THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
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...
Just back from my 6th...🤔 or 7th... trip to Vietnam. But this one was different - made all the more special, as I was visiting family🤗 Which meant I got to eat and enjoy things, I myself, despite being there so often, was never previously game to try mostly due to the...
Yes, the news is - the current regulations may last for a while and as the social-distancing and best-to-stay-at-home message is slowly but surely sinking in. If you're like me, more time 'not out in the world', means more time to get my creative thinking going and...
Listen to me, I'm sounding all sporty 😂. I'm not though, just in case you suffer misguided visions of my virtues! But it's not just the self-declared serious athletes that we need to have on our radar in relation to optimising their oxygen carrying capacity (aka...
It is a challenging and confusing time for everyone. Yet, as healthcare practitioners, we are needed more than ever, by our clients and our community, to do what we do best *educating *advocating * providing access to medicines * supporting Our friends and esteemed...
Can you hear that? No it's not some weird raucous bird-call. That's me. A fabulous colleague of mine who also happens to be a Master MindMapper (yes it's an official club now😂) , told me a couple of weeks back that practising naturopaths who don't use this...
Ever suspect you're being gaslighted by your patients' results? Especially when their CRP result says, 'nothing to see here'! But every other piece of information and every one of your senses tell you they're inflamed and their immune system is up to something!! Me...
Me neither. I value transparency in all things impacting my health. So when the 'Colonel' tells us the magic is in not knowing...I think....hmmmmmmm, no thanks! Similarly, when the provider of a test tells us, 'We'd like to give you independent scientific support for...
Here's a newsflash: It's only mid-February. And if you're like many of the health professionals I regularly talk to, currently you're feeling something akin to jet-lag but rather than just your circadian rhythm being out of sync, it's bigger than that, it's your...
Sometimes I think I must be psychic..or is that psychotic? Don't answer that, it's a bad Byron Bay in-joke. I had literally just recorded my Update in Under 30 Copper in Kids and this excellent new study was published that same week, assessing and comparing trace...
While we may not all be pathology proficient, overwhelmingly we do take or record blood pressure, right? It's such an easy but essential inroad to understand something more about patients' cardiovascular system, and indeed their nervous system, when prone to the...
Copper deficiency happens in kids, so does copper toxicity and both are serious concerns, but do we know when to accurately call either? First, we have to know 'normal'. If we know what normal Serum Copper values look like in children, then we can easily spot those...
When you start doing this with your patients' pathology results, you know your client records are turning into a big hot mess and more importantly your ability to see the wood for the trees is seriously under threat! Private labs don't play nicely with one another...
Do you know this saying but the other way round? My dad said it often enough and always with such an exasperated tone that it's got its own dedicated lobe in my brain. Almost. Lately, however, I've been reflecting on how much I learn from people younger than me, both...
It's like that split-second you close the door and realise you've locked the car with the keys still inside, or the whole reason you rang someone pops back into your head just after you put the phone down. Yes after the opportunity to draw breath over the break I...
It's that time of year when we tend to set our intentions both personally and professionally. For me, between the many meals, pressies and dunks in the river, I slip into some 'silent work'. In particular, I find myself flagging a couple of key areas that I want to...
I know, timing, huh?! It's almost like I've been sniffing around your recycling bins but I didn't need to of course, at this time of year it's a fairly safe bet you're madly winding it back a tad from your most outrageous annual alcohol imbibing. And so are all our...
Earlier this year at a Mental Health Training for IM doctors, 3 practitioners (myself, a doctor & a psychiatrist) walked into a bar...not really, but we did each present a case study of challenging patient & in whom we had some great outcomes. All 3 patients...
Turn-up the sound, lean back (as there are quite a few names here) and watch it all the way to the end!, Click here and enjoy our little video to honour each of our mintees (aka mentees) in 2019. https://youtu.be/219EbNQhGBI Use the force...... well, maybe...
I take my job to heart. When someone asked me recently to choose the single value that spoke most to me personally I couldn't seem to go past, 'Purpose'. I feel very honoured to have contributed to the learning of so many health professionals in their undergraduate...
When a teenage girl presents seeking her first oral contraceptive pill (OCP) script, what information is she privy to that enables her to make an informed decision? Read the insert inside the box? Please. Which 50 year old, let alone 15 year old does that? Forget it!...
This year I heard a great quote that hit the spot for me: anyone who offers you a simple solution to a complex problem is lying or misguided, the solution to a complex problem will inherently be complex. Dang! I'm frequently reminded of this in relation to many...
Remember the days when we had the brain all back-to-front & upside down? Anatomy & physiology told us it was an island, completely protected by the blood-brain-barrier from pathology in the rest of the body, that it was incapable of regeneration after damage...