Journal Entries

Learn about the topics that matter to the BTH Staff and Community as they write about their personal life and interests in an honest and casual way.

Well Being

Have You Heard About PFAS?

You may be seeing increasing mentions of PFAS or Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in health articles these days. Here is a science article which explains

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Well Being

Endocrine Disruptors

This topic came up during a chat today with one of my contacts when we were discussing the apparent increasing rates of ADHD and autism

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Doom Scrolling on Social Media

I find myself quite often discussing the issue of “doom scrolling”, an increasing addiction which is not getting much coverage outside of lectures on mental

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Body Pains/Aches

I was a bit upset last week when a friend messaged to apologise for going black on me for longer than normal. The complexities of

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Winter Approaches

Both times I have attended the surgery this month, I have developed a cold within a couple of days… yes correlation and causation and all

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Our Body’s Power Houses

Every day’s a school day and today I learnt about mitochondrial dysfunction, one of various diseases that can affect the mitochondria, a vital component found

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Vitamin D

I first became aware of the importance of vitamin D in 2015, mainly due to problems my daughter had in the winter of her final

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