It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – Help!!!
It can be difficult to eat healthily at this time of year – there are way too many temptations! Try the following swaps and choices that may mitigate at least some of the damage.
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B Vitamins, Fibre and your Gut Microbiome – A Helpful Alliance
B Vitamins are a group of important nutrients that perform many important functions in the body. These functions include: supporting methylation (a complex process touching pretty much every system in the body), cognitive health, mood, energy, stress response, immunity and cardiovascular health.
Ultra-processed Food and UK adolescents
A study published in July by researchers from Universities of Cambridge and Bristol found that Ultra Processed Food (UPF) makes up two-thirds of Total Calorie Intake in UK adolescents.
My Favourite Jeans (Genes)
You know how you have that favourite pair of jeans that fit so well and are just you? Well, some genes are like that. When you read about what they do and how they make you feel, you say to yourself, yep, that’s me!
“Food for thought”- indeed!
I always stress to clients the importance of testing levels of key nutrients since deficiencies can impact every area of your health, but a new study has linked key nutrients with slower brain ageing.
Wake up and smell the coffee?
Tea and coffee can be a great source of anti-oxidants, polyphenols and fibre. There is a good deal of evidence to support a variety of health benefits of both. You do not, however, get these benefits from instant coffee – it has to be real.
Make Room for Mushrooms!
I am using Medicinal Mushrooms more and more in my practice (and for myself) and it seems that every day new research comes out extolling their remarkable healing properties in a huge range of conditions from cold sores to cancer.