5 nutrients that might help your body fight off coronavirus
Read Time: 11 min We look at the research around key nutrients that have a proven role in defending against respiratory viruses and lung infections.
Nutrition
Whilst there are many environmental and genetic factors that affect our health, our foods choices play, perhaps, the most significant modifiable role. Yet doctors have almost no nutritional training. Fortunately, the literature is full of important studies and discoveries that can help us all stay ahead of the curve.
Many of the following articles are highly referenced so you can check out the studies for your self if you are so moved. Start reading, and learn how to take charge of your health today.
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 …
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.
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.
Fruit Juice and some fizzy drinks linked to increased cancer rate – choose your poison
Read Time: 4 min French study finds sugar-sweetened beverages, including pure fruit juices, linked to an increased risk of cancers, but artificially sweetened and unsweetened drinks were not.
Improve Your Omega-6 to Omega-3 Balance
Read Time: 11 min Modern diets have an excess of omega 6 compared to omega 3 compared to our evolutionary norm, and appears to underpin many contemporary diseases. Here’s what you need to do to get yours back in the sweet spot.
How can a meat-only diet reverse chronic disease? Five Doctors share their insights
Read Time: 3 min In March 2019 the first ever Carnivore Conference was held at Boulder University, Colorado with a great list of speakers. THE BOULDER CARNIVORE CONFERENCE …a day …
Animal fats under attack
Read Time: 8 min • Carbs, not fat, linked to CVD
• Sadiq Kahn bans butter, eggs and bacon from transport adverts
• Zero fat marketing
• Victorian diseases return
• Keir interviewed by French ‘zine
What counts as a healthy body weight? Major study rewrites the rules
Read Time: 6 min A huge UK study involving 3 million people over 18 years finds the healthiest BMI is at odds with NHS advice about “healthy weight”.
Why your 5-a-day Might Not Keep the Doctor Away
Read Time: 12 min Have we been duped? A deep look into the science of plant-based diets reveals a distinct lack of supporting evidence and considerable potential for harm.
2019 The Year Vegan Pseudo-Science goes Mainstream?
Read Time: 8 min • Veganuary Blues
• Meatless Burgers
• Eat-Lancet Report
•Vegan diets need supplements
What we can learn from the 20th century history of the Inuit
Read Time: 9 min Over the last 100 years the Inuit have transitioned from hunter-gatherer to a largely Western diet. We look at some of the historical and contemporary evidence to see what we can learn about nutrition.