8 Ways to boost your collagen and Slow Ageing
Read Time: 8 minutes A major factor in ageing is a decline in collagen. In this post we look at eight ways to increase collagen synthesis.
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.
10 Reasons To Supplement With Glycine
Read Time: 25 minutes 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 minutes 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 minutes 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 minutes 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 …
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Animal fats under attack
Read Time: 8 minutes • 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 minutes 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 minutes 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 minutes • 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 minutes 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.
A guide to choosing seafoods: nutrients vs contaminants
Read Time: 3 minutes Many people are concerned about mercury and other contaminants in seafood but if you know which species are safest you can maximise the health benefits.
Gluten-Free Diet effective in Tourettes
Read Time: 5 minutes In this landmark study researchers demonstrate that this major neurological disorder, affecting up to 1% of UK school children, may be largely a manifestation of Non Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity.
Eggs – Not just for Easter
Read Time: 8 minutes Brits are eating more eggs following a half century of unfounded fears. Here’s the lowdown on these nutritional super-foods.
Folic acid in pregnancy increases allergies
Read Time: 3 minutes New study finds that unmetabolised artificial folic acid in pregnancy is linked to allergy in offspring whilst levels of natural folate are not.
How vegetarians bad-mouth themselves!
Read Time: 3 minutes A study into the prevalence of oral species of Candida yeasts discovered that vegetarian diets encourage the growth of some pretty ugly critters with health consequences far beyond thrush.
Dietary guidelines are a disaster: here's ten principles to fix them
Read Time: 14 minutes Nutritional research is increasingly challenging Government Guidelines on what constitutes a healthy diet. We present 10 important evidence based principles that get to the heart of the problem.