 THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
But does it make you doubt yourself & all your knowledge when it does? When you personally suffer a health condition, from the small to the significant, does it always come with a double diagnosis; a bad bout of imposter syndrome being added for good measure? Do...
Anyone else? Or should that be...'Everyone else?' 🙄 Because if I had a dollar for every cracking encounter I've had with people that included this line, I wouldn't be writing this line - so too, if I'd been persuaded by the push-back against this lovely little legume....
I often feel on the outer even among my peers. I recall a period during which I was a regular invited speaker at an event, where I was increasingly the odd one out from the others & their escalating unified chant of the same single solution: the GAPS diet. I could...
Completely breaking up would have been easier for everyone. But cutting the cord isn't an option because she's everywhere. She remains essential, beneficial & yes, indicated in some patients as part of their prescription. But her 'toxic nature', exposed via excess...
While we're on the topic of perimenopause -and will we ever get off it btw because quite frankly there's so much that needs to be said?!- I need to bang the drum some more about bone health & our role in that. During our recent all-things-peri-education-event I...
It's 2022 and I am celebrating my 50th with friends. Within just a few months of this I have left a 14 year long relationship & relocated to a new town where I know no one. Next up, I'm undertaking an 11 day solo hike across the island of Kythira in Greece and at...
I certainly pride myself on possessing an impressive level of endurance for an argument, as most of you surely know 😊 But the record for this is held by all practitioners of nutritional medicine. Because we've actually been debating the same 3 facets of what makes a...
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...
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...
Are you ready for your bedtime story? Ok well snuggle in close and let’s get comfy because it’s a goodun! It’s 'The Story of Supplements' and how the contemporary practice of nutritional medicine in most countries became supplement-centric. I’ve been thinking about...
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...
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?...
If you listened to our latest Update in Under 30 episode on Postpartum Thyroiditis and how to implement an optimal risk assessment (before, during & after pregnancy), you'll have been expecting this new arrival with much anticipation 🐣🤓 because the...
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...
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...
'Good v Better v Best', is often the value statement attached to each new nutritional product innovation as it enters the market...making the existing and older forms, according to the pattern, 'Bad'...or 'Inactive', certainly 'Superseded' etc. But changing the form...
We're weirdos in the nutrition world, right? Tell you something you don't know?!😅 Ok, how about this, with respect to sodium, our positions, perspective and for some of us, prescriptions set us completely apart. Say the word, 'sodium' to a room filled by any other...
Ever feel like you're trying to improve people's mineral levels but you're not getting the results you should? Does it seem that despite making good product choices and doses, there's something that keeps derailing or rerouting where these minerals end up? It could...
It's no secret I am in the midst of some serious deep-diving through the micronutrient evidence base & at a depth of about 30 metres I struck Boron! Don't yawn! I saw that. Thinking, 'boring', when we hear, 'Boron', is almost as bankable as watching everyone...
I'm such a sucker for marketing!...ZoomZoom is from an old Australian car ad - an earworm clearly conveying ' the speed of something', and let me tell you, totally fitting for this little Zinc tale I'm about to tell! Many years ago, I wrote a thesis on Zinc that...
Wow, menopause is really having a moment, isn't it? Or is that just me (and my mates who are all somewhere on that perimenopausal path)?! But seriously, medical perception of this reproductive transition is undergoing a revolution right now—widening the lens to take...