THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
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...
No, I haven't gone crazy for the 'caped crusader'... but I thought that would get your attention.... oh look it did! 😉 I’m off to Melbourne for the ACNEM Conference May 5-6th and Batmania was one of the interim names of this very cool and happenin' town before it...
Ok now you're getting mad at me, right? Because how many 'absolute givens' can I debunk?! Last Update in Under 30 certainly got people talking...giving iron less often rather than more often to our most iron deficient patients seems counter-intuitive, right?! Wrong. ...
"Researchers followed more than 500 women trying to conceive over about five years and found that, overall, those with moderate to severe iodine deficiency had 46% lower odds, per cycle, of becoming pregnant." All researchers dream of generating the kind of results...
Is this the way of the future for health practitioners interested in patients' digestion…? "The team developed an ingestible electronic capsule to monitor gas levels in the human gut. When it’s paired with a pocket-sized receiver and a mobile phone app, the pill...
If you receive the free Medical Observer newsfeeds you'll know what I'm talking about. Here are some recent headlines: I stand accused of rorting Medicare. This is what it's like A GP is sued after doing everything right — except her notes After-hours funding...
Just because most of us have been on holidays doesn't mean the thyroid knowledge wagon has stopped or even slowed! Always amazed at what we continue to discover about the complex working of this amazing gland and how its health impacts so much of the rest of the body...
I'm getting a sore neck from this, but looking back at 2017 and looking ahead to how I want 2018 to be, is of course perfectly appropriate for this time of year. And if we don't take this opportunity for a little bit of reflection and review then we risk our growth: ...
Recognise your own name or someone else's on this list? Dear 2017 Group Minties aka Mentees. I have always struggled with the term, 'mentees'...seems too American or something and this morning when I was out walking, I had a light-bulb moment - I am proposing a...
And then you don't, right? Because if my experience is anything to go by, there are some patients that just don't respond to the usual iron repletion strategies. Depending on how low their ferritin is, this can then precipitate 'practitioner panic' (we've all had it...
Are you hearing me? Yup, it's been a BIG year..and to think I don't even have the ANS technically to blame this year!! How about you? But listening to myself say this to people, in my wrap-up of the year-that-just-was, I am thinking....Has anyone EVER got to the end...
Following a huge co-ordination and curation effort we have finally confirmed all of our group mentoring positions for 2018 EXCEPT: Tuesday 10.30am (AEST) Group has 3 positions left!** Tuesday 1pm (AEST) Group has 1 position left! Wednesday 10.30am Group has 3...
No this is not a joke. The room they enter happens to be the clinic space of a practitioner I mentor. The older women are friends, both originally from the UK and they sit in on one another's consultations sharing many of the same experiences: grief over loved ones...
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Standing at the podium, I looked down at my notes & slowly read out the title of my presentation to the hundreds of people attending, 'Paediatric Digestive Issues & Neurocognitive Abnormalities' and briefly froze thinking, Holy Heck (!) this is someone else's...
Have you been a bit vitamin D trigger happy? Does a patient's low blood 25(OH)D test result have you reaching for a vitamin D supplement like the rest of us? Yes...you might need to listen up then. Sunshine doesn't come in a bottle. That's right, if your patient's...
We’ve got a Brand New Specialist Mentoring Group starting up in 2018! This new 1hr our monthly online meet up with like minded doctors across the globe to go over cases, offers us an opportunity to meet your mentoring needs in the best way possible and truly accelerate your knowledge and skills in integrative medicine.
PPIs are one of the prescribed medications in Australia but the concerns are escalating. Not just from a naturopathic or nutritional perspective regarding the extraordinary concept of lowering gastric HCl by approx. 80% but much much more worrying concerns. I talked...
Chronic coughs, rhinitis, postnasal drip or even asthma? Have you ruled out silent reflux? Aka laryngopharyngeal reflux. Patients experiencing silent reflux don't present with heartburn or any typical GORD features but ultimately suffer from a similar failure of the...
I had the privilege of presenting at the Integria GIT Symposium last weekend. For those of you who attended, you've gone back to your clinic with a bunch of new ideas and inspiration I hope...oh and a new respect, terror and watchfulness for threadworm thanks to...
Can you help me out here? My memory has failed me. Someone, somewhere (Mel? Syd? Auckland? Online during a mentoring session? In a Mullumbimby supermarket?!), in the past month asked me for this paper documenting the increased pain perception reported by subjects...
I've been known to give calcium more attention than most and now I feel vindicated. Serum calcium, of course is not a reflection of your calcium intake, calcium losses nor overall calcium status. In this regard it is totally useless. But my fixation is about what...
...Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) that is! That's the ad we really need broadcast on prime time tv. On par with osteoporosis and other conditions that 'seemingly appear out of nowhere' in people's 60s and beyond, there's a potent combination of ignorance (patients) and...