Fitness or Pharmacy?
If you need some inspiration to get yourself exercising in 2019, checkout this video discussing a new piece of research demonstrating that exercise can be as good as medication in reducing blood pressure. Wow! This is a ground-breaking piece of high quality research. Andrew is also inspired to get into a new form of exercise: […]
My Mum\’s Christmas Cake is so good…..it\’s BAD!!!!
My Mum makes the BEST Christmas cake ever. But like most things in life, what we love may not be so good for us….in excess. Increasingly all practitioners have patients who complain of symptoms of gout: pain, often quite severe, commonly in the big toe. This is probably due to our rich lifestyle. In this […]
What have sprouts ever done for us?
I have to admit it I am a great fan of brussel sprouts. I certainly wasn\’t as a child. In fact the sprouts cooked in school kitchens produced an aroma that would put most people off eating sprouts – forever! There are some great reasons for eating sprouts – watch the video and find out […]
The Ice Man
I have just finished reading this very interesting book by investigative journalist, Scott Carney. He had heard about a Dutchman called Wim Hof who was making some quite extra-ordinary health claims about using a combination of cold exposure, breathing techniques and meditation to improve health and fitness. Scott Carney visited Wim Hof and participated in […]
Cold showers in the North
Did I tell you that my youngest son is in his last year at Leeds university? We went to visit him there a couple of weeks ago. On the Saturday he took us to visit Harrogate, which used to be a spa town. The sick from all around the country used come to Harrogate to […]
Is your MOT overdue?
I like to do an annual \’MOT\’ with my regular patients. Once per year checking a few key things such as weight, blood pressure and discussing exercise and diet. This helps me to make sure that we are not missing any important issues that may be slowly changing without being noticed. Is your MOT overdue?
A perfectly \’armless fall
Many of you will know that Andrew is doing his diagnostic ultrasound training (it\’s a slow process) and have been very gracious in allowing him to practice on you – thank you! Here is a short video about a case where diagnostic ultrasound was really helpful in deciding whether the patient needed to go to […]
Birthday cake
What do bones and cake have in common? Their honeycomb-like structure, of course! We sometimes see patients with back pain as the result of compression fractures in the spine. In this video I discuss the type of pain produced by a compression fracture… as well as the cake that I made for my girlfriend\’s birthday!
Finding Ultra
I have this dream of being lean, healthy and super-fit! I\’ve just finished reading \’Finding Ultra\’ by Rich Roll. He was an alcoholic, unfit, overweight, overworking lawyer who completely reinvented himself, giving up the drink, eating a vegetarian diet, meditating daily, and getting so fit that he can compete in \’Ultraman\’ (think triathlon and then […]
My hill-climbing experience last weekend got me thinking….
Did I tell you that I went to Snowdonia last weekend? My \’kids\’ took me. They are 23 and 25 yrs old. We went hill-climbing, up Tryffan. It was very steep! Going up was not the problem, it was going down that was the problem for me, it killed my legs. It got me thinking […]