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Editor’s note –
December 2025
I apologise for hurting your brains (and here’s your homework)
I’ve been waiting til the end of the year to say this, but I owe you all an apology.
You’re probably way behind with your IHCAN reading and may be feeling a little overwhelmed. Sorry! (John Cleese voice.)
I feel like I’ve been hitting you over the head with a stream of stories that may have made your brain explode. I’m there, too, if it’s any consolation. There’s hardly time to take one in, when the next issue (many of them big 64-pagers) arrives.
Leaving aside the news and research pages, which are rich in their own right…this a taste of what you’ve been exposed to this year (for your Christmas reading it may remind you which issues you still haven’t got to) – from January through to last month:
■ Is anaemia deficiency or just iron non-availability?…a fundamental reworking of the accepted wisdom about iron metabolism.
■ Overwhelmed, underpaid and time-crunched? Clinical AI is here to help…Mike Ash’s launch of FunctionalMind, the AI tuned for us that has convinced many it is safe to dive in.
■ Germ or terrain? Uncovering the truth about COVID from a classic naturopathic standpoint.
■ Thiamine: a hidden solution for functional gut disorders…we owe Elliot Overton a big thank-you for bringing this to light.
■ Nitric Oxide: aka the “miracle molecule”…another big thank-you to Dr Nathan Bryan, one of the world’s top NO authorities – look out for him at an IHCAN Summit next year.
■ Creatine for Long COVID and post-viral-fatigue…a ridiculously low-cost part of the solution.
■ Mould: the silent epidemic… a two-part special headed by Environmental Hygienist Jeff Charlton’s amazing story, with Louise Carder providing clinical insights.
■ All disease starts in the gut…and here were a bunch of new insights as Elena Panzani explained a new gut assessment tool.
■ Revealed: the body’s natural repair system….stem cells! I’ve become obsessed with the care and feeding of my innate stem cell population after a hugely impactful interview with the pioneering Christian Drapeau. Make sure you read and digest this one!
■ Nutrigenetics and methylation AND Menopause: the transformation option…a double whammy in October – technical-ish from Emma Beswick and Aga Lemieszewska, inspirational from Christine Bailey.
■ From Heartburn to Harm: why chronic PPI use must be stopped…another “must read” – and actually rage-inducing – as Debbie Grayson details an ongoing medical scandal and how we can help suffering proton pump inhibitor-users.
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Of course, it’s not stopping. Sorry!
In this issue you’ll be fascinated by the incredible research findings of Adriano dos Santos, who is single-handedly bringing circadian rhythm into our clinical consideration (full-on feature with a practical how-to case study starts on page 18). A taster: “The butyrate group experienced better sleep quality and reduced inflammation markers relative to controls. This is a remarkable finding. For us, clinician and practitioner, it confirms a long-suspected hunch – the gut doesn’t only digest food; it helps set our bodily rhythms”.
After all these years – Se still low in the UK
Low selenium intake among people in the UK has been a concern for 30 years, ever since University of Surrey researchers highlighted the challenge in the BMJ. A new paper from Dr Emma Derbyshire and colleagues (page 6) shows nothing’s changed.
In our special feature (page 42), we’ve referred to selenium as “the forgotten nutrient”. Despite the best efforts of pioneering suppliers Pharma Nord, who brought Se to the UK around 1986, practitioners may know about its importance, but doctors and the public still haven’t cottoned on. Indeed, a survey reported alongside the Derbyshire paper shows that while certain nutrients (like vitamin D) are favourites, consumers regard several others as less important; top of the list: selenium, copper and iodine.
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We don’t put a big emphasis on being “evidence based” in the conventional sense, mainly because the bulk of the evidence used in meta analyses and systematic reviews and to produce “guidelines” is not to be trusted. As Prof Richard David Feinman puts it, the meta-analysis is the “most dangerous” activity plaguing modern medical literature. And RCTs are of no use in assessing complex conditions that we address with multiple interventions – such as Dr Dale Bredesen’s Alzheimer’s protocol. Likewise, we highly value the hard-won clinical experience of multiple practitioners accumulated over the years and handed down over generations of evolving natural medicine practice. That said, we do put a lot of effort into referencing our features. References are online to save space, available within our members area.
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