Archive for October, 2009
Of Rats and Junk Food Junkies
It’s official. Junk food is almost as addictive as heroin! And no I’m not being provocative just for the hell of it. (Provocative therapists should never be gratuitously provocative.) No, the men in the white coats with bad news this time are neurobiologists, Dr Paul Johnson and Dr Paul Kenny. The Daily Telegraph reports today [...] Read more »
Childbirth, Studs and Horses for Courses
For many years husbands or partners of women giving birth have been commended for and even expected to be present during the process of labour. It was considered the modern norm even though holistic obstetricians such as Michel Odent warned against this. The results of multiple recent studies in different countries seriously questions the wisdom [...] Read more »
Good News for Men: Fast cars are good for your health!
People love to mock men who buy Porches when they enter middle age. Common ways of belittling these guys is to mutter things like ‘mid-life crisis’ or ‘male menopause’. Well it turns out that fast cars, especially fast red cars really are good for the health of middle-aged men! There is now evidence for this [...] Read more »
Could sperm be the secret elixir of eternal youth? With more and more talk of prolonging life to 100 and beyond, doctors may feel under increasing pressure to be able to deliver what the media promise. Clerics are in trouble too: Why talk eschatologically about life after death when it might be possible to live [...] Read more »
Provocative Therapy and Homeopathy
On the website of Frank Farrelly, the founder of Provocative Therapy, is a quotation by a homeopathic doctor attending one of Frank’s courses in Germany. The doctor (unnamed) sees similarity between the processes of Provocative Therapy and Homeopathy in that they are both contrarian in methodology, paradoxical in effect and stimulate a natural healing response [...] Read more »
