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DO, ND, BSc (Hons) RNT, Founder and Former Managing Director of Nutri-Link Ltd.

Michael Ash, DO, ND, BSc(Hons), RNT, is a retired Registered Osteopath, Naturopath, and Nutritional Therapist with over 35 years of experience. He is the founder and former Managing Director of Nutri-Link Ltd, a leading provider of professional-grade supplements and practitioner education. A pioneer in integrative medicine, he has cared for over 10,000 patients and lectured internationally on immuno-nutrition. Michael is a published researcher and editor of Clinical Education and contributor to IHCAN. Committed to lifelong learning, he completes 200+ hours of CPD annually. Outside work, he enjoys trail running, mountain walking, travel, and reading.

Ageing

Inhibit Il-11 and live longer?

A study in Nature in July 2024[1], raised the idea that blocking the interleukin 11 (IL-11) by using an IL-11 antibody could be a proposition for a healthy increase in lifespan, based on the outcomes in their experimental mouse subjects. As you would expect, IL-11 has a role in the induction and promotion of inflammation an underlying defensive mechanism that is amplified as we age and release more damaged proteins and other molecules in what is known as sterile inflammation. This soup of cellular...

Probiotics Vitamins Coronavirus

Pathogens and Humanity – what next?

For centuries humans have experienced a shortening of their life’s potential due to infection and trauma – in most cases the end being brutal and fast. In the Western world through various changes to public health, medicine and diplomacy, these risks have significantly reduced – and until recently, were viewed with complacency. Rather, the wealthier and developing countries have extended lifespan and morbidity time frames, by leading lifestyles that kill us less dramatically, but erode capability...

Mental Health Vitamins Coronavirus

Belief or Not in Science and By Circumstance Sars-Cov-2 and Related Suggested Management

In the late 1650’s, the French polymath and renowned scientist Blaise Pascal, having undergone a religious experience that transformed him into something of a zealot, suggested the following logical strategy regarding belief in God: If there is a God, then believing in him will ensure you an eternity of bliss, while not believing in him could earn you an eternal sentence to misery. On the other hand, if there is no God, believing in him anyway will cost you very little, and not believing in him will...

Immune Health Food Vitamins

Nutritional Support for Immunity Against Viruses Including the Coronavirus

Overview as at 11th March 2020 (Updated 19.3.2020) Sustained human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus in the United Kingdom and elsewhere appears today inevitable. The extent and impact of the outbreak in the UK is difficult to predict and will depend crucially on how the Government, medical professionals, and the public react. It will depend particularly on whether there is adequate funding and support for the response; fair and effective management of surging health care demand; careful...

Immune Health Mental Health Diets

Millennials Health Goes South at Age 27

A recent report published in April 2019 by the USA based Blue Cross Insurance Group reveals a worrying trend in declining health of people born between 1981 and 1996, a demographic given the moniker of ‘millennial’. This follows a report in 2017, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that exposed a growing gulf in life expectancy between the poorest and wealthiest people, and worse still, children born in at least 13 counties were expected to live shorter lives than their parents...

Food Diets

Blood, Bulbs, and Bunodonts: on Evolutionary Ecology and the Diets of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Early Homo

Researchers and contemporary nutrition scientists, media and individuals have long debated how and what our ancestors ate. One of the early proposals by Charles Darwin hypothesised that the hunting of game animals was a defining feature of early hominids, linked with both upright walking and advanced tool use and that isolated these species from their closest relatives (such as ancestors of chimpanzees); contemporised versions of this hypothesis exist to this day. Other insist that while our ancestors’...

Lifestyle Medicine

Celebrating 20 Years as the Global Leader in Functional Medicine Education

2011 marks the 20th anniversary of The Institute for Functional Medicine. Antony Haynes and Leonie Ash attended the 20th International Symposium in Seattle with Mike Ash, who presented for the second time at an IFM Symposium. He gave two superb presentations to the 600+ audience of doctors and health practitioners from over 20 countries. The Symposium subject this year was: The Challenge of Emerging Infections in the 21st Century: Terrain, Tolerance, and Susceptibility. On the night of the...

Diets

Japanese Crisis Support

As a company we have supported the work of ShelterBox based in Cornwall for the last few years and purchase one of their remarkable support boxes whenever we can. In response to the recent and dramatic events in Japan we have purchased a box to assist with the immediate support of families who have lost all their posessions and homes due to the tsunami and earthquake. I am sure that like us you cannot imagine the devastation and effects this will have on families and their work, their ability to...

Diets

Another Happy Customer..

Dear Nutri-link Thank you very much indeed for such excellent service. The telephone manner of your staff is professional and friendly and I felt very well looked after by every person that I dealt with. After my initial call, my order arrived in Malta after a few days. Sadly the bottles had broken in transit. I called and was immediately told that I would be contacted the next day. I was left a message saying that the supplements had been resent. They arrived today in a box in perfect condition...

Diets

German Naturopaths Change Laws

The European Federation for Naturopathy (EFN), initiated a huge protest against, inter alia, the absurdly discriminatory legislation in Germany which had made all nutritional supplements which had a physiological effect ‘prescription-only medicines’. The protest was aimed at the German Federal Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Close on 60 thousand German State-registered Naturopathic Practitioners (Naturheilpraktiker) were motivated to have their patients, estimated...

Inhibit Il-11 and live longer?

Pathogens and Humanity – what next?

Belief or Not in Science and By Circumstance Sars-Cov-2 and Related Suggested Management

Nutritional Support for Immunity Against Viruses Including the Coronavirus

Millennials Health Goes South at Age 27

Blood, Bulbs, and Bunodonts: on Evolutionary Ecology and the Diets of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Early Homo

Celebrating 20 Years as the Global Leader in Functional Medicine Education

Japanese Crisis Support

Another Happy Customer..

German Naturopaths Change Laws

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