by Dr. Alex Joannou | Sep 10, 2026 | Depression and Anxiety, Acupuncture, Health and Wellbeing, Medical Science
A recent study by Harvard researchers has added another interesting piece to the conversation about gut health and depression. It looked at Morganella morganii, a gut bacterium that has been linked in several studies to major depressive disorder, and explored one...
by Dr. Alex Joannou | Aug 12, 2026 | Health and Wellbeing, Acupuncture, Depression and Anxiety
You don’t have to be in crisis for depression to matter. Sometimes it looks more like getting through the day with no real sense of enjoyment. You work, answer messages, then the day ends, and you feel flat, tired, or strangely detached from your own life. That can...
by Dr. Alex Joannou | Jul 8, 2026 | Health and Wellbeing, Acupuncture, Depression and Anxiety
If you’ve been thinking about trying acupuncture but keep coming back to the same worry, “what if I panic on the table with needles in me?”, it’s a completely reasonable thing to wonder. And it deserves a straight answer before anything else. Yes,...
by Dr. Alex Joannou | Jun 11, 2026 | Acupuncture, Health and Wellbeing
Every year, on the second Saturday of June, something meaningful happens across the globe. Global Wellness Day brings together millions of people in over 100 countries around a simple but powerful idea: that wellbeing deserves intentional attention. June 13th marks...
by Dr. Alex Joannou | May 13, 2026 | Acupuncture, Medical Science
Early in my career as a GP, I worked from one map. The Western medical model. Blood tests, imaging, and structural pathology. Find what’s wrong, name it, treat it. It’s a precise, evidence-based framework that saves lives. I still use it every single day....
