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CAM practice is a blog about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), aimed particularly at practitioners. It is a companion blog to the website of CAM magazine and written by that mag’s editor.
You will find:
* Up to date news and comment on nutrition and diet as well as nutritional therapy, the use of vitamins and other supplements in practice, and therapies including nutrition, herbal medicine, naturopathy and so on.
* Analysis of attacks on CAM therapies - where they are accurate and useful, this blog will say so. Most of them are misleading, biased and just plain bad science.
* Exposure of the unrelenting silliness of so-called ‘evidence-based’ medicine and the poor evidence it is based on.
* News on the latest CAM research.
* What are the latest moves to regulate CAM and its practitioners.
* Live links to sites and blogs that, if you are interested in CAM, you will want to know about.
Who is Simon?
Simon Martin is a British journalist who has been writing and researching alternative medicine and natural health for 30 years. He has a reputation for telling things just the way they are and has an unrivalled experience in the field.
Throughout his career, he has been a champion of “alternative” approaches to health and medicine, rather than just those that are “complementary” or - the new buzz-word, “integrated”.
“There’s no point in using therapies that are ‘complementary’ to standard medicine if and when standard medicine doesn’t work”, he says. “That’s when we need an alternative. The majority of orthodox medicine’s cancer treatment would be a case in point.”
As for “integrated” he says: “I understand it means different things in different parts of the world, but in the UK, ‘integrated medicine’ means healthcare that includes some CAM therapies but that is delivered by and/or under the control of conventional medical doctors and nurses, some of them with little or no training in the complementary’ therapies they are using.”
He remains what others call “paranoid” and he describes as “intelligently cynical” about the role of the pharmaceutical industry and orthodox medicine in the continuing attacks on complementary and alternative meduicine. And he is very leery of the claims that EU bureaucrats and UK government “regulators” are REALLY about public safety.
He’s been full-time writing on alternative medicine.since joiniing (and then editing) Here’s Health magazine - Britain’s first magazine devoted to nutrition and alternative health. He launched and was first editor of the Journal of Alternative Medicine (UK) in the 1990s and for the last 9 years has been editor of CAM magazine www.cam-mag.com, the monthly print magazine for practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine.
You can read the latest issue of CAM online - just click on the image.
As well as writing about all this stuff, he has BSc (Hons) degree in health sciences from the University of Westminster, London, which included training in nutrtion, herbal medicine and bodywork. He is also trained in dry needling (acupuncture), and a variety of bodywork approaches.
He originally trainerd as a sports therapist early on in his career - that was a direct result of meeting inspiring physical therapists while on his first job in journalism, as a staff reporter on CYCLING magine (now CYCLING Weekly) in the days when no one outside of that sport had heard of the Tour de France. Lance Armstrong was 6 months old as Simon joined CYCLING. Simon still has a “secret” life as an athlete - he is a masters world champion, nationally ranked at 1500m and 3000m, Colorado Runner of the Year and bronze medal British 5k championship winner. He applies his nutritional and alternative medicine knowledge to enhance his performance and recovery. His running blog is here.
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