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 …
Afifah Hamilton
Corruption of medical research in the words of the world’s top journal editors
Read Time: 4 min According to Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, “Evidence-based medicine is actually so corrupt as to be useless or harmful” — 10 others speak out.
Our top reads of 2019
Read Time: < 1 min Here are our most popular posts and recipes of 2019. Happy New Year!
Quick Spare Ribs and Coleslaw
Read Time: 4 min Finger-licking ribs without the carbs. Always go down well at parties or buffets. Tips for a quick version (under an hour) included.
Wheat Toxicity: A Quick Update
Read Time: 4 min Three recent studies have uncovered toxic effects of wheat amylase trypsin inhibitors on the lungs, liver, metabolic syndrome and gut permeability.
8 Ways to boost your collagen and Slow Ageing
Read Time: 8 min A major factor in ageing is a decline in collagen. In this post we look at eight ways to increase collagen synthesis.
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.
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’
History of the Plague
Read Time: 9 min How did the plague come to kill millions of people and is it a thing of the past?
The History of Polio, thoughts on a lecture by Tim Mason PhD
Read Time: 11 min The Polio Story by Portsmouth University, retired lecturer in Medical Microbiology, Tim Mason PhD WSHOM lecture of Nov 24th 2018 One of the great values of …
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10 Reasons To Supplement With Glycine
Read Time: 25 min Glycine is one the simplest amino acid yet has some remarkable and unexpected functions within the body. Due to an evolutionary bottle-neck all we are chronically deficient in this essential nutrient.