Eugene Sims

If you are old enough, you may remember the TV advertisement from the 80s with the slogan “don’t use your back like a crane!” Well,...

It’s funny how things can get a bad press. Take cholesterol, for example. The word itself has negative connotations and the mere mention of it...

There have been some pretty ugly flu-type symptoms around lately: fevers, aches, pains, accompanied by diarrhoea, vomiting and a pretty good cough, too. It always...

Copper is a fascinating mineral with respect to health as it affects so many processes in human physiology. Often, by rebalancing copper in the body,...

Many things in health seem to develop a ‘trendiness’ when knowledge about them increases to the point where most people are aware of them. Case...

The last column I wrote was about food allergies versus food intolerance. I explained how we test for allergies, but how can we test for...

Arguably one of the most underrated aspects of our anatomy with respect to the impact it has on our health is the gastro-intestinal tract (GIT)....

There are many causes of headaches, from the rather benign to the potentially fatal. Causes can range from a potential aneurysm to too much Christmas...

There are many ideas about what is best when it comes to frequency of eating. Smaller more frequent meals and ‘grazing’ have become trendy in...

Breathing is obviously one of our most critical conscious bodily functions (although technically it is a mix of conscious and unconscious function). More than three...