Hi Reader, Somewhere between the 1970s and now, something was lost. Not misplaced. Not forgotten by accident. Quietly. Gradually. Piece by piece. And if you have ever sat in a waiting room being told your results are normal while knowing, in your bones, that something is very wrong – you are living in the gap that was left behind. People ask me all the time for book recommendations on thyroid health. There are two I come back to every time. But one of them stops me in my tracks every single...
1 day ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, I joined a group last week that I had no business being in. A peptide group. Free to join. I went in for a nosy, because peptides are the thing everyone's talking about right now, and I wanted to see what the fuss was about. I didn't post anything. Just scrolled. And then I found a thread that made me stop. Someone had written in about a friend. The friend has Hashimoto's. And she was asking, quite innocently, what peptides might be good for her, on top of the medication she's...
7 days ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, I read something this week that made me genuinely happy. And then it made me a little sad. And then it made me want to write this email. NICE – the body that sets clinical guidelines for the NHS – has just announced draft guidance recommending that people with PMOS (previously known as PCOS - Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) should receive annual reviews. Not just a quick check-in on the main symptoms. A proper, structured review. Covering the knock-on effects. The wider picture. The...
10 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, I want to talk about something that's been sitting heavily with me this week. Not because it's happened yet. But because it might. And for those of us already living with a long-term health condition, the implications feel very personal. You've probably heard that GP services in England are in crisis. Waiting times are longer. Appointments are shorter. And for so many of us, the experience of actually being heard – really heard – when something is wrong has become something we...
14 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, There's a moment a lot of us know. You're sitting in the car after an appointment. You got told everything looks fine. And you sit there trying to work out if that's good news. It doesn't feel like good news. Because you still feel terrible!!!. You felt terrible before you walked in. And you'll feel terrible on the drive home. But apparently, you're fine. 😔 So you drive home. You pick the kids up. You make dinner. You smile when someone asks how you are. Because what else do you...
18 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, I just wanted to reach out today. 💜 Some days, all you can manage is the sofa and the telly. And honestly? That counts. Living with a thyroid condition isn't just about results and appointments. It's about navigating the days where your body just... stops. Days where getting up feels like climbing a mountain. Days where you feel guilty for resting – when rest is the only thing your body is actually asking for. That guilt is one of the heaviest parts of this. Because from the...
21 days ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Some days you make it. You get up. You get dressed. You show up to the thing you were supposed to show up to. And nobody knows what that took. They see someone who turned up. They don't see the 20 minutes you spent at the edge of the bed first. The calculation you ran before you even stood up. Whether you had enough in the tank to get through the day. Whether the cost of going was worth what you'd feel like after. They don't see any of that. And the cruelest part isn't that they...
24 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, I want to talk about something today that I think a lot of us have quietly blamed ourselves for. Dr. Jen Unwin is a clinical psychologist who has spent years researching food addiction – specifically, addiction to ultra-processed foods. And what she's found explains so much about why changing the way we eat can feel so disproportionately hard. 🔥 Because here's the thing. 🔥 It isn't a willpower problem. 🔥 It never was. ───────────────────────────── The science bit Gluten and...
30 days ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Do you remember who you were before the exhaustion set in? Before the brain fog made you feel like a stranger in your own head. Before the appointments that left you more confused than when you walked in. Before you started wondering if this was just… you now. I do. Because I've been there too. There's a particular kind of lost that comes with hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's. It's not just physical. It's the feeling of not knowing who to trust, not knowing what your results actually...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, I want to share something with you today that I've been thinking about since I watched it. A doctor called Dr. David Unwin – an NHS GP and one of the top 10 most influential doctors in the UK – says something in this episode that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. He says that each of us has a number of different health futures. And the one we end up in isn't shaped by one big dramatic turning point. It's built quietly, gradually, by the small decisions we make every...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read