 THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
Well hello you 😊 I’m so glad you are! I thought we’d start with the easy stuff. I’m not going all existential on you, promise – consider this more of ‘an explainer’, an orientation around our exciting new clubhouse, more than anything juicier…just yet. So why are we here? As in here, here. Not on […]
Ever failed to fix someone's presenting complaint they came in with but they keep coming back? Me too. One especially that comes to mind, from over a decade ago, was someone with alopecia. She's still in my care. And that's despite the fact that she never grew thicker...
I've just finished laughing along to yet another comedy routine making fun of the current gen's 'obsession with water'. This comedian was nostalgic for the old days when, every week or so, we'd just 'wet our tongue on a water fountain' and that was our dehydration...
Last week I had the pleasure & privilege of spending time with REAL practitioners discussing a REAL case & being part of a REAL discussion and a REAL exchange of all our ideas & experiences. I know, how quaint! Because unlike the AI apps we're all...
Orodispersible nutritional medicines are a colourful crew (buccal sprays, 'melts', lozenges, gummies galore) with mixed agendas: tasty (patient preferences & increased access); topical (therapeutic agents for the oral cavity itself) and transmucosal (a shortcut...
I keep rescue chooks from battery farms & recently two have been quite sick - so I sought the advice of the all-knowing & all-round extraordinary Mother Clucker who heads up this organisation. Up and down the highway I went, to their chook HQ &...
I should have known. Right after I wrote my most recent blog on two essential updates in adolescent health - HealthEd released a podcast on Spotting Eating Disorder Red Flags in Children that lit my brain up like a pinball machine! Because I know for many it's hard to...
I have a voracious and varied appetite for medical research but two things came up recently that I thought I just had to share: Energy Drinks Increase Suicide Risk Under the heading of, 'New Red Flag for Mental Health' Medscape reported on a meta-analysis involving...
​ Have you been tempted to prescribe nutrients in a cream in patients who aren't responding to oral treatments? Or perhaps you've had patients come in all 'patched' already! Either way it seems like now is a great time for us to revisit the topics of skin anatomy,...
Did you know that any supplement that 'identifies as a food' is subject to the same regulations as a sugary breakfast cereal? Yep. So in spite of 30% sugar content - the packaging and all advertising around said cereal, claims it's a great source of... PROTEIN Bs...
I can guess when you graduated from your training to be a nat/nut/IM GP just by how you complete this sentence, 'In student clinic my supplementing style would've been best described as...' a) Lots of lecithin, Brewer's yeast, some rosehip based Vit C with...
Most of you reading this are either currently trying to run a business or have given that a red hot crack in the past- it's full of challenges isn't it?  In most cases, the bulk of the hard work that has to happen to keep the doors open, is the stuff 'unseen' by...
It was only a matter of time, right? A 30-something patient presents with new pathology results saying she'd already asked AI to interpret them 🤖🤯 "Had a little chat with Chatty," she tells me, "and already it's flagging things my GP didn't'!" Naturally, she's...
They said it couldn't be done. They said your Lipoprotein (a) level was purely the result of a genetic lottery and if you lose, you lose and there's nothing you nor your doctor can do to change that. Lp(a) doesn't play by the rules that apply to anyone else, including...
Well this topic has certainly got us all talking. My inbox overfloweth! Good. Because in the current online climate of 'Sacred Super Foods' for kids, this conversation has to happen. I'm not batting for 'beige baby foods', however, with trends like this, my concern...
Paediatricians repeat this adage often. It acts as an important reminder about adjusting dose for children's reduced weights. But that's only the start of, what is, an almost entirely different solar system we need to immerse ourselves in. Diagnosis is different too. ...
In yet another timely reminder that information alone does not produce behaviour change - Exhibit A - myself. The unspoken beauty of living in the Byron shire is that when any festivals come to town so too does the flu & to the entire community, whether you...
While it seems like every second patient is on statins in Australia, NZ, America and most developed countries, over the age of 70, they actually are! But can you name a patient who has had their Lipoprotein (a) measured and is being managed for this by their GP?...
Ok everyone, we need to stay calm, which I know is the biggest challenge with something this serious, but let's focus on the steps we all need to take: Step 1: identify the products affected Step 2: Inform all your patients - not just the ones you have prescribed...
Wanna see behind the curtain here? Sometimes in my pursuit of perfect clarity I go totally OTT. <GASP👀> But when you know that for women diagnosed with Postpartum thyroiditis it was likely to have been missed or misattributed for months to, 'You've had...
A white marking makes a return If you've been following the story of 'my little white spot' you'll know that it's part of me keeping myself (& my whole new framework for nutrition prescribing as per the Nutrient Prescriber's Program) extremely accountable! Based...
I have a lot of random interactions with health professionals when we happen to find ourselves on the same patch of real world out there. Two weeks ago someone served me in a local health food store and at the end of the transaction said, "I went to that Australian...
Wouldn't life be a breeze if there was a calculation telling us how much to prescribe of a given nutrient for every different patient to take them out of deficiency, into repletion or even optimal? Well there is. Kinda If the nutrient in question is Vitamin D...