Eat Yourself Happier: A Kindly Detox
“My digestive issues have now subsided, my body feels lighter and my mind clearer. I’ve been able to detect which foods and drinks irritate my body. “I have fewer highs and lows than I use to experience from regular caffeine and sugar intake. I am now sleeping better, have more energy, feel calmer, plus I’ve
Are you Accident Prone?
You know how some people are more accident prone than others? Whether those people are clumsy, or things simply happen to them. Let me tell you a story: Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin…. There was once a little girl. It must have been before she started wearing glasses because she didn’t remember them
Returning to Work
Please note that this article was written in June 2020. Some of my osteopathic colleagues have started going back, but for me, this whole relaxing of Lockdown [which I feel was unnecessarily delayed] simply feels too soon. When professors at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine advise that we should wait – well,
Vitamin D: Why and Where
A healthy immune system needs Vitamin D, in particular Vitamin D3. Your body makes this from sunlight on your skin – and as with so many things, it’s about a question of balance: Too much sun can lead to skin cancers ☹ Too little sun [such as overuse of sun screens, or wearing clothes that
COVID-19, Chemotherapy and Me
Why COVID-19 reminds me of going through Chemotherapy… 14 years ago I was going through chemotherapy for breast cancer – fortunately, the summer of 2006 was a hot one, so I was quite happy to lose my hair – and found that it weirdly suited me. Here in 2020, watching a world convulsed by Coronaggedon,
Are You Sitting Too Much?
Many of us are sitting waaay more than we did before Lockdown, so here are some tips to antidote that: – where possible, have phone calls standing up – are you a Giraffe? When you look at your mobile phone, do you drop your head down? Tuck the arm that is holding your phone by