Leading scientist in the field of nutrition
A couple of weeks ago, while on a lecture tour of Italy, the Czech Republic and Poland (where I had the great joy of spending the afternoon with the inestimable Professor Andrzej Vogt), I got involved in an e-spat with Edzard Ernst. Edzard, whose path I had crossed...
The history of our attempts to understand and treat mental problems recapitulates and reflects our social, philosophical and economic development. How could it be otherwise? Through the detail, one can discern five broad, paradigmatic shifts. The first major shift from a spiritual / religious model to one based...
At the end of each year I look back to the preceding year and reflect on how limited my understanding of things nutritional was. A brief moment of self-satisfaction ensues, quickly damped by the realisation that next year will be no different. Each peak climbed reveals higher ranges...
There is acute inflammation, which is generally a good thing and is involved in clearing infections and tissue damage; and there is chronic inflammation, generally a bad thing as it causes the gradual tissue destruction that eventually emerges as a degenerative disease. Both processes are complex. In fact, they...
If you didn’t know by now that we are half human half bug, you have not been paying attention to the fast developing science of the microbiome. If you have been paying attention, you will know that our microbes are deeply interwoven into our chemistry, immunology, physiology and...
Two related questions. Q1. If, thanks to our terrible diets and lifestyles, chronic inflammation is rife (and the public health stats make it very clear that it is), why do some folk develop cardiovascular disease while others get arthritis, and others again present with asthma, osteoporosis, a neurodegenerative...
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Q. Are we not men? A. We are Devo! Over the last few decades, a growing number of scientific papers have documented a widespread and consistent decline in male sperm count and quality. A recent meta-analysis that pooled data from over 40,000 males from North America, Europe, Australia...
Like beta software, humans are full of bugs. And like beta software too, something that you first thought of as a bug often turns out to be a feature – and maybe, even, the future. Evolution itself is an accumulation of bugs (genetic mutations), which under the right...
I apologise for the pap reference. I loathe the music of the middle of the road musicians who produced the 1979 album of that name. But it is a tolerable way, I suppose, to introduce the over-heated topic of Bacon. In America, bacon is a sacrament. According to...