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Curious cases and mystery symptoms - a swollen knee, pins and needles, an unexplained allergy and the enlarged liver.
Season 1 Episode 177
Medicine is an inexact science. My patients who are engineers find it frustrating that there is so much conjecture and educated guess work in medicin…
9 months, 1 week ago
Collapses, faints, fits and dizziness - a quick 101
Season 1 Episode 176
Not a week goes by in practice where I don’t see a patient who hasn’t collapsed or had a dizzy spell.
There are so many reasons for this, some prevent…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Why am I so tired all the time? Some causes and solutions
Season 1 Episode 175
5-15% of GP consultations are linked to tiredness. And the number is growing. In this episode I look at common and rarer reasons for tiredness.
Hydra…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Teenage and Adolescent Health - can we avert a looming crisis?
Season 1 Episode 174
Teenage and adolescent health offers us a glimpse into the future health of the world. The Lancet Commission wrote a report in 2016 and have recently…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
HEALTHY HABITS - 1925 vs 2025: same but different
Season 1 Episode 173
In this episode I look at our health compared to 100 years ago. I was pleasantly surprised at some similarities having stumbled across something onli…
10 months ago
Assisted Dying - what it is, what it's not and why it’s so hard to get consensus
Season 1 Episode 172
In the UK, there is much discussion around assisted dying with a bill that is being voted on in government at the moment.
In this episode I look at th…
10 months, 1 week ago
Fasting - how it works and what you need to know if you are considering it
Season 1 Episode 171
Fasting is a hot but contentious topic.
It has been practised for thousands of years and is now
purported to be a way of tackling or preventing certa…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Health fads and trends - cold plunges, IR saunas, hyperbaric oxygen, vagus nerve stimulation and more - do they work?
Season 1 Episode 170
Every week or so you will see and article about one or more of these topics.
Maybe you have tried them or do them regularly. In the episode I look at …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine - an evolution, from past, present to the future
Season 1 Episode 169
Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine is a course I run with Dr Rangan Chatterjee that has been going for 8 years now.
It was the first course of its kind in…
11 months ago
Ayurvedic Medicine - ahead of it’s time?
Season 1 Episode 168
Ayurvedic Medicine is thousands of years old. It has a systems based approach which can be personalised and its methods are based on careful observat…
11 months, 1 week ago