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Townsend Letter

What to believe – applying critical thought

23/10/2023 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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 …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional Medicine, Natural medicines, Prescription DrugsTag: Critical approach to medical evidence, Dr. Marcia Angell, Erik Peper PhD BCB, Evaluating medical evidence, Evaluating research reports, Institute for Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University, New England Journal of medicine, Placebo interactions, Richard Harvey PhD, Richard Horton The Lancet, Thalidomide, Townsend Letter

Can words heal?

30/08/2023 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

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 …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Behavioural conditions / autism, Natural medicinesTag: Aimé Mullins, Aimée Mullins prosthetic legs, Chronic illness, Chronic pain, Dr Erik Peper, fibular hemimelia, Micki Rose, Micki Rose Pure Health Clinic, nocebo effect, positive feedback loop of smiling, TED talks, Townsend Letter, Townsend Letter Complementary health

Heavy Metal and chemical toxicity

02/08/2023 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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 …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Behavioural conditions / autism, Chemicals, Environmental Issues, ME/CFS, Mental HealthTag: chemical toxicity, heavy metal toxicity, Joanna Malaczynski, Kristin Homme, Mercury: the Quintissential Anti-Nutrient, Sara Russell, Silent Spring Rachel Carson, Silent Winter: Our Chemical World and Chronic Illness, Townsend Letter

What do you know about ultra sound scans?….

26/04/2017 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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 …

Category: Big Business, Conventional Medicine, Environmental Issues, Food/Health PolicyTag: 1982 WHO criteria on ultrasound scan use, 50 Human Studies, Biological effects of ultrasound scans, Chinese Human Studies (CHS), Chinese Human Studies demonstrate DNA fragmentation with ultrasound, Conducted in Modern China, in Utero, Jim West, Jim West and ultrasound, placental pathology, possible dangers of ultrasound scans, Townsend Letter, ultrasound and leukaemia

The ocean is broken – Fukushima fallout

03/11/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

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 …

Category: Environmental Issues, GardensTag: Fallout from Fukishima nuclear disaster, Fishing destroyed by industrial trawlers, Fukushima, garbage filling the Pacific, garbage washed out by tsunami clogging the Pacific, Health risks from Fukushima nuclear disaster, Joanna Lumley and the garden bridge, Professor Ernest Sternglass, sperm whale killed by supermarket plastic, Thomas Heatherwick, Thomas Heatherwick's garden bridge across the Thames, Townsend Letter

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