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 | Apr 7, 2026 | Acupuncture, Health and Wellbeing, Medical Science
I still remember this one patient who came to me for widespread osteoarthritis. She’d been on strong opioid painkillers for years, not because she was careless, but because she was in genuine pain and her prescription made sense at the time. Her story is one...
by Dr. Alex Joannou | Mar 10, 2026 | Acupuncture, Health and Wellbeing, Medical Science
Perimenopause is a natural transition, but that doesn’t mean it always feels straightforward. For many women, the signs arrive gradually. Poor sleep here, a short fuse there… until one day it becomes clear that something is shifting. By the time many women arrive at...
