Apologies for the tardy arrival this week's insights. Thanks to the dedicated use of Calpol amongst my children classmates parents to keep their kids at school even when they have a temperature & are clearly infective, I spent Friday fighting off a round of viruses & bacteria. Fear not my immune system knows exactly what to do [...]

Many many years ago I was taught the four R's of digestion. It went something like Remove (bad bugs) Replace (digestive acid/enzymes) Re-inoculate (good bacteria) Repair (the gut lining) And it is still used by me and many other practitioners to some extent, though our understanding out of the gut microbiome from [...]

Firstly thank you to the Chiropractic Association of Ireland for inviting me to lecture last weekend. I had a great time lecturing in Dublin, a keen audience for information on the incredible benefits of vitamin B12. I also had the pleasure of meeting Dr Robert Melillo and seeing his talk [...]

By the time this you read this I will be nestled into the welcoming (if slightly damp) bosom of Dublin. I am lecturing at the Chiropractic Association of Ireland (CAI) this weekend on why vitamin B12 deficiency is creating an epidemic of missed diagnosis and mis-diagnoses. The three things I want attendees to know when they leave are [...]

For many years I did not eat a single piece of food containing complex carbohydrate/starch/polysaccharides. Not a single sodding mouthful. Meat & salad. Repeat. I ate fruit as it's a single sugar unit as fructose and some glucose, depending on the fruit, but starchy food was a big no no. [...]

Treating patients with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and/or chronic fatigue syndrome can be at best daunting, at worst depressing. There are many, many root causes involved in both these conditions. But at the heart of both and indeed arguably all health conditions are inefficient mitochondria. The number one source of free [...]

"What harms insects also harms people" are wise words spoken by the German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze. She was speaking about the banning of the weed killer glyphosate (branded as Roundup by Monsanto) in Germany from 2023 [...]

This is a special 20 minute webinar on how our genetics create a tendancy to certain issues, but how we can help overcome those with a healthy lifestyle. Patients are often all too easily lead to believe because their family has a history of condition/disease XYZ, they can't avoid it, it's inevitable [...]

Welcome back and today we are going to explore why "Let them eat chalk!" is not in your patient's best interests... I've received lots of comments from yesterday's email concerning not only Vitamin D but also on using calcium carbonate aka chalk as a source of calcium, which was new for a lot of you [...]

Back in 2007 I was on a week long functional medicine intensive training seminar in Atlanta with the Institute for Functional Medicine, and during one of the breakout case study sessions one of the MD’s began talking excitedly about Vitamin D. In fact he was really REALLY excited [...]

"I tell my friends you're the nutrition police" "mmmmmmmm, okaaaaaaaaay..." I'm never quite sure how to respond to this kind of comment. I don't go around pointing out issues in people's diet or lifestyle, that would be rude. But on occasion friends tells me about a health issue they have and how [...]

Can you imagine living being a hundred years old and meeting up with the same friends for the last 90 years? On the island of Okinawa, they have a very high percentage of centenarians (their age is over 100). The three big killers in the west - heart disease, stroke and cancer [...]

Are you wearing blinkers? My big hairy friend Uno is and he's got that in common with Medics and Chiropractors alike. I have a theory about the IQ of medical doctors and Chiropractors. If you measure the average IQ of medical doctors and compared it to the average IQ of Chiropractors. [...]

Before I get into today’s content I just wanted to give a quick shout-out and thanks to the 13 brave pioneers who joined the Beta version of my Core Concepts in Chiropractic Nutrition program. I originally intended to have 15 participants but then realising the amount of support I was going to be providing during this Beta phase I decided [...]

In an ideal world all my patients would be pain free with perfect, pliable, connective tissues. Their range of motion would be full and uninterrupted. They would be a frisky bunch of devil-may-carers, full of vim and vigour. In short... they would be the embodiment of the Chiropractic wellness dream. But this isn't an ideal world [...]

Right, let's move on today's lesson... Did you know... Folic acid supplements is associated with an increased risk of cancers? And increased risk of cognitive decline in older people? What many don't realise is that folic acid and folate are different things. Folic acid is a synthetic, inactive product not found in nature. […]

If you are going to commit a crime and end up in court, a little tip for you…. ask for your court hearing to be first thing in the morning or straight after lunch. This will give you the best chance of getting a light sentence, maybe getting away with a community service order or […]

Some patients have very short memories, have you noticed? One day they are in persistent pain, depressed and exhausted. Then as they recover, they (understandably) want to forget it ever happened. I sometimes wonder if this is to preserve their self-identity as healthy people to avoid cognitive dissonance that maybe they are not infallible. The […]

I am writing this while on “holiday” this week, holiday when you have small children is a relative term. Last week we talked about sustained inflammatory responses to bacterial infections. Ideally bacterial infections should be short and sweet, once we muster an immune response. But the effect of inflammation even when its dropping down can […]

“I’m going to be sick.” “I need a poo.” At 4 in the morning, these are not the words I want to hear from my four year old son stood next to our bed. And my goodness did he vomit and have diarrhoea. The bedsheet, duvet, the sofa covers and carpet were all collateral damage […]

Picture this, 5 years ago… I arrive a few minutes early to the clinic but I have an extra emergency booked in at 8. But the patient is earlier than I am. I recognise the car and I know what she is doing. Head in a bag and throwing up. In the treatment room… “My […]

Today’s Top 3 ‘Writer-Downers’: Why you can lead a horse to water but can’t make them drink How to use the #1 tool to change that behaviour Why you have a moral duty to use this tool and ignore what the NHS might think about your recommendations Getting patients to change their lifestyle can be […]

Today’s Top 3 ‘Writer-Downers’: Why calcium carbonate is the most commonly prescribed calcium by the NHS Why most patients hate taking it The superior, better tolerated alternative you should stock starting today I had lots of comments from last weeks email concerning not only Vitamin D but also on using calcium carbonate aka chalk as […]

Back in 2007 I was on a week long functional medicine intensive training seminar in Atlanta with the Institute for Functional Medicine, and during one of the breakout case study sessions one of the MD’s began talking excitedly about Vitamin D. In fact he was really REALLY excited. The 3 Top ‘Writer-Downers’ In This Week’s […]

“I’ve seen the GP, they say all my blood test results are normal” I get that a lot and back in the day, that would have been the end of it, no further investigation or consideration required. Case closed. But often those patients didn’t respond as I and they had hoped, so I got curious. […]

Are you a clinician or a therapist? “I just want to adjust”. I hear that quite a lot and (if I’m honest) I’m actually the same when I’m in my Chiropractic environment. If I can SUSTAINABLY improve function with neuromechanical intervention and the patient is remodelling/healing, they will tell me they are feeling better, then […]

DD Palmer said the causes of dis-ease were trauma, thoughts and toxins. He was pretty much spot on. He also had some amazing miraculous results and loved the “hole in one” upper cervical and over a hundred years later we are still here, changing lives and trying to fight for our patients. But in hindsight […]

And welcome to the first in a series of what I hope will be a truly eye-opening emails as I reveal to you the improvement in patient results you expect from just making some simple tweaks to your treatments. Before I get into today’s content though, I just want to give a big shout-out to […]