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Honest writing on the body, the rhythm, the daily ritual. Mostly Mal — occasionally the team. No hype. No before/after. Just what we are learning, in time.

Mal · 7 May 2026

Why we're starting with women's health.

The first programme is Women's Health. Across thirty years, that's the area I've been asked for the most — and the area where the pattern work shows up most clearly. Here's what I mean by that, and why I think a daily ritual matters more than another supplement.

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Mal · 28 Apr 2026

What I told my patients about the device.

Two questions came up most: does it replace seeing you? (no), and can I use it during my period? (yes — that's actually the point). The honest answers, and the longer thinking behind them.

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Mal · 12 Apr 2026

Three thousand years, one piece of hardware.

The bridge between TCM tradition and TENS technology is where most people lose me — or where they decide it's interesting. A note on the join, and what's actually new in Meridiann (which is less than the marketing suggests, in a good way).

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The team · 30 Mar 2026

How we're thinking about pricing.

We don't have a price yet. We have a set of constraints — sustainable manufacturing, a daily ritual that needs to be affordable enough to actually do, a refill subscription that doesn't punish people for sticking with it. Here's how we're thinking about the maths.

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Mal · 14 Mar 2026

What "wellness ritual, not medical device" means in practice.

The TGA distinction is real and it shapes everything we say. But it's also genuinely how I think about Meridiann clinically. A note on what we're not claiming, what we are claiming, and why the difference matters.

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Mal · 22 Feb 2026

The day this idea actually started.

It was a Tuesday. A patient asked me a question I'd been asked a thousand times — what should I do at home? — and I didn't have a good enough answer. The story of how Meridiann started, and what changed in clinic on that one Tuesday afternoon.

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