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Leading scientist in the field of nutrition
Dr. Paul Clayton
Insult Me
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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)....
Dr. Paul Clayton: My writing is an attempt to explain the science to myself
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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...
The Bug is a Feature (III)
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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...
The Dope
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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...
The cancer dance
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Cancer and inflammation are profoundly inter-connected. From a cytological perspective, tumours can be regarded as wounds that will not heal; they are inevitably infiltrated by many different kinds of inflammatory and immune cells. Some tumours are more inflamed than others, and the degree of inflammation tells us a...
The Brilliance of Resilience
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The relationship between stress, inflammation, disease and politics is highly complicated, but is clearly very important – and it is beginning to be mapped out in a way that is already leading to new and better therapies. Some are psychosocial, some are nutritional and in the wings, Big...
Burr under the Saddle
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Sigmund Freud did not discover the subconscious, which had been explicitly described by the German renaissance figure Paracelsus some three centuries earlier. Freud gave us some interesting insights into the unpredictability and complexity of the human mind but he was also an unscientific fraud, a cokehead and a...
April is the cruellest month
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‘April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain.’ TS Elliott’s remarkable work ‘The Waste Land’ is a poem for our transitional times. The old order changeth all around uth. The shape of the new...
The second edition of dr. P. Clayton’s book “Let your food be your pharmaco-nutrition”
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We are excited to announce that the 2nd edition of Dr. Paul Clayton's book "Let Your Food be Your Pharmaco-Nutrition. The New Road to Health, Healing and Happiness" will soon be published on Amazon! The 2nd edition of this book is an extended version, and includes four new...