THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
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 &...
One of the many perks of my job is getting to attend the wonderful conferences I am lucky enough to speak at ... and something even more special right now and totally unexpected, is that I have been given the opportunity to share half price (!) ASLM tickets with two...
Scrolling through the extensive list of speakers for the upcoming Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine conference, I see many familiar names and faces … impressive researchers, academics, health specialists, writers, business leaders … and I’m just talking about...
When I was studying my undergraduate I sat at the front of the class, especially for the medical sciences. My chemistry lecturer tried to talk me into transferring to chemistry. My biochemistry lecturer tried to convince me to become a biochemist. But what I loved...
Felice Jacka is onto something. You might know her as the daughter of Judy Jacka (naturopathic trailblazer who established the SSNT), you might know her as the Australian researcher who really started the bigger international scientific conversation about diet and...
Kia ora tātou! Yes, that's right! I’m heading off again to the land of the long white cloud. I’m very excited to be part of the Inaugural Conference that the New Zealand Society of Naturopaths and the Naturopaths of New Zealand are hosting 9-10th September in...
On Sunday there were deafening bells going off in my brain. By Monday they were going off in 11 others. Alessandra: "Holy s#*t this has just ticked so many boxes for a couple of Rx resistant patients. Thank you!" Tess: "Me too – finally the gut and pain connection...
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...
My partner and I have a well rehearsed script whenever he is suffering from man flu, he says, "Am I going to die?" and I say "Yes, just not today." First world peoples tend to specialise in the denial of several absolutes: like time & death. As Professor David...
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. I comment on how unpleasantly...
While I did diagnose this one correctly, I didn't get 100% in this quiz - Can you? Speaking of the devil, Medscape, has this great little visual quiz to test your knowledge about physical signs & other hidden clues of nutritional deficiencies. While we all know...
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...
Yet another sensational week of group mentoring last week. Holy guacamole...these cases just get more and more tasty! So much to talk about on every case presented, we all learnt buckets from a smorgasbord of conditions including: sudden onset thyroiditis (with a T4...
At the end of last week I spent 3 days engrossed in intensive ANS planning for 2018. As you can probably imagine these planning days are incredibly exciting, creative, stimulating processes. If everyone involved had brain PET scans performed during these discussions,...
May was the month of teenage girls presenting with severe digestive problems, especially 'food intolerances', leading to avoidance of specific foods and at times significantly reduced food intake overall. As integrative health practitioners, validating and creating...
This year has been a steep learning curve but this is exactly as I had hoped and planned for. I strapped myself in for my roller-coaster ride, a series of intensive upskilling initiatives undertaken with mentors and experts in specialist areas, and I haven't hurled...
Whenever I talk to practitioners about thyroid health, like I recently did at MINDD, I can guarantee I'm going to get 2 questions: Shouldn't we aim for the high iodine intake of Japanese? Can we use the patch test for testing iodine levels in our patients? I...
I've been given a lot to think about. With ACNEM Science of Nutrition Conference and then MINDD both this last week, I've heard a lot. Not all of it good, useful or accurate of course. 'Beware the Spin!' I would say to anyone wondering how to sift through the...
I was typing notes furiously throughout the ACNEM Science of Nutrition conference last weekend. So many gems, so many gems, from researchers & clinicians - I just got so much out of it. I love the slightly awkward mismatch between the research world, aka 'don't...
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'How much does the Update in Under 30 podcast subscription cost?' I hear you ask...about 1/4 of a packet of Activated Almonds per month, that's about 1 activated almond per day I reckon. This is a Byron Shire joke, the idea being that Activated Almonds are the...
So you've heard part of that BIMA story...now here's the rest. To be honest, I was pretty surprised to win anything given I've spent the last 20 years 'agitating', challenging the misinformation and strongholds of the big companies etc. Funnily enough, in my post...