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Dr Daniel Gordon is a London-based GP with special interests in mental health and wellbeing, paediat

01/05/2026

🔴 𝗡𝗼𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 “𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀”… 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲

The standard advice most people receive is behavioural.

Don’t drink after eight.
Cut caffeine.
Reduce alcohol.

And yes, those things matter.

But when you’re waking two or more times a night, consistently,
the explanation is rarely that simple.

Nocturia is a symptom.
Not a diagnosis.

And symptoms are there to point somewhere.

The problem is this one doesn’t sit neatly in one place.
It crosses multiple systems.
Which is exactly why it gets dismissed… or oversimplified.

That’s where people get stuck.

👉 Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/zO9xL-fEjFc

30/04/2026

🔴 𝗡𝗼𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿-𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝘀 𝗜 𝘀𝗲𝗲

Not because waking at night to urinate is automatically dangerous…

But because of what it can represent.

Nocturia isn’t just about your bladder.
It can be a window into your heart.
Your kidneys.
Your lungs.
Your metabolism.
Your prostate.

And the people who dismiss it as an inconvenience are sometimes the ones sitting in front of me later with something we should have picked up earlier.

This is where the risk sits.

Not in the symptom itself.
But in how quickly it’s ignored.

👉 Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/zO9xL-fEjFc

29/04/2026

🔴 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝘄𝗼, 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲, 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲?

And have you told yourself it’s just something that happens as you get older…
that it’s nothing to worry about…
that you’ll just manage it?

That’s the conversation I have with patients every week.

And it concerns me every time.

Because this isn’t always harmless.

And the men who normalise it
are often the ones who come in later
when something should have been picked up earlier.

👉 Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/zO9xL-fEjFc

23/04/2026

🔎 The symptoms are broader than most people realise.

Tummy pain in children doesn’t always present in the way you’d expect.

That’s where it often gets missed.

Because the symptoms don’t always point clearly in one direction.

Tummy pain.
Bloating.
Reduced appetite.

A child who just seems… not quite right.

⚠️ Individually, they don’t always mean much.

But together, they often do.

🩺 And sometimes, the underlying cause is constipation.

Not obvious.
But very common.

👉 Full video on YouTube where I explain what to look for and how to recognise the pattern early: https://youtu.be/cxupDFUiPBQ?si=oGK3kcm25_TaRvi4

🔎 The symptoms are broader than most people realise.

Tummy pain in children doesn’t always present in the way you’d expect.

That’s where it often gets missed.

Because the symptoms don’t always point clearly in one direction.

Tummy pain.
Bloating.
Reduced appetite.

A child who just seems… not quite right.

⚠️ Individually, they don’t always mean much.

But together, they often do.

🩺 And sometimes, the underlying cause is constipation.

Not obvious.
But very common.

👉 Full video on YouTube where I explain what to look for and how to recognise the pattern early: https://youtu.be/cxupDFUiPBQ?si=oGK3kcm25_TaRvi4

22/04/2026

⚠️ Tummy pain in children can improve… and then quietly return.

That’s where things often get confusing.

Because it looks like the problem has been solved.

So treatment stops.

🩺 But the bowel hasn’t fully recovered yet.

And without that recovery,
the pattern simply resets.

The symptoms settle…
then slowly come back.

🔁 Not because something new has happened.

But because the original problem wasn’t fully resolved.

That cycle is more common than people realise.

👉 Full video on YouTube where I explain why this happens and how to actually break the cycle: https://youtu.be/cxupDFUiPBQ?si=oGK3kcm25_TaRvi4

18/04/2026

When a child has ongoing tummy pain and says they don’t need to go, it’s often seen as stubbornness.

But that assumption can be misleading.

Because sometimes… the signal simply isn’t there.

When the bowel has been stretched over time, the normal urge to go becomes weaker.

Just a system that isn’t working as it should.

And that’s where understanding changes everything.

👉 Full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cxupDFUiPBQ?si=oGK3kcm25_TaRvi4

18/04/2026

Pain changes behaviour.

Children learn quickly what hurts.

So they avoid it.

And the more they avoid it…

The more the problem builds.

Until what started as something small
becomes something persistent.

That’s the cycle most people don’t see.

👉 Full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cxupDFUiPBQ?si=oGK3kcm25_TaRvi4

17/04/2026

Most parents think constipation in children is simple.

A bit more fibre.
A bit more water.

And it should settle.

But when it doesn’t…

It creates confusion.

Because it doesn’t behave like a short-term problem.

It builds quietly over time.

And that’s where it’s often misunderstood.

👉 Full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cxupDFUiPBQ?si=oGK3kcm25_TaRvi4

16/04/2026

Does your child keep complaining of tummy pain? And every time, you’re told nothing is seriously wrong?

And that should feel reassuring.

But when the pain keeps coming back…

It usually means something hasn’t been properly understood.

Because symptoms don’t repeat themselves for no reason.

Constipation is one of the most common causes I see.

And one of the most overlooked.

👉 Full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cxupDFUiPBQ?si=oGK3kcm25_TaRvi4

02/04/2026

What I find interesting is that some of the most important things we do in medicine are actually very simple.

This test is a good example of that.

On the surface, it doesn’t feel like much. But it gives us a way to pick up signals that would otherwise go completely unnoticed.

And that’s really what screening is about.

You will never have all of the answers straight away, but there are tools to help decide when something might need a closer look.

It’s a small step, but it can play a meaningful role in understanding what’s going on in the body.

Had you heard of this test before, or is this new to you?

31/03/2026

One of the things I often try to do when explaining medical concepts to patients is find simple ways to make complicated ideas easier to understand.

Screening tests are a good example of this.

People often assume that a test should simply tell us whether someone does or doesn’t have a disease. But in reality, screening tests are designed to balance different outcomes.

That’s where this analogy comes in.

If you imagine fishing in a lake, the size of the holes in your net determines what you catch and what slips through. Make the holes very small and you’ll catch everything, but you’ll also catch things you didn’t intend to. Make the holes too large and some of what you’re looking for may escape.

Screening tests work in a similar way.

The goal is always to design the net in a way that catches as many genuine problems as possible while avoiding unnecessary alarm for people who are healthy.

It’s not about perfection. It’s about finding the balance that helps the most people.

I explore this idea in more detail in my latest episode of The Health Perspective, where I explain how bowel cancer screening works and how doctors think about useful tests like qFIT.

🎥 The new episode is now live on YouTube.

27/03/2026

When people hear about bowel cancer screening, many assume the process must be complicated, invasive, or uncomfortable.

In reality, one of the most widely used screening tools is actually very simple.

The qFIT test is designed to detect tiny traces of blood in a stool sample that wouldn’t normally be visible. Those traces can sometimes be an early signal that something in the bowel needs further investigation.

Importantly, this test doesn’t diagnose cancer on its own. What it does is help doctors identify who may benefit from further checks, often before symptoms have even appeared.

That’s why screening tests like this are such an important part of preventative medicine.

In my latest episode of The Health Perspective, I explain how the qFIT test works, why it’s used in bowel cancer screening, and what people should understand about its strengths and limitations.

🎥 The new episode is now live on YouTube if you’d like to watch the full discussion.

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