Chucking the Kitchen Sink at Cancer - Teddys Tonic

19/02/2026

He finally learned to ride his bike!

This is for my memories. People don’t realise the impact that the poison that is chemo has on little bodies. A poison needed to save lives.

Developmental delays aren’t uncommon especially for younger children and then there are long term medical issues that luckily we don’t have.

Nutrition for me and the lifestyle medicine we practice hasn’t just always been avoiding secondary cancer or relapse. It’s about undoing what treatment took from being a normal little boy.

Teddy is doing various holistic therapies to over come language delays and that restructure the brain body connection that’s stopped him learning to ride a bike like a normal little 5 year old.

Today he got it properly - not fluke or accident. Intentional and I’m so proud of him!!

08/02/2026

Food first

Supplements second - and know what you are looking for.

The supplements industry is saturated with multi- strain supplements to justify high pricing which makes appropriate dosing based on need almost impossible.

Calling things “brain health” and “gut support” to justify high pricing and what usually can be unpicked to be an over expensive waste of time!

Choose single product and third party lab tested supplements wherever you can.

06/02/2026

04/02/2026

1 year ago today -

My book Cancer isn’t all About Chemo launched and went into best seller category by 7am.

It ended up a best seller in 3 different categories

Has sold over 1,000 copies across at least 8 countries (that know of)

So many lives changed who are going through the darkest of times who have come back to share their incredible stories after doing things “Teddys way” .

And we got to spend the morning of the launch on breakfast tv!!

To read more reply back with the word book 👇

13/01/2026

Reduce the tantrums and tap into the golden hour for eating new foods to your picky eater.

If you need more of a step by step guide comment tracker and il send you my food tracker and 5p method that I developed to get my 5 year olds to eat 50 different plants in a week!

Straight after school is the ideal time - they are so hungry and more willing to try something new.

Avoid putting on any of their favourites but include some pretty safe foods that they have at least engaged with at some point in the past or will eat.

It won’t spoil their dinner and there’s no pressure - take it or leave it as a snack and it’s been a great way to have my boys try new things.

Ps save this before you loose it on your feed!

Any questions drop them below.

13/01/2026

We didn’t stay together out of love …..

We gave each other a bucket ton of grace!

Like new parents sleep deprived at 4am arguing about who was more tired - we didn’t take seriously the things said in anger and we split up and tackled tasks like a team.

Everyone thinks cancer should pull you together and make your stronger - news flash. It doesn’t. Not when you are in it. Which is why divorce rates are so high for people going through cancer.

My husband and I decided early on to lean into our strengths. He took on the hard discussion relating to data, clinical trials and treatment.

I did all the holistic and nutrition elements. But I was still in the day to day treatment.

Did we have blazing rows behind closed doors - or even in public when we didn’t agree. Absolutely. But as a team we took on one of the UKs cancer hospitals to get what we needed for our child.

He didn’t agree with all my choices especially with food- I even wrote about it in “cancer isn’t all about chemo” and he thought I was delusional.

But when he saw the results speak for itself he became my biggest body guard.

Happy 8th wedding anniversary. I wish the last 4 had been different but we have navigated Covid lockdown alone with newborn twins we fought and beat cancer for our child and we took the education sector to the cleaners for our developmentally delayed and traumatised child.

You drive me to the edge every day but no one else I would ever want to do life with.

12/01/2026

Tapping into deep sleep when time is against me!

Comment “snooze” for my ultimate deep sleep hack. And it’s free!

Sleep isn’t just vital for your mental health it’s literally needed for your body to create new healthy cells. Which is what you need to fight inflammation and reduce the risk of chronic illnesses.

But let’s be honest if you are managing 6.5 hours you are probably lucky - the house still needs sorting once the little people are in bed and when you get into bed your rebellious streak keeps you up watching tv or doom scrolling way too late

but I’ve found a way to get more out of my sleep when time isn’t on my side

ps that’s not encouraging you not to prioritise sleep. I’m just being realistic.

If you reply back to me with the code word snooze il send you a sleep meditation I use at night so I sleep so deeply I wake up feeling like I took a muscle relaxant and slept 12 hours!