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29/10/2026

Why? Honestly I have no idea. I’m guessing something to do with Halloween, but if anyone’s any better ideas, I’m open to them.

It does remind me of the Haunted House pop up book I had as a kid, though. Anyone else remember it?

Anyway… Belfast city centre.

25/10/2026

Some days, a proper meal is out of the question.

Your gut's grumbling. Even a mouthful of chicken feels like hard work. You're wearing two jumpers and you still can't get warm. And standing at the hob for half an hour? Not happening.

That's the day this was made for.

You make it once, on a day when you've got a bit more in the tank. Two pigs' trotters, a few vegetables, a splash of c***r, and the Instant Pot does the rest. By evening there's a row of jars cooling on the worktop, the colour of manuka honey.

Then on a bad day, you spoon a wobbly slab into a pan, and a minute later you're wrapping your hands round a hot mug of it. You can feel the warmth go all the way down.

(No, it doesn't smell of feet. Who wants eau de plimsoll filling their kitchen?)

In the post, you'll find:

🪄 The magician's trick a farmer at St George's Market used to do with my trotters.
🍲 What researchers found when they tested Granny's chicken soup. Less than the wellness world claims, and more than nothing.
🤫 The secret ingredient your fussiest eater will never guess, and will probably prefer.
🔪 Why it sets so firm you can slice it with a knife.

The recipe's in the first comment. Send it to someone who's having a rough week.

24/10/2026

"Your bloods are all normal."

You've heard it so many times you could say it along with them.

Normal full blood count. Normal kidneys. Normal liver. Normal thyroid. And there you sit, feeling like you're eighty, with a body that burns and aches and a brain that won't hold onto a sentence.

The blood test becomes the only thing in the room the doctor can see. If it isn't on the standard panel, it doesn't exist. If it's not a common, recognised cause, it isn't considered. And you, the person who's lived in this body your whole life, become the least reliable witness to it.

But your spidey sense is tingling. You know something isn't right.

You're not wrong to trust that.

A normal result only tells you that the things on that test are in range. It says nothing about what the test was never designed to look for.

I made a 6-minute video about what might be going on underneath. It's built on a theory of mine called ATTRACT, and it covers:

Why specialists can treat every branch and still miss the root.
The "electrostatic mops" your body recruits when its usual defences are overwhelmed.
How a rescue mission can end up becoming the clog.

It won't give you a diagnosis. It might give you a better question to take to your next appointment, and a way of making sense of what your body's been trying to tell you.

The video's in the first comment. Send it to someone whose results keep coming back "fine".

23/10/2026

There's a cupboard in your kitchen you don't like opening.

Bottles at the front you take every day, mostly out of hope. Bottles behind them you started, then stopped, because you couldn't tell if they were helping or making things worse. And a few at the back still sealed, bought at 2am after a forum thread swore they'd changed someone's life.

Magnesium. Three kinds. Vitamin D. Something for your gut. Something for your adrenals. Something a stranger recommended with a lot of exclamation marks.

You've probably spent more on that cupboard this year than you'd like to add up.

And you still don't really know which ones are pulling their weight.

That isn't a failure on your part. You've been doing your own research because nobody else would. But a supplement only makes sense next to the rest of your story. What happened, when it started, what you eat, what your tests did and didn't show. On its own, a bottle is a guess.

That's part of what my free 90-minute call is for.

Bring the list, or just tell me what's in the cupboard. We'll look at it alongside everything else.

I won't hand you a new supplement plan in one call. That needs more time and more of your story. But I can often spot things worth knowing straight away. B vitamins in forms your body has to work hard to use. Synthetic stand-ins like folic acid, which is a drug dressed up as a vitamin. Fillers and coatings you might be reacting to without realising.

And you'll leave with a clearer sense of whether you're heading in the right direction, and what I'd look at next if I were you.

The booking link is in the first comment.

22/10/2026

Money isn't real.

It's numbers on a screen. Paper we've all agreed to believe in. If everyone stopped believing tomorrow, it would vanish.

And yet this imaginary thing decides what you were told to eat.

In 2024, Public Health England's former chief nutritionist, Dr Alison Tedstone, gave written evidence to a House of Lords committee. She explained how nutrition science in the UK gets paid for.

The main public funder makes partnership with business one of its key criteria.

In her words: "it is hard to secure funding for nutrition research without industrial partnership."

And academics who turn that money down "risk penalisation in their careers."

Read that again.

The people who study what's good for you need permission, in effect, from the people who sell you food. And the ones who say no get punished for it.

Now, I don't think Dr Tedstone is a villain. I don't think most food scientists are. That's what makes it so chilling.

Read her words and you can almost hear the shrug. A resignation. As if she's waiting for someone further up to stand up and say this is absurd. But nobody wants to be the one who rocks the boat. Mortgages need paying. Labs need funding. Careers need protecting.

So money gets its way. Quietly. Politely. With nobody ever having to do anything wrong.

It's happened before.

In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid Harvard scientists to review the evidence on heart disease. The review played down sugar and pointed the finger at fat. We only found out in 2016, when researchers dug out the industry's own documents.

The to***co industry spent decades funding its own science, too. You know how that one ended.

Sugar. To***co. And now the plate on the poster in your GP's waiting room.

Nobody had to be evil. Companies are built to find every way to make more money, and to spot every threat to it. That's not a conspiracy. It's good business. It's exactly what they're designed to do.

The problem is that you were never told you were part of the business plan.

You were told it was science. Neutral, careful, on your side.

So if you followed the advice, filled your plate the way the poster said, and still ended up fatigued, fat and foggy, wondering what you did wrong, here's your answer.

You didn't do anything wrong. You were played. We all were.

And I've had enough of being played for a fool. Have you?

So I followed the money all the way down to the snack cupboard. What's really in a bag of crisps, why it's sold to you as fine "in moderation", and what I eat instead. It's in my new post, and the link's in the first comment.

If this made a few pieces fall into place, share it. Someone you love is still filling their plate by that poster.

21/10/2026

Just watching the presentation on lanthanides (toxic heavy metals including the gadolinium used in MRI contrasts) being used for new contrasts. I’m not expecting them to discuss safety and side effects, unfortunately. And that’s what I’m most interested in.

They’re talking about using proteins as Trojan horses for lanthanides, including gadolinium, into the body and presumably inside cells.

They haven’t discussed what happens when the body breaks down these proteins and releases the gadolinium. And they haven’t discussed how or even whether the lanthanides will be eliminated from the body or what toxic effects they might result in.

Completely cavalier attitudes.

They’re also talking about uses of these lanthanides in other industries as well as biomedicine.

They’re stalking about the luminescence of lanthanides.

Good lord! He’s comparing lanthanides to vitamins in the body because they’re present in very small quantities! Instead of comparing them with mercury or lead. This is the most blatant marketing tactic to create a halo effect. Big pharma wrote the copy for these talks. This is written by expert copywriters to sell the narratives to doctors. We’re going to be told they’re like vitamins.

You’ve been warned!!!

This is a brainwashing exercise to generate excitement about the potential capabilities, make them seem as essential as vitamins, and completely avoid discussing safety.

And so it begins…

Share to get the word out.

This isn’t acceptable.

21/10/2026

"But you look fine."

You've heard it at the school gate, at work, at a family birthday you nearly didn't make it to. Sometimes it's meant kindly. It still lands like a slap.

Because you don't feel fine. You feel twenty years older than you did before the scan. Your skin looks older. Your joints ache like your great-great-grandpa's. Your heart does odd things when you stand up. Your brain, the one that used to run everything, can't hold a conversation together after lunch on some afternoons.

And you can't show anyone. There's no cast, no scar, no scan result to point at. If you had cancer, people would bring meals and lower their voices. Instead, you get "have you tried yoga?"

So you stop explaining. It's easier to say "fine", go home, and lie down. And then you're lonely as well as ill.

Part 1 of my free guide covers exactly this. It explains why so many still doubt an invisible illness, why normal tests don't mean what people think they mean, and what our survey of 324 people says about lives diminished after contrast. You'll see you're far from the only one.

You can also hand this to the people who keep saying you look fine. It says what you've been trying to say, so you don't have to say it again.

The link's in the first comment.

20/10/2026

9pm. You're not even hungry.

Maybe it's been a stressful day. Maybe you're anxious and can't settle. Maybe you're bored. Maybe you've earned something nice, and crisps are the nice thing. Or maybe it's a birthday, the bowls are out, everyone's tucking in, and the last thing you want is to be the odd one out.

Whatever the reason, there you are on the sofa, running a finger round the inside of an empty bag for the salty dust at the bottom.

And afterwards you don't feel better. You feel flat. Sometimes more frazzled or lower than before you opened it.

It's easy to call that weak willpower. I'd call it a loop, and it's a lot more about chemistry than character.

An ordinary bag of crisps contains at least three things your body then has to clean up after. One of them is in some of the most "healthy" foods you've been told to eat. And the cleaning up can drain some of the same resources your body uses to cope with stress and keep your mood up.

So the snack you reached for to feel better can leave you less able to cope. Which sends you back to the cupboard.

I've laid out how the loop works in my new post, along with a snack that scratches exactly the same itch. Crunchy, salty, two ingredients, and you can eat it without reading the small print. You can even bring it to the party. Think of it as a joy snack.

The link's in the first comment.

19/10/2026

You notice it the moment you say it.

"I think this started after the scan."

Or the tablets. Or the injection. Or the foods you suddenly can't eat any more.

Nothing dramatic happens. Nobody raises their voice. But something shifts. The questions get shorter. Their eyes drift to the screen. And you leave with a referral to someone else, and an uneasy feeling you can't quite put a name to.

It's a strange kind of medicine. If you turned out to be an actual l***r, they'd hand you antibiotics without a second thought. Suggest that a treatment might have harmed you, and suddenly you're avoided like the plague.

And it doesn't stay in that room.

A line goes into your notes. "Health anxiety." "Patient attributes her symptoms to..." "Multiple medically unexplained symptoms."

Your notes reach your next appointment before you do. They're in the referral letter, quietly shaping how the next doctor sees you before you've said a word. You walk in already cast as the anxious one. The unreliable narrator of your own body.

So if you've left appointments feeling smaller and more confused than when you went in, that feeling was telling you something. You weren't being difficult. You'd been put in a box by someone who didn't have the time to look inside it.

Send this to someone who's been told it's all in their head.

17/10/2026

How many times have you told your story?

To the GP. The locum. The specialist, during the eight-minute slot. The new GP, because the old one left. Each time starting from the beginning. Each time getting cut off somewhere around year two.

By now you probably have the short version off by heart. And you know exactly which bits get left out, because there's never time for them.

My free call is 90 minutes long, so you can tell it once, properly. In order. Without being hurried along.

The bit where it started. The tests that came back normal. The things you tried. The things that made it worse. The parts nobody ever asks about, like what it's done to your work, your friendships and your trust in your own judgement.

Something often happens when the whole story is laid out in one go. Symptoms that seemed to have nothing to do with each other start to make sense together. For a lot of people, it's the first time it feels like one picture, and not a pile of separate complaints.

By the end, I'll tell you what I'd focus on next if I were you.

If you'd like that, the booking link is in the first comment.

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