 THE CURIOUS MINDS CLUB 
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....
Overly responsible for everyone else from a young age. Parentified even. Dependable to the point of invisibility. If you’re a Swifty, you know where this is headed, but for the rest of us: welcome to Eldest-daughter Syndrome and, strangely enough, to the story of...
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...
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...
   Some days I feel as old as the hills & others like a new sprout just making its way up out of the earth, especially in relation to my professional knowledge. It's absolutely true I've been around the block a few (zillion) times, building up substantial...
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...
Isn't it always the case that when something takes on personal significance - 'we' give it more attention? Whether that 'we' is a country, a group of researchers, a practitioner or a patient.  Let me explain... 🌍Denmark, among many other European countries,...
Back when I used to go to parties, I remember the kind of things that got passed around 🤐 but these days the nature of the shared-substance has changed... Activated charcoal, anyone?!😶Â Sure this says a lot about me and even more about the kind of...
These days it's all about who you know right? So if we applied that same mindset to rating and ranking our organs then the kidneys would've amassed the largest number of followers, 'top fan badges', likes, watches, you name it. The kidneys are nothing if not...
I know you haven't heard a lot from me of late. 📢Â I repeat I been BUSY📢 . Anyone currently undertaking our Nutrient Prescriber's Program this year or Cracking the Case Series will vouch for that and fill you in on the insanely dynamic details!! But...
It's so wonderful to know kidney health is moving address. From the darkest bits at the back, now to the front of our clever clinical minds. We're easy to impress when it comes to any 'axis' - gut-brain, brain-immune etc. so we all need to take a moment and take note...
Do you realise we're often giving our patients Crabs? Stay with me 🙄 We're all BIG fans of polyphenols right, but did you know that one of the key ways they qualify as antioxidants is that they chelate metals?  Chemically speaking that means that polyphenols...
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...
Still. And yes - like you - I don't see any slowing down any time soon in this extraordinary paradigm shift occurring in medicine and health. Which for us humans involves one humbling discovery after another. Here we were thinking we made our dietary choices from a...
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...
Any steps towards inclusivity in societal & cultural terms are cause for celebration but in medicine, that can come in the form of a 'diagnosis of inclusion', the opposite, of course, of a 'diagnosis of exclusion' and potentially as slippery and loose as it...
Recently I asked practitioners to tell me where the 'therapeutic reference range' many of us were taught for nutrients comes from & no one has been able to answer that.🙄 If you've heard me refer to my original naturopathic education before you'll know I generally...
Let's play a word association game of minerals & their major roles I say, 'Potassium'. Maybe you say, 'Sodium Potassium Pump' I say, 'Magnesium'. You say, 'Muscles?' I say, 'Calcium'. You say, "Bones'.... But I say, Second Messenger. And arguably the most...
'Still-believers' look away now! One of the great myths, misconceptions & misunderstandings in nutritional medicine is that supplementation will produce change specifically in the one system, or pathway, that the practitioner believes would benefit most.  Let me...
Current New Graduate Mentee: Kelly Allan giving her elevator introduction in a recent New Grad mentoring session The fabulous Nina,...
Practitioners have been bringing their most challenging cases to me for mentoring & supervision for over a decade, that's hundreds, in fact, probably thousands, of cases, tempting me to say, therefore I've seen 'everything'. Except of course I haven't. And each...
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ALL • THE • TIME Especially given I am now a relic, my original training not quite pre-industrial revolution but pre-specialisation obsession. So that once I started seeing paying patients I just saw, and have seen...everyone. And because our patients always drive...