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70% of Europeans suffer from low vitamin D levels
A group of experts has prepared a report on vitamin D supplementation for menopausal women after it was revealed that Europeans have suffered an alarming decrease in their levels of this vitamin. In their opinion, the ideal would be to maintain blood...
Read more »Does Your Daily Slice of Bacon With A Sausage Cause Pancreatic Cancer
The thought that part of the British Breakfast may be nibbling away at our pancreatic cells integrity is bound to put a shock wave through households across the country – or is it? We as a nation along with most other advanced nations consider that...
Read more »Functional Medicine, A Systems Wide Approach To Health Care
Over the time that man has worked to meet the medical needs of our various populations dealing with problems such as diseases and trauma the various cultures on our crowded planet have evolved differing philosophies, scientific explanation and style ...
Read more »Health Map Tracks Infectious Diseases
HealthMap, a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Children's Hospital Boston founded in 2006, is an established global leader in utilising online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance...
Read more »XMRV Researcher Jailed
As many readers and people with an interest in Chronic Fatigue will have read over the last few months, the researcher Judy Mikovits has been having a hard time finding labs to replicate her controversial findings regarding the XMRV virus. Attract...
Read more »Diet and Nerves: The Impact of Maternal Feeding on Newborn Intestinal Permeability
A possible link between what a mother eats during pregnancy and the risk of her child developing allergies has been identified in new research published in Septembers; The Journal of Physiology.[1] This paper identified that if the maternal diet i...
Read more »Fever: It’ll Help You Fight off Infection
One of the key naturopathic and Darwinian medicine concepts[i],[ii] is that suppression of a normal response by the body to a pathogen may reduce the effectiveness of outcome. Naturopathic Medicine is a form of alternative medicine based on a beli...
Read more »Mega Dose Vit D – Really?
Vitamin D supplementation, and what levels to use are common discussions amongst Nutritional Therapists. I have written a number of commentaries and reviews on this subject over the last couple of years and a recent paper published in the Journal: Jo...
Read more »Bile Acids – Wide Ranging Benefits Including Psoriasis
Bile. Also known as gall. Memorialised as “that green monster” in Shakespeare. Bile is a bitter-tasting, dark green to yellowish brown liquid produced by our liver, stored in the gallbladder, and known to aid in the digestion of lipids and ...
Read more »Methylfolate and Methyl B12 Play a Profound Role in Health
Surprising new research demonstrates that diabetic neuropathy, an extremely painful condition, may respond to supplementation with the active forms of three b vitamins: methyl B12, methylfolate, and the active form of vitamin B6 (pyridoxal-5'-phospha...
Read more »Vitamin Studies Spell Confusion for Patients
If it's Monday, it must be bad news about multivitamin day -- or was that Wednesday? No, Wednesday was good news about vitamin D, not so good news about vitamin E -- if you're confused, join the club. A recent American Medical association paper su...
Read more »Current Opinion from IOM on Autism and Vaccination
Some parents and families of children with autism believe that the Measles/Mumps/ Rubella (MMR) vaccine caused their children’s autism. These parents report that their children were “normal” until they received the MMR vaccine. Then, after gett...
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The Relevance of Prior Parasitic Infection and The Risk of IBS And CFS
Giardia lamblia (synonymous with Giardia intestinalis, Lamblia intestinalis and Giardia duodenalis) is a flagellated protozoan parasite that colonises and reproduces in the small intestine, causing giardiasis. The giardi...
Read more »Brain Function and Bladder Cancer Respond To Multi Vitamins
It can from time to time (some may say all of the time) seem as if the medical world simply wish, regardless of the building evidence pile, to deny the value of using concentrated food ingredients in the improvement of t...
Read more »Blastocystis Hominis Vs Saccharomyces Boulardii
I have previously discussed the various genotypes of B.hominis and why in some patients the expected symptomatology is absent in the presence of occupation and in others symptoms are profound. You may read more on this s...
Read more »Coeliac Disease Diagnosis – Biopsy Relevant
Coeliac disease (CD) is a permanent intolerance to gluten found in wheat, rye and barley. Gluten induces an autoimmune reaction in the small intestinal mucosa resulting in inflammation, villous atrophy and malabsorption....
Read more »Apples Can Suppress IBD
Here's another reason why "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"—according to new research findings published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology (https://www.jleukbio.org), oral ingestion of apple polyphenols (antioxi...
Read more »You AhR What You Eat: Linking Diet and Immunity.
Researchers reporting in the journal Cell[1] on October 13th, in the journal Science[2] on Oct 27th and Nature Reviews Immunology[3] earlier in the year are among the first to describe a mechanistic link between dietary ...
Read more »Leaky Gut Induces Visceral Obesity
From its dark days as a concept dismissed by most Drs and scientists as being suitable only for the more eccentric alternative medicine crowd, the idea that the gastrointestinal tract may have varying levels and quality ...
Read more »IBS And Food – Is There A Link?
There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that certain dietary constituents exacerbate symptoms and perhaps contribute to the pathogenesis of IBS. Patients have long associated their IBS symptoms with the ingestion ...
Read more »Food and Our Bacterial Mix – Can we really change them both?
A few weeks ago (June 2012), a paper in Nature by a group of researchers suggested that despite the vast geographical and nutritional differences in the human population, that just three predominant bacterial clusters (r...
Read more »Chocolate is Heart Felt!
How many times have we been faced with the decision about whether to pass or to consume that bar of chocolate, confident that by doing so we have added not only virtue to our lives but also longevity by steering clear of...
Read more »Entero-Test – Simple and Effective Research Mechanism
At first sight one may wonder why a paper published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology is being highlighted on this web site.[1] Yet Dr Guiney and his colleagues have evolved a very elegant approach to compl...
Read more »Ecklonia Cava Beneficially Impacts Body Fat and Lipids
The use of a standardised sea weed extract by the name of Eckclonia cava has attracted considerable interest in the management of a variety of human health problems, mainly based around its purported long half-life antio...
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Cod Liver Oil vs TB
In a feature article in the Christmas 2011 edition of the well-known British Medical Journal, Professor Emeritus Malcolm Green revisited an 1848 study looking at the potential benefits of Cod Liver Oil in the treatment of Tuberculosis.[1] In the s...
Read more »Coeliac Disease and its Many Complications
Coeliac disease (CD), also called gluten-sensitive enteropathy or non-tropical sprue, is a unique autoimmune disorder which results from the interaction between gluten and immune, genetic and environmental factors. Originally CD was considered as a m...
Read more »Microbes and Us
Over the past several years, studies have revealed an astonishing diversity in our so-called microbiome. A five year project utilising researchers from around the world has been constructed to identify our mutual cohabitants that define our microbiom...
Read more »Iodine Deficiency: Not Just a Problem in Developing Countries
A Review Article by LC Masur MD* A June 2011 study from Lancet implied that more than two thirds of “schoolgirls” in the UK are iodine deficient. [1] The participants in that study were 14 to 15 years of age whereas, in the context of discu...
Read more »Taste – Our Oral Guardian
The sensations of bitter and sour keep us from eating potentially toxic substances and strong acids, while the preferred qualities of sweet, umami (the “savoury” taste of glutamate), and salty drive intake of carbohydrates, amino acids, and sodiu...
Read more »Practical Suggestions To Make The Business Side Of Your Practice Work Better
For over 30 years I have run companies and clinics involved in the day to day transfer of skills and services to patients and clients who are paying out of their own pocket for this. Insurance covers a very small part of clinical life and therefore a...
Read more »Detox – WTF?
In the intellectual schism between the hardened scientific racialists and those prepared to explore beyond their current margin of confidence and institutional remit, there is an emerging pattern in the comprehension of the role of chemical pollutant...
Read more »The Potential Role of Probiotics in the Management of Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are defined by impairments in verbal and non-verbal communication, social interactions, and repetitive and stereotyped behaviours. In addition to these core deficits, previous reports indicate that the prevalence of ga...
Read more »Looking at Life Through Redox Glasses
Richard Deth, Ph.D., is a neuropharmacologist and professor of pharmacology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Deth has published scientific studies on the role of D4 dopamine receptors in psychiatric disorders, as well as the b...
Read more »Bugs, Guts and Research
For the majority of the last 100 years the role of bacteria in human health has been explored in terms of risk to health and well-being, the ‘bad bug = bad health’ paradigm. The result has been a combination of remarkable benefits against infecti...
Read more »Micronutrient Deficiencies Compound Health Problems As We Age
There remains intransigence, a stubborn denial despite the wealth of evidence to the contrary that people are capable of consuming all that they need in terms of micro nutrients from the ‘balanced diet’. So determined are the nutritional ‘flat ...
Read more »Bad Decisions – Due to Fatigue/Loss of Willpower?
No matter how we approach decisions and how careful we are, some bad ones are made, and others are unnecessarily delayed – organisation, procrastination and fear dominate the thoughts of many paralysed by the thought of completing the decision maki...
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The immune system is prone to the same grave misfortunes as any defense system handling weapons: collateral damage that comes with the destruction of the enemy on one’s own territory and friendly fire due to mistaken identity. Whereas the collateral damage is the price we pay for clearance of infections, autoimmunity is a pathological process. Nevertheless, the effector mechanisms involved in both processes are the same. Whether environment can be a cause, a trigger or an amplifier of an autoimmune disease are questions that are being intensively investigated.
