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06
Oct
Oct
Like many others, I followed the USA court case concerning a mother accused of killing her three young children
Category Archives: The Medical Perspective
08
Sep
Sep
It is holiday (summer in Europe) time, and if you’ve been following the European news lately, you might have noticed a worrying trend: the West Nile Virus is on the rise across Europe – especially the southern regions, namely, Italy, Greece, Romania, North Macedonia, and to a lesser extent, Spain and France.
08
Jul
Jul
Perhaps you’ve heard: “You are what you eat,” or the Hippocrates classic, “Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.”
These and other sayings have been around since the beginning of time.
03
Jun
Jun
In my 30 years of practice, I was always fascinated by the conversations with very old and yet healthy patients. I distinctly remember a 91-year-old lady who had walked 3 kilometers to my practice because she had back pain.
05
May
May
In keeping with the analogy of NANO SOMA® being the conductor of our body’s many coordinated functions, we can also see how NANO SOMA – like a conductor – supports the body’s natural heart rhythm and function.*
07
Apr
Apr
Where I grew up in South Africa, Zulu was the most commonly spoken language in our area. In Zulu, the word for liver and the word for courage is the same: “Isibindi.”
The Medical Perspective
The Medical Perspective #10: To Pee or Not to Pee – Kidney Health and NANO SOMA®
05
Mar
Mar
When I was a student, it amused me that the textbooks describe beans as kidney-shaped and kidneys as bean-shaped.
Today, as the heading suggests, I am shining a spotlight on our kidneys. Peeing, as you will find out, is a lot more complicated than most of us think.
The Medical Perspective
The Medical Perspective #9: Valentine’s Day, Sugar Highs, and a Case of Mistaken Identity
13
Feb
Feb
Ah, Valentine’s Day – that annual celebration of love, flowers, heartfelt cards, expensive dinner … and truly heroic quantities of refined sugar. Chocolate hearts, boxed pralines, pink icing piled centimetres high.
09
Jan
Jan
“Retinoic” and “retinoid’ share a common sound with the word “retina” – that light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eyeball which converts visual images to electric signals and sends them to the brain – and with the word “retinol”, which is vitamin A.
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