Wednesday, 08 March 2017
Reading Time: 12 minutes | By Antony Haynes BA, Registered Nutritional Therapist The word ‘homocysteine’ has entered the lexicon of familiar words over the past decade, at least for health practitioners, as has the term methylation, and the two are intimately connected. What is Methylation? Methylation denotes the addition of a methyl group on a substrate, or the substitution of
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Reading Time: 5 minutes | There is a growing awareness that brain atrophy is a miserable consequence of aging and when combined with loss of mental function it makes for a very unattractive outcome. The paper out in September 2010 from the research team at Oxford showed that moderate doses of the supplement containing B Vitamins: Folic acid (0.8 mg/d),
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Reading Time: 4 minutes | This month’s (August) American Journal of Clinical Nutrition presents a longitudinal study supporting the use of B vitamins in the management of mental health. In Nutritional Therapy practice when we are faced with patients who seem to be struggling with depression and are finding recovery hard as well as trying to prevent recurrence after resolving