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…

I have written numerous articles and spoken on a number of occasions about my opinion that most modern conditions are entirely preventable. Although I believe there is a strong genetic basis to all modern diseases, our environmental input can influence the way the genes are activated or inactivated. Interestingly, the…

I have a cup from which I drink my tea every day at work which says on it, “Please do not confuse your Google search with my medical degree”. Last week on the Channel 9 news (I have my own radio show, Healthy Living, on the Nine radio Network…

The combination of Type 2 diabetes and obesity is the most concerning medical issue on the planet. This combination stems from the insulin resistance gene which affects 30% of Caucasians, 50% of Asians and close to 100% of people with darker skin. If a person with the insulin resistance gene…

One of my patients, who also is a doctor, sent me this article from a website known as “The Medical Republic” with the title “Coronary artery calcium scoring provides no clinical benefit.” This was based on a systematic review published in JAMA Internal Medicine (1), with the initial paragraph after…

It is now well over 12 months since Covid vaccinations have been available in Australia. A small but very vocal minority of people, the so-called anti-vaxxers, have created a significant divide across the world. …

Over the past decade, there has been increasing emphasis on the variety of electromagnetic therapies available to treat a number of chronic conditions so common in our modern world. These therapies include different applications of laser treatment, often referred to as photobiomodulation (PBM), transcranial magnetic stimulation, typically used to treat…