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Berberine: Nature’s Answer to Blood Sugar and Metabolic Health

Did you know that a golden-yellow compound found in plants like barberry and goldenseal could be one of the most powerful natural allies for your metabolic health? Meet Berberine – a botanical supplement that’s gaining serious attention in the UK and beyond for its wide-ranging benefits, from blood sugar support[i] to gut microbiome balance, and even weight loss.[ii] Whether you’re managing insulin sensitivity, exploring natural weight management options, or curious about emerging technologies...

Metabolism Digestive Health Product Updates

Welcome to 'Motility March': Supporting Gastrointestinal Health

While not an official UK awareness month, at Nutri Link, we've coined the phrase 'Motility March' to highlight two exciting products that may benefit clients experiencing gastrointestinal (GI) motility issues. The Importance of Fibre Fibre plays a crucial role in regulating gut motility, with well-documented effects on both hypo and hyper motility1. It's essential for sweeping wastes and toxins out of the bowel, regulating blood sugar, promoting satiety, absorbing water, and acting as a prebiotic2...

Metabolism Weight management Women's Health

Epigenetic Imprints: The Hidden Influence on Weight Management

Recent scientific discoveries have unveiled a fascinating aspect of weight management: the concept of "epigenetic memory" in adipose tissue. This phenomenon sheds light on why maintaining weight loss can be such a formidable challenge for many individuals[1][2]. The Epigenetic Landscape of Adipose Tissue Epigenetics refers to reversible alterations in gene activity that occur without changing the DNA sequence itself. These modifications can be influenced by various factors, including diet, physical...

Metabolism Mental Health Weight management

The Ketogenic Diet – is it suitable for all?

The ketogenic diet, commonly known as the keto diet, has gained significant attention in recent years for its potential benefits in weight management and various health conditions. This high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet aims to induce a metabolic state called ketosis, where the body relies on ketone bodies derived from fat as its primary energy source instead of glucose from carbohydrates. While the keto diet has shown promise in several areas, it is essential to understand its mechanisms, benefits...

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Immunometabolism – Nutrition is Key

Disrupted immunometabolism: The hidden culprit behind complex health issues Nutrition plays a critical role in maintaining a healthy and properly functioning immune system. The complex relationship between diet, nutrients, and immunity has significant implications for preventing and managing various diseases, from infections to chronic conditions like diabetes and cancer. Impact of micronutrients on immune function Micronutrients such as vitamins A, C, D, E, B6, B12, folate, and minerals like zinc...

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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...

Metabolism Weight management Energy

Calories are NOT Equal

For many years the perceived understanding/dogma has been, and remains to a large extent, embedded in the comprehension that all consumed calories derived from food/drink are equal. Just to revisit the definition of what a calorie is - Calories are a measure of energy. "Small" calories (cal) estimate the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of exactly one gram of water by one degree Celsius at one atmospheric pressure, and “big” calories, also known as kilogram calories (Cal), are more...

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Gastro Updates

It’s the very nature of the type of clinical care that practitioners who use nutrition as a key mechanism of clinical care that the gastrointestinal tract becomes central to interventional strategy. Whilst the gut is not always front and centre there is an inevitable engagement and understanding that all that is, or may be happening, in these remarkable tissues is an ongoing quest. One area that those involved in the care of people with inflammatory bowel conditions have long recognised is that psychological...

Metabolism Weight management Cardiovascular Health

Ultra-Processed Foods – Can/should they be made Healthier?

Ultra-processed foods are understood to be detrimental to human health across several parameters, including macronutrient and micronutrient composition, fibre, effects of food additives, toxins, heat exposure, and packaging.[1] They are only cheap (as promoted by various MPs) when the costs of their negative metabolic effects are externalised to personal health care and public health budgets. The cost of the metabolically related and rapidly increasing obesity crisis and just one of the consequences...

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Some Food is killing us!

Well the food industry is, which along with three other industries, is responsible for at least one third of all global preventative deaths - 19 million around the world every year; 34% of the 56 million total death. The others are: fossil fuels, alcohol and tobacco. The 19-million number does not include deaths caused by commercial practices (as opposed to products – 1.2 million), unhealthy diets overall (11 million), air pollution from fossil fuels (10 million) and alcohol (three million). These...

Berberine: Nature’s Answer to Blood Sugar and Metabolic Health

Welcome to 'Motility March': Supporting Gastrointestinal Health

Epigenetic Imprints: The Hidden Influence on Weight Management

The Ketogenic Diet – is it suitable for all?

Immunometabolism – Nutrition is Key

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

Calories are NOT Equal

Gastro Updates

Ultra-Processed Foods – Can/should they be made Healthier?

Some Food is killing us!

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