Be your own Doctor of Health and Happiness

In this short book, Michael shares his decades of experience as a health practitioner, urging self-responsibility rather than reliance on medical services underpinned by symptom management. His starting point is that ‘there has been a failure of modern healthcare and medicine to create healthy individuals, healthy societies, and healthy planet despite scientific and medical advances.’ From a biological point of view, we are the evolutionary product of symbiosis with nature, and it is misleading to treat humans as machines, as also observed by the great physician Lord Horder in the 1930s, where he also argued for the central role of the family physician, now being displaced by specialists and AI. There are then helpful chapters on various forms of connection involving the body, food, water, breath, mind, family and community, environment, Earth and Cosmos. Michael advocates a philosophical shift of emphasis towards wholism and responsibility, giving readers a clear road map to follow, one which he himself has pursued.