Your Health in Your Hands!
34 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago -This series of podcasts will take you on a journey of discovery, the discovery of the origins of health, a discovery of all the many ways you can practically guarantee a long healthy life without the ever-increasing intake of pills and potions. You will learn one of the greatest secrets in medicine today; that health is the norm for all of us. You will learn about all the many health myths that still confuse us all, even our doctors. These podcasts are based on over thirty-five years of healthcare practice that have drawn on the wisdom of many past great minds that have studied the nature and origin of health.
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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics, When Numbers Replace Wisdom & Common Sense.
May 05, 2020 12:41 - 5 minutes - 2.37 MBLies, Damned Lies and Statistics When Numbers Replace Wisdom & Common Sense. Fifty years ago , when I was working as an operational research consultant for a major industrial corporation, I was modelling the growth of electricity demand with an IT colleague because the company couldn’t rely on the official forecasts from the electricity companies. It was a great piece of statistical modelling, taking into account every user and industrial sector development, but soon we realised that the ...
Coronavirus Through The Looking Glass
May 03, 2020 12:15 - 15 minutes - 7.32 MBA Doctor's viewpoint on the Pandemic COVID-19 2020
Health is the best protection against disease!
April 30, 2020 10:56 - 6 minutes - 2.84 MBHealth is the best protection against disease! If we had a better understanding of what we mean by health we might not have had the 2020 Pandemic. Although most people have an intuitive understanding of what health is, we have been systematically taught a different definition. A healthy organism, whether a primitive amoeba or a human, is by definition an organism that is able to respond effectively to its environment and survive. It is in fact response - able or more grammatically, it is r...
Ladies! End Your Monthly Misery – Change your hormones with your diet!
February 10, 2020 20:13 - 4 minutes - 2.23 MBLadies! End Your Monthly Misery – Change your hormones with your diet! The latest research offers a possible alternative approach to many problems suffered by most women during their lifetime associated with their hormone production. Rather than taking prescribed additional hormones or other drugs, simply changing your diet may be the answer. Why should a change of diet have any significant impact on these problems that include; premenstrual tension, severe period pains, fibroids, endom...
Your Challenge to Save The Planet & Your Health
December 30, 2019 17:15 - 6 minutes - 2.76 MBPodcast # 28 Your Challenge to Save The Planet & Your Health Hi, this is Michael Lingard introducing you to podcast twenty-eight entitled “Your Challenge to Save The Planet & Your Health” in 2020. If everyone on the internet joined forces to ensure a healthy planet for future generations, it could solve the existential problem that no government dare tackle, climate change and environmental pollution and damage. All you need to do is to commit to changing your lifestyle over the next twel...
Hypoxia: The Key to Support of Most Chronic Diseases & General Health.
December 09, 2019 17:30 - 12 minutes - 5.65 MBHypoxia & Its Treatment Tissue hypoxia can occur in many ways but the effect on the affected tissue is usually the same, its healthy functioning and energy is weakened. Hypoxia could be the most significant factor underlying most chronic diseases and general sickness, and like chronic hidden hyperventilation it is almost ignored in modern medicine. Perhaps the key problem arising from tissue hypoxia is impaired energy production by the cells’ mitochondria, the cell’s energy source. This re...
What is an Orthopath?
November 04, 2019 17:36 - 3 minutes - 1.65 MBHi this is Michael Lingard Orthopath, Buteyko Educator and Plantrician introducing the ninth podcast entitled “What is an Orthopath?” The Orthopath sees health as based on restoration of all functions and physiology to normal. Structural correction is always part of their work but structural correction is not enough. Usually nutritional screening and advice is offered to their patients but that is still not enough to help the patient to optimal health. Advice on suitable exercise and r...
What is Health? Is It More Than an Absence of Disease?
May 13, 2019 12:22 - 12 minutes - 5.65 MBHello, welcome to podcast # 26 I’m Michael Lingard Orthopath, Buteyko Educator and Plantrician introducing perhaps the most important question for us all today, What Is Health? Is It More Than an Absence of Disease? Whenever I have asked an audience this question most people intuitively know that health is far more than freedom from diseases. Although health is a very difficult concept to define we do know what are the main causes of good health. If you have ever wondered what are these k...
The Other "Five a Day" for Children
March 07, 2019 13:17 - 6 minutes - 3.05 MB**The Other “Five a Day” for Children** Every parent has become increasingly aware of the need for good nutrition, good exercise and supportive home & school environment for the health and wellbeing of their children. The government campaigns have advised “Five a Day” and more sport in schools, but as yet there has been no recognition of the equally vital matter of good breathing for good health. Poor breathing has been the hidden, silent factor responsible for many childhood health proble...
Health and Fitness, Are They The Same?
February 23, 2019 11:52 - 4 minutes - 2.3 MBHealth & Fitness, Are They The Same? There is a lot of interest in keeping fit, getting fit and fitness training systems. But what is fitness? Is it about improving one's health? Is it about developing muscle bulk and strength? Is it about building stamina and physical abilities? Wikipedia has a definition: Physical fitness is a state of health and well-being and, more specifically, the ability to perform aspects of sports, occupations and daily activities. Physical fitness is generally ac...
What is Asthma? - Big Business or Medical Confusion?
February 21, 2019 10:45 - 5 minutes - 2.72 MBWhat is Asthma? – Big Business or Medical Confusion? “What is Asthma?”This question was posed in the Lancet over twelve years ago (Vol. 368, No. 9537, 26/8/06) and demonstrated there is no consensus to the answer. To add to the confusion recent research suggested that up to 40% of those diagnosed with asthma had been wrongly diagnosed and should not be on the medication prescribed. (Middlemore & Green Hospitals March 25th 2007) This must seem confusing for all those suffering the many symp...
What's The Cause of a Disease? Pathology or Ethology?
February 11, 2019 13:02 - 4 minutes - 2.29 MBPodcast 22: What’s The Cause of a Disease? Pathology or Ethology? Many years ago I asked myself the question, “What is the cause of health or what is the etiology of health?” A much wiser and experienced doctor also asked himself this same question over eighty years ago, he was a pathologist and although he understood the origin of most diseases, he had no answer to this question. He spent the rest of his life researching the question and his work is still as valid today as it was then. I h...
Pigs Bite Back or "Pig Karma"!
February 09, 2019 18:37 - 5 minutes - 2.39 MBPigs Bite Back or “Pig Karma”! There’s no doubt that bacon is one of our favourite foods, the English breakfast is traditionally based on bacon and eggs with various other foods added. The bacon roll is a hot favourite as a quick snack. Sausages wrapped in bacon are regarded as a real treat. Bacon has decidedly become part of our national diet, but to meet this demand from fifty plus million consumers the farming of pigs has had to go big. Now pig farming is no longer a idyllic country sce...
You Can Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease!
February 06, 2019 11:21 - 4 minutes - 2.25 MBYou Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease! The most common cause of death in the West is a heart attack; in America over 40% of deaths are caused by a heart attack more than any other disease or injury including cancer. In the UK over 26% of deaths are from heart disease, around 160,000 every year, the second major cause of premature death after cancer. Every 24-hour is some 3000 Americans will have a heart attack roughly the same number that died in the September 11th terrorist attack in 2001...
A New" Wonder Drug "or Just, Food For Thought?
February 05, 2019 17:33 - 3 minutes - 1.67 MBA New “Wonder Drug” or Just Food For Thought? If there was a new drug you could take that promised you would; live a long healthy life, look and feel younger, have more energy, lose weight, if overweight, lower your blood cholesterol, prevent or even reverse heart disease, lower your risk of prostate, breast or other cancers, preserve your eyesight in your later years, prevent or reverse diabetes, avoid surgery in many instances, vastly decrease the need for other pharmaceutical ...
Diabetes Management and Treatment: Where’s the Problem Carbs or Fats?
February 02, 2019 11:58 - 5 minutes - 2.5 MBDiabetes Management and Treatment: Where’s the Problem Carbs or Fats? A simple experiment has been repeated many times, two matched groups, one on a high-fat diet and the other on a carb-rich diet are challenged with a heavy dose of glucose. The first group’s blood sugar far exceeds the second group. It has taken seventy years to discover the cause of type 2 diabetes. For blood sugar to be absorbed into our cells insulin is needed. Insulin is the key that unlocks the door to let sugar in o...
Your Child’s Crooked Teeth, Their Breathing & Their General Health
February 01, 2019 23:15 - 4 minutes - 1.96 MBYour Child’s Crooked Teeth, Their Breathing & Their General Health Major medical breakthroughs can come from unexpected places, who would think an artist could transform orthodontic practice? George Catlin, an American artist born in 1796, is famous for his remarkable record in paintings and notes on native Indians but his great genius has been almost ignored till recent years. In his book entitled “Shut Your Mouth & Save Your Life” written in 1870 he details his assertions that the bad ha...
Your Child’s Crooked Teeth, Their Breathing & Their General Health
February 01, 2019 23:15 - 4 minutes - 1.96 MBYour Child’s Crooked Teeth, Their Breathing & Their General Health Major medical breakthroughs can come from unexpected places, who would think an artist could transform orthodontic practice? George Catlin, an American artist born in 1796, is famous for his remarkable record in paintings and notes on native Indians but his great genius has been almost ignored till recent years. In his book entitled “Shut Your Mouth & Save Your Life” written in 1870 he details his assertions that t...
Is Your Doctor a Health Doctor or a Sickness Doctor?
January 28, 2019 17:56 - 7 minutes - 3.52 MBA Serious Question for the NHS This is a serious question that goes to the heart of our current crisis in the NHS. Most Doctors are trained as pathologists and have very little training in health promotion or natural health therapy. The very word “Doctor” used to mean “Teacher” in the days when physicians had to make do with the few simple remedies at hand and then do their best to understand why their patients were sick and try to motivate them to help themselves as much as possible with g...
Boost Your Sports Performance & Physical Fitness
January 18, 2019 17:03 - 6 minutes - 2.98 MBPodcast # 15 Boost Your Sports Performance & Physical Fitness There is a vast amount of misinformation on this subject or as Mr. Trump would say “Fake News”. In part because of commercial forces trying to sell their wares and in part due to lack of up to date research. There are two main factors that you have control over that will significantly improve your physical health and performance, they are what you eat and how you breathe. Let’s start with the most sensitive subject; what you ea...
Mindfulness and Your Breathing
January 16, 2019 17:04 - 5 minutes - 2.54 MBPodcast # 14 Mindfulness and Your Breathing One of my inspiring teachers, a Dr. Scott-Williamson of the Peckham Experiment fame, said we all live in three states throughout our lives; the first is living , the second is surviving and the third is dying. By living, he meant living healthily, intensely and fully. Enjoying or experiencing every waking moment, the kind of living of most toddlers enjoy, where every day is a wealth of new discoveries, experiences and magic. By surviving, he meant...
Water – The Foundation of Health & Life
January 15, 2019 23:44 - 5 minutes - 2.82 MBPodcast # 13 Water – The Foundation of Health & Life Here again is yet another vital factor in our health that is hardly discussed in medicine. We can survive weeks without food but only a few days without water, we are 75% made of water, we don't have copper wires to carry nerve signals, our nerves are fluid wires and our brain is 85% water. Imagine the consequences of serious water loss, how it would affect the entire functioning of our body and in particular our nervous system ...
Water – The Foundation of Health & Life
January 15, 2019 23:44 - 5 minutes - 2.82 MBPodcast # 13 Water – The Foundation of Health & Life Here again is yet another vital factor in our health that is hardly discussed in medicine. We can survive weeks without food but only a few days without water, we are 75% made of water, we don't have copper wires to carry nerve signals, our nerves are fluid wires and our brain is 85% water. Imagine the consequences of serious water loss, how it would affect the entire functioning of our body and in particular our nervous system and our a...
Forget Your Drugs, Sort Your Lifestyle!
January 13, 2019 23:12 - 5 minutes - 2.39 MBHi, I’m Michael Lingard , Orthopath, Buteyko Educator and Plantrician introducing Podcast 12 entitled “Forget Your Drugs, Sort Your Lifestyle!” Forget Your Drugs, Sort Your Lifestyle! Almost all chronic diseases and most acute illnesses are the product of years of many lifestyle stressors on the body. It is wishful thinking or just ignorance to believe we can take a single pill to fix a disease. Let me emphasise the fact that some people may be totally dependent on certain drugs, this podc...
Enjoy Optimum Health - The Skype Lifestyle Course
January 04, 2019 12:31 - 7 minutes - 3.52 MBHi, I’m Michael Lingard, Orthopath, Buteyko Educator and Plantrician introducing podcast number 11 entitled “Enjoy Optimal Health with The Skype Lifestyle Course” This course is based on a six lessons over three-weeks. Health is both simple and complex, when anyone asks me what are the factors affecting our health I am now quite clear that the answer is, everything. Our health is affected by many things including body mechanics, our diet, our breathing, our stress, our work, our family, e...
What Is A Plantrician?
December 29, 2018 01:00 - 7 minutes - 6.94 MBHi, I’m Michael Lingard, Orthopath, Buteyko Educator and Plantrician presenting podcast number ten entitled “What is a Plantrician?” Although I have been in practice as a therapist for over 35 years I only began including nutrition screening and advice three years ago. This was not because I didn’t believe nutrition to be one of the most important factors underpinning good health, far from it, I had decided twenty years ago that health was founded on good structure, good diet, good breathin...
Real Health Insurance for Free!
December 28, 2018 12:39 - 7 minutes - 6.94 MBReal Health Insurance for free! Millions of people spend millions of £’s on health insurance, but it doesn’t guarantee health, reduce the chance of sickness or improve the chance of better health. Most health insurance systems don’t even pay for your medical treatment if you suffer from a health problem you have had before, which is the most likely thing to happen. There is always the chance that even with the very best effort on the individual’s part to stay healthy, they may fall ill by ...
Health is Based on Family and Community
December 22, 2018 00:34 - 6 minutes - 5.99 MBThis podcast very briefly outlines the ground-breaking work of the Peckham Experiment that demonstrated the long-term connection between health as an adult and our childhood environment. It highlighted the vital importance of the family unit, mother and father and the support of the community. Although this may not be accepted as valid in today's world, especially in the UK where family and community life has broken down, we are still the same human beings as our ancestors, we have not chang...
Half a Trillion Breaths!
December 19, 2018 11:34 - 3 minutes - 3.58 MBDoes the way we breathe affect our lifespan as well as our health? This short podcast explains how that is so and how we, like every other mammal have a fixed number of breaths in a lifetime. A good enough reason to use them well?
The Pisa Pelvic Exercise
December 17, 2018 18:45 - 6 minutes - 2.86 MBHere's a tip you might like to keep your pelvis in good alignment with just thirty seconds of exercise each day. After thirty-five years in practice it struck me that I didn’t know why the vast majority of my patients presented with the same structural problem, a pelvis with a torsion anterior right & posterior left. **It was then that I thought about Pisa’s leaning tower. ** If the builder had notice the first signs of leaning soon after the construction he could have advised the mayor of...
Chronic Hidden Hyperventilation 21st Century Epidemic!
December 16, 2018 23:45 - 8 minutes - 7.66 MBPodcast #4 Hyperventilation 21st-century Epidemic It is estimated that 90% of the population in the West are in the habit of over-breathing, they suffer from chronic hidden hyperventilation. Because chronic hidden hyperventilation is not easily recognized, it is rarely diagnosed, and when it is patients are given little advice and support to deal with a habit. The Buteyko Method of breath training appears to be the most effective system to correct the problem. Why is it termed hidden? No...
Beautiful & Healthy Children and Adults Eat Starch and Nose Breathe!
December 14, 2018 18:09 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBThis episode highlights the vital importance of normal good breathing habits and the damaging effects on our health of poor breathing habits. This would not be very important but for the fact that over 75% of the population have breathing problems that are adversely affecting their health but being treated with drugs instead of getting help to correct the breathing problem.
A Real Health Assessment
December 14, 2018 18:04 - 5 minutes - 2.45 MBPodcast #2 A Real Health Assessment. Most health checks focus on pathology, screening for diseases and markers of possible future health problems, and little information is offered the client on health promotion or possible therapies that would help them towards better health and wellbeing. As an Orthopath, I am always trying to improve the health of my patients and in particular teaching them how to help them help themselves to better health. A Real Health Assessment should be desi...
Towards a Better & Healthier Nation
December 14, 2018 17:54 - 4 minutes - 4.26 MBThis episode highlights the failings of modern medicine because it is focussed on pathology, the diagnosis, and management of diseases rather than on health education and health promotion. Towards a Better & Healthier Nation. We are at a tipping point, a crisis stage in our National Health Service. Everyone agrees it is no longer able to continue in its present form, this is not news as, over a decade ago when the King's Fund gave a presentation at the International Health Workers Conferen...