Doctors should be teachers
We teach children to change a fuse. We teach them to check the oil, to put air in a tyre, to find the stopcock before the pipe bursts rather than after. Many of us learned to put out a chip pan fire a...
29 Sep 19min
The Runner Who Passed Every Test He Was Given
A man whose heart gave out at forty-two had three pillars in excellent order — and one that nobody had ever looked at.The 1st case history in the Lighthouse series - the blog includes an interactive t...
29 Sep 22min
The Ten Ten
A gym and a personal trainer may be the gold standard, if you can keep them up. For the great majority who cannot — the person writing this included — here is the twenty-minute version that does most ...
28 Sep 22min
Visceral Adipose Tissue (VAT) as a Major Modifiable Driver of Cardiometabolic Risk
Two people can share the same weight and BMI yet have completely different risks of heart attack and type 2 diabetes. The difference is often visceral fat — the hidden fat wrapped around your organs. ...
23 Jun 5min
How to Measure Your Waist
Waist circumference predicts cardiometabolic risk better than weight or BMI — but only when measured at a fixed anatomical landmark: the midpoint between your lowest rib and the top of your hip bone. ...
16 Jun 1min
Why Your CGM Only Tells Half the Story
Your continuous glucose monitor shows exactly how bread affects blood sugar but misses the fructose pathway completely. While CGMs track glucose perfectly, they remain blind to fructose heading straig...
11 Jun 5min
How to Interpret Your Home Blood Pressure Results: What Your MyBP Numbers Actually Mean
A week of home blood pressure readings tells a far more accurate story than a single clinic measurement. Learn how to interpret your MyBP results, understand what the categories mean, recognise when l...
3 Jun 1min
