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Of course vitamin E is still needed. It does not appear to be as effective as the lipophilic polyphenols in protecting fish oil as it is consumed, absorbed and then ferried through the blood stream to the tissues where it will be built into cell membranes. It does,...
‘Alcohol – the cause of, and the solution to, all life’s problems.’ (Hat tip Homer Simpson). Alcohol wrecks lives. Having known alcoholics (and their family members), liver transplant surgeons and motorway police officers, I know how destructive alcohol can be. But it is not entirely bad. Alcohol –...
Fish oil doesn’t work. Clinical trials have been generating terrible results lately both for the fish oil industry, and all those who have been swallowing fish oil supplements. These include a clutch of major studies which looked at the cardio-protective effects of fish oil (JELLIS, GISSI-HF, ALPHA-OMEGA, OMEGA,...
The newest book of Dr. Paul Clayton “Let Your Food be Your Pharmaco-Nutrition. The New Road to Health, Healing and Happiness” has been published and is available in Amazon store in paperback and Kindle version. You can order the book here: One of the leading scientists in the field of...
Biohacking is big in Sweden. The trans-humanist biohackers - the ones who want to augment the human body a la Ghost in the Shell - more or less started in Sweden, when Nick Bostrom co-founded Humanity+ back in 1998. Fast forward 20 years. As of 2018 roughly 3500...
There are hard-core vegetarians, of course, but many of the folks I know who call themselves vegetarians eat chicken, fish, dairy and eggs. They tend to eschew red meat, and are more correctly diagnosed, even if they don’t know the term, as pro-vegetarians. A pro-vegetarian diet doesn't make...
Research by the legendary Bruce Ames has thrown up new links between maternal vitamin D, or the lack of it, and autism (Patrick & Ames ’15). Their work indicates that adequate levels of vitamin D may be required to produce neurotransmitters dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin and especially serotonin in...
According to the World Health Organisation, depressive illness is now the number 1 health disorder globally. The trend is not your friend; the numbers of people suffering from depression have increased by about a fifth in the last decade alone. Over in the US, prescriptions for anti-depressant drugs...
Breathing comes so naturally that much of the time we don’t even notice that we’re doing it – unless we get out of breath after heavy exertion. That pressured feeling soon passes, and breathing becomes invisible again. But for some that feeling never goes, and the constant struggle...
I thought I’d strike an autobiographical note for the first entry. I don’t find myself nearly as interesting as the science – but here’s a short story about me that might be relevant. Although I had been studying pharmaco-nutrition for many decades, it suddenly became a bit less...