Vitamins

Skin, Hair & Nails: Beauty From Within

Glowing skin, strong, healthy hair and resilient nails are often seen as cosmetic goals, something to be fixed externally. Yet these tissues are among the fastest renewing in the body, making them especially sensitive to nutrition, digestion, hormone balance, stress and sleep. Hair follicles and nail-forming cells require a constant supply of nutrients, oxygen and hydration. When internal systems are under strain, changes in hair texture, shedding or brittle nails often appear alongside...

Immune Health Lifestyle Medicine Vitamins

The growing importance of quality and reliability in nutrition: Why Nutri‑Link leads with purity

Recent reporting by BBC News highlights a noticeable shift in consumer behaviour: after years of cost‑driven purchasing, people are increasingly questioning whether cheaper products truly represent good value. Instead, many are choosing to invest in quality, reliability and trusted brands that consistently deliver on their promises. This change is especially relevant in the health and nutrition sector, where product integrity, efficacy and safety are not optional extras, they are fundamental. ...

Immune Health Children's Health Vitamins

Key nutrients to support immunity during measles in the UK

Measles: What it is and how nutritional status influences outcomes What is measles? Measles (rubeola) is a highly contagious viral infection caused by the measles virus (a morbillivirus). It spreads through airborne droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes and can remain infectious in the air for up to two hours after exposure. After infection, the virus initially affects the respiratory tract and then spreads systemically. Symptoms typically appear 7-14 days after exposure...

Metabolism Lifestyle Medicine Vitamins

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...

Lifestyle Medicine Minerals Vitamins

Have you been ‘Gish Galloped?’

This is when you are in discussion with someone, or some people, whose debating method or simply their pursuit of verbal dominance is known among philosophers and rhetoricians as the ‘Gish Gallop’. The aim is simple: to defeat their opponent by burying them in a torrent of incorrect, irrelevant, or idiotic arguments. Named after one of the most vocal ‘creationists,’ Duane Gish, who notoriously used a rapid-fire approach during a debate, presenting arguments and changing topics very quickly and in...

Metabolism Brain Health Vitamins

Is it possible that the worst disease our society faces is poor lifestyle?

Let’s explore the most ubiquitous of lifestyle-related problems – obesity and metabolic dysfunction - and their relationship to the pervasive and increasingly common neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).[1] The most recent research to emphasise the link between morbidity, metabolic disruption and brain matter changes further qualified the intrinsic connection between blood sugar abnormalities and the sensitivity of certain neuronal tissues to neurodegeneration.[2] Metabolic dysfunction...

Probiotics Weight management Vitamins

Specialist Probiotics & Fat-Soluble Vitamins

It seems that these two long-standing areas of oral intervention in nutritional therapy and related clinical management are experiencing an ongoing and much-welcomed update in terms of application and use. Specialist Probiotics Probiotics are steadily evolving their application into specific clinical needs with recognised genera and strains (such as Akkermansia muciniphila), as opposed to their more familiar, nonspecific ecologic application. Research papers continue to show a steady progression...

Digestive Health Detoxification Vitamins

Akkermansia to the rescue

The connection between gut microbiota and human health is well recognised and described, yet areas of uncertainty remain. This ultimate collaboration on human health has helped scientists to explain the essential mutual dependence between humans and their gut bacteria. Gut microbiota can be choreographed through passive or active strategies. The former includes hygiene, diet, lifestyle, and environment, while the latter comprises antibiotics, pre- and probiotics. In addition, dietary constituents...

Immune Health Brain Health Vitamins

What the Bs can do

B Vitamins make headlines from time to time, some positive and others less so. This is a short review of the key role they play in brain and immune health. Anxiety management A July 22 paper in the Journal of Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental[1]. Identified a mechanism with beneficial outcomes in the use of B6 for the reduction in anxiety, after analysing almost 500 young people over 5 years with self-reported anxiety and depression. Such an influence can be explained because, in...

Food Cardiovascular Health Vitamins Diets

Enzymes and Lipids – a Healthy Vasculature Can Make

It was over 2,000 years ago that the Japanese population made natto a staple of their diet. Natto is a cheese-like food composed of soybeans fermented with a bacterium – Bacillus subtillis. Recognised for its beneficial cardiovascular effects, it has been extensively studied[1]. Relatively little was known regarding the mechanism by which natto intake led to an overall improvement in cardiovascular health until the 1980s. A potent fibrinolytic enzyme called nattokinase was discovered in natto in...

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