Gerry Gajadharsingh writes: “Restless leg syndrome (RLS) is a poorly understood condition which is difficult to manage although patients seem to be advised to take a variety of different drugs with different mechanisms to see if they can manage [...]

Gerry Gajadharsingh writes: “I wrote a section about pancreatic cancer in my iBook a number of years ago, partly as a close friend of mine had died of pancreatic cancer (a pescetarian) and also at the time Steve Jobs, [...]

Gerry Gajadharsingh writes: “I think the takeaway message is in the title, adequate protein intake in midlife tied to healthy aging, is the important message. And by the way, adequate protein intake is critical, for most other bodily functions [...]

Money worries rank nearly as high as being a carer or suffering bereavement or divorce, study reveals Gerry Gajadharsingh writes: “Dr Hans Selye, the Hungarian- Canadian endocrinologist was also known as, the “father of stress”. He was one of [...]

Two in three people worldwide carry the Helicobacter pylori bacterium. Gerry Gajadharsingh writes: “I have posted previously about how my lovely mother asked me to develop a “managing cognitive decline protocol”. It’s an interesting story. https://www.thehealthequation.co.uk/managing-cognitive-decline/  One of the [...]

Experts say ‘prehabilitation’ should become part of routine oncology care protocols to boost patients’ chances. Gerry Gajadharsingh writes: “The concept of prehabilitation has been around for a long time, especially in the relation to orthopaedic operations, that’s not of course to [...]

Gerry Gajadharsingh writes: “A nice article from Medscape below with an interview between a doctor and a patient regarding things that patients can do to better manage their blood glucose, in this case, adopting a good sleep pattern. There [...]

Gerry Gajadharsingh writes: The main aim of my approach to the diagnosis and treatment of headache and migraine is to adopt an integrated approach and to explore the often-multiple causative factors or triggers, there’s no doubt that whilst patients [...]

Gerry Gajadharsingh writes: “I remember in the anxiety driven early days of the COVID-19 pandemic (not including me though despite being a 60 year old BAME (Black Asian Minority Ethnic) with asthma having worked through the entire pandemic in [...]

Gerry Gajadharsingh writes: “With the general population getting older, and usually for most getting sicker and with more and more elderly people are being prescribed multiple medications, it's useful to be reminded of the pros and cons of medication [...]