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Lyme Disease in Complex Patients: You Don’t Need to Treat It — But Can You Spot It?
Lyme Disease in Complex Patients: You Don’t Need to Treat It — But Can You Spot It?
For many practitioners, Lyme disease sits in an uncomfortable clinical category. It can feel controversial, complex, outside your scope, or simply too vast a topic to confidently navigate.
Date: 20/05/2026
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The word “terrain” is having a moment.
The word “terrain” is having a moment.
The terrain is the sum of physiological systems that shape resilience or vulnerability—governing how the body tolerates, adapts to, or is disrupted by its own environment.
Date: 13/04/2026
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SIBO: When the Story Doesn’t Match the Symptoms
SIBO: When the Story Doesn’t Match the Symptoms
Understanding patterns, testing choices, and therapeutic direction
Date: 09/04/2026
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The Thyroid: The Final Gatekeeper of Metabolic Permission
The Thyroid: The Final Gatekeeper of Metabolic Permission
Hidden just beneath the voice box lies one of the body's smallest yet most commanding organs: the thyroid. Shaped like a butterfly but wielding the authority of a conductor, it orchestrates the rhythm
Date: 23/10/2025
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The Microbiome: Clinical Insights from Oral, Gut, and Vaginal Ecosystems
The Microbiome: Clinical Insights from Oral, Gut, and Vaginal Ecosystems
The human microbiome has rapidly evolved from a niche research interest into one of the most transformative areas of modern clinical science
Date: 16/09/2025
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The Importance of Rejuvenating, Reflecting, and Recharging
The Importance of Rejuvenating, Reflecting, and Recharging
The perfect time to step back from our daily grind and focus on rejuvenating, reflecting, and recharging
Date: 01/08/2025
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Hormones, Health and the Role of Testing: A Functional Approach for Practitioners
Hormones, Health and the Role of Testing: A Functional Approach for Practitioners
Hormones are the body’s master messengers - microscopic but remarkably powerful molecules that influence nearly every facet of human physiology.
Date: 23/07/2025
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Air Oasis
Air Oasis
Proven to Reduce Mould, Biotoxins & Allergens -Lab-verified to reduce up to 99.99% of harmful contaminants
Date: 11/07/2025
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Understanding Micro-immunotherapy and Lymphocyte Typing: A Dive into Modern Immunology Tools
Understanding Micro-immunotherapy and Lymphocyte Typing: A Dive into Modern Immunology Tools
Understanding Micro-immunotherapy and Lymphocyte Typing: A Dive into Modern Immunology Tools
Date: 01/07/2025
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Biotoxins in Clinical Practice Training Course
Biotoxins in Clinical Practice Training Course
Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease, accounting for approximately 15% of all dementia cases
Date: 01/07/2025
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A New Lens on Metabolism
A New Lens on Metabolism
Metabolism is typically understood as the body's engine - a set of chemical reactions that generate and manage energy
Date: 21/05/2025
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Bile Acids in Health and Disease: Why Testing Matters
Bile Acids in Health and Disease: Why Testing Matters
Our understanding of the gastrointestinal system continues to evolve, and the gut is now recognised as a central hub
Date: 23/04/2025
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CIRS: Why Testing for Mycotoxins May not be Enough and What To Do Instead
CIRS: Why Testing for Mycotoxins May not be Enough and What To Do Instead
You probably come across symptoms like these all the time in clinic, but are you considering mould and biotoxin exposure as possible root causes?
Date: 19/02/2025
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Understanding the Roles of TH1, TH2, and TH17 Cells in Immune Responses - A Deeper Dive.
Understanding the Roles of TH1, TH2, and TH17 Cells in Immune Responses - A Deeper Dive.
In this month’s blog we are considering T-helper (TH) cells. Among the diverse types of TH cells, the three main subsets
Date: 28/01/2025
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Time for a review
Time for a review
As we come to the end of 2024 some of us may be tempted to look back over the past year and reflect
Date: 12/12/2024
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Understanding Cardiovascular Disease: Causes and Solutions
Understanding Cardiovascular Disease: Causes and Solutions
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, affecting millions of lives each year
Date: 22/11/2024
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Exploring the Hidden Threat: Persistent Viral Infection, Viral Reactivation and Its Impact on Health
Exploring the Hidden Threat: Persistent Viral Infection, Viral Reactivation and Its Impact on Health
When we think about viruses, the sheer number of them can be mind boggling; there are an estimated 10 nonillion (that’s 10 followed by 31 zeroes) individual viruses on Earth
Date: 16/10/2024
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Understanding MARCoNS in Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS): Impacts, Mechanisms, and Testing
Understanding MARCoNS in Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS): Impacts, Mechanisms, and Testing
Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) is a complex condition first described by Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker in the late 1990s
Date: 19/07/2024
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Metabolic Health - a non-communicable disease
Metabolic Health - a non-communicable disease
It is hard to argue that we find ourselves in the midst of a significant health crisis with ever more people suffering from non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
Date: 12/06/2024
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Naturalising – the magic of spending time in nature.
Naturalising – the magic of spending time in nature.
Research has emerged that spending time in nature may be one of the best things we can do for our wellbeing
Date: 08/05/2024
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Spring, Vitamin D and Energy Metabolism
Spring, Vitamin D and Energy Metabolism
We have officially entered spring and the days are once again getting noticeably longer. The seeds in the ground are waking from dormancy and are finally making their way through the surface
Date: 17/04/2024
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From Nature to Culture – Loss of Resilience.
From Nature to Culture – Loss of Resilience.
Modern humans live in an environment that is very far from the environment in which we have evolved.
Date: 06/03/2024
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Hormones - Conducting the symphony of life.
Hormones - Conducting the symphony of life.
Have you ever googled “how many cells are in the human body” and found answers ranging from 40 trillion to 100 trillion?
Date: 08/02/2024
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Gut microbiome Testing: Latest Developments
Gut microbiome Testing: Latest Developments
Our inner world’s mysteries are slowly but steadily being revealed to us. The latest revelations we must share are the extent to which commercial microbiome tests have expanded in the last few years
Date: 01/01/2024
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Keeping Things Simple
Keeping Things Simple
This time of year can be synonymous with excess, and that can make it harder to make things simple. However, sometimes that is all that is required.
Date: 13/12/2023
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The Nasal Environment
The Nasal Environment
The nasal environment plays an important role in overall health and can have an impact on cognitive function as well.
Date: 15/11/2023
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Health Medicine
Health Medicine
The question of “how healthy are you really?” is covered in this piece, which considers new tests that can support answering this question for us.
Date: 15/11/2023
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Vascular Dementia Diabetes of the Brain
Vascular Dementia Diabetes of the Brain
As the global population continues to age, the prevalence of neurodegenerative disorders is on the rise. Vascular Dementia is one such disorder.
Date: 04/08/2023
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