How I think about health
Mostly clinical pieces on chronic, complex cases - written the way I actually think about them in clinic - plus a few practical guides for navigating care in Malta.
Each piece starts from how these symptoms show up in clinic. When blood tests and scans have looked reassuring and you still do not feel yourself, Normal tests, persistent symptoms explains why the fragments often belong to one wider pattern, and how to explore from there.
Clinical thinking
What actually makes food nourishing - quality, sourcing and the things diets miss
The fundamentals before personalisation: water, plants, grains, legumes and animal foods, and why growing, processing and preparation matter.
Read this piece →Normal tests, persistent symptoms: why the pattern hasn't been seen yet
If investigations look fine yet you feel far from okay, this joins the symptom clusters most specialists never see side by side.
Read this piece →When anxiety is more than anxiety: the nervous system pattern standard care can often miss
Chronic hypervigilance, burnout and “treatment-resistant anxiety” are common front doors into integrative medicine, linked to digestion, hormones, exhaustion and unexplained aches. Written as a clinician, across conventional medicine, Chinese medicine and Ayurveda.
Read this piece →Why Ayurveda will shape the future of medicine: a doctor's perspective
How the oldest continuously practised medical system lines up with where personalised, integrative care is headed: chronic patterns, constitution, body-mind coherence.
Read this piece →What is Ayurveda?
A doctor's plain explanation of what Ayurveda actually is: the science of life, holistic health, the three doshas, and how Ayurveda reads the connection between body and mind.
Read this piece →IBS: when food rules keep growing but the symptoms do not stop
For people with bloating, pain, constipation, diarrhoea or unpredictable bowels who have had the tests, tried the diets, and still do not have a clear answer.
Read this piece →Chronic fatigue: when sleep doesn't fix the exhaustion
If you are exhausted for months, your tests look normal, and nothing has moved the needle.
Read this piece →What causes insomnia and how to sleep better
Wired at night despite exhaustion, anxiety and hormones, nervous-system dysregulation, when CBT-I and melatonin are not enough, and when a sleep medicine referral versus wider assessment fits.
Read this piece →Fibromyalgia: what causes the pattern, and what actually changes it
A physician's take on why fibromyalgia tests are normal, what actually drives the pattern, and what three medical lenses can change about it.
Read this piece →Vitamin D deficiency in Malta: symptoms, testing habits, and what the 2021 primary-care audit showed
Why low Vitamin D is common even here, what deficiency can feel like, and how often doctors across Malta's health centres ordered the test, and for what reasons.
Read this piece →Ayurveda and quantum physics: do they depict the same underlying reality?
Elemental maps, quantum fields and Hagelin-era comparisons - a grounded curiosity bridging ancient pattern-language and modern physics.
Read this piece →Practical guides for Malta
Where to buy good quality food and water in Malta
Farm routes, organic shops, meat and fish, reverse-osmosis water and sea salt, with supermarkets as backups for labelled products.
Read this piece →Mental health support services in Malta: helplines, crisis lines and NGOs
Crisis lines, helplines and NGO support in Malta: 112, 1579, 9933 9966, 179, 1770, and how public, private and voluntary care fit together.
Read this piece →Psychiatrist or psychologist in Malta: a doctor's guide to who does what
When to start with a GP, how psychiatrists and psychologists differ, therapy types available in Malta, and how to choose the right professional.
Read this piece →If one of these articles describes your pattern, the next step is to understand what is primary in your case.