Over the past (almost) three years, much of the medical debate has been centred around the COVID-19 pandemic. To this point, we are approaching 650 million cases of Covid with just over 6.6 million deaths from this infection. But, the World Health Organisation has estimated that 16% of all deaths…

There is a registry known as the Australian and New Zealand Assisted Reproduction Database (ANZARD). Recently, their 2020 data was released suggesting that one in three cases of infertility were directly as a consequence of problems with the male. Male infertility is related to having a low sperm count, sperm…

In September 2022, the World Health Organization declared the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight. These comments were made following the lowest global monthly death figures in September 2022 since March 2020 when COVID-19 first established itself as a pandemic around the world. Another interesting comment from…

It is probably not an exaggeration to say that almost all adult males and post-menopausal females suffer a degree of sleep apnoea. This condition may also occur in children and women in their reproductive years. But, in the vast majority of cases, the apnoea is only mild and does not…

Statin drugs to lower cholesterol were first released in 1987. Since that time, these have become the mainstay of therapy for the management of elevated cholesterol. There have been numerous studies showing significant benefits in high-risk cardiac patients when treated with statin drugs. But, over this time there has been…

I have often said, “fish for therapy and meat for enjoyment”. As a committed carnivore, I will admit that I do enjoy eating a variety of natural meats and freely admit that it would be better for the planet in many ways if we were all vegetarian. This extraordinary…

Around 20 years ago, I wrote a book titled “Diets don’t Work”. I made the point that you go on a diet like you go on holiday. What happens when you go on a holiday? You come home! What happens when you go on a diet is, typically after a…

Being in the recovery phase, a few weeks after developing my first case of Covid from this new Omicron BA.5 variant, I’m still not back to normal but thankfully am feeling much better. Although personally my own experience with Covid felt like a bad dose of influenza with at present…

It is estimated that around 10% of people who develop Covid will have persistent symptoms, at times, for months after the initial illness. A study of 2320 people who were hospitalized for Covid demonstrated after 12 months only one in four had fully recovered. This was even more concerning in…