at the current vaccine trials. Links to papers discussed: Vitamin D and covid study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602030296X WHO infection fatality rate https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf BMJ articles on vaccines https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/371/bmj.m4058.full.pdf https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/371/bmj.m4037.full.pdf ACTIONS TO TAKE: – Take vitamin D, obviously – Write to your MP and point out that…
Many moons ago I read a book by a marketing guru called Jay Abrahams called “getting everything you can out of all you’ve got” and in it he said something like: People are silently begging to be led to action. Now, this idea really stuck in my brain, are people secretly deep down desperate for leadership and to be told what to do? Can we really all be…
Before we start this weeks newsletter in which I get told off by an elderly lady (again), well done to the right “honourable” Matt Hancock, who has finally listened to something he seems immune to called “facts”. After months of me and most people on facebook and indeed the world pointing out that: – Vitamin D is critical for immune system function and linked to increased respiratory infection…
Firstly, big apols for the tardiness of this newsletter. A comination of my wife recently re-starting work, looking at secondary schools with my daughter Iris and my son Floyd being sent home with the rest of this class mates as one girl in his class has a +ve PCR test meant time was in short supply this week. If you have heard that the PCR…
Back in 2006 ish, I spoke the following words at the excellent Mankind project and it changed my life forever. Responsibility is not very fashionable these days, in fact I would argue being a victim is positively encouraged, because it makes you “courageous” to accept you are helpless. A few weeks ago we talked about the evolutionary mis-match from our ancestral roots to our current modern way…
My wife has a joke about our relationship that she whips out at parties and it goes something like this: “In this relationship, I’m the artistic director, and he is the autistic director….” Cue laughter from people, a smile from me (just). (She is an interior designer, so I frequently come home and find things have completely changed colour – again) Still, my wife and I love a…
Firstly thank you to the Lions of Chiropractic, on Monday night I presented a short talk on vitamin B12: An epidemic of mis-diagnosis and missed diagnosis. For me learning functional medicine and nutrition from a Chiropractic point of view, is like taking the red pill in the film The matrix. Once you see the truth about your patient’s health and symptoms from a nutritional (and neuromechanical…
Back in 2001 when I was a fresh-faced graduate and naive beyond belief, I was all about the magic happening with my hands. If I could just get better an adjusting and doing SOT techniques, then lepers would be cured and people would rise out of their wheelchairs. The history taking was really an irritation but done to make sure they didn’t have something nasty…
I have prepared a 16-minute video this week with some exciting COVID-19 and vitamin D news, with a short resume on vitamin D basics. Click the video, turns out vitamin D is even more awesome than we thought. ACTION TO TAKE – Use the patient education videos on my personal website to educate your patients on vitamin D production, symptoms and dosing. These are part…