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I have been diagnosed with this. It is quite debilitating and leaves me with very low energy levels, so I walk round very slowly like a geriatric. The cause is that my body is unable to absorb B12 from food, so I have to have B12 injections. The deficiency leads to malformed red corpuscles...

I just found that M&S no longer have their "Super Seed Crackers" on the shelves in my local stores, they have been missing for 2 weeks and they can't say if or when they will be back. I will sorely miss those little blighters as they don't affect my BS or weight at all.

I recently had a blood test, so I had a look on my medical history online in Patient Access to look at previous results, only to find all my records were missing. That is to say, my Medical History on Patient Access had been stripped. Even subheadings have been removed - problems, test results...

I was thinking about the extent to which our lives have changed with the Covid-19 pandemic, when I thought back to when I had Asian Flu. I checked, and this was in 1957, when I was 14 years old. At the time, pretty well everyone got it and it was pretty bad, meaning you felt terrible, with...

Zoe Harcombe reviewed this paper today. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/12/e028638 The conclusions of the paper are that high LDL cholesterol is beneficial for survival of heart attacks, heart failure, cancer and other major causes of death. The higher your LDL, the better your chances, just...

In Zoe Harcombe's blog this week, she commented on her and her husband's use of a Libre cgm that they each had on trial for 2 weeks. She had several interesting insights on her discoveries and concluded that every UK citizen should have a loan of a Libre for 4 weeks to discover their...

I just had my annual review with the diabetes nurse at my GP practice. All was fine, my results were spot on apart from my lipids, which are OK with me, but a little high on their guidelines. She asked if I was still taking statins, I said no and she didn't pursue it. However, she suggested...

I have been troubled by my weight and fbs since the start of the year. Both have crept up inexorably, so that on 1 September, my weight was 77.3 kg , my fbs was 6.1 mmol/l and my ketones were 0.8 mmol/l. I therefore decided to check everything I ate over the following week and revert to my...

An interesting article from CNN... https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/26/health/intermittent-fasting-jared-sklar-wellness-live-longer/index.html Could have been sponsored by Dr Fung (but wasn't).

Fascinating stuff... https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332420-900-have-we-found-the-true-cause-of-diabetes-stroke-and-alzheimers/

This morning, I received the anticipated email from Zoe's blog on the recent statin "revelations". The main point, after deconstructing the research, is the quote This study could have been reported as “Those who have the lowest pre-statin LDL-C have more CVD over the next few years”. It should...

Like all things trendy, there is often not much substance. I got a newsletter from London Vision Clinic, where I had my laser treatment, and they said - 'Veganism' seems to have slowly crept up on us, and is now one of the main trends for 2019. From the skincare we use, to the food that we eat...

You probably saw the recent "news" that scientists say the more statins you have the better... Well, Zoe Harcombe completely demolished this in her blog as usual. However, I thought you may like to see what Zoe disclosed of the background of the "scientists" that published the research...

Valuemed are currently offering 50 ketone test strips and a FREE dual meter for £39.98. The test strips are the cheapest I have found at about 80p each. You can also get 5% off with the code NEW.

Hi all - they're still at it! This morning I got the monthly update from the NHS. In it was an article on healthy eating, so I clicked on the link. Guess what - it's the Eat Well dogma, including Base your meals on starchy carbohydrates Eat lots of fruit and veg Eat more fish – including a...

After several years of trying, I can now see my medical records online. I phoned the Practice Manager today and was told I was the first patient to go on as a guinea pig. The PM waited to see how I got on to see if it worked. The records are a bit inconsistent, but all my latest test results...

Have you noticed that all the thread titles now seem to be forced into US title case, ie every single word is capitalised? I think it looks daft.

I picked up my latest lipid results today, TC 5.1 HDL 1.57 TC/HDL 3.2 Trigs 0.7 LDL 3.21 I was really happy, especially with the trigs. However, there was a note from the GP, 'please discuss'. Apparently not happy with the TC! I don't think I need his input on this one.

I have just been diagnosed with shingles for the fifth time, that's 3 times as a schoolboy, and twice since I had the shingles jab 3 years ago. I must have already had chicken pox as a child. What's interesting is that the GP has prescribed amitriptyline for chronic neuralgia (this happens with...

This time from today's New Scientist. "On that question, meta-analyses and painstaking controlled randomised trials have established that the biological effects of low-carb/high-fat or high-fat/low-carb diets on obesity are at best tiny." I don't think Zoe Harcombe would agree with that...