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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

Weight management Vitamins Diets

‘Here’s the thing’

In clinical practice, where lifestyle intervention is the primary strategy, it can be a real challenge to firstly motivate for change and then facilitate ongoing adoption of changed behaviours to create an evolved and enhanced health status. This can be so problematic that many primary healthcare professionals more familiar with pharmaceutical allocation find the prospect of an adaptive approach too off-putting. On the other side, there are many who pivot from pharmaceutical approaches to nutraceutical...

Immune Health Vitamins Diets

‘Nostalgia’ is a Problem

Looking back to a different time, a better time, is a common occurrence. It’s very likely that you have engaged in reflective thoughts and conjured up happier times and longed for their return? Personal warm and fuzzy memories are generally benign, help to pass the day and induce a sense of historical experiential peacefulness. When Nostalgia is a Problem On a less benign front, the nostalgia for a time when the earth’s resources including minerals, carbon, and animals could be extracted and used...

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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...

Some Food is killing us!

Have you been ‘Gish Galloped?’

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

Specialist Probiotics & Fat-Soluble Vitamins

Akkermansia to the rescue

What the Bs can do

Enzymes and Lipids – a Healthy Vasculature Can Make

‘Here’s the thing’

‘Nostalgia’ is a Problem

Pathogens and Humanity – what next?

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