 THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
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...
I have a good friend...who happens to be a naturopath...who happens to also be a patient of mine. Have you got a few of these as well? A month ago, looking over her recent bloods which included fasting lipids that had been steadily climbing for the last couple of...
This is.  I think we're all going to scream when the next patient says, 'I've got an MTHFR', right?! Congratulations, I want to say, because you would be in much more serious trouble if you didn't have a copy... 'Oh, sorry, you mean you have a mutation on at least...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ever got to the end of a day or a week and felt like this? Â Or woken up to find your skin looking like this?! Just quietly, me too. Â When my son was about 3 he was sitting in the back of my car with my mum (she would have been in her early 70s) and he asked how people...
Let's play a little word association game: I say 'Fibroids' - you say, 'Oestrogen'.  I say 'Cyclic Breast Pain' and you say, 'Ouch!' [because it just slipped out] but then you say, 'Prolactin', right?  Me too. Prolactin driven breast pain's most characteristic form...
Setting: Local cafe Scenario: Run into friends of friends who join us in the sunshine for a cuppa & we're discussing the finer details of chai (western version V the real streets of Delhi stuff), tumeric lattes etc etc. as you do. Â I comment on how unpleasantly...
I am frequently asked what scientific journals I subscribe to and often by the same practitioners over and over, because they can't reconcile my answer: "None". Yet I constantly have my head in the scientific literature, right?  The two are not mutually exclusive,...
Watch the gap!  You know I love a good diagnostic test probably (way!) more than the next person but I am slow to come around when there's suddenly a 'new-kid-on-the-block' that every functional testing company wants to offer you. This is how I felt about serum...
Ask me to name a lymphatic herb other than Cleavers and Poke Root and I might struggle (sorry Sue!) but some other things stay with us forever. One of my stayers pops into my head every time I eat a carrot.  Every time I make my partner or my kids eat a carrot.  Every...
Often we assume our patients know at least the basics about health - especially about things soooo seemingly basic...that we fear mentioning them would offend and make us look like someone trying to teach grandma anything!  But there are some instances where I've...
As an add on to my recent blog, I thought you might find this other detail about prolactin levels (PRL) interesting. Â Several studies including a one published in 2009, have demonstrated a positive correlation between PRL and increased CVD risk in both men and...
Most practitioners are pretty knowledgeable about Zinc and are quick to recognise a deficiency and the opportunities for zinc supplementation as an effective therapy and those same practitioners are often plagued by nagging questions that come up, in spite of loads of...
I became interested in working in mental health not entirely of my own free will.  I guess you could say, it had made it's way into my world via family members and friends as well as my own problems when I was younger. So when I was at uni and I came across any...
Recently, while I was touring around the country talking all things Acid Base (!), I spent a bit of time talking to practitioners about the limitations of our current protocols and assessment tools for detecting 'Bad Bones'.  I was surrounded by a sea of nodding heads...
I like to fancy myself as a bit of Supplement Sleuth! Â I love working with herbs, nutrients and nutraceuticals but I am not blinded to the fact that manufacturers and suppliers, whatever their form of medicine, are large competitive businesses that ultimately need to...
I know my busy mum patients think I am probably not to be taken literally when I say, 'Cook buckets of extras every time you step foot inside the kitchen', but I am.  My slow cooker and my 'buckets' are two of my favourite kitchen resources I couldn't live without....
Fresh faced students, new graduates and seasoned practitioners alike, are forever reminding me of the challenge we experience as practitioners when it comes to instigating real change in our patients health related behaviours ... the change we KNOW will make a...
All health professionals are aware of increasing resistance in bacteria as a result of our overuse of broad spectrum antibiotics in both prescriptions and our livestock industry but increasingly we're hearing about evidence of resistance in microbes of a variety of...