Vitamin D & C – Again!
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It occurred, after listening to various (UK and International) politicians trying to explain behaviour that the rest of the country (and most of the…
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Division and Distrust
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The year ahead is of course simply a continuation of the prior year, nothing magical occurs on the 1st day of January that creates…
Metabolites, Health and Brain Function
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An Oct 2021 paper in BMJ Nutrition Prevention and Health explored the relationship between fruit and vegetable intake and mental wellbeing in school children[i].…
A Zen Moment for Immunity
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A koan (a Zen Buddhist derived a paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution) for pandemic times: ‘If a microbe silently and inconsequentially copies itself in…
Is Natural Immunity Inviolable?
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The obvious answer is NO, otherwise no one would suffer immune related illness and death. The ability of your immune system to respond, repel…
Immune Responses to Vaccinations: Gut Microbiota’s Crucial Role
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#Vaccines are a highly effective way to prevent infectious diseases as well as reducing the need for #antibiotics and therefore antibiotic resistance. However, #immune…
Vaccine and Wild Type Immune Preparedness
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Published 17th February 2021 Ayurvedic proverb: “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use; when diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”…
Selenium, ’Shrooms, Astragalus, and Andrographis
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How a Trace Mineral, Maitake Mushroom, and Adaptogenic Herbs Offer Comprehensive Immune Protection by Carrie Decker ND. The times when we need additional immune…
Dietary Metabolites and The Gut Microbiota: An Alternative Approach to Control Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases
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May 2016 saw the publication of an open access article, that beautifully captures the zeitgeist of how the food we eat, the microbiome we…
Probiotics in Digestive Diseases: Focus on Lactobacillus GG.
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A review article in Gastroenterologica e Dietologica explores the evidence for the use of LGG as a therapeutic probiotic.[1] Probiotics are becoming increasingly important…