Leading scientist in the field of nutrition
No, this is not a reference to obscure Hentai. And before you ask, I only know about that because I stumbled into it when researching Hokusai’s Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife; not as famous as his Great Wave but to me, as a child who grew up in...
Because I am. I am slouched far too comfortably in one of an endless series of airport lounges. Awash with jetlag, in Far Eastern limbo and 14 hours into a 35-hour multi-flight nightmare, I am very aware that I am currently deep in Sitting Disease territory. I know...
I am on a lecture tour of Australia at the moment, currently in Adelaide. It’s pouring down but who cares? Because according to the Australian government, Australia’s health care system is one of the best in the world, providing safe and affordable healthcare for all Australians (1). According to the...
Previous posts have considered resilience, affect and attention span, how these are affected by diet and how they impact on the affected individual. But these issues also have larger effects, and nowhere more so than in the nation that put the world on a SAD diet. The USA...
The processed, beautifully packaged foods in your supermarket trolley are largely toxic. Processed foods don’t have to be poisonous, but the processed foods sold to us by Big Phood certainly are; after all, it has been established that they increase the risk of cancer and early death from...
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Most insults can be disregarded. Some are so harmful that they must be countered if we are to survive; and I’ll talk about these further down the post. But a third group of insults are actually good for us, because they make us stronger (hat tip Friedrich Nietzsche)....
Please introduce yourself and your book(s)! I am – or was – a clinical pharmacologist who went off-reservation a half century ago, and became obsessed with the pharmacological attributes of foods and food derivates. I became aware that the world of natural pharmacology was more diverse than anything...
Hippocrates famously claimed that all disease originated in the gut. Although this is of course untrue, it is clear that conditions in the gut play an important role in determining many aspects of health and disease, including a number of conditions that affect the brain. It works both...
If you think that mental illness will always happen to someone else, think again. The full lifetime risk of developing a mental health disorder may be as high as 46%, at least in the crazy ole US of A, and that figure comes from a population study that...