Functional Again

10/07/2026

Exactly- the significance of the reflexes for the maturity of the gut. Rob speaks all that I have been teaching parents. Bravo. Thanks Dr Robert Melillo. Using your methods right here in Gizzy.

10/07/2026

Root cause medicine - my passion. Thanks to Deborah of The Nurses Collective NZ for a great interview. 🥰💖
Looking forward to our new Live series “Health without Spin”.

20/03/2026

Thanks Glenn. I’m certain Godfrey was right. Wouldn’t it be great if provocative letters such as this could still be published without censorship and vilification?

With outbreaks of meningococcal B in many parts of the world I was reminded that in 2004, New Zealand GP Dr Mike Godfrey published a provocative letter in the New Zealand Medical Journal titled "Haemorrhagic meningococcal meningitis: is it scurvy?", NZMJ Vol. 117 No. 1200 on 20 August 2004.

Writing during New Zealand’s 1991-2007 meningococcal B epidemic, he proposed that the haemorrhagic symptoms of meningococcal disease might be a form of "acute scurvy" and argued that the rapid depletion of Vitamin C during a severe infection leads to a breakdown of blood vessel integrity, mirroring the clinical presentation of scurvy.

One mechanism for disease susceptibility might be vitamin C deficiency suggesting adequate levels on the diet may help ward off complications. He also suggested that the disease only becomes severe ("fulminating") when the liver is overwhelmed by toxins, which he believed Vitamin C could mitigate.

Godfrey argued that high-dose Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) could be an effective, safe, and cheap therapy for meningococcal disease. The letter is on page 121-122 at this link:https://nzmj.org.nz/media/pages/journal/vol-117-no-1200/01f3bb390e-1696470820/vol-117-no-1200.pdf

28/12/2025

She was right.

274 likes, 40 comments. “My past predictions have just been confirmed by the REM magazine! Estates & POA listings are 10% higher than last year and 78% higher than a decade ago!! Gee…I wonder why???”

25/12/2025

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13/11/2025

We are on the brink of biological and commercial disaster if this bill materialises.

29/10/2025

This is on my mind. The root causes we try to unpick for families here at Functional Again.