A Fun Book by a Real Medical Doctor
The NHS is almost like a religion. But its costs are soaring, and often the money could be used on prevention, rather than bed-blocking.
Read the main health tips by the NHS.
This Book May Save Your Life is a funny book by a popular NHS surgeon, showing truthful and scientific ways to feel better. The book’s chapters covers:
- The Brain
- The Heart
- The Lungs
- Sleep
- Bones
- Sight
- Hearing
- Taste
- Touch
- Genitals
- Bugs
- Death!
Let me describe my job in non-medical terms. I slice into people when they’re asleep (with their consent) and remove things. I should stress that I’m one of the good guys, because despite missing some stuff from their bodies, they feel better as a result.
Over the course of my career, I’ve had the blessing of witnessing miracles and tragedies. I’ve come to appreciate that the human body is both a wonder of biology and a total death-trap.
Throughout the book, you’ll find ‘save yourself’ health hacks. I’ve no intention of reminding you to blink and breathe. His tips include:
- Eating healthy foods that you like
- Drinking around 2 litres of water daily
- Taking regular exercise
- No cigarettes (nor vaping)
- Little or no alcohol
The book then goes through each organ of the body, with quick fixes (and a little first aid thrown in too for some chapters).
Dr Karan Rajan studied at Imperial College, London. He is a medical doctor who has over 10 million followers, with his refreshingly frank medical myth-busting and health advice videos.
Listen to Facts (not political lobbyists)
People will always get ill and die. But often if councils created walkable communities with green parks, and made it easy for people to access organic plant-based foods, many diseases would not exist.
We live in a society where older people are now lonely and bored. So of course many get dementia, even if they had active brains before (like any muscle, if you don’t use it, you lose it).
Cancer is not just caused by smoking and the midday sun. It’s also caused by air pollution, water pollution and chemicals on fruits and vegetables, and in our beauty, laundry and cleaning products.
Parkinson’s (the main reason is already known: a farming chemical that the government won’t ban).
If people have free social care, then loved ones would not exhausted and poverty-stricken, to care for their parents, grandparents or children, in times of illness.
If benefits were fairer, then people would be able to go out and spend money in local cafes and take holidays, which reduces stress (it’s known that most ‘ill people’ are poor people).
