Learning she had advanced bowel cancer at the age of 36 understandably came as a devastating shock to Carla Mitchell – not least because the disease is normally associated with those in their 60s and above. What the marketing representative […]
As far as our bodies are concerned, Planet Earth is now Planet Plastic. Tiny plastic particles – microplastics – in the air we breathe, our food and water and many of the products around us pollute our bloodstream and organs,
Professor Geoff Abbott is a botanical Indiana Jones. He leads expeditions into Earth’s wild places to find medicinal treasures – herbal remedies used by indigenous peoples that may contain life-saving chemicals that will revolutionise treatments for serious disorders. These expeditions
Can you inherit the emotional scars caused by trauma and stress experienced by your parents, or even your grandparents? Not only because of the psychological damage wreaked upon those who suffer them – but also due to changes in their
Dr Christof Koch, a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute in Seattle, a leading brain research centre, knows a great deal about near-death experiences (NDEs) – where people report having mystical encounters after they were declared clinically dead, but then were
The loss of his 21-year-old daughter Georgina – who took her own life in 2019 after developing severe mental health problems – was a profound personal tragedy for consultant orthopaedic surgeon Julian Owen. But it has also prompted him to
