Nerys Davies

Caring for babies can be both exciting and challenging for parents. My new blog outlines some simple tips and tricks on settling little one as well as ways in which osteopathy can help both parents and baby 🌱

https://www.nerysdaviesosteopathy.com/blog/newborn-baby-care

I love our local area, I never get tired of Goldbourne Road and portabello. St.Charles hospital nearby houses the Notting Hill Therapy Clinic. I spend lots of time in my own clinic and working on the wards with
Live where you live and work 🌱❤️🤸🏻‍♀️



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My new website, thanks to the brilliant Ruth Gaunt ❤️🚀

Drawing this 50,000 year old Neanderthal skeleton I kept thinking about the anatomical differences between now and then. The low skull, brown ridge, the height and barrel chest. The bones are thicker the limbs shorter
Yet we are strikingly similar!

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo just won the Nobel prize for his work concerning genomes that include the Neanderthals. His discoveries have great implications on modern medicine, highlighting what makes us similar and unique to our ancestors.

One example is EPAS1 found in modern Tibetans helps people at great altitudes-this was found in our ancestors the Denisovans

Sequencing the Neanderthal genome helps us see what makes us human.

'The most profound legacy of Pääbo’s establishment of palaeogenomics is, or should be, humility. Because it turns out that many of the earliest Homo sapiens populations entering Eurasia eventually shared the same fate as the Neanderthals they met and mingled with. Their lineages vanished, culturally but also genetically, leaving behind no descendants among living humans. Perhaps the greatest inheritance they left us is understanding that our story is not one of predestined, exceptional success, but a blend of serendipity and coincidence; and that being the last hominin standing is not necessarily something to be proud of.'

Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist and author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/10/nobel-prize-neanderthal-svante-paabo-palaeogenetics

My new website is now live and you can book treatments on it 🤲🏻

www.nerysdaviesosteopathy.com

It's always lovely to hear feedback from patients. Thanks for all the reviews!

A lovely patient left this for me last week in clinic and this is one of the few moments I have put it down. So brilliantly written and fascinating in more ways than you could imagine. During my masters in osteopathy I had the privilege to study dissection at University College hospital and I can relate to Sue Blacks descriptions of the anatomists hard at work, I wasn't quite as brave as her students though and spent most of my time next to the bins just incase I was sick! I've never forgotten the incredible gift we were given by the unknown person who donated their body! As I became braver I started to learn and understand the human body in greater depth.

The book isn't just for the morbidly fascinated, it gives you a whole new perspective on our time here and the clues our bodies can leave behind for future generations

I am now available for osteopathic treatments at Notting Hill Therapy Clinic W10 6DZ
www.nottinghilltherapyclinic.com
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