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Why does it take ‘Uncommon Sense’ to Achieve Wellness? 

Because “Common Sense” will not get you there.

Common sense gives us concepts that sound good, but are misleading or unhelpful when it comes to achieving optimal wellness.

For example…

We are told, with great confidence and very little curiosity, that: 

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The food pyramid is the one true map of eating right 

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Extra weight is simply a morality tale about diet and exercise 

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Feeling tired, foggy and uninspired is just “what happens with age” 

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Chronic illnesses have “no cure” and must be negotiated with drugs for life 

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Blood pressure, thyroid and cholesterol tablets, once begun, are a lifetime subscription you cannot cancel 

Some of this may be true. Some of it may be harmless.
Some of it may be catastrophically wrong for you. 

One size does not fit all (and never has)

The deeper problem is not malice, but laziness.

We have built an industrialised, bulk discount model of health where the greatest sin is variation, not ill health. The system likes rules that are easy to teach, easy to bill for and easy to scale. Your body, inconveniently, did not get that memo. 

Wishing Well’s “Uncommon Sense Wellness” starts from the heretical notion that you are not an average. 

Treating you as though you are just a number, may be the most expensive shortcut in medicine.

Wishing Well’s Uncommonsense Wellness Workshops exist for the awkward, uncooperative fact that one size never fitted all in the first place. 

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Make sense of the contradictory health advice that arrives daily via doctors, influencers and early morning family WhatsApp messages

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Build solutions that are tailored to your biology, your life and your goals

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Protect yourself from major diseases before they become a full-time job

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Discover drug-free paths to getting better, or at least with fewer side-effects, in case you are already ill

The customised ‘Uncommonsense’ workshop 

Most wellness programs are designed like budget airline seats: identical, cramped and optimised for the convenience of the operator, not the comfort of the passenger.

We try a different approach. When we design a customised program, we begin not with a package but with the person. Among the tools we may use are:

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Eating plans that work in the real world, where people have jobs, families and late night biryanis

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A shift from worshipping “weight loss” to understanding fat loss and metabolic health

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Detoxification routines that do not require a week off work and a PhD in juicing

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Practical methods for increasing day-to-day energy and stamina

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Lifestyle-led strategies to reduce cholesterol and blood pressure, so tablets are a temporary tool rather than a life sentence

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Relief from joint pain, backache and mysterious aches through muscle balancing and movement re-education, not just more pills

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Coaching for behaviour change, because knowing what to do and actually doing it are different species

This is not a spa weekend with better brochures. It is an attempt to redesign your default settings. 

Special needs workshops: where “incurable” is code for “we gave up too early”

“Never give up” is our motto when it comes to helping our patients. We encourage our patients to team up with us to find solutions to their long-standing, or debilitating problems.

Some challenges we face on a daily basis:

A variety of Heart problems

So called “incurable” diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Parkinson’s, etc.

Heart problems 

 So called “incurable” diseases 

Diabetes

Cancer 

Obesity and stubborn weight loss challenges

If you think of a diagnosis as the end of curiosity, “this is what you have, please take a token and stand in that queue”, these workshops are where curiosity is reintroduced.

Emotion, physiology and the bit doctors sometimes call “lifestyle” 

The body is not a car and the mind is not a passenger. They are in a long, complicated marriage. So we also work on:

Learning to harness stress to your advantage, rather than “managing it” while waiting for that inevitable “explosion”

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Anger management 

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Relationships and addictions 

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The power, and danger, of your own thinking 

You can call this “soft” if you like. The immune system does not. 

Onsite diagnostics: when wellness becomes life or death serious

Corporate health checkups are the medical equivalent of school report cards: lots of numbers and very little insight. You get a neat file, a generic lecture and a free pen. 

Our onsite diagnostic procedure is for people who want something more interesting than a souvenir folder. It is designed to show where you are on the illness to wellness spectrum and, more importantly, where you are heading if nothing changes. Participants receive results within about 72 hours and are taught how to read them before they are told what to do with them. 

This matters enormously, especially in conditions like cancer. 

In many conventional pathways, a treatment plan is decided before the full biology of the tumour has been explored. Important drivers, including genomic changes such as copy number variants where chunks of DNA are duplicated or deleted, may never be examined, even though they can influence how the cancer behaves and responds to treatment. 

At that point, patients are solemnly advised to “take a second opinion”. What usually happens is something more like Opinion 1a, 1b and 1c. The same reports are shown to equally busy experts, trained in the same institutions and operating under the same guidelines and incentives. bout 72 hours and are taught how to read them before they are told what to do with them. 

This matters enormously in conditions like cancer.

In many conventional pathways, a treatment plan is decided before the full biology of the tumour has been explored. Important drivers, including genomic changes such as copy number variants where chunks of DNA are duplicated or deleted, may never be examined, even though they can influence how the cancer behaves and responds to treatment. 

At that point, patients are solemnly advised to “take a second opinion”. 
What usually happens is something more like Opinion 1a, 1b and 1c. The same reports are shown to equally busy experts, trained in the same institutions and operating under the same guidelines and incentives. 

This is not a second opinion. 


It is a chorus. Louder, but not wiser. 

A genuine second opinion does something far more uncomfortable. It questions the frame itself. It asks what we have not measured, what we have assumed away, and whether we are treating the tumour, the person or the spreadsheet.

Uncommonsense Wellness exists to help patients and families ask these questions early enough that the answers still matter. Our diagnostics and education are designed to give you a better conversation with your doctors, not to replace them.

You then have the option of consulting with our medical team for preventive or therapeutic strategies based on what we find.

Keeping score: because vibes do not lower cholesterol 

Most wellness initiatives are run like games where nobody bothers to keep the score. Everyone feels virtuous for a few weeks and then quietly forgets what was promised.

We think this is a tragic waste of effort and attention. If you are going to invest time, money and human goodwill into changing health, you might as well find out whether anything changed.

So we track. We monitor. We compare the before and after. We look at what stuck and what bounced off. That is how you move from wellness as performance theatre to wellness as an operational advantage for individuals and organisations.

Follow up: turning good intentions into boring habits 

Real behaviour change is gloriously unexciting. The story is always the same: what you do occasionally does not matter; what you do without thinking runs your life.

To bridge that gap, we offer weekly online follow up sessions for up to four weeks. These give participants access to our experts and coaches while they are actually trying to implement changes in the messy reality of meetings, deadlines and family life.

Over time, the new behaviours become less dramatic and more routine, which is precisely when you know they are working.