OurChemist

Our Chemist – Health

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Pregnancy
  • Parenting
  • Fitness
  • Food
  • Depression
  • Disability

Post navigation

← Older posts

‘I was taking on a monumental challenge’: racing driver Billy Monger on why being a double amputee hasn’t slowed him down

After a horrifying crash, Billy Monger lost both his legs at 17. But from dancing on Strictly to setting a world record in the Ironman, he’s still powering ahead. Just don’t call him an ‘inspiration’…

‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother

Charlotte Church has lived her life in the full glare of publicity, rising from child star to tabloid target. Now, happier and more free than ever, she’s found her feet – and her voice – at her healing retreat in the Welsh valleys

‘I’ve had seals nibble my toes!’ How sunkissed Cornwall became a 422-mile surf paradise

Surfing? It’s as Cornish as piracy and pasties. As a thrilling exhibition opens in ‘Britain’s California’, we enter a heady world of coffinboards, hotdogging Aussies – and bans dished out to gangs fighting on the beach

Alive: An Alternative Anatomy by Gabriel Weston review – our bodies in an eye-opening new light

A surgeon (and TV host) encourages us to take a fresh look at our organs in a smart and forceful study

Maternity Service by Emma Barnett review – a tour of duty in early motherhood

In this valuable, brutally honest guide, the broadcaster argues that a supposedly joyful time is often steeped in drudgery and social isolation

On my radar: Georgia Ellery’s cultural highlights

The Black Country, New Road and Jockstrap musician on a YouTube philosopher, the power of Munch and her love of saunas and Japanese onsen

Maternity Service by Emma Barnett review – baby steps

An energetic attempt to reimagine maternity leave swerves hard thinking about social reform

The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – do no harm

A doctor’s brilliant study of the dangers of overdiagnosis, from ADHD to long Covid

The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – are we really getting sicker?

A neurologist discusses the dangers of overdiagnosing conditions from Lyme disease to ADHD in an era where technology meets pathology

Silence please: how book clubs without the chat help focus the mind

A Silent Book Club is growing in popularity in Melbourne as an antidote to the social pressure of group discussions

Post navigation

← Older posts

Tags

  • Beauty
  • Books
  • Business
  • Cancer
  • Childbirth
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Family
  • Fitness
  • Food
  • Health
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Health, mind and body
  • Health, mind and body books
  • Health and fitness holidays
  • Health policy
  • Higher education
  • Life and style
  • Media
  • Medical research
  • Mental health
  • Money
  • NHS
  • Nutrition
  • Obesity
  • Parents and parenting
  • Politics
  • Pregnancy
  • Psychology
  • Research
  • Science
  • Sex
  • Sexual health
  • Sleep
  • Society
  • Sport
  • Technology
  • Travel
  • UK news
  • US news
  • Women
  • Work & careers
  • World news
  • Paging Dr Chimp: the medical secrets we can learn from apes, birds and even butterflies
  • From sex toy safety to supply chains: why testing vibrators isn’t as fun as you might think
  • Tell us: have you got a tip for getting yourself back to sleep?
  • Prostate cancer surgery breakthrough offers hope for erectile function
  • Is it true that … eating yoghurt can heal your gut?
  • Is the Simba Hybrid Pro mattress worth the hype? I slept on it for three months to find out
  • It’s time to embrace Dugnadsånd – the Norwegian concept we all need right now
  • The truth about cholesterol: 12 things you need to know – from eggs to weight to statins
  • After becoming obsessed with self-help, I had to heal from ‘healing’
  • ‘I was taking on a monumental challenge’: racing driver Billy Monger on why being a double amputee hasn’t slowed him down
  • ‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother
  • ‘Wellbeing’ isn’t a joke – it’s a tool for tackling populism
  • A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies
  • Gifts for runners: the best shoes, socks and vests to buy the running enthusiast in your life
  • The best Mother’s Day gifts: 68 thoughtful ideas for £50 and under they’ll love
  • Dining across the divide: ‘She casts meditation as a cult. I don’t think retreats mean harm’
  • Covid ‘benevolence bump’ endures as acts of kindness 10% higher than before 2020
  • ‘I’ve had seals nibble my toes!’ How sunkissed Cornwall became a 422-mile surf paradise
  • Five ways to help manage lower back pain
  • Martin Skirrow obituary
  • ‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts
  • Alive: An Alternative Anatomy by Gabriel Weston review – our bodies in an eye-opening new light
  • The thin-obsessed world is growing more vicious by the minute. But fat people aren’t going anywhere
  • Otty Original Hybrid mattress review: the best hybrid mattress you can buy – and also one of the cheapest
  • Have you ever been tired enough to put your shoes in the microwave? This is my world: welcome!
  • Many young people find safety in the soothing world of ASMR videos – imagine if we could give them that in the real world
  • Maternity Service by Emma Barnett review – a tour of duty in early motherhood
  • On my radar: Georgia Ellery’s cultural highlights
  • Virtual reality goggles helped me on the path to physical recovery
  • ‘It brings you in and shelters you’: NHS creates ‘recovery gardens’ for staff and patients
  • I moved to the sauna capital of the US. Could I take the heat?
  • ‘Talk about it, focus on your values and … stay stoic’: how to cope with rejection
  • Margaret Miles-Bramwell obituary
  • I do aqua aerobics with women in their 80s – it’s the most fun I’ve had exercising
  • How much do you spend on health and wellness a month?
  • Woman whose baby died at a Sydney hospital waited 50 minutes after emergency caesarean was called, staff say
  • Maternity Service by Emma Barnett review – baby steps
  • The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – do no harm
  • A moment that changed me: Crohn’s left me in constant pain. An operation restored my appetite for life
  • Want your kids to be caring and sharing? Feed them fish
  • What is bird flu, and should you be worried about it?
  • Spreadeagled cats and gladiatorial warfare: everything I learned testing mattresses
  • I was crying, anxious, exhausted – why did no one warn me about the new-pet blues?
  • The one change that worked: I committed to therapy – and began to chip away at my grief and depression
  • Push-up power! The exercise you need for a healthy, happy life – and eight ways to make it easier
  • Sunshine’s back, the days are getting longer – and doesn’t everything look awful?
  • How relearning the tango taught me the steps to recover from trauma
  • The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – are we really getting sicker?
  • Opening our eyes to the science of sleep, in 1971
  • Silence please: how book clubs without the chat help focus the mind

Contact www.ourchemist.com   Terms of Use