Back in the day (2007 in fact) when I first went gluten free and starting eating to manipulate my microbiome, I was quite the crazy person. I didn’t eat starch at all, I fermented vegetables and took bacteria as supplements, what a nutter! These days I am positively mainstream, I can walk into most supermarkets and buy fermented sauerkraut, kombucha and gluten free goods as…
The answer to the email title is the ubiquitous herbicide, glyphosate. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the USA, over 93 percent of endangered species and 96 percent of their habitats are likely to be harmed by glyphosate. In its report, EPA found that glyphosate, which affects non-farm environments predominantly through field runoff and spray drift, is “moderately to highly toxic to fish, highly to…
Well, it has been quite a spectacular few days, with a definitive boom in new members of the Core Concepts in Chiropractic Nutrition tribe !! I am so excited to get them learning and get results for them and their patients in clinic. This movement is starting to feel really special and it will grow and grow as the world of nutrition and functional medicine…
Last week we talked about the gut microbiome and how it might be one aspect of why some people cope with COVID-19 and some do not. You and your immune system developed over several million years, a beautiful symbiotic relationship, giving your immune system the right “tone” and indeed tolerance. Tolerance specifically against you. This week I want to show you a real life example of when…
This week I have recorded a video for you on recent research on the gut microbiome and the severity of COVID. I also give you a sneaky peak at a little section of the gut microbiome section of the CCCN course, enjoy. Full research article here: https://gut.bmj.com/content/gutjnl/early/2021/01/04/gutjnl-2020-323020.full.pdf I mention butyrate in the video, you can read more on that here from a newsletter in 2019…
Last week we talked about a probiotic yeast to help dodgy tummies that is little known but well researched, lychees hidden secret, saccharomyces boulardii. This week we are going to talk about something that is well known and widely used by the NHS, but so much but the rest of us. Activated charcoal. If you turn up in hospital after swallowing something poisonous, one option is big glass…
If you come to my house you will always find a cupboard stacked with nutritional remedies for every occasion. Back in the summer of 2019 I told you all about a probiotic yeast saccharomyces boulardii, which is a brilliant supplement for the gut microbiome. It really helps to crowd out the pathogenic bacteria and if you have a dose of something nasty, you can nip…
Welcome to 2021 and if we thought that 2021 would bring us any change soon, we were mistaken. A group of the most published vitamin D researchers in the world have put together an open letter to governments around the world to show the weight of research backing 4000 iu daily of vitamin D to help patients immune systems work better in the fight against COVID-19….
Firstly happy new year to all of you, make 2021 a triumphant year for you and your family, regardless of the world around you. It certainly has been a strange and often disorientating year and who knows where we will be in another 12 months? I have emailed to my MP on four occasions and only had one reply, a disappointing haul. As I pointed out in…
I have prepared a video for you this week which covers: – Vitamin D levels and dosing using the chart – you will have been sent the chart when you signed up, but I have attached it here once again talked through the chart and how to use it. – The Neuro-mechanical metabolic interface – I have extracted some slides directly from Module 1 on pain thresholds…