Author: Michael Lingard
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What is Health? Well-Being vs Unwell-Being
A 21st Century Vision of Healthcare – A Paradigm Shift Turning our healthcare systems upside down for a healthier society in the future Let me make it crystal clear, I cherish the best of modern medicine and am grateful that I live at a time when millions are saved from a premature death with the…
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Diet & Breathing – The Two Vital Signs That Doctors Usually Miss!
The two most important measures of anyone’s health, wellbeing and vitality must be: “What We Eat” and “How We Breathe”. We are “what we eat”; how else could it be? From the first breath we take as a new-born child to our last when we expire we take about half a trillion breaths, so it should make…
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How are you and I going to contribute to COP-26 to help save our planet?
What is crystal clear from the past decades, is that if we all wait for our Governments to fix the planet it will be too late and there will be no beautiful Earth for our children and grandchildren to inhabit. We are truly at an unprecedented tipping point for humanity, but not for the planet.…
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Our NHS From Birth to Old Age Debility?
The National Health Service had a difficult birth 70 years ago. Many GPs did not want to be part of it, fearing they would lose their independence and a patient/doctor relationship, but at a time when many sick people could not afford medical treatment the NHS seem to be a beacon of enlightenment for the…
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Health News Compendium
For over two years I have been publishing health news on my website: TotalHealthMatters! Often this is news that is not freely available in the media because there are many powerful vested interests, including the international food giants, the global pharmaceutical companies, governments that want to control their people, the giant agricultural industries, and others…
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Some thoughts to balance the media news about the Covid-19 pandemic
First Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, Next Vaccination-Resistant Viruses? We all know that bacteria have increasingly become resistant to antibiotics and that now there are powerfully resistant strains that do not respond to the current range of man-made antibiotics available. There is a race now to develop new antibiotics to try to beat these microorganisms that can mutate…
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Our health and survival means reconnecting with the planet!
If there is a single reason for most human sickness, unhappiness and poor quality of lives, it is the fact that we have progressively removed ourselves from nature and the biosphere we call Earth. No amount of drugs, vaccinations, medical support, increasing economic growth, consumer goods, processed foods will solve this existential problem that besets…
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Boosting our immune systems
It’s Not The Virus, It’s The Host! Let’s start to lower the panic about this Coronavirus-19! Man has survived many such pandemics before because we have the means to combat all infections. We all have the capability of beating any infective agent so long as our health is good. Should we not be looking at our…