Back in the day, when I first started dabbling in nutrition more seriously, I gave out ALOT of fish oil. I heard about the omega 3:6 ratio (or EPA:AA ratio more correctly), and how it was the balance of inflammation. Cue me and many others, piling 2.5g – 10g of fish oil (EPA & DHA) daily into my patients (and me). The results? Did patients’…
Whether it is a newspaper, or a drug company or a supplement company, they all love a sensational headline. From the wonder drug to cure all, to the supplement that will change everything, deep down, we all want a silver bullet to sort everything out (with very little effort on our part). Thus, we are all prone to falling for clever marketing poking our vulnerable…
We had a lot of love for the bendy folk after last weeks newsletter, so let’s follow-up on that. This is a 23 year old semi-pro jump cyclist who came back in again recently after a fall from his bike and some nasty back pain. Remember he is a biological male, spends a lot of time bent over a bike with hands gripping very tightly…
Many of the greatest medical discoveries were found by clinicians recognising patterns of symptoms linked via a root cause. They had no RCT with a placebo control to go by and no “published peer-reviewed evidence,” but they saw reality. That then may trigger a case study or case series and then onto a full research study it to “prove” it, but the results are there…
As we enter a lovely long family weekend, parents remember when your children as having a massive meltdown over nothing, it is a hypo-glycemic crash from all the chocolate their grandparents gave them and then went home. The grandparents are secretly paying you back for the meltdowns you had, you’re welcome. On the plus side cacao is a rich source of magnesium which it turns…
Folate, folic acid, pretty much the same thing right? Wrong, oh so wrong. Luckily for you, we have a video lasting all of 2 minutes and 40 seconds, to explain it all. This is also on the IN Health supplements educational page. And if you want to know how to use the METHYL B HERO product which is based around METHYLATION which needs active folate,…
If there is one thing in clinic with babies and kids that makes me nervous, it is when they are floppy with low tone. The implications are not good, but one thing that is more common now than before as a cause, is our old friend vitamin B12 deficiency. The reality is people’s diets are awful, loaded up on highly processed junk food. Plus, we…
Vitamin B12 is the toughest thing to lecture on because there is no definitive way to rule it out as an issue. Blood tests can rule it in, but not out. The symptoms can be so varied from persistent vague pain, numbness, tingling to fatigue (usually in the absence of anaemia) to health issues and more. So the clinical symptoms are KEY to diagnosis. Even…
Many years ago a young Chiropractic college 2nd year student came to me for assessment at home with severe dizziness, headaches, panic attacks, neck pain and nausea. This had come on after she was manhandled by a slightly enthusiastic classmate during motion palpation. Sudden onset severe dizziness, nausea and neck pain, lead to a rapid referral to hospital to rule out a stroke. Thankfully there…
There’s an old saying that there are only 2 things guaranteed in life: Death and taxes. In the chiropractic world, I like to say that the only 2 guarantees are: We all achieve amazing life-changing results for our patients through neuromechanical intervention. We all have patients that do not respond as anticipated to our intervention. And while we can proudly celebrate the first one, it’s…