When I was a child time seemed to move more slowly. Today when seven year olds tell you that the year is going quickly you know that time is speeding up. Most of us are probably wondering how it can be Christmas in under a month when last Christmas seems like it was...
Eating for eye health is simple: the food that is good for our eyes is good for the whole of us, as our eyes are part of our body. This is common sense, but something we sometimes forget. The common eye conditions, cataract and macular degeneration, are at least...
NAD+, or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, is a coenzyme found in all living cells, and is required for the fundamental biological processes that make life possible. After the birth of my children my metabolism and hormones drastically changed. It seemed I...
Recently I wrote about the PURE study which followed over 135,000 people in 18 countries for seven years. It found that current dietary guidelines are essentially wrong as there was an increased rate of heart disease stroke and mortality associated with low fat rather...
There was a time when we believed the earth was the centre of the universe. To be honest, it was not unreasonable for people in the dark ages to accept this. The technology of the time was limited. When Galileo Galilei proposed that the earth revolved around the sun...
“The skin is a self-renewing organ called an immunological organ where the epidermis can function as a primary lymphoid organ, forming part of our immune system.” There are an estimated 20 billion T cells in human skin suggesting that immune defense in the skin’s...
