Blog Archives: 2018 | Nutri-Link UK

Crazy Cat Lady – The Cat Fights Back!

We discussed earlier in 2018 that certain traits in behaviour, risk taking, and emotive decision making may be adversely affected by the associated infection of a common feline protozoa called Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii). You may have nodded your head with a knowing smile reviewing the list of related symptoms and the known behaviour of certain others – not yourself obviously! Now clearly there will have been several internal discussions following this revelation including …. does kitty go? Or...

Mental Health Diets

Belief

How much of your decision and thoughts depend on belief? Do you consider belief a strong enough position to make clinical decisions on? How should belief be seen in terms of responsibility and clinical competency? Here we muse on this very question and trust you find it of interest. Back in 1877 the little-known British philosopher Clifford wrote in ‘The Ethics of Belief’ three arguments as to why we have a moral obligation to believe responsibly, that is, to believe only what we have sufficient...

Food Diets Vegan

Meat or Legumes; Protein needs

Despite health and environmental concerns, global consumption of animal flesh has according to the document on sustainability by Impossible Foods grown fourfold in the past 50 years, and Americans, rather amazingly consume some 50bn burgers a year, with developing countries catching up. Surely, they are getting enough protein, but how much is actually needed for health and what source is best? Food production is responsible for more than a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions and growing feed for...

Lifestyle Medicine Stress Management Diets

Lifestyle Medicine, Revolution or Revelation?

In the British Medical Journal on the 25th October 2018 an article was published exploring the development of a new diploma in ‘lifestyle medicine’, and asked if this is a new medical speciality? To many clinician’s ‘lifestyle’ is not simply a new speciality, but an unknown and misunderstood one. For many decades the significant role of changes in lifestyle in the prevention and recovery of non-communicable illness has been ignored or subjugated to a role of such insignificance that it has withered...

Food Lifestyle Medicine

Interprofessional relationships and the building of teams

The 5th AFMCP™-UK event in London, in which the education is provided by the Institute of Functional Medicine and the conference organised by Clinical Education has just recently concluded. Over 300 delegates attended the 5-day course and were either introduced, refreshed or reassured about the practical approaches to using the principals and practices of functional medicine to mediate, prevent and reverse non-communicable diseases. The gathering of the enthusiastic participants was enhanced by the...

Digestive Health Detoxification

The Gut-Liver Axis

The relationship between the contents, metabolites, barrier and immune response of the gut and organs and function in the body are becoming well understood, albeit there are many nuances yet to be quantified. One area in which the dynamic interaction between the gut and organs is rapidly rising up the knowledge tree is the ‘liver and gut axis’. In large part this is due to the increase in the prevalence of liver related inflammation, of which non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is becoming...

Immune Health Mental Health

‘Loss’ and its management

Loss – what does it mean to you, what does it mean to the people you are helping? It likely means many things, because loss will be contextual and personal, but what happens when love, health, companionship, career or opportunity whatever their category and classification, dissolves under the interminable forces of time and change, be it by acts of sabotage, obfuscation, entropy, death or by some other, obscure or deliberate demise? Consider; how do you moor yourself to the fact that even the most...

Immune Health Brain Health

“crazy cat lady” syndrome

Are you a cat or dog person? – why is this of any interest to you as a practitioner and why would you care other than if you are bonded with one or both of these species? Well, it seems that there is a cat dependent parasite that has the ability once you become its host to potentially alter your thoughts and moderate perception of risk and whilst this has been known for some time in terms of its manipulation of its host (mainly rodents) to ensure progeny – more and more data suggests it also impacts...

Food Brain Health Vitamins

Niacin to know yourself?

The unspoken concern of many people in their middle age is the loss of cognitive function, resilience and flexibility. If you are watching family or friends become detached from their environment, memories and independence you will already know that this process is distressing and challenging, as all associated parties are also pulled into the complications and care. So, what are we hoping to protect and retain? To you, an experience means a set of coherent sensations, which are then wrapped...

Mental Health Food Diets

Loneliness & Reduced Fibre Compound Risk of Illness

Whilst it may seem a strange combination of subjects, there is a connection. For people to maintain social engagement and interaction where ‘belonging’ is a natural and desired outcome there needs to be some cohesion, a ‘sticky’ thing that provides the glue that we require and need for the generation of health and contentment. Fibre derived from our diet in the form of fermentable compounds fills the same role for our dominant occupying population, who are also dependent on communication, interaction...

Crazy Cat Lady – The Cat Fights Back!

Belief

Meat or Legumes; Protein needs

Lifestyle Medicine, Revolution or Revelation?

Interprofessional relationships and the building of teams

The Gut-Liver Axis

‘Loss’ and its management

“crazy cat lady” syndrome

Niacin to know yourself?

Loneliness & Reduced Fibre Compound Risk of Illness

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