Blog Archives: 2023 | Nutri-Link UK

Vitamin B12, Autoimmunity and ‘Leaky Gut’

A paper released on 20th Nov 2023 in the BMJ takes a close look at B12, common practice, and determination of need[1]. This interesting review is aimed at primary care clinicians but represents a good reference paper for all healthcare professionals utilising B12 supplements and nutritional guidance to resolve B12 deficiency or dietary inadequacy. Importantly the paper explores the interindividual variations in absorption, biliary B12 excretion and the somewhat insecure determination of need and...

Lifestyle Medicine

The UK's Chronic Illness Challenge: The Rise of Functional Medicine in a Strained NHS System

In the United Kingdom, an increasing number of people seeking relief from chronic illnesses find themselves at the threshold of a healthcare system grappling with its own ailments. The National Health Service (NHS), once the beacon of public healthcare, is now perceived as beleaguered and dysfunctional, especially when it comes to managing long-term health conditions[1]. This gap in the healthcare system is gradually being bridged by private healthcare practitioners, notably those trained in the...

Lifestyle Medicine

UPF Addiction – a Solution

Are you or your clients finding it hard to stop consuming the foods carefully designed to enhance all of the reward centre’s responses when consumed? Ultra-processed foods (UPF) have received exponential levels of investment to ensure they are engineered to be as easy as possible to consume and re-consume. This technical processing reduces the capability of key fullness receptors and hormones such as leptin, insulin, cholecystokinin, peptide YY, glucagon-like-peptide-1, ghrelin and amylin to respond...

Mental Health Lifestyle Medicine Stress Management

The Challenges of Behaviour Change, the Power of the Meaning Response, and Key Tips for Healthcare Professionals

Behaviour change is a complex and multifaceted process that is often central to improving the health and well-being of individuals. However, it is riddled with challenges that can impede progress[1]. This article explores the difficulties of behaviour change and highlights the benefits of the "meaning response" as a valuable tool in facilitating change. Additionally, it offers key tips for healthcare professionals to effectively apply the meaning response to enhance behaviour change outcomes. Behaviour...

Weight management Detoxification Lifestyle Medicine

Biotransformation: The Key to Detoxification and Optimal Health

Biotransformation is an intricate biochemical process, and is a cornerstone of human health. It is the body's remarkable ability to convert a wide array of substances, including drugs, toxins; both endogenous and exogenous, and dietary compounds, into different chemical forms. While the liver serves as the primary hub for biotransformation, the kidneys and intestines also play vital roles in this complex process[1]. More recently the importance of the human microbiome as a key community that affect...

Ageing Digestive Health

Turmeric and its Polyphenol Curcumin is Calling You

This natural polyphenol is universally known as the “wonder drug of life” [1] and has a long history of medicinal applications; 5,000 (Ayurveda) and 2,000 (Atharveda) years, respectively[2]. Throughout ancient times in the Far East, turmeric was used to treat inflammatory conditions of various organs, for liver and digestive tract problems, and for wound healing. In the 1970s, the first research on the yellow polyphenolic pigment from the Curcuma longa L. (turmeric) rhizome known as curcumin and...

Metabolism Energy Stress Management

Magnesium and its Crucial Role in Human Well-Being: Unveiling Subclinical Deficiency in the UK

Magnesium (Mg) is a well-understood, essential mineral that plays a pivotal role in various physiological processes within the human body. While it often takes a backseat to well-known minerals like calcium and potassium, Magnesium is equally vital for maintaining overall health. Magnesium is Crucial Magnesium is also essential in plants where it is associated with chlorophyll pigments and serves as a cofactor of enzymes implicated in photosynthesis and metabolism. It is an equally essential nutrient...

Immune Health Digestive Health Phytonutrients

A Greek Remedy for IBD and H.Pylori

This headline may immediately suggest Greek islands, olive oil, and sunshine – all of which can imbue a sense of well-being, but this review is centred on a natural product, utilised for thousands of years and a regular source of contemporary research. Chios Mastic Gum (CMG), an aromatic, white resin derived from the Pistacia lentiscus tree is a Greek health treasure. CMG was first noted by Greeks 2,500 years ago for culinary as well as medicinal applications, and praised by Pedanios Dioscorides...

Digestive Health Lifestyle Medicine Diets

Lifestyle factors for the prevention and care of people with inflammatory bowel disease

Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) typically featuring chronic diarrhoea (with or without bleeding), abdominal pain, and weight loss. These affect an estimated 3.1 million adults in the USA and another 1.3 million in Europe[1],[2]. Globally, the incidence of IBD is increasing, particularly in newly industrialised countries[3]. These diseases are characterised by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. However, other symptoms...

Immune Health Essential Fatty Acids Probiotics

Regulating T Cells

Our immune systems are heavily invested in the generation of immune tolerance (Immune tolerance is known as the state of an active, highly regulated unresponsiveness of the immune system to self-antigens or against a particular antigen that can induce an immune response in the body), and nowhere is this more concentrated than in our gastro-intestinal tract. Here the immune system faces a unique mix of an ever-changing array of food antigens and a large and complex concoction of micro-organisms. The...

Vitamin B12, Autoimmunity and ‘Leaky Gut’

The UK's Chronic Illness Challenge: The Rise of Functional Medicine in a Strained NHS System

UPF Addiction – a Solution

The Challenges of Behaviour Change, the Power of the Meaning Response, and Key Tips for Healthcare Professionals

Biotransformation: The Key to Detoxification and Optimal Health

Turmeric and its Polyphenol Curcumin is Calling You

Magnesium and its Crucial Role in Human Well-Being: Unveiling Subclinical Deficiency in the UK

A Greek Remedy for IBD and H.Pylori

Lifestyle factors for the prevention and care of people with inflammatory bowel disease

Regulating T Cells

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