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The Healing Fusion: When Modern Medicine Meets Ancient Wisdom in a GP’s Practice

The Healing Fusion: When Modern Medicine Meets Ancient Wisdom in a GP’s Practice

by Dr. Alex Joannou | Feb 21, 2024 | Acupuncture, Health and Wellbeing, Medical Science

The Beautiful Side of Grief is a weekly podcast for people who want to hear interviews from people who have moved through heart-wrenching loss or those who are supporting this process. It is diverse and heart-warming, though most of all, it is positive and filled with...
Acupuncture: Your Key to a Life Restored, Naturally

Acupuncture: Your Key to a Life Restored, Naturally

by Dr. Alex Joannou | Oct 18, 2023 | Acupuncture, Depression and Anxiety, Health and Wellbeing

The Chris Voss Show Podcast – In this podcast episode, I was an invited guest and I was pleased to talk about my life as a medical practitioner, my battle with Crohn’s disease, and my journey into the acupuncture treatment industry. Listen to the full podcast...
My Journey Into Transformational Acupuncture

My Journey Into Transformational Acupuncture

by Dr. Alex Joannou | Aug 9, 2023 | Acupuncture, Depression and Anxiety, Health and Wellbeing

Learn more about my overarching mission in the acupuncture industry by listening to this podcast interview I recently had with Ann Théato of the Psychic Matters podcast. Transcription: Ann: With me in the studio today, I have a fascinating guest who is joining me all...
Thinking your way into depression

Thinking your way into depression

by Dr. Alex Joannou | Aug 27, 2022 | Depression and Anxiety, Health and Wellbeing, Medical Science

We can think ourselves into depression. We have around 60,000 – 70,000 thoughts a day, and very few of them are original. We can tell ourselves many times a day that we are stupid, are unattractive, are too short, or too tall, too fat, or too thin. These false...
Physical illness as a cause of depression

Physical illness as a cause of depression

by Dr. Alex Joannou | Aug 15, 2022 | Depression and Anxiety, Health and Wellbeing

In considering the cause of depression, it is important to rule out a number of medical conditions first. Particularly in this age of Dr Google, patients may feel depressed and then look to herbs or natural therapies for depression and then go ahead treat themselves,...
What Causes Depression?

What Causes Depression?

by Dr. Alex Joannou | Jul 26, 2022 | Depression and Anxiety, Health and Wellbeing

What causes depression? When thinking about the cause of depression it is useful to see us as more than just a mere machine. Modern medicine does tend to think of human beings in such a way. For example, seeing the kidneys as operating like a swimming pool filter, the...
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Dr. Alex Joannou

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