The Polyvagal Theory gave us “freeze.” But what if your body is doing something far smarter than playing dead? For a long time, the problem was not having answers. Knowing something is wrong despite your doctor telling you your labs are “normal”, with symptoms accumulating without explanation and countless protocols all doing the same thing […]
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The neurobiology of feeling ‘fine’ while an over-active nervous system wrecks your sleep & digestion After 12 different practitioners and years of unrelenting insomnia, Darren came to see me to see if we could identify what was behind these challenges. He didn’t know what was driving it, he just know it wasn’t stress. As well
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How Curcumin, Sulphoraphane and Others Work Through Driving Oxidative Stress and When This Goes Wrong If your liver enzymes are raised on testing, should you take milkthistle? Is curcumin effective in countering joint pain? Will sulphoraphane relieve your systemic inflammation? Should you add in resveratrol, quercetin or green tea extracts? The short (and unsatisfying) answer
Two Journeys Through the Three Phases of Energy Emergency In the last article, I discussed the perpetual and inevitable failure of the calories-in-calories-out (CICO) model and its fatal flaw, in that it does not account for the role of evolution and adaptive responses of the human metabolism. The article covered how these adaptive responses to any
From Theory to Reality: Case Studies in Sustainable Weight Loss Read More »
A $100bn industry, 17m failures, and the Three Phases of Energy Emergency There’s an elephant in the room that the diet industry would prefer we ignore: their approach fundamentally doesn’t work. And I don’t mean ‘it’s hard to stick to’ or ‘it requires too much discipline’. I mean the basic premise is scientifically flawed. About this
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The mitochondrial hypoxia I find in 80% of cases—and the simple test that reveals it Like many, I’ve always maintained a healthy scepticism when I encounter any article that runs with the classic ‘everyone is doing it wrong and here is the solution’ format. However, while there is a flavour of this in this article,
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And how High Blood Pressure Is The Body’s Attempt at a Solution Salt As The Bad Guy For decades, salt has been cast as a dietary villain. Various health authorities have warned that eating large amounts of salt increases blood pressure and, with it, the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Public Health England go
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What Does It Tell You? Should You Track It? Does It Disconnect You From Your Body? It is an obvious irony that, in a society where we are have no end of gadgets to track our health and countless devices to prompt or aid relaxation, the level of stress-induced illnesses continues to rise. This observation
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How it Misreports and Misclassifies Studies that Came to the ‘Wrong’ Conclusion “A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet” is a famous adage from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which speaks to the importance of what something is and not what it is called. And while such sentiments are subject to near-universal agreement, this
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Handling the ‘Low Calorie Trap’, Deliberate Downregulation of Metabolic Rate and the Unexplored Role of the Nervous System Gaining Weight At 1400 calories a day: Stephanie’s Story “Stephanie”, a woman in her mid-thirties, came to see me for three reasons; she had been experiencing persistent digestive issues (especially bloating), hormonal issues and an inability to
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