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Cheese Actually Isn’t Bad for You | WIRED

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Read Time: < 1 min Here’s a great article about one of the greatest food’s on the planet, published in Wired. Take a look: Don’t feel sheepish reaching for that manchego. …

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Evolution, Video

Evolutionary Orthodontics arrives

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Bad Medicine, Video

Jordan Peterson resurfaces after medical hell that nearly killed him

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Recipes

Osso Buco Ragù

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Reviews

Knepp Wild Range Meat review ★★★★★

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Local Food

Local ORGANIC Farm Shops During COVID-19 Lockdown

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Bad Medicine, In the News

Coronavirus hysteria – is the cure worse than the disease?

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Recent Posts

5 nutrients that might help your body fight off coronavirus

Grain-Free Wholemeal Keto Rolls

Why did it take so long to crack scurvy?

Wilding by Isabella Tree — Book Review

Corruption of medical research in the words of the world’s top journal editors

Does the discovery of 170 000-year-old roast veggies “Kill the paleo diet?”

Featured

10 Reasons To Supplement With Glycine

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10 Reasons To Supplement With Glycine

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The Case for Sustainable Meat

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Jordan Peterson on Diet and Health 2

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Carbohydrates, not animal fats, linked to heart disease across 42 European countries

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Thinking of going vegan or avoiding red meat? Read this first…

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About this blog

My blog was created to support the patients who come to see me at Rosemary Cottage Clinic, but many of the articles have gained world wide attention, with over 40,000 visitors per year. Explore this site to find:

  • 100+ scientifically-backed articles
  • 60+ recipes for specific diets
  • 100+ interesting posts on Paleo, Keto, Carnivore and Gluten-Free diets

Evolution and Diet

Evolution, Video

Evolutionary Orthodontics arrives

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Read Time: < 1 min Great new video about improving facial and dental form according to cutting edge evolutionary thinking

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Paleo Diet

Did cooked tubers drive human evolution?

Keir Watson
Read Time: 12 min Recent claims that starchy tubers drove human brain evolution are put under the microscope. Studies of the Hadza suggest otherwise.

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Seafood, Sex and Evolution (3 videos)

Afifah Hamilton
Read Time: 2 min Watch our recent public talk on the role of seafood in brain health, evolution and female sexiness. (Three videos)

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Recommended

GUEST POST from Miki Ben-Dor: “Big brains needed carbs” (???)

Did cooked tubers drive human evolution?

Endurance Running and Superior Throwing Provide Evidence of Man’s Evolutionary Diet

Milk & Alcohol – was the good Doctor on to something?

Man the Hunter

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Videos

Jordan Peterson resurfaces after medical hell that nearly killed him

UK Vegetarians Don't Live Longer – VIDEO

Jordan Peterson on Diet and Health

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The Gluten Iceberg…

because there is so much more…

…just under the surface

Why no one should eat grains. Part 1 – The tip of the Iceberg

Read Time: 12 min Familiarise yourself with the research around coeliac disease and you will understand why eating gluten is playing Russian roulette with your health. Introduction Whilst ‘only’ 1% …

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Why no one should eat grains. Part 2 – The definitive guide to Non Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity

Read Time: 19 min A detailed examination of the current science on this recently recognised gluten pathology. Includes new videos from world class researchers.

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Why no one should eat grains. Part 3: Ten more reasons to avoid wheat

Read Time: 22 min Beyond coeliac disease and NCGS – we look at the many ways that wheat can affect everyone. Includes new groundbreaking research.

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Why no one should eat grains. Part 4: whole grains – the whole truth

Read Time: 11 min Grains dominate the world food supply, but have many negative health consequences independent of gluten related disorders. We consider their downsides and show that whole grains including oats do not live up to the ‘heart-healthy’ hype.

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Latest Gluten Posts

Gluten

Wheat Toxicity: A Quick Update

Afifah Hamilton
Gluten

What's Behind the Rise in Gluten Toxicity? Hypothesis 2 – Food Glues

Keir Watson

More Gluten Posts

Why no one should eat grains. Part 2 – The definitive guide to Non Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity

Gluten-Free Diet effective in Tourettes

More articles about gluten

RECIPES

My recipes are designed to help people who are on a restricted diet for health reasons.

I have included plenty of recipes for breakfasts, lunches and dinners, along with ideas for snacks, deserts and cakes: all without the use of grains in any form. Many include options for goat or sheep dairy, or dairy-free.

Options for Christmas and other celebrations will help you stay on track.

✓ Gluten-free and Grain-free
✓ Dairy-free versions
✓ Paleo and Carnivore
✓ True Ketogenic recipes
✓ Low-Carb, Low-Sugar, Zero-Carb

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Example Recipes

Curly kale crisps

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Osso Buco Ragù

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What’s Better Than Strawberries & Cream?

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Keto-cheesecake tips and tricks

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Orange & almond cake

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Summer Berry Jellies

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Reviews

What a shop!

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Rustic Cold Smoked Salami – review ★★★★☆

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Natty ceramic egg holders -review

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Bad Medicine

Jordan Peterson resurfaces after medical hell that nearly killed him

An insider's view of naff NHS treatment.

They want to destroy Tim Noakes – don't let 'em

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Food and the Environment

The Case for Sustainable Meat

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Read Time: 10 min Meat, we are told, is bad for the planet. But is it that simple? Keir argues that the anti-meat rhetoric risks destroying the very environment is claims to be protecting.

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Mob Grazing Regenerates Soil and Captures Carbon [VIDEO]

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Safari in deepest Sussex – now you can experience the Knepp re-wilding project for yourself!

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A pretty amazing food just got a whole lot prettier

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Health Hack – Infographics

Health Hack #2: Starters to improve digestion

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Health Hack #1: An alternative to fizzy drinks

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Health Hack #7: Maximise your phytonutrients

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Herbal Medicine Articles

The three wise herbalists brought… Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

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Read Time: 7 min HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY READERS AND PATIENTS! Everybody knows the story of the three wise men bringing gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh to the infant Jesus in the …

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Herbal medicine

Echinacea

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Herbal medicine, Nutrition

The bitter truth is sweeter than we thought

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Herbal medicine, Nutrition

Mistletoe in Cancer

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Red Light Phototherapy

Red light phototherapy (1/3): The Skin

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Red light phototherapy (2/3): Brain, Muscles and Eyes

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Stonehenge with sunrise

Red light phototherapy (3/3): Hair regrowth, Pain reduction, Wound healing and Practical applications

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Sunlight and Vitamin D

Human photosynthesis – beyond vitamin-D

Animal products that protect you from UV damage

Why April 15th is D-Day in the south of England

More posts about Phototherapy, sunlight and Vitamin D

20 Diet Memes to Rate and Share

Vegetarian and Veganism

Depressed Vegetarians for Corbyn is a thing?

How vegetarians bad-mouth themselves!

UK Vegetarians Don't Live Longer – VIDEO

Veganism, extremism and domestic terrorism

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Read Time: 10 min Behind veganism is an ideological movement linked to extremism, violence and terrorism. We take a look behind the “Meat is Murder” narrative.

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West Sussex History of Medicine Lectures

Why did it take so long to crack scurvy?

Read Time: 19 min Captain Cook impressed the Royal Society with his successful use of saurkraut to ward off scurvy Image: ‘Oatehite’ by Isaac Robert Cruickshank (1789-1856) Thoughts on a …

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Great Losses of the Great War

Read Time: 4 min During the First World War, the British Officer Class suffered the heaviest losses. Mr John Reynard reminds us of some of their stories.

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The Contagious Diseases Acts 1864 and The History of Spermatorrhoea

Read Time: 6 min Comments on two lectures: (1) The Contagious Diseases Acts (2) The History of Spermatorrhoea — the little known ‘Male Hysteria’

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More WSHOMS posts

Coffee

Coffee – its light and dark side

March News Round-Up

5 everyday ancestral foods with proven health benefits

Fake News Awards

Gluten-free diet MAY be unhealthy and MAY increase risk of heart attack (or not)

2019 The Year Vegan Pseudo-Science goes Mainstream?

Fake News #1 – Low carb diets linked to risk of birth defects

Folate

Brussels sprouts – Not just for Christmas

Upcoming one day conference: B12 & Thyroid Disease – May 16th

Gluten and Schizophrenia – does it all start in the womb?

DHA, EPA, Fish Oils

Male fertility ~ a fishy business

Gluten and Schizophrenia – does it all start in the womb?

Seafood, Sex and Evolution (3 videos)

Cholesterol

"Always get a copy of your blood test results"

VIDEO: Harvard Scientist Supports U-Turn on Dietary Fats

Eggs – Not just for Easter

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