Richard Burden

Welcome to the Swansea Clinic of Natural Medicine

Helping you feel better, naturally — for over 25 years.

Are you struggling with persistent health issues, frustrating symptoms, or chronic pain? Do you want to feel more energised, balanced, and in control of your health again?

At the Swansea Clinic, I combine naturopathy, colon hydrotherapy, and musculoskeletal therapy to help you achieve real, lasting improvements in your health. For over three decades, I’ve supported patients with a wide range of concerns—from digestive and hormonal problems to autoimmune conditions, fatigue, pain, and more.

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Common Conditions I Help With:

• Digestive issues: IBS, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea, indigestion, brain fog
• Hormonal imbalances: infertility, weight struggles, low energy, chronic fatigue, food cravings
• Autoimmune and inflammatory conditions: coeliac disease, underactive thyroid, skin problems, rheumatic pain
• Musculoskeletal concerns: back pain, neck pain, sciatica, arthritis, migraines, fibromyalgia, frozen shoulder

If you're feeling overwhelmed by symptoms or haven't found answers elsewhere, I’m here to help unravel the complexity and guide you toward better health.

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 A Natural, Evidence-Based Approach

I use an integrated, science-based method that blends traditional naturopathic care with modern functional medicine and advanced lab testing, including:

- FunctionalDX blood tests – full health MOTs to uncover hidden imbalances

- Genova Diagnostics – targeted insights into gut health, hormones and more

- KBMO food intolerance testing – pinpoint foods, additives or chemicals contributing to symptoms

- AI-powered research tools – cutting-edge support for rare or complex conditions

These tools aren’t always needed, but when they are, they can offer a powerful insight into what’s really going on.

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Let’s Talk – Free 15-Minute Consultation

If you’re not sure whether I can help, I offer a free, no-obligation 15-minute mini consultation (for new clients). You can call the clinic or email me to schedule a time that suits you. We’ll briefly discuss your symptoms, and I can guide you toward the right next steps.

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Meet Your Practitioner

I'm a qualified naturopath with over 36 years of experience in natural medicine. I trained at the British College of Naturopathy & Osteopathy (now the British College of Osteopathic Medicine) and have since worked extensively in Swansea and the surrounding areas. Though I’m no longer a registered osteopath, I continue to offer the same hands-on techniques, manipulation, and soft tissue therapy I’ve used throughout my career.

I'm also a certified colon hydrotherapist (ARCH registered), trained by Dr. Milo Siewart.

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 Clinic Info

🕒 Clinic Days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

📍 Location: 20 Walter Road, Swansea, SA1 5NQ (not far from the city centre)

📞 Appointments: Call 01792 654751 or email me from the Box on the right of this page

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If you’re in Swansea, Port Talbot, Bridgend, Llanelli, or the Gower and looking for natural, personalised care — I’d love to help you feel your best again.

I hope you will take a few minutes to read my latest Blog below on this page and that you find that what I write is helpful and relevant. I believe that what I write is vitally important, as there are few other places where you will receive such life and health giving information. One of my recent blogs is about the exciting developments in the treatment of Alzheimer's and dementia not using drugs.

Please explore the next pages for fuller information. And if you have any queries please send an email from my home page or call the clinic in Swansea on the number below. I am very happy to answer any queries by phone or email.

The Swansea Clinic of Natural Medicine is situated 11 miles from Port Talbot, 25 miles from Bridgend and 12.5 miles from Llanelli and is not far from The Gower.

In recent times I have become increasingly interested in Energy Medicine and because of this I incorporate the hand-held miHealth into much of my musculoskeletal work. The miHealth is extremely helpful in the treatment of pain, muscle tension, muscle spasm, sports injuries, torn muscles, shin splints and acute & chronic back conditions. The technology it uses comes under the category of "pulsed electromagnetic field healing" (PEMF) I have used the miHealth a lot for over  ten years and it is extremely effective, especially for pain. 

A Favourite Quote.....

"One of the great myths about natural medicines is that they are not scientific. The fact of the matter is that for most common illnesses there is greater support in the medical literature for a natural approach than there is for drugs or surgery." — Dr. Michael T. Murray , Bastyr University, Seattle, U.S.A.

My latest Blog Entry

Summer Blog 2025

In an ideal world there are many areas of life which could be improved enormously just by using good nutrition. For example Dr. Mark Hyman MD has reported in the U.S. that in prisons, replacing junk food with whole foods reduced violence by 80%. In juvenile detention centres, replacing junk food with whole foods reduced violence by 91%.

Dr. Hyman went on to say that “if you give prisoners healthy food, swapping out all the crap they eat in prisons, there’s a 56% reduction in violent crime. If you add a multivitamin, it’s an 80% reduction, because they are all nutritionally depleted. The same has been done with adolescents in juvenile detention centres with clinical trials. The kids are disruptive, violent, aggressive, oppositional & suicidal. Stopping the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet filled with Ultra Processed Foods & seed oils, instead giving them whole foods, there was a 91% reduction in all violent behaviour, oppositional behaviour, the need for restraints went down & suicide went down 100%. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in that age group, it went down 100% — no suicides.”

I have often given my patients a copy of the Pegan Diet which was the brain child of Dr. Hyman. If we all adopted this diet, in homes, prisons, schools, hospitals, health would improve enormously and sickness would decrease.

Dr. Hyman was touted for the position of Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had Robert Kennedy Jr. not been approved.

Even the BBC has published evidence that prisoner’s behaviour can improve with a better diet: https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/prison-food-nutrition-violence-mental-health

I say let’s do the same for hospital food and for school meals. That surely is the real answer to help our struggling NHS and the huge rise in chronic illness in this country: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, arthritis etc etc All these diseases are out of control and there is an answer to helping them!

And talking of Alzheimer’s I strongly recommend the new book by Patrick Holford, “Alzheimer’s: Prevention is the Cure”. Patrick Holford is pioneering a lab test and treatment for this horrible disease. If you are interested please look at the website www.foodforthebrain.org The lab tests are available to anyone. Even if you don’t have Alzheimer’s you will want to benefit from the information the book contains to prevent it happening as you get older. Junk food has a lot to answer for!!

New drugs for Alzheimer’s are being produced on a regular basis. None of them work as they do not address the causes. The causes are multifactorial. This was pointed out by Dr. Dale Bredensen who was the first to pioneer a treatment for Alzheimer’s in the U.S. ten years ago. I have mentioned him several times in my blogs over the last few years. It was Dr. Bredensen who first treated a small group of patients and got most of them better. Some even went back to work.

Anyone who wants to improve their health can just do a few simple things like cutting out all junk food, and adding a supplement of Vitamin D 2,000iu daily and 1g of pure fish oil daily and maybe a good quality multi vitamin.

And I will end by being very controversial and comment that 60% of the brain is made up of fat and cholesterol. Statin drugs deplete the brain of these fats and hence will cause memory loss and dementia! Cholesterol is an essential ingredient needed by the body to manufacture hormones. Studies have shown that those with the highest cholesterol levels live the longest! https://medium.com/the-mission/higher-cholesterol-is-associated-with-longer-life-b4090f28d96e

Use good fats in your diet to help feed the brain—olive oil, coconut oil, butter, ghee, avocado oil. Cut out margarine and all seed oils (sunflower, soy, rape, cottonseed). Our bodies need a regular supply of good fat. A low fat diet is not helpful. A low grain diet in many people is a lot more helpful.

I hope you are enjoying the Summer!

My best wishes to all my readers.

P.S. One very important piece of self-help for our health that we can all do, especially during the warmer weather and when we go to the beach is "grounding" or "earthing". This has been shown to be very beneficiasl for our health. Walk bare foot on a beach or on grass as often as you can. You will feel better for it! There is now a lot of scientific evidence that shows that it gets rid of inflammation in the body, as well as other health benefits. We give off positive ions and take on negative ions that are health giving when we ground ourselves. It's free! Do it as often as you can!

https://draxe.com/health/earthing/

Spring Blog 2025

It’s about time I wrote a new blog! And once again there’s so much to write about, but to begin, let me eulogise on a couple of foods you may not eat very much, but are so extremely nutritious and valuable to eat regularly:

WATERCRESS: This is so full of vitamins & minerals I don’t know where to begin! As it has so much going for it I’ll put in a link where you can see it has multiple benefits. Put some in your salads, or in a sandwich.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/watercress-benefits#TOC_TITLE_HDR_8

Watercress is also one of the best vegetables with which to help fight cancer, particularly breast cancer and eat it along with other cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage. Eat some as often as you can!

I remember one of my esteemed colleagues some years ago ate a whole bunch for his lunch at a conference-- and nothing else!

PARSLEY is another vegetable/herb that has multiple health benefits and is packed with an amazing array of nutrients. We have a large plant growing in our garden. It survived the winter amazingly well and now that we have had plenty of sun in recent weeks it continues to thrive and flourish. You can use some in salads and cooked dishes. It is very good for you. Do use it a lot!

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/parsley-benefits#TOC_TITLE_HDR_8

CANCER: “A simple routine of getting sunshine, eating fish, and moderate exercise can slash your cancer risk by 60%” went the headline. If this were a pharmaceutical drug, it would dominate headlines and make hundreds of billions of dollars. But because it doesn’t pad Big Pharma’s pockets, mainstream outlets won’t say a word. This discovery came from a randomized controlled trial published in the prestigious, peer-reviewed journal “Frontiers in Aging”.

VITAMIN D: With regard to vitamin D and cancer prevention, in studies, vitamin D inhibits the growth of cancer cells by regulating several genes responsible for cell proliferation and differentiation. As I have written before everyone should be taking 2,000iu of Vitamin D daily unless they are getting lots of sun on their skin.

Robert Kennedy Jr.: Even if you are put off by Trump, please don’t ignore the tremendously important work Robert Kennedy is trying to do in the U.S. The pharmaceutical industry will use every trick in the book to try and stop him improving health care. Why? Because this industry admits it is there to make a profit and is not there to improve people’s health!!

In my philosophy food and herbs are medicine.

Please keep following R.K Jr’s work in the CDC as he sets up a department to monitor vaccine injuries. You’ll have to believe me when I say that I get quite a few patients who have been injured by such over my years in practice. These events are not rare. And I would urge all my readers to think carefully before having any jab. They are not all they say they do on the tin, most do quite the opposite. Most of the new ones have MRNA technology in them which means that they change your genes! Do you really want your genes changed? Most are NOT evaluated for their safety.

Even the inventor of MRNA technology, Dr. Robert Malone, does not approve the way this technology has been highjacked and misused by the pharmaceutical industry.

HAY FEVER:if you suffer from hay fever at this time of the year please use freshly brewed nettle tea. Yes, stinging nettles have wonderful medicinal value against hay fever. Pick a few fresh nettles and soak them in some boiled water for a few minutes. It tastes very pleasant. In addition you can buy a supplement of quercetin from a health food store and use it three times a day throughout the hay fever season.

Until next time, I give you all my very best wishes!

Autumn/Winter Blog 2024

It’s about time I sat down and printed out a few items I have noted down to post in this next Blog. There is so much happening in the world at the current time and especially that connected to health, or the lack of it.

I will put the positive news first:

Recent research showed that immediate memory recall was improved in children in six hours after consumption of blueberries or blueberry powder!! May be these should be added to school lunches, if they’ve not already had some for breakfast?! In fact blueberries are a wonderful food to consume regularly and have many health benefits for everyone. Just two conditions that have been shown to benefit from regular consumption are osteoporosis and eye problems.

And another piece of research involving 1.7 million children in the U.K.has found that myocarditis and pericarditis only appeared in children who took the recent shots. NOT ONE child in the group, who did not have these, suffered from these heart-related problems.

A study with those suffering from pancreatic cancer found that IV Vitamin C doubled the length of survival even when they were on chemotherapy!!

It has been known that Vitamin C will help other cancers as well.  Linus Pauling was the great pioneer advocating for the use of Vitamin C.

I was up in London at a conference two weeks ago and heard some fascinating speakers. One was Dr. David Unwin a GP who spoke about how his GP pratice now treats diabetes solely with diet. Amazing!

He has just posted on Twitter:

“OK folks, so tonight for you I ate my first mince pie for 12 years in front of 20 patients. To demonstrate what happens when someone with T2D (Type 2 diabetes—that’s the common adult onset one) eats JUST ONE SMALL MINCE PIE (52 gms) MY BLOOD SUGAR DOUBLED in 45 minutes. I did it so you don’t have to!!”

Another wonderful lecturer, an Italian Scientist, Fabio Zoffi, spoke about the work that has been done to help eliminate the spikey thing that people taking the recent jabs will still have contaminating their bodies. Scientists have developed AugmentedNAC that has been shown to almost completely eliminate the problem. If you are concerned about the spikey thing and you wish to get some you can get it from the Natural Dispensary using my name as your practitioner. Use 2-3 capsules daily for several months.

Some more disturbing news has come to light in the last few days. If you buy dairy produce distributed by Arla Foods or Muller, they are now using milk produced from cows being fed Bovaer10. This is a chemical mixed with cattle feed to reduce the ‘emissions’ of methane. Like most products these days it has not been tested properly, let alone on humans who consume the milk products. Morrisons, Aldi and Lidls sell these.

I am much heartened by the advent of the Trump Presidency and particularly by the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr to reform health care in the U.S. This hopefully will have a positive knock-on effect here in the UK as it will affect how the pharmaceutical industry operate. As I have mentioned before I have followed Robert Kennedy's amazing work with his children's defence organisation for many years. In a speech on November 1st he said he prays every day (he is a devout Catholic) and he said, “I asked God for 19 years to put me in a position where I could end the chronic disease epidemic and bring health back to our children, and in August, God sent me Donald Trump.”

It was fascinating a couple of years ago to read R.F.K.Jr's book about The Real A...F... This book is fully referenced (massively so!!) and reveals the true extent of greed, power and corruption in the so-called healthcare industry. In fact it beggars belief! Read it if you dare! You can buy it in the U.K. By reading the book one realises why R.F.K.Jr is so knowledgable about U.S. health care and why he is so suited to take on such an important position in the Trump administration. I wish we had someone like that in the U.K.!

I wish you all a Very Happy Christmas and New Year.

Blog—Early Autumn 2024

Chronic Disease— is the number one health care problem of our age. Chronic disease is increasing year on year in many parts of the world. It has become a health emergency. We are talking about problems such as: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, autism. The NHS can’t cope because there are too many people with these problems. Most are on lots of medication paid for in this country by the NHS.

Please keep reading with an open mind and don’t automatically label me as a ‘conspiracy theorist’! As the saying goes, truth is often stranger than fiction.

Did you know that the business plan for Big Pharma is to keep people sick, but not dying, so that they can profit long term from all the medication they are on?!!

Did you know that the cigarette industry gradually took over the food manufacturing industry from the 1960’s onwards? When cigarette sales gradually decreased the cigarette companies had to diversify and they started to take over parts of the food industry. This period saw the rise of processed foods with added sugars, fats, and other ingredients designed on purpose to be highly addictive. We call these highly processed foods, ‘Junk food’. Junk foods cause ill health.

Many experts feel that the rise in chronic health problems is being caused by junk and processed food, let alone the side effects complicating these diseases from all the medication these people are using. Every medication has side effects, without exception, and the sicker people get the more medication they receive and the greater Big Pharma profits. That is why they are so rich and powerful and control the medical profession and industry.

To give just one example, autism. The incidence of autism has increased catastrophically during the last 25 years. The incidence in the year 2002 was one child in 250. This has steadily risen every year since and is now one in every 20 children!!! In Northern Ireland one in 14 boys has autism. If that is not catastrophic, I don’t know what is.

Many believe they know why, but no-one is prepared to do the research to prove it. I wonder why?! Probably because it would affect Big Pharma’s bottom line too much. Even Dr. Andrew Wakefield was struck off for saying he suspected why, but said that more research should be done.

I have followed the work of Robert Kennedy Jr. for many years. He is an environmental lawyer and I am delighted that he may be given the opportunity to be in the next American Government. He founded an amazing organisation called the https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/welcome-to-the-defender/ This website is well worth taking a look at. The work of this organisation covers many aspects of children’s health, including chronic health problems.

During his recent speech to the Republican Party, when he gave up his own presidential campaign and joined forces with Donald Trump, Kennedy highlighted the risks associated with processed foods and seed oils and the pervasive influence of corporate interests over government regulators. He gave a passionate pledge that he would try and do something about the chronic disease crisis that is crippling America. Kennedy knows that manufacturing food companies are behind the chronic disease crisis. If you watch some of his video clips (and there are many on the Net) he emphatically states what is the cause of autism as well.

Over many years, sugar has been the number one ‘enemy’ of good health. But seed oils are also now known to be just as harmful. What are these? They have been named the ‘Hateful Eight’. All vegetable oils: sunflower, rape (canola), soy, safflower, peanut, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed. All of these oils have been highly refined, heat treated, and are extremely high in the Omega 6 oils that cause inflammation in the body when consumed. Inflammation is present in all chronic disease.

Much better to eat cold-pressed olive oil on salads and to cook with coconut oil, or a small amount of olive oil. The best sources of the healthy Omega 3 oils are in oily fish and linseeds (flax seeds) Ghee can also be used in cooking. Margarine is the most highly refined of all oils. A little butter is a much healthier option—saturated fats are not bad!! That is propaganda put out by the food industry. And the oil in avocados is wonderful too!

I’ll close with a saying I came across recently put out by the “No Farmers= No Food” organisation: http://nofarmersnofood.com/

"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit,

because it will in the end contribute most

to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington (1787)

My very warm wishes to you all.

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