The ongoing debate over Vitamin D levels continues. The latest research from the USA suggests that 20% of the US population of Children and teenagers are considered deficient in Vitamin D. Translating those rates to the UK, while not statistically proven, would suggest that the problem in our children may be just as severe. Given that we have less sunshine than the USA the problem might be even worse. If even 5% of our children are severely deficient in Vitamin D we should be seeing a rise in... Read Full Story

I saw this and it made me smile – Check out the fish pond. Move the cursor over the pond and click to drop food to the fishies Share this on del.icio.usDigg this!Share this on RedditBuzz up!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponShare this on TechnoratiPost this to MySpaceShare this on FacebookTweet This!Email this to a friend?Add this to Google Bookmarks Read Full Story

After years of talking about hormones till I’m blue in the face it might just be that the world is waking up to the problem of hormones. The problem for men is that there are so many chemicals in the world that mimic the female hormone oestrogen and that the sad truth is that men are being feminized molecule by molecule cell by cell. The only question I have right now, which is probably on the lips of most men, is what can I do to prevent these chemicals stealing my masculinity? Apart ... Read Full Story

If you read my ramblings on a regular basis you’ll know that there are some clear threads that I follow. One of them is the whole statin debate. My own view (having been on them for over 15 years) is that they are unnecessary and may actually cause harm. It is reassuring when high level public figures come out and tell it like it is. In this case Peter Duncan is the latest in a string to dish the dirt. When I was ten, my father Alan suffered a heart attack. He was 49. The treatment in t... Read Full Story

We have always known the vitamin D has huge benefits but this article based upon some material published in the British Medical Journal in Oct 2009 makes interesting reading particularly if you are 60 years and older. A daily dose of vitamin D cuts your risk of FALLING substantially, researchers reported today. But not just any dose will do. “It takes 700 to 1000 international units (IU) of vitamin D per day and nothing less will work,” Dr. Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, who directs t... Read Full Story

For many years I’ve been advising people who contract a virus to let the body elevate it’s temperature and not use Paracetamol to artificially lower the temperature. The reason being that viruses only replicate rapidly within a very narrow temperature band – possibly as tight at 2 or 3 degrees. A raised temperature of as little as 1 1/2 degrees above normal can reduce the reproduction rate by 10 or even 100 fold. Using paracetamol only perpetuates the virus multiplication an... Read Full Story

New research suggests HOW the disaccharide trehalose reduces the toxicity of the amyloid β peptide. Evidence indicated that it is this amyloid β toxicity that plays an important role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Trehalose actually appears to fold the peptide favourably. Trehalose promotes the insertion of α-helical amyloid β into biological membranes. This is just the latest bit of the puzzle and backs up what we have seen in real people who use Trehalose. Read Full Story

I’ve had major misgivings about the rush to give teenage girls the HPV vaccine which allegedly protects against cervical cancer. Now the experts in the medical community are saying that its a ‘Mass experiment”. They are also now talking about giving it to boys (my human physiology might not be up to much but last time I checked I don’t think boys have a cervix) and young children. The findings come as the cervical cancer vaccination programme was branded a ‘publi... Read Full Story

Angiotensin is something that forms whenever inflammation is present. It is a by-product of metabolism and if left unchecked it can cause huge problems. The main focus in recent years has been to inhibit the formation of Angiotensin by the use of pharmaceutical drugs. However, there is an interesting development that makes use of naturally occurring peptide chains and enzymes to safely inhibit the formation of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme. The small scale evaluations we’ve done so far ... Read Full Story

My wife sent me this article adapted from the daily Express. I took Simvastin, a powerful Stain drug, for 15 years and today 15 years on – I’m rarely free from muscular pain and joint problems. This so called benign wonder drug has damaged my life to the point where I can’t walk far and the outlook is not good. I stopped because I didn’t see the correlation between lowered cholesterol and reduced heart disease. The science was flimsy and seemingly distorted by the drug... Read Full Story