The Paleo diet is sometimes recommended by the ‘Diet Guru’s’ as the best option because it’s what our ancestors evolved to eat, but what is the Real Paleo Diet? If you’ve read my book you’ll know I don’t recommend any specific Diet as a maintenance Diet, i.e. something we stick to all the time. This […]
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How to Optimise your Mitochondria to Overcome Tiredness and Fatigue
In this post I’m going to give you 3 strategies to help you Optimise your Mitochondria to Overcome Tiredness and Fatigue. I’ve always had a very keen interest in Mitochondria, Mitochondrial function and Bioenergetics. This really started back in 1989 when I was studying for my MSc in Medical Biochemistry. And when I completed my […]
Mitochondria and Cellular Fatigue
When Tiredness and Fatigue, which is sometimes accompanied by exhaustion, goes on for weeks or months it usually involves our Mitochondria. These are the Energy producing factories of our cells and some cells have several thousand in each cell usually closely packed together. They produce 90% of the bodies Energy in the form of […]
How I Overcame Tiredness, Fatigue, Stress and Burnout
Someone recently asked me, ‘what can you teach our staff about coping with stress, high pressure and Burnout? I started the talk telling them a little of my journey working the emergency on-call shift in Hospital Laboratory Medicine. Something that I did for 22 years first at the Royal London Hospital, (NHS), and then at […]