UK functional medicine consultant offering lab tests and support
Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Hello, I have just set up this new category: Clinic Notes, primarily for practitioners. Focused on practical stuff I see that you can use immediately in-clinic to help improve your practice and get more people well. If you’ve ever wanted someone to just get to the ‘clinical pearl’ quickly and save you time, these posts …
I am always asked to test oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone when women (and men) suspect they are entering a period of hormone change - read perimenopause and menopause for women and andropause for men. Yes, that does exist - and I'm seeing it a lot. But hormones are not the whole story. Did you know …
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Another death-knell tolls for the cholesterol myth today, from WDDTY: Careful with those statins—‘bad’ cholesterol helps us live longer As we’ve been saying for many years, ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol—targeted by statin drugs—is good for you as you get older. In fact, higher levels help you live longer once you reach the age of 60, a …