 THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
Sounds were emanating not just from me, but from everyone around me, at my table. Admittedly, I was sitting with some very seasoned practitioners, no doubt skewing how representative the sample was of our entire profession, however, at least one thing was clear....
But chances are you know very little. This is especially true of the parasocial relationships we experience with lots of different people - not just those we've never met. You might have been in the same room as them, talked to them, and on more than one occasion....
What a delightful high to finish our group mentoring programs on 🤓🤸  We know the calibre of practitioners that commit strongly to their ongoing education and upskilling. We see this in action via myriad reflections - check out just some...
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...
Most of you reading this are either currently trying to run a business or have given that a red hot crack in the past- it's full of challenges isn't it?  In most cases, the bulk of the hard work that has to happen to keep the doors open, is the stuff 'unseen' by...
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...
Paediatricians repeat this adage often. It acts as an important reminder about adjusting dose for children's reduced weights. But that's only the start of, what is, an almost entirely different solar system we need to immerse ourselves in. Diagnosis is different too. ...
In yet another timely reminder that information alone does not produce behaviour change - Exhibit A - myself. The unspoken beauty of living in the Byron shire is that when any festivals come to town so too does the flu & to the entire community, whether you...
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?...
Ok everyone, we need to stay calm, which I know is the biggest challenge with something this serious, but let's focus on the steps we all need to take: Step 1: identify the products affected Step 2: Inform all your patients - not just the ones you have prescribed...
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...
A white marking makes a return If you've been following the story of 'my little white spot' you'll know that it's part of me keeping myself (& my whole new framework for nutrition prescribing as per the Nutrient Prescriber's Program) extremely accountable! Based...
I have a lot of random interactions with health professionals when we happen to find ourselves on the same patch of real world out there. Two weeks ago someone served me in a local health food store and at the end of the transaction said, "I went to that Australian...
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...
How has your start to 2025 been? Mine has been humbling thanks to the grumbling of my appendix over 2 days, so much so that on the 3rd day it was forcibly 'removed from its place of residence'! Being unwell brings up all sorts of stuff for me. Many questions (Why do...
'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...
It's important for all of us, as people who spend our working life caring for others, to routinely take time out to really care for ourselves. Across my 3 decade long career there have been many occasions when I ended the year in the red, my 'personal account'...
By virtue of our profession we all have an ongoing relationship with science but the nature of that may differ. Slave? Submissive? Subscriber? Sceptic? Or of course it could be all of these on different occasions depending on the science in question! But as...
In January, after 30 years I finally got off the gear. That's how long I'd been taking good quality, high dose (minimum 20mg elemental) zinc daily for. Originally the rationale was I was a vegetarian. Then the 20 years that followed my reintroduction of meat saw me...