Deborah Walker - Nutritional therapy

21/10/2025

Increased plaque build up on the teeth

Increased plaque build up on the teeth Oxalate’s are a part of the diet that people only really start to become aware of when they have kidney stones and are asked to avoid them far more. But I feel that there are signs of oxalate issues before kidney stones that can give us a good … Increased p...

17/09/2025

New research highlights a significant increase in postprandial glucose and insulin levels during the active phase of androgenic oral contraceptives, raising concerns about potential long-term metabolic risks.

This research highlights the metabolic effects of androgenic contraceptives, showing significant increases in postprandial glucose and insulin levels in women.

17/09/2025

Is your body going wrong or is it just adapting to the environment and stress it's put under? Adaptation by the body happens over time, it's no different than if we stub our toe, and we then use the other foot more for a period of time until the pain has gone. Often hopping on one foot. This is the body adapting to the pain and discomfort it's been put under. The body is doing the same, a reduction in sleep for a few nights, over time the body will have to adapt to this, driving you to want to eat more sweet foods and carbohydrates, eating later at night, not able to have only one biscuit in the packet, increasing the stimulants to help it create the energy it needs. It gives you a nudge, and you respond, imperceptibly you are adapting to later nights and less sleep, this increase in sweet foods and starchy carbohydrates then encourages weight gain to happen, and this adaptation could be happening because you've decided to stay on your phone into the wee hours of the night.

09/09/2025

This research shows that statins increase insulin resistance, whilst decreasing GLP-1, they are also changing the gut microbiome.

Statins, the most prescribed drug in the world, may be quietly disrupting key metabolic pathways. This overlooked research reveals a fix that’s simple, cheap, and almost entirely ignored.

05/09/2025

Rebounding is good for the lymphatic system, trampolining mind you......

04/09/2025

Are we experiencing collectively the change in health that is similar to Pottengers Cats? The change in diet having considerable effects after a number of generations? The adaptation of health towards dis-ease happens over time, step by small step, imperceptible often, are we too busy to pay attention to the indicators the body gives us which inevitably get to a point where enough is enough and it’s too hard to function any more. Depending on your pain will depend on how far you let it go to.

Our diet and lifestyle choices can seem normal in our society now, a highly processed cereal for breakfast, the can of energy drink at brunch because already the energy is waning, hot counter foods for lunch because we didn't have the time to make anything before leaving for work. All of these eaten on the run, giving the message to the body that it’s not the food that is important but the activity you are carrying out is. This rush suppresses the digestive process, leaving you with poorly digested food causing bloating and digestive issues. Bloating is just the start of the digestive discomfort, one of those dashboard indicators, that over time becomes a cause for nutritional deficiency, and inflammation.

Then the cheeky takeaway bought on the way home from work because there is little energy left at the end of the day to cook, or even think about food. This cycle of leaving your food preparation choices to others, leaves you with food that can be second rate, nutrient poor, calorie dense. Cooked in fats that are unhelpful for the balance of the cells, neurotransmitters, cholesterol management and your brain function, ironically altering the ability to feel better and motivated enough to create a change, over time disconnecting you from your body.

03/09/2025

Your body is taking queues from everything around it, from the cycle of light, to the seasonal change, the food we provide for it, the lifestyle we choose to live, the sleep cycle, and the environment we provide for it. The body is taking this information and regulating itself accordingly so you can function within it in the best way possible. When we realise this, we stop blaming it, and start to understand why it may be responding in the way that it does, this creates an empowered state of opportunity to change what is happening. You and only you can make those changes, people like myself help with guidance, signposting the way to better more helpful choices, but ultimately you have to do the work and make that realisation in the first place.

02/09/2025

The focus on symptom suppression means that we continue with a mechanistic and very reductionist way of viewing the health of our bodies and therefore by default only try to find a solution symptom itself for example, the pain we are experiencing etc. This happens in not only medicine but also in the alternative health field, for instance, the taking of anti inflammatory supplements to manage the pain of a joint for example rather than looking for and at the underlying cause. The expression of symptoms is vital for us to understand not only that we should change, but also gives us a chance to really get in touch with our body and consider the environment we are expecting it to thrive in. The short term solution of suppressing the symptom, taking a painkiller and anti inflammatory supplement and carrying on, leads to increased adaptation of the body moving itself increasingly to towards the state of wider dis-ease. Ignorance isn't bliss in the long run. These dashboard indicators give us chance to change, to look at ourselves and consider not only is the diet right, but is your lifestyle giving you your optimal health.

01/09/2025

Programmable plants!
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01/09/2025

Fig season, hurrah.

01/09/2025

Adaptation happens to our health over time, often in ways that are subtle and that we don’t pay much attention to at first. The reducing of energy, difficultly waking up refreshed in the morning, in keeping focused across our day, that change in the bowel function where foods occasionally cause loose stools which then starts to become more variable over time. Constipation, diarrhoea, and the feeling that all foods are now causing problems when they are eaten. Then spots and skin issues, at your age you think! The back pain, and wider body joint pain, and then you pick up every cold going around and can’t seem to throw them off before another one arrives. All small changes that happen over a period of time, years, slowly an erosion of health, manageable, but not comfortable but not so problematic that you can’t function with them, that you can’t live with them, but with little time on your hands to really pay attention, you have no real chance to think about them in detail, to connect the dots. The body is slowly but surely adapting to the environment you are giving it, it’s doing its best, are we ageing prematurely or just not listening and paying attention to the adaptation.