Month: October 2018

Like politics, there’s nothing like health to spark controversy and heated debate. The topic ‘Is this generation of children going to die younger than us due to their poor health?’ is no different. To spark even further debate, I would argue that in some ways this is an irrelevant question as it is not how long we…

I’m currently studying heartburn/indigestion symptoms with regard to the over-prescribing of stomach-acid-lowering medications, especially the proton pump inhibitors such as omeprazole – and have concluded that around 70 per cent of patients on the stomach-acid-lowering medication Losec (and similar drugs) should be on the opposite i.e. stomach acid. Understanding the root cause of patients’ symptoms…

And breathe! As I discussed in last week’s opinion piece on the causes of stress, I am going to be (gently) tackling how to manage stress. Illness statistics paint a demoralising picture and the doubling in anti-depressant prescribing rates over the last 10 years suggests urgent action is needed. With the growing incidence of people…

Stress! We all know what it is, what effect is has on our bodies and how it makes us feel but are you also aware of all the various causes of stress?  One of the most important things I learnt as an Integrative GP is that stress has more causes than just the usual traffic…

“We can’t find a cause for your symptoms/there’s nothing wrong with you/it’s all in your head/you’re just getting older/you’ll just have to live with this/there’s nothing we can do.”  Be honest, have you said this to your patients, or had this said to you or someone you know, but know deep inside that there is…