Did you know, if you turn up in hospital after swallowing something poisonous, one option is big glass of activated charcoal, 50 grams to be precise. It is in the BNF and everything. Check it out. https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/charcoal-activated.html So why charcoal and what does activated mean? You take charcoal made from things like wood or coconuts, then you process it at very high temperatures which changes…
Last week we discussed the very real benefits of Ozempic but also the significant downsides that we know of so far. Today, let us bring it back to our natural and ancestral roots. Remember GLP1 is an incretin hormone, that is released fromm the gut and tells you when you are full, controls gastric emptying, insulin levels and, indeed, many things that drive fat accumulation…
Have you seen the recent headlines on the “miracle” weight loss drug Ozempic? It is everywhere, and it is likely to be the best-selling drug of all time. It does make you slimmer, there is no doubt about that, but as ever, the devil is in the detail, and we must be cautious about side-effects. Big pharma are not known for their honesty in this regard. See…
Firstly, huge shout out to Ricardo Fujikawa for organising an amazing event! Last time I went to an ECU it was London 2010, and it was drier than a roast dinner without the gravy. One academic researcher told us all about his analysis of manipulation for acute low back pain and how he wasn’t sure it really worked, there wasn’t enough evidence to support it…
By the time you read this, I will be basking in the sunshine of Valencia at the ECU’s 2024 conference. Whenever I lecture to new groups, I am always looking to take previous lectures and make them even more simple, more straight line to clinical actions and solutions. We are shortly going to have a vitamin B12 flow chart available to order as part of…
Did you know we have a WhatsApp, Academy of Chiropractic Nutrition group? It is a broadcast only group, so I will occasionally drop in useful information and research for you to consume but you and others cannot reply per se. This is especially useful if you are not on FB. Join us: Thirteen years ago when my wife was pregnant with our first child (my…
We have a set of 12 “Core Commandments” we use as a guide and hold in mind when we are in clinic as part of the Core Concepts in Chiropractic Nutrition. Number 9 is: Sometimes, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. We use a blood test called C reactive protein for measuring inflammation in…
Could part of the obesity epidemic be due to a lack of protein? That is one hypothesis that is gaining momentum and has some research to back it up, known as “protein leverage”. The basic premise is your body needs amino acids from protein to run your systems. If you do not get enough from the food you are eating, then you will remain hungry, as your…
You remember the story of Goldilocks and three bears? The porridge is too hot, then too cold, & she needed it just right. Same with protein, which gives us the amino acids that we need to build: Also used in the energy cycle, green boxes circled in red are amino acids. I could go on, but you get the idea, this is critical, hence some…
Snapping an achilles is something I would hate, the crack of the tendon, the total disability, the long recovery, no thank you. But imagine walking along and suddenly rupturing both achilles tendons. Now that would be truly awful. But that would not happen without massive trauma or a prescription for a fluoroquinolone antibiotic like ciprofloxacin. These are powerful antibiotics, used for UTI’s, prostatitis and hard…