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Mental Health

There is an evolutionary, healthy tension between effort and reward. The most obvious expression of this response is that demonstrated in the Pavlovian experience.

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Vax Anxiety

I’m not in favour of the term vaccination hesitancy as it does not give any clue as to the reason why a vaccine would not be a preferable choice given the tragic outcomes for some in our current covid pandemic.

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Heart Attack

It has been some time since I’ve posted on my Functional Medicine website. I’ve actually been working on a project that I believe will democratise health screening for cardiovascular risk that to leads to heart attack and stroke.

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A letter to GPs

We are increasingly told to follow guidelines. Two friends of mine decided as part of their health care to evaluate their cardiac risk. They had read widely of the current CVD risk models and wanted a more definitive approach.

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For COMt sake

So here’s the thing and it’s a bit of a challenge to deliver but I think I am going to describe to you something that you haven’t heard about before.

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Bite It

An investigation last century by a dentist, a rather adventurous and thoughtful man, named Weston Price traveled the world looking at dentition.

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Burn Out

This is very topical currently. There are a few layers in this toxic sponge cake. The icing is the obvious, an exhausted wasted human, a shadow of it’s former self, confined, beyond clear thought and signalling a May Day call.

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