Blog – Health by Design
Understanding your health starts with asking better questions – and knowing where to look for answers. The more you understand, the better placed you are to take ownership of what happens next.
Why Am I Wide Awake at 3am and Can’t Sleep?
It does not matter what time you went to bed, or how tired you were when you got there. Somewhere between three and four in the morning, something pulls you out of sleep – not gradually, but completely. Wide awake, alert, sometimes with a heart already racing before...
Could This Be Long Covid? When Tests Are Normal and Nobody Has Answers
Something changed after Covid. You might not even be sure it was Covid – it could have been a mild infection you barely noticed, or one that happened months before the symptoms started. But something shifted. The fatigue that doesn’t lift. The brain fog that has made...
Your Biological Age Tells You More Than Your Birth Certificate Ever Could
Chronological age measures time. It tells you how long you have been alive. It says nothing about what that time has done to your body, or what your body has done with it. Two people born in the same year can have biology a decade apart. One recovers fast, sleeps...
The Cost of Waiting: Why Proactive Health Starts Before You Have a Reason
Most people find out something has been building in their biology the same way. A result comes back outside range. A symptom becomes impossible to ignore. A routine appointment turns into something else. By that point, the process has usually run for years – and...
Your Bloods Are Fine. Your Body Is Telling You Otherwise.
There is a sentence that stops a conversation before it has properly begun. It arrives at the end of a ten-minute appointment, after a standard blood panel has come back within normal range, and delivered with the kind of finality that makes further questions feel...
The Pacing Problem: Why Most People With ME/CFS and Long Covid Are Doing It Wrong
You’ve been told to pace yourself. You’re trying. And you’re still crashing. If that sounds familiar, you’re probably doing a version of pacing that was never going to work, because the way it’s typically explained leaves out the parts...
ME/CFS and Long Covid Recovery: What the Long Road Actually Looks Like
If you have been ill for a long time, you have probably developed a complicated relationship with the word recovery. You may have been told it isn’t possible. Or that it is, but only if you do the right things in the right order. You may have watched others improve...
Population Medicine Was Never Designed for You
You get your results back. Everything is normal. And yet something is not. That gap – between a clean result and actually feeling well – is a design feature of a system that never looked at you as an individual. Personalised health works from a completely different...
Why the Women Who Age Well Aren’t Doing Anything Extraordinary
There is a version of ageing well that gets held up as exceptional. The 70-year-old who just completed a 12km mountain hike. The 87-year-old with no health complaints and more energy than women half her age. They get described as remarkable, as lucky, as genetic...