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Seasonal Allergies and Mood

Inevitably, as spring stimulates the release of plant and mould antigens/allergens, people who are immunologically sensitive to this enhanced challenge display fairly consistent symptoms including itchy, watery eyes; tickly throat; and stuffy, runny nose. Fatigue is also a common response as immune activation is an energy-dependent process, and the related disturbed sleep patterns prevent suitable recovery. Mood and affect A recent series of experiments now also indicates that there is a mood, or...

Essential Fatty Acids Mental Health Weight management

Food As Medicine

An article in Nature Medicine out in October 2022 sets out some of the developing understanding of using food as medicine[1]. Whilst for those practitioners already immersed in this strategic use it seems obvious, it is important to remember that many practitioners are not. In turn, many people and rather depressingly most government ministers are comfortable with the benign approach to food as energy/profit only. The authors of this paper identify two important areas (in their opinion) that need...

Mental Health Nervous System Stress Management

Anxiety and Depression is a ‘Thing’

Reading the press, listening to the radio, or sourcing information from journals or other sources such as social media, it is hard to miss the changes in emotional strength that are being reported on. However one chooses to place the rising rate of emotional dysfunction, there is an expanded need being met by a diminished process of support. Friendships, family and professionals are all stretched and cannot, it seems, easily meet the growing need. Research shows that: In any given week in England...

Immune Health Brain Health Vitamin C

Vitamin C and some of its remarkable benefits

Vitamin C (or L-ascorbic acid, hereafter referred to as VitC) is a nutrient with a six-carbon structure, synthesised from glucose, abundant in fruits, vegetables and the kidney and liver of most animals. VitC is a potent water-soluble antioxidant that is produced in most mammals but is not endogenously synthesised in humans, who lack enzymes for its synthesis.[1] Hence we need to consume it to avoid deficiency-related diseases. Many animals can synthesise their own vitamin C. The researchers Axel...

Seasonal Allergies and Mood

Food As Medicine

Anxiety and Depression is a ‘Thing’

Vitamin C and some of its remarkable benefits

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