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October 2026 issue
Lithium: The missing nutrient for mental health
Celeste McGovern investigates new research asking whether a deficiency in this mineral could leave us vulnerable to everything from mood disorders to Alzheimer’s. There is now scientific debate about whether it should be considered a micronutrient, or a trace mineral required for optimal health.
Happy gut, happy hormones
Ageing and hormones can have a surprising impact on your gut, says Dr Jen Pfleghaar and a major component of gut health is what you put into your gut, and how. Besides eating real food there are several things you can do to help your body digest food more efficiently… including digestive bitters and enzymes.
Feet First
The feet can be a fascinating window into the overall health of your whole body, says natural health practitioner and founder of integrative Foot Zoning TM, Amber Bodily. In this issue she recounts her story explaining why it’s so important to pay attention to what your feet could be doing their best to tell you.
Touching a nerve
There’s a new method of treating conditions from depression to autoimmune diseases that involves “retuning” the main nerve in the body – the vagus nerve. It’s our biggest cranial nerve and it exits the brain stem and extends branches to both sides of the body, starting at the ears and serving all major organs.
Rebuild your immune resilience
The answer to food allergies and sensitivities isn’t simply eliminating certain foods, says nutritional therapist Georgia Lennard. It’s learning how to nurture a more resilient gut biome – and in turn, a more robust immune system. For instance, fermented food may support gut health but many contain histamine.
September 2026 issue
All mouth and nitrates: The real cause of heart disease
A new theory suggests we need high levels of “good” bacteria in the mouth to process nitrates and keep the cardiovascular system healthy. Nitrates are converted by bacteria in the mouth, which becomes nitric oxide (NO) in the blood, relaxing blood vessels and reducing blood clots.
A gut hunch
As men age and fat surrounding their internal organs accumulates, the risk of prostate cancer rises – a link doctors are unlikely to mention. In addition to lifestyle changes, there are three main non-pharma solutions with good track records: these are Saw Palmetto, Lycopene and Zinc.
Muscle Matters
Dr Jennifer Pfleghaar speaks on hormones, metabolic health and longevity and explains why muscle is more important then ever in midlife and how best to build it to stay strong and healthy. Muscle is not for decoration… it may be the most protective thing a woman can build for the second half of her life.
Is your brain starving?
Fibre, a nutrient we often think of as a mere filler, is essential to our health and wholeness – particularly in the gut and brain. Soluble fibre dissolves in water and helps reduce cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Insoluble fibre is roughage – the skin and structural components of fruit, vegetables and grains.
The oxygen fix
Hyperbaric oxygen can help with cancer treatment, brain health, wound healing and more, says Dr Leigh Erin Connealy. Many parasites, fungi and viruses have evolved to survive in anaerobic environments, so oxygen and its byproducts are actually toxic to them. Many are embracing this powerful therapy.
July / Aug 2026 issue
Flower power
Beyond their beauty, wildflowers flourishing in parks and on path sides can offer potent healing benefits, says herbalist Ali English. Here are three of her favourite herbs for helping to heal everything from hot flashes to hay fever. She gives tips on drying & storing and making your own medicine.
The mysterious thymus
An often overlooked and poorly understood gland plays a major role in the immune system, and therefore in how long we live. But it disappears in midlife. Cate Montana investigates whether we can keep it hanging around for longer and offer her list of symptoms and thymus disorders.
Love your liver
Your liver plays a crucial role in hormonal balance and supporting it is key, especially in menopause. Here’s how to look after your liver for better health. Integrative medicine physician Dr Jennifer Pfleghaar reveals all and offers her hotlist of 15 ways for cleaning up your home environment.
The fascia revolution
From chronic pain and frozen shoulder to depression and facial ageing we look at the hidden connective tissue network being rediscovered as one of the body’s more important systems. One review on chronic neck pain found fascial therapies improved pain, mobility and physical function.
Botox: The dark side of beauty
Everybody seems to be opting for a Botox “Tweakment” but nobody is being told about the adverse reactions that can be life threatening. Media group NeverTox with nearly 145,000 followers reckons around 44,000 adverse reactions to botulinum toxin have been reported since 2002.
June 2026 issue
Finding your feet
Barefoot shoes are having a moment, but are they really better for your body? Posture therapist Elenor Dalton thinks so and explains why switching to minimalist footwear could help relieve pain, improve movement and surprisingly support long-term foot health.
Snake Bite
Homeopathic physician and TCM practitioner Dr Vanessa Morgan discovered an unlikely remedy to heal Covid, Long Covid and Covid vaccine damage in homeopathic snake venom. A clinical study identified peptides “almost identical” to venom toxic components.
Reclaiming your rhythm
Getting to the root causes of polycystic ovary syndrome is key to restoring hormonal balance and easing symptoms. Without ovulation, progesterone never rises in the second half of the cycle and this leaves oestrogen relatively unopposed, allowing all of its effects to accumulate.
NAD+: Does it live up to the hype
People are paying thousands for a molecule central to cellular energy that promises to slow ageing and reverse disease. We examine the science and the hype, and what really it is that boosts NAD+. When it comes to helping our cells functionally, no other molecule comes close.
Ivermectin for cancer: More than a can of worms
Since Hollywood star Mel Gibson said his friends’ cancers had been reversed by the dewormer ivermectin, social media has gone into a frenzy. What’s more, combining mebendazole with ivermectin improved reponse rates from 10% to 65% / Some even claim 84%.
May 2026 issue
Unhappy child, unhealthy adult
Childhood trauma influences every chronic health problem, and a new study reckons it could be driving the epidemic of gut issues such as IBS. The tipping point seems to be around four adverse childhood experiences, which raises the risk of respiratory problems, cancer and heart disease.
The great testosterone crash
Why testosterone levels are plummeting around the globe and the recoveries of two men that point to the body’s hidden energy system. Drain testosterone and there isn’t just a fertility crisis or even just a potentially catastrophic global health crisis, it becomes an energy crisis.
Redress the balance
How hormones affect your sex drive. Testosterone isn’t just a “male hormone”. It plays a vital role in women’s energy, metabolism and libido too. There are lots of hormones involved and the article reports testosterone imbalance and how you can restore your own levels naturally.
Bacterial superhero
Streptococcus pyogenes, from the bacterial family that causes strep throat and rheumatic fever, is being used as a homeopathic remedy for stubborn infections and existential angst. Reactions are highly individual and everybody has a story of suppressed emotions and physical difficulties.
The herbal reset
Struggling with stress, trauma and anxiety? Herbalist and holistic nutritionist Luis Mojica reveals his powerful trio of herbs for calming the nervous system and restoring balance to mind and body. He uses oat straw, holy basil and lemon balm, three powerhouses that create an incredible elixir.
April 2026 issue
Heart disease: more inflammation and less blocked pipes
Over half of all women who have a heart attack have clear arteries – another challenge to the outdated “blocked pipe” theory of heart disease. Statins may be part of an approach that’s off the mark but they are still being promoted by industries that make billions of dollars out of them annually.
The nutrients we quietly lost
Three critical nutrients you may never of heard of but which you absolutely need. For instance, without enough choline, fat builds up inside liver cells, setting the stage for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – now estimated to affect some 1 in 4 adults globally. Then there’s taurine and glycine.
The inside story
Struggling to lose weight? Research has exploded on just how impactful the enteric nervous system – your “second brain” – is to countless bodily functions. The state of your gut could be to blame. Here’s how to heal yours and to help balance your hormones and shed unwanted pounds.
Shock and awe
First used to smash kidney stones, acoustic waves (called shock waves) are having a moment – healing everything from sports injuries to Alzheimer’s disease. The acoustic pressure created by shockwave therapy devices stimulate the transmission and absorption of energy in cells.
Reclaim your brain
Has menopause left you foggy, forgetful and unfocussed? Probably you don’t have the resources needed to move all the glucose into cells for energy. Holistic menopause expert, Dr Mindy Pelz explains how eating the right foods at the right times can reboot your brain and restore clarity.
March 2026 issue
mRNA: There will be prizes, and fraud aplenty
Big Pharma has seen the future, and it’s called mRNA. The drug industry is set to earn trillions of dollars from mRNA technology – and safety, and the truth won’t get in the way. Inconvenient data has gone missing and deaths have gone unreported while safety has taken a back seat.
Too much of a good thing
Doing all the right things but still have aches and pains? Certain compounds in some vegetables and other plant foods could be the culprit. The potential harm from oxalate is ignored by the public health and wellness industry but 80% of kidney stones is comprised of calcium oxalate.
7 herbs to heal your thyroid
Women’s health expert Marcelle Pick reveals her seven go-to healing herbs for supporting healthy thyroid function. Conventional doctors are quick to reach for the prescription pad to deal with thyroid problems but it’s often difficult to stop. Marcelle offers a gentler approach to the problem.
Hidden riches
Iron is always considered the mineral we don’t get enough of, but some experts are starting to realise that copper should be the focus. Research dating all the way back to 1928 proves that lack of bioavailable copper causes iron to accumulate in the tissues, where it doesn’t belong.
Light Lessons
There’s been an explosion of research into light therapy and full spectrum light is essential for health. But most of us aren’t getting enough of it, says functional medicine practitioner Dr Damien Downing. Here’s what you need to know about light and how to put the light right back into your life.
January / February 2026 issue
Vaccines and Autism : Is this the final word?
For more than 20 years, regulators have sat on data that links a prescription drug for male pattern baldness to depression and suicide. No fewer than eight studies between 2017 and 2023 established that finasteride caused neurological problems such as anxiety and depression.
The dolphin clue to combating metabolic diseases
For more than a century, psychiatry has sought answers to mental illness. Sometimes it starts when the immune system turns its guns on the brain. Just as in autoimmune encephalitis, the immune system’s defence against vaccination began attacking critical neural circuits.
One hundred and fifty ways to live to one hundred
To celebrate WDDTY’s 150th issue, we’ve trawled through our immense and unrivalled database to bring you 150 of the best tips for living a long and healthy life. To find out more about any of these, subscribe to WDDTY and make use of their search function on WDDTY.com
An ancient cure for the incurables
In searching for a cure for long Covid (believed caused by the vaccination – HL Ed) traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners found answers with Gu syndrome, an ancient protocol for dealing with intractable conditions for which the Western Model has no answer.
A vitamin for every ill
Vitamins and minerals help supplement a diet low in nutrients, such as one that is largely processed with unhealthy sugary ingredients. But forget the recommended amounts if you want to alleviate , or even reverse, some common ailments Switch instead to SONA levels.
December 2025 issue
The dark side of hair loss drugs
For more than 20 years, regulators have sat on data that links a prescription drug for male pattern baldness to depression and suicide. No fewer than eight studies between 2017 and 2023 established that finasteride caused neurological problems such as anxiety and depression.
When the immune system attacks the mind
For more than a century, psychiatry has sought answers to mental illness. Sometimes it starts when the immune system turns its guns on the brain. Just as in autoimmune encephalitis, the immune system’s defence against vaccination began attacking critical neural circuits.
Eating to heal
Is the autoimmune protocol diet (AIP) the answer to your haywire hormones and chronic symptoms? Marcelle Pick finds that research has shown the AIP diet has a positive effect on Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and IBD, and a similar impact on other autoimmune conditions.
Clearing the smoke around nicotine
Tobacco – and by extension nicotine – has a reputation for health harm, but separating the two could lead to breakthroughs in fighting Covid and other illnesses. Recent discoveries highlight the pharmacological usefulness of nicotine and its neuroprotective and neuro enhancing impact.
The fungi pharmacy
Medicinal mushrooms are having a big moment. Fungi experts Christopher and Katherine Parker reveal their favourite functional varieties and unearth research that shows why mushrooms really matter, just as science discovers how powerful they can be.
November 2025 issue
Do painkillers cause autism? The jury’s out
President Trump recently declared that the painkiller acetaminophen – Tylenol in the USA and Paracetamol elsewhere – could be a factor in the surge of autism. But was he right? A Harvard team re-analysed 46 studies and indeed found a connection in 27.
Mind your mitochondria
When we think of our health, most picture the big organs, for instance the lungs breathing in air, and the heart pumping away. Here, however, Celeste McGovern explores our body’s tiniest bio-engines and how they may hold the key to preventing and treating most disease.
Balancing acts
Too much estrogen and not enough progesterone can lead to all sorts of health problems for women. Estrogen dominance can cause a host of symptoms like fatigue, weight gain and low sex drive. It can also lead to autoimmune disease, endometriosis and cancer.
Light Relief
Ultraviolet light therapy, known for thousands of years as a powerful healer, faded with the rise of the drug industry but now it is making a powerful comeback. A Lack of sun exposure leads annually to 340,000 deaths in the US and 480,000 in Europe. Cate Montana investigates.
Your perimenopause fitness prescription
Weaving more movement, and crucially the right kind, into the fabric of your daily life is key to effective exercise in perimenopause and beyond, says medicine practitioner Dr Mariza Snyder. Here are her seven secrets to staying fit and fabulous after 40 – no gym required
October 2025 issue
Depression: The drugs don’t work, so what now?
For years, psychiatrists have followed a strict four-step program of pharmaceuticals – but the approach is in tatters after new studies discovered it was based on bad science. Any improvement is more likely the result of the placebo affect then drug effectiveness.
Killer Cures
Antibiotics save lives, but they also come with a raft of potentially serious side effects in both children and adults. 700,000 people worldwide die due to antimicrobial resistance every year, a number the World Health Organisation predicts could rise to 10 million per year by 2050.
Beat the burnout
Could stress be messing with your adrenal glands and progesterone levels? When you’re under chronic stress from family, relationships, your job and other life issues, your body’s stress response can become stuck in the “on” position. Marcelle Pick has some powerful strategies.
Easing the change
Many will have seen articles extolling the benefits of supplements, diet and herbs. But homeopathy too is a powerful tool. Here, David Needleman shares 11 homeopathic remedies to help with the physical and emotional challenges of menopause – from hot flushes to low mood.
Hungry for change
Struggling with weight loss, fed up with diets? According to WILDFIT founder Eric Edmeades, understanding the six human hungers and how best to respond to them is essential for building a healthy relationship with food. What do we eat when do we eat and when do we eat it?
September 2025 issue
Creatine: The Cinderella supplement that aids healthy ageing
Our bodies make creatine but we also need to supplement. It’s not only for body builders and athletes, it’s for all of us especially as we get older. Just 20g of creatine daily for a week improves hand-grip strength and muscle power and builds endurance in older people.
Lazy bones
Once you hit midlife you’re told to work your bones hard to prevent fractures. But a new method shown here is revolutionising osteoporosis prevention – all in 10 minutes a week. Wine too can be a tonic for bones and not just because of the polyphenols but also the alcohol.
Think Fast
Anyone searching for ways to lose weight without resorting to potentially dangerous drugs has surely stumbled across intermittent fasting. However, despite its many benefits, some women have reported serious issues after trying it. Marcelle Pick gives her advice.
When going gets tough
Many men struggle with symptoms of an enlarged prostate, especially when over the age of 70. Alcohol, caffeine, certain medications, and obesity can play a part. Homeopath David Needleman shares his top nine homeopathic remedies to ease the pain and improve the flow.
DMSO: more than skin deep
DMSO started life as a sulfureous byproduct of wood processing and its calling card is the fact it can penetrate deep into the body. More than a miracle cure, it’s also a miracle helper for treating an enormous variety of health issues. Every home should have some.