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Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Specialty: Internal Medicine
London, California
Blog: http://www.drbriffa.com/blog/
Dr John Briffa qualified as a doctor from University College London Medical School in 1990. A prize-winning medical student, he also completed an intercalated BSc degree in Biomedical Sciences during his medical studies. Since graduating, Dr Briffa has developed a special interest in nutritional... Full Bio
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Cholesterol-lowering foods even more cholesterol-lowering than first thought, but so what? by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Last year, I wrote a blog post about an advertorial which appeared in the Telegraph newspaper which featured the apparent effects Flora pro-activ drinks had on supposed ‘j ... Read on »
Note to medical journalists: correlation does not prove causation by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Some nice person sent me a link to this article earlier this week which appears in the UK’s broadsheet newspaper The Telegraph. I mention the fact that this publication is ... Read on »
Diabetics appear to be very interested in low-carb eating by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Back in March I was invited as a guest on the BBC Radio 4 consumer affairs programme You and Yours to discuss diabetes. Up against me was a spokesperson/dietician from Dia ... Read on »
Statins for healthy people? Hang on a minute… by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I’ve had a few emails today alerting me to reports of a study concerning the use of statins in healthy individuals. The study in question is a meta-analysis (groping toget ... Read on »
Wheat: opiate of the masses? by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Last week I was aboard a cruise liner in the Caribbean. I had a lot of fun but was primarily there to participate in a kinda conference organised by low-carb advocate Jimm ... Read on »
Mouse study provides support for the concept of intermittent fasting by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The need for regular meals are a regularly-occurring feature in healthy eating and weight loss advice. I used to believe this myself. But in the last year or two I’ve had ... Read on »
Power to the people by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Gary Taubes is a name probably familiar to you. If not, he’s a writer and author of Good Calories, Bad Calories (The Diet Delusion in the UK) and Why We Get Fat and What T ... Read on »
Another reason to avoid sunscreens by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine One of my last posts pointed to the hazards associated with the use of sunscreens, including some propensity to increased skin cancer risk. Some people have commented that ... Read on »
Study suggests that insulin may drive weight gain after stopping smoking by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I am away at the moment and have limited time and internet access. So this post, as well as anything else I write this week is going to be short and sweet. I saw this ... Read on »
Getting more sleep could make it easier to control our weight by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine One could argue that our health is the product of factors that can be genetic (inherited) or environmental (including diet and activity). Body weight, for instance, will u ... Read on »
Prominent cardiologist reveals some of the the flaws in conventional cholesterol wisdom by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Harlan Krumholz is a professor of medicine and cardiologist at the at Yale University School of Medicine. He recently co-authored an open letter which appeared in the jour ... Read on »
The dark side of sunscreens by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Here in London, UK, the weather today has been quite summery. And it’s this time of year where we generally begin to see a rash of articles in the press warning us about t ... Read on »
Declaration of conflicts of interest make make bias worse, not better by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The way doctors categorise illness and manage it is usually highly influenced by panels of doctors. One problem here, though, is that these doctors can have financial ties ... Read on »
The natural remedy that’s often effective for calming an ‘irritable bladder’ by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Recently, the British Medical Journal published an article about the management of ‘overactive bladder syndrome’. Symptoms of this can include the sensation of needing to ... Read on »
More ‘aggressive’ thyroid management may help reduce risk of heart disease by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The thyroid is a gland in the neck that regulates metabolism. Low thyroid function (hypothyroidism) can lead to diverse symptoms including weight gain, fatigue, sensitivit ... Read on »
Higher protein diets proven better for a range of health measures by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine For some time now there has been debate in some nutritional circles about the relative merits of different ‘diets’. Certainly, there has been at least two factions here. O ... Read on »
The claim that the British Governments ‘laissez-faire’ approach to flu has killed... by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine If you’re British you’ll likely remember the flu ‘pandemic’ of 2009/10. Government-sponsored television adverts and a media awash with stories about the perils of flu led ... Read on »
‘Earthing’ – important discovery or mumbo-jumbo? by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine ‘Earthing’ or ‘grounding’ has been getting a lot of attention of late in certain communities, so about a week ago I decided to take a look. Here, in summary is what I’ve l ... Read on »
A brief guide to better sleep by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Yesterday, I wrote a post about how a lack of sleep might contribute to unhealthy weight gain. Today, I’m following this up on a guide to how to get better sleep. In no pa ... Read on »
Why statin side effects are likely to be much more common than official statistics suggest by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In the UK, the most popular ‘drugs bible’ goes by the name of the British National Formulary (BNF). Within its pages is found a wealth of information about pills and potio ... Read on »
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