Blog Archives: 2010 | Nutri-Link UK

B Vitamins Slow Brain Shrinkage

Homocysteine lowering Metabolites - namely B Vitamins reduce the rate of brain atrophy, providing support for their role as a preventative measure in reducing risk of Alzheimers and other CNS diseases of age. The role of the amino acid homocysteine in the health of the brain has received an interesting boost with the latest PLOS One publication from a team based at Oxford University. Plasma homocysteine levels are strongly influenced by diet, as well as by genetic factors. The dietary components...

Diets

Pakistan Disaster Support

New ShelterBox's on way to Pakistan We sponsor the efforts of ShelterBox by purchasing complete boxes to provide immediate and vital relief to families affected by international tragedy. Pakistan is facing one the world’s greatest environmental floods and people have lost everything. We know that this support will impact people directly and regularly support ShelterBox. Our new box will be on its way in just a day or so. The boxes will be flown to Islamabad, Pakistan, where they will be distributed...

Digestive Health Adrenal Health Detoxification

Staff Member Runs Succesful Detox Retreat

Karen Devine, one of our long standing technical support team launched her new project 'Devine Detox' in Italy this summer. A week of naturopathic oriented cleansing, juice fasting, colon cleansing, and supplements to support detoxification and elimination made this a very successful week in terms of results. Having been facilitating detox retreats for several years, I decided to launch Devine Detox to allow me to help address some of most common issues we find in our clinic such as stubborn weight...

Diets

Are Your Cosmetics Safe?

Have you visited storyofcosmetics.org yet? If not, you should! Learn about how major loopholes in U.S. federal law allow the $50 billion beauty industry to put unlimited amounts of chemicals into personal care products with no required testing, no monitoring of health effects and inadequate labeling requirements—making cosmetics among the least-regulated consumer products on the market. Think twice before putting on that lipstick, you might be putting on lead! Whilst aimed at the US market there...

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Dr Lombard - Great Success

On Saturday the 10th April Dr Jay Lombard a US certified Neurologist presented a Functional Medicine Approach to Mental Health at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on behalf of Nutri-Link's education division. Over 110 practitioners were given a measured, research based approach to integrative thinking and clinical application of nutrients in the management of neurological and psychological disorders. Dr Lombard has over 20 years of hospital and clinical experience and his grasp of the subject...

Diets

Blogs - What are They?

Blogging - the provision of information in small or large amounts on the web is incredibly popular, there are millions of them! However whilst some are of excellent quality others are, well, - perhaps in need of some TLC. By selecting a range of trusted blogs, you can create your own newspaper, collecting information across your interests, and screening out all the stuff you just don't need. Nutri-Link and in particular Michael Ash blogs every week in the Clinical Education site, you can find his...

Diets

CAM Award Winner

In the section related to the 'Outstanding Contribution to the Community' our Managing Director and editor of our educational blog and web site Michael Ash was given a highly commended award in this years - 2010 CAM awards. The CAM awards continues CAM’s commitment to recognising the practitioners’ and students’ who use CAM to make a real difference to their community, or simply excel in their field of work. Michael ran a very successful integrated health care practice for 25 years, before selling...

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What Water do you Drink?

There have been questions about the validity and need for us to consume water from bottles rather than the tap. A number of companies have simply extracted water from taps, placed into bottles and then resold for a profit. Others genuinely look to extract their water from unique sites and offer an alternative to tap water that we may feel is worthwhile. However, there is a cost outside of the financial one and that is an environmental one. Here at Nutri-Link we installed a tap filter to replace the...

Digestive Health Probiotics

Antibiotics May Cause Gut Related Disease

Many of us are eternally grateful for the discovery by Sir Alexander Fleming that he discovered the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with colleagues Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. But like many drugs they have been overused and over prescribed, antibiotics kill bacteria only and the use of these for viral infections, as well as prolonged use and antibacterial resistance...

Diets

Nutri-Link Supports WWW's Earth Hour

The contribution to the health of the planet by everyone will vary according to personal circumstances. Some will be energetic contributors and others benignly apathetic. Here at Nutri-Link we have a well established policy for environmental care and are also supporting the WWW Earth Hour project and invite you to do so to. Its quick and easy to add your commitment to demonstrate a global determination to look after the future of our planet. On Saturday 27 March 2010 at 8.30pm, WWW want a billion...

B Vitamins Slow Brain Shrinkage

Pakistan Disaster Support

Staff Member Runs Succesful Detox Retreat

Are Your Cosmetics Safe?

Dr Lombard - Great Success

Blogs - What are They?

CAM Award Winner

What Water do you Drink?

Antibiotics May Cause Gut Related Disease

Nutri-Link Supports WWW's Earth Hour

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