The OmniaJournal

Long reads from our clinicians in Chiswick on the mind, light, the body, movement and Ayurveda. Each piece is built to be explored, linked to the research behind it, and honest about what the evidence does not yet show.

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Pain across a lifetime: what 6.1 million people reveal

A study of 6.1 million people in 118 countries maps pain from age 5 to 100. Women reported more at every site, and most of it arrives before 55.

Dismissed: why people with ME/CFS are still being let down

The guidance changed in 2021 and the genetics arrived in 2025, yet people with ME/CFS are still disbelieved. What changed, what did not, and what good care looks like.

Red light therapy for fibromyalgia: what the research shows

Fourteen trials and four reviews, including where it did not help, with a link to every study.

The interstitium and acupuncture: the body's third circulation

In 2018 anatomists described a fluid network running through the whole body. Twelve illustrated scenes follow it to a map that is two thousand years old.

What 1,744 trials say about tai chi, qigong and musculoskeletal pain

The largest review of its kind, distilled: what it found condition by condition, how much practice it took, and how sure we can be.

Beyond diagnosis: what are we missing?

When the world around us keeps changing, can a diagnosis on its own explain someone's mental health?

Is borderline personality disorder always just a disorder?

A diagnosis describes what someone is going through. Nearly three decades of practice ask what it leaves out.

Decoding the mind: a bridge between body and soul

Where does the mind live? A clinical psychologist follows the question into the oldest psychology we have.

The suffering of many, the boom for a few

Since 2020, successive crises have left most households poorer and a few sectors richer. A psychologist asks what that pattern does to the mind.

How slow is slow? Tai chi you can try on the page

Hold a dot for sixteen seconds, trace the forms and follow the breath, and feel why slowness is the whole point.

El Niño through the lens of Ayurveda

A warming Pacific bends weather across continents. Ayurveda's language of heat, dryness and damp gives a practical way to adapt.

Does the brain create thought, or does consciousness use the brain?

ATP, mitochondria, neurons and the deeper mystery of where a thought comes from.

Thinking costs something: ATP, the brain and red light

The brain is two per cent of your weight and burns a fifth of your fuel. What ATP has to do with how you think.

Nothing in that combination yet.

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How we write

Each piece starts with a question patients bring to the clinic, then goes to the research for an answer.

Linked to sources. Claims point to the trial, review or guideline behind them.
Honest about limits. Where the evidence is weak or mixed, the page says so.
Clear about who wrote it. Every piece names its author or the Omnia clinical team.
Not medical advice. Read it alongside your GP's care, never instead of it.

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