For the average citizen evaluating the claims made for cure all - or even improve all - health products and procedures has always been difficult. Not only is it an area in which we have minimal expertise but most of us have a vested interest in finding a miracle intervention that …
Townsend Letter
Can words heal?
Sticks and stones may break our bones but words can never hurt us. But is that true? Or, if words cannot literally hurt us, can they either help or hinder us in healing ourselves? This question was raised by a recent article in the Townsend Letter, an e-newsletter for doctors …
Heavy Metal and chemical toxicity
Are you worried about the amount of metal and the number of chemicals that we come into contact with on a daily, indeed hourly, basis? Not all of them (at a rough estimate there are over 150,000 chemicals in constant circulation) are bad. Indeed, many are crucial to our daily …
What do you know about ultra sound scans?….
Well, not a lot, to be honest. Like most people I have never really thought about them, despite their very wide use for diagnostic purposes in adults and in babies in the womb. But Jim West believes that we are very unwise to believe that just because ultrasound is so widely …
The ocean is broken – Fukushima fallout
I hate to pierce my rosy Liverpool bubble but I feel that two pieces I read this week do need a wider readership than just me..... One is an article in last months' Townsend Letter detailing the on-going disaster potential of the tsunami-damaged Fukishima nuclear plant in …