Many people have Bartonella infection in their bodies. It is one of the most abundant infections in people.  Vets will tell you that 80 percent of all house cats and nearly 100 percent of hunting cats carry Bartonella microbes.  Yet Bartonella is frequently overshadowed by its more famous sister Lyme disease.  Bartonella can exist alongside of and independently of Lyme and is often missed in testing and clinical diagnosis. To find out more about identifying this nasty infection and what you can do about it, please read on …

This month on Breakfast TV saw the 2026 relaunch of the UK government’s Women’s Health Strategy, led by Health Secretary Wes Streeting. 

The new strategy directly acknowledges that many women feel dismissed or not believed by healthcare providers.  Streeting himself said that the NHS has “too often gaslit women”, treating their pain as an inconvenience rather than a real clinical issue.  

While the NHS does some things superbly well, there are specific areas where it fails spectacularly like complex chronic conditions i.e. chronic fatigue syndromes, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), and low-grade infections like Lyme and Long Covid. To find out why women (and men) are being “gaslit” and what can be done about it, please read on …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) with tools like Chat GPT, is changing how we access information about health. It can explain test results, summarise research, and even suggest possible causes for symptoms. It’s fast, convenient, and often sounds very convincing. But there’s an important distinction that needs to be understood: Although AI can help you understand your health - it can’t substitute for a practitioner or safely guide your case. Read further to find out why …

Root canals are one of the most common dental procedures, yet they remain a topic of controversy and concern - both for patients and practitioners. In my work, I see again and again how chronic issues linked to root canal-treated teeth can silently contribute to systemic inflammation, lingering infections, and a variety of health challenges. Even more so in the post-Covid era.  What makes this especially difficult is that patients often find it emotionally and psychologically challenging to confront the idea that a tooth they thought was “saved” may actually be unsafe and affecting their overall health. The questions I receive on this topic are numerous, complex and deeply personal. In this Q&A blog, I aim to address the most common concerns about root canals, and explore their role as a hidden root cause of illness. To find out more, please read on …

I started my degree at Oxford University in 1977. I was a healthy teenager with no body problems, and was enjoying the adventure of academic life in an institution I had worked hard to enter. All went well until I caught a virus in my second year and was medically mismanaged by my GP, who prescribed a drug supposedly to help the debilitating symptom of post-viral vertigo.  Except it didn’t as this was a psychiatric drug with the highest Black Box warning for serious side effects. Instead of recovering, I was plunged into a spiral of worsening vertigo, to which was added increased anxiety and a brain so foggy that I struggled to complete the simplest academic tasks. To find out what happened and how I eventually recovered, please read on …

When someone develops bloating and gas, the automatic assumption is that it must be SIBO (Small Intestinal bacterial Overgrowth).  The next automatic thought? “I need an antibiotic.”  It has become almost reflective: bloating equals bacterial overgrowth, and bacterial overgrowth equals antimicrobial treatment.  But what if that bloating isn’t primarily bacterial? What if it’s post viral?  Many people think Covid is “over.”  They assume that once the test has turned negative, the virus has left the body completely.  Few realise that Sars-Cov-2 (the virus that causes Covid infection) has been shown in research to persist in tissues - including the gastrointestinal tract - long after the acute infection resolves.   And when it lingers, it can disrupt the gut in ways that look almost identical to SIBO. To find out more, please read on …

Your body is a chemistry set and histamine is a natural chemical in your body.  It helps fight infections, regulates stomach acid, and causes allergy symptoms (like sneezing or itching).  You also get histamine from foods like aged cheese, fermented foods, wine, tomatoes, strawberries, processed meats and leftover foods. But what happens when your body doesn’t break down histamine efficiently?  Think of histamine as water filling a sink and your ability to break it down as the drain. If the drain is slow, the sink overflows. To find out what symptoms this produces and what you can do about it, please read on …

If you are one of the 400,000 plus people in the UK suffering from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia or ME, you may be shocked to learn one of the main reasons why you still have chronic fatigue.  It may be ruining your life but this is something your doctor has probably never talked to you about. Yet knowing this most common cause is critical to your recovery.  Read on to find out what it is …

What if everything you thought you knew about acid reflux is backwards?  This blog may surprise you because for millions of people, reflux isn’t caused by too much stomach acid at all.  What if your acid-suppressing medication was actually causing more harm than good in the long-term? Read on to find out the real reasons behind acid reflux and what you can do about it…

If you are one of the 1.6 million adults in the UK using weight-loss drugs, you need to read this blog.   

Especially if you are in the majority of users who pay for your own prescription of drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic or Mounjaro.  Why have they become so popular on social media and in celebrity circles?   They work - fast. But at what cost to health?  Can there be serious side effects? Yes, there can!  Are users informed about potential side effects beforehand? Not always, or certainly, not adequately.  That is why you should inform yourself if you are taking them or considering taking them.   Are such drugs a miracle or yet another pharmaceutical disaster waiting in the wings? Please read on … 

It’s that time of the year again when you can’t go out without hearing someone cough or sneeze.  But did you know there is a lot you can do to proof yourself up against seasonal viruses and bugs and ensure that if you do get something, it is a mild affair? What is the difference between the person who gets the flu and the person who doesn’t, when both are exposed to the same bug?  Read on and you may get some surprises…

If you’ve ever had that gut feeling that your dental work may be affecting your overall health, you’re not alone.

I once met a patient - let’s call her Sarah - who had struggled for years with fatigue, brain fog, and mysterious inflammation. She’d seen  functional medicine doctors, tried countless supplements, and changed her diet …but nothing stuck. It wasn’t until she had a CBCT 3D dental scan that she discovered the hidden culprit: an infected root canal and two cavitations (infected lesions in the jawbone) from old wisdom tooth extractions.

That moment changed her life - and it’s why choosing the right Biological Dentist matters more than most people realise. To find out what Biological Dentistry is and how to choose a Biological Dentist, please read on …

IHave you ever experienced the most painful of emotions - the death of a loved one? I did just recently and it is devastating. A natural instinct is to look back and see what might have been prevented.  In this case, dental infection undoubtedly played a role. We thought we had cleared the infections, but maybe the dental work had been done just that bit too late. Or maybe the damage had been creeping up for years - painless and invisible.  Maybe the inflammation this had created had persisted.  This blog is dedicated to raising public awareness of how dental infections drive disease and death. It is something that you need to know because neither your dentist nor your GP is going to tell you.  To find out more, please read on …

If your health has plateaued despite the best supplements, detox plans, and protocols, it’s time to look at what’s still on your plate. When patients struggle to make progress after months of effort, one pattern shows up again and again: gluten and dairy are still sneaking in.

These two food groups are among the most common triggers for inflammation, immune confusion, and bacterial imbalance. Removing them isn’t a fad—it’s a foundational step in helping the body heal. For more information, please read on …

FND (Functional Neurological Disorder) is a condition where people experience debilitating neurological symptoms - weakness, tremors, sensory changes - yet all the conventional scans and blood tests come back “normal.”  FND is not a diagnosis but a label that describes a set of symptoms that conventional medicine does not currently explain. This blog explores how a growing number of patients are slipping through the diagnostic net and coming to realise that more specialist tests are needed to uncover the real causes of their symptoms.  To find out more, please read on …

For over 175 years, the story of Ignaz Semmelweis has stood as a cautionary tale of medical negligence: a doctor who discovered that simple handwashing could prevent countless deaths in maternity wards. Ignored, ridiculed, forgotten - Semmelweis died aged 47 in a mental asylum after proving that hand washing saved lives. Today, Britain may be repeating history.  Five years after Covid, Long Covid patients, many of them working-age adults, struggle with fatigue, brain fog and chronic illness, while the NHS cuts specialist clinics and turns a blind eye to the scientific evidence of persistent viral infections.  The pattern is familiar: science dismissed, patients abandoned, consequences mounting. Could Long Covid be the modern equivalent of the Semmelweis scandal - a preventable crisis dismissed until too late?

Do you wake up with a stuffed up nose even when you don’t have a cold? Do you ever get sinus pressure? Do you ever get irritation or “post nasal drip” in the back of your throat?  Has your sense of smell deteriorated?  Do you sometimes feel brain foggy and fatigued? Unrefreshed by sleep? Not sleeping well anyway?  If this sounds like you, perhaps you should take a look at an often overlooked infection - MARCoNS which stands for Multiple Antibiotic Resistant Coagulase Negative Staph.  This is a nasal colonisation common in people with mould illness, long-standing sinus issues or who get a particularly high inflammatory response to toxins produced by mould and bacterial pathogens like Lyme and co. To learn more about MARCoNS and what you can do about it, please read on …

This Newsletter is a short summary of important information given by Dr Peter Breggin in his online Youtube series Simple Truths About Psychiatry. I would encourage you all to look at these short videos.  Even if you are not taking psychiatric medications yourself, you may know someone who is.  And they might like to know these truths.  Dr Breggin is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who, despite working for decades as a psychiatrist in the US, has never prescribed a psychiatric drug. Instead, he has been an outspoken critic of the harmful practices of psychiatry, has been a medical expert in dozens of legal cases against drug companies, and has been called the “conscience of psychiatry.” He has an important message to relate to anyone interested in health. The is not an easy read, or an easy write. However, if you want to safeguard your health and that of your family and friends, please read on to see what Dr Breggin has to say about the dangers of psychiatric drugs…

Psychiatric drugs are one of the most common unrealised factors keeping people chronically sick in the UK.   This article is about 10 things you may not know about psychiatric drugs. How they are not designed to ‘cure’ anything, how there is no real scientific basis for ‘chemical imbalance’ theory, how psychiatric drugs can create crippling side effects for years after taking them, and how millions of people struggle to withdraw from these addictive drugs. If you have been prescribed psychiatric drugs and are struggling with a chronic debilitating health condition, how do you know which of your current symptoms are drug created and which are not? Please read on to find out …

Chronic pain is one of the top 5 reasons for GP consultations in the UK. This data is based on studies published in the British Journal of General Practice.  The direct cost to the UK healthcare system from chronic pain is estimated to be £12 billion per year. The overall economic impact (including lost productivity and social costs) is around £50 billion a year. The impact on the personal lives of sufferers is incalculable.  The drivers of such high costs include high numbers of GP consultations, long-term pain-killer prescriptions, referrals to pain clinics, and co-management with mental health services.  If you are experiencing chronic pain or know someone who is, please read on to find out what more you can do to address these debilitating symptoms …