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I write a weekly blog for members, on a wide range of topics around health and the heart. Non-members can explore the topics below to see what I write on a week by week basis. If you'd like to join, click here to find out more.
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Read more »Festive season approaching
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Read more »Inspirational people
One of our members wrote in with an important point this week. She is 77 and trains twice each week, and wanted to know why the exercise advice petered out for the >60s. She felt ladies >60 may feel it isn’t relevant or important to them. Receiving feedback like this is great for many reasons. […]
Read more »Give me strength
Women typically have higher baseline calorie needs per kg of body weight than men, and much of this is due to the need to regulate hormone levels. I wrote last week about the need to fuel appropriately, and part of the reason for this is to avoid endocrine (hormone) dysfunction. When I speak to patients […]
Read more »Intermittent fasting and exercise
I believe a key quality of a good doctor is to be humble. This can take many forms, but with respect to these coming posts, I mean the following. Humans, and doctors in particular in my experience, tend to become rather tied to their beliefs and convictions, especially as they get older. However, a good […]
Read more »A tough weekend
It certainly seems like summer is over now! I’ve packed away the garden furniture, turned our leftover home grown tomatoes into chutney (which is absolutely delicious by the way – tomato, red onion, chilli, paprika, cardamom) and mown the lawn for possibly the last time this year. It’s been a tough weekend actually. My parent’s […]
Read more »The latest on coronary disease
Today I want to update you about something incredibly common, and will likely have touched many of our lives one way or other: coronary artery disease. There’s so much to say it’s hard to know where to start, as there were so many related sessions presented at the European Society of Cardiology meeting. Let’s start […]
Read more »European Society of Cardiology 2
Life is back to normality now having involved a lot of travel over the last few weeks. The European Society of Cardiology meeting last week has provided so much content it will keep me going for a few weeks at least. Now I’ve had time to organise my thoughts, I think breaking the conference down […]
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Read more »Women and heart health
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Read more »Lipoprotein (a) – why it is important
You will notice that I have a number of videos on cholesterol on my website, which is one of the commonest topics I get asked about. These days though, we have moved well beyond standard cholesterol panels. I discuss such things as Apolipoproteins and Lipoprotein (a) -Lp(a) for short- in those videos, but in brief […]
Read more »Congenital heart disease – an overview
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Read more »How to form healthy habits – my top tips
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Read more »Cold exposure – how to and why?
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Read more »CT scanning of the heart
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Read more »Heart rate variability
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Read more »Medications that can spike blood sugar
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Read more »My top tips for sleep
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Read more »My take on sleep (one of my favourite things!)
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Read more »DNA & introduction to longevity genes
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Read more »‘Broken heart syndrome’ or Takotsubo (stress) Cardiomyopathy
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Read more »Heart accessory pathways
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Read more »Dementia
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Read more »My inner critic
Consistency over intensity is a motto I try and instil in my patients, and indeed myself. What do I mean by this? Changing behaviours to be more health focused is hard. If it were easy, two thirds of the population wouldn’t be overweight. Improving fitness (and we can debate how we measure that) is the […]
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