Health Matters

01/05/2024

Brain health conditions have become a global health emergency,’ according to the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies last year. Globally, 15 percent of all disability is due to brain and mental health disorders. The lifetime cost of Alzheimer’s in 2022 was estimated to be €1.2 trillion across the EU, exceeding even cancer and heart disease. But most worrying are the trends of falling IQ at a rate of about 7 percent a generation.

On this flight path, by 2080, more than a third of children will be classified as mentally re****ed. That’s the conclusion of Professor Michael Crawford who discovered the essentiality of omega-3 DHA for the brain. Alarmingly, brain size, deduced from cranial capacity of skulls, has shrunk by a staggering 20 percent over a mere 30,000 years. It took over six million years for brain size to increase from that of a chimpanzee (350cc) to a peak of 1,600 to 1,700 cc with Cro Magnon man thirty thousand years ago. Today, brain size averages 1,350cc.

There is no question that we are devolving mentally with an endless escalation of rates of ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety, insomnia, schizophrenia, dementia and Alzheimer’s, as well as strokes, Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis.

The big question is: why? I’m proposing that there are four main biological drivers of our demise...
1. Brain Fats
2. Methylation
3. Glycation
4. Oxidation

I explain why in this report - https://www.patrickholford.com/advice/the-four-horsemen-of-the-mental-health-apocalypse/

28/08/2023

01/11/2022

Incorporating a few of the top foods for helping to heal lungs in your diet can be incredibly beneficial for a number of respiratory conditions.

27/05/2022

Our next Free Mental Health Awareness workshop is running Wednesday 1st of June.

Session times:

9.30 to 12.30

or

1.30 to 4.30

Our training is open to anyone living or working in the Farming community!

21/01/2022

Losing weight if you’re obese or seriously overweight reduces your risk of a severe Covid-19 infection by as much as 60 percent.

30/10/2021

🎃 Carved your pumpkin ready for ? 🎃

Make crunchy, flavoursome roasted pumpkin seeds for pennies! Perfect for snacking, sprinkling and spicing up your dishes. Reduce your waste with this super simple recipe!

(Stay tuned for another recipe from for using up those pumpkin seeds, too - hold on to them and don't bin them! They're honestly so tasty when roasted up).

Simply remove all the pumpkin flesh from the seeds, rinse and drain well. Pat dry with a paper towel or kitchen tea towel.

Then toss the seeds in a bowl with a tsp of oil, a sprinkle of salt and smoked paprika.

Spread them out on a baking tray and bake for 25 mins at 190°C/gas mark 5.

Scrummy snack sorted! 🙌

07/08/2021

Your time off is precious, so we've come up with some fun things to do with your fave

14/07/2021

Eight in ten (82%) critically ill COVID-19 patients have low to undetectable vitamin C levels, reports a study in Spain measuring vitamin C levels in intensive care patients in their hospital in Barcelona; published today in the Nutrition Journal.

18% had undetectable levels – as seen in scurvy.
82% had either low or undetectable levels.
Only 18%, less than two in ten, had normal levels.

The researchers conclude “in our cohort of patients with COVID-19-associated ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome), vitamin C status is very low. Given the potential role of vitamin C in sepsis and ARDS, there is gathering interest of whether supplementation could be beneficial in COVID-19.”

Here in the UK virtually no patients are tested for vitamin C deficiency, which can be done so easily with a urine vitamin C strip. Right now, I’m reviewing nine clinical trials – eight show benefit, one shows no effect, and the higher the dose the better the effect. This is relating to less deaths, better oxygenation, less inflammation and faster recovery.

If this study is representative of what's happening in the UK, where we eat less vitamin c rich foods, it suggests that 8 in 10 critically ill people need vitamin C.

Why do we have this blind-spot for vitamin C?

You can read the study for yourself here - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12937-021-00727-z as well as sign up to our petition here - https://www.vitaminc4covid.com/

27/04/2021

The most nutrient-dense foods are real and unprocessed, as opposed to chemically altered, manmade or filled with synthetic ingredients. Learn about the top 30 foods that should be in your diet ... and how they naturally contribute to weight loss!

27/04/2021

By Rachael Link For dieters seeking flexibility, intermittent fasting is a great option. Unlike other diet plans, an intermittent fasting diet doesn’t set any strict standards, rules or restrictions on which foods are permitted or how much you can eat, although eating a healthy diet is always wise...

29/09/2020

Some great ideas for a warm bedtime drink now that the nights are getting darker. I can recommend the Chamomile Tea Latte.

By Rachael Link, RD, MS Building a bedtime routine is essential for promoting better sleep. One crucial component of any bedtime routine is finding nourishing and delicious evening drinks to help wind down your day and support better sleep. Not only can these beverages enhance feelings of comfort an...