Naturopathic Care

06/03/2026

Unlock Creatine's Potential: Your Ally Against Anxiety, Dementia, Sleep Loss, Aging Muscle Decline, and Depression
1. Anxiety
Creatine supplementation has shown emerging promise in supporting mental health, including potential benefits for anxiety symptoms, though research remains preliminary and mixed. Studies indicate that creatine may help regulate brain energy metabolism, which could alleviate anxiety by stabilizing mood and reducing fatigue-related stress responses. For instance, some neuroimaging research has linked lower brain creatine levels to heightened anxiety in conditions like generalized anxiety disorder, suggesting supplementation might restore these levels and improve symptoms such as avoidance and fear. However, not all trials are conclusive, with a few reporting minimal direct effects on primary anxiety measures, often observing benefits as secondary outcomes in broader mental health contexts. Overall, while creatine isn't a standalone treatment, it could serve as a safe adjunct for those experiencing anxiety, particularly when combined with lifestyle interventions, warranting further large-scale studies to confirm efficacy.
2. Dementia
Recent pilot studies highlight creatine's potential role in combating cognitive decline associated with dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease, by enhancing brain energy reserves and supporting neuronal function. Preclinical and early human trials suggest that creatine monohydrate supplementation can increase brain creatine levels by around 11%, leading to moderate improvements in working memory, attention, and executive function in patients with mild to moderate dementia. This bioenergetic boost may help counteract the hypometabolism seen in Alzheimer's brains, potentially slowing symptom progression in early stages. While larger trials are needed, initial findings from 2025 research indicate feasibility and safety, with no major adverse effects, positioning creatine as a promising, low-cost adjunct to existing therapies for dementia management.
3. Recovering from Sleep Deprivation
Creatine stands out as an effective tool for mitigating the cognitive and performance deficits caused by sleep deprivation, with multiple studies demonstrating its ability to restore brain energy and enhance mental sharpness during periods of fatigue. Research shows that a single high dose (around 0.35 g/kg) or short-term supplementation can prevent drops in brain pH, maintain ATP levels, and improve processing speed, mood, and executive function after 21-36 hours of wakefulness. For example, trials involving sleep-deprived individuals found creatine reduced immobility in behavioral tests and boosted prefrontal cortex-dependent tasks, making it a practical option for shift workers or those facing temporary sleep loss. These effects stem from creatine's role in buffering high-energy phosphates, offering a non-stimulant alternative for recovery without the crash associated with caffeine.
4. Muscle Building as You Age as a Factor in Longevity
As a key player in promoting muscle health, creatine supplementation significantly enhances muscle building and maintenance in aging adults, contributing to longevity by reducing sarcopenia risks and supporting overall vitality. Combined with resistance training, creatine increases lean mass, muscle strength, and functional performance, helping prevent falls, frailty, and age-related bone loss. Studies consistently show gains in upper- and lower-body strength, with effects amplified in older populations, potentially extending healthy lifespan through better mobility and metabolic health. This makes creatine a vital supplement for longevity-focused strategies, as preserved muscle mass correlates with lower chronic disease rates and improved quality of life into later years.
5. Depression
Creatine has gained traction as an adjunctive therapy for depression, with clinical trials showing it can accelerate and enhance antidepressant responses, particularly in major depressive disorder. By bolstering brain energy metabolism, creatine supplementation (typically 3-10 g/day) has led to faster symptom remission and greater reductions in depression scores when added to SSRIs or cognitive behavioral therapy. For example, studies in women with MDD found twice the remission rate compared to placebo, with effects emerging as early as week two. While more effective in females and non-resistant cases, its low cost and safety profile make it a compelling option for improving treatment outcomes in depression management.

02/03/2026

RFK Jr just spent 2.5 hours on Joe Rogan explaining all he's been doing as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)
So many extraordinary changes....Cheaper insulin. Cleaner food. Less Big Pharma influence. Getting rid of food dyes. Kicking junk food and soft drinks off food stamps. Giving people access to their own medical records. Psychedelic therapy for veterans. Exploring the potential health risks of the pesticide glyphosate as a pre-harvest desiccant (or "drying agent") as they do here in Australia ( banned in Italy, France, Vietnam and others)
He also calls out the stuff he's NOT happy about such as having to compromise on glyphosate, which he spent 40 years fighting.
You don't have to like RFK or Trump to listen. But if the reason you're not listening is because of the uber toxic culture wars...he talks about that in this interview.
Watch it to make up your own mind.
Here is an AI generated list for those who wont:
1. Healthcare Costs & Fraud
Using AI to detect Medicaid/Medicare fraud for the first time, targeting what he estimates as $100B+ lost annually
Shutting down fraudulent foreign-run schemes (Cuban durable medical equipment scams, Russian hospice fraud in LA)
Auditing states and demanding corrective action on fraudulent spending
2. Drug Pricing
Negotiated Most Favoured Nation (MFN) pricing agreements with 16 of 17 major pharmaceutical companies, meaning Americans now pay among the lowest prices in the developed world
Launched Trump RX for direct public access to lower drug prices
3. Food & Nutrition
Overhauled dietary guidelines with leading nutritionists, removing industry lobbyist influence
Getting SNAP program to exclude candy and soda in 20 states
Requiring SNAP retailers to stock more real food
Working toward front-of-package traffic light labelling
Creating the first federal definition of ultra-processed foods
4. Healthcare Transparency
Enforcing hospital price transparency laws (sending 1,000+ warning letters)
Building a public website where patients can compare procedure costs
5. Medical Records
Secured agreement from 405 tech companies to end information blocking, so every American can access their own medical records on their phone by end of year
6. Insurance Reform
Got major insurers (covering 80% of Americans) to voluntarily eliminate prior authorisation for most procedures
7. Military Health
Brought in Chef Robert Irvine to overhaul military meals across bases — fresher food at lower cost ($10/day vs $18/day)
8. Children & Schools
Bell-to-bell phone bans now in 26 states, with strong results in behaviour and test scores
9. Peptides & Alternative Medicine
Working to move 14 peptides back to accessible legal status
Actively pursuing therapeutic access to psychedelics (psilocybin, M**A) for PTSD, particularly for veterans, with 21 VA studies underway
Ibogaine also on the radar, particularly for opioid addiction treatment — veterans are currently having to travel to Tijuana to access it, which RFK Jr. views as unacceptable given what they have sacrificed for the country
10. Agriculture
Investing in regenerative farming and laser weed-killing technology as alternatives to glyphosate
Studying glyphosate's health impacts properly for the first time
What He Is Unhappy About or Has Had to Compromise On
Glyphosate — His Biggest Frustration
Spent 40 years fighting pesticides and personally won an $11 billion settlement against Monsanto over glyphosate
Deeply uncomfortable that the administration issued an executive order to support domestic glyphosate production rather than phase it out
Unhappy that the administration backed federal preemption in a Supreme Court case, which would effectively give Bayer/Monsanto immunity from state lawsuits — removing all incentive for the company to make the product safer
Acknowledges it as a necessary compromise because 97-98% of US corn and soy production currently depends on it, and 99% of supply comes from China, making it a national security issue
Frames it explicitly as a bridge position, not a permanent one, and is pushing hard for technology-based alternatives like laser weeding
Partisan Resistance to Common-Sense Reforms
Blue states like California, New York, Maine and Minnesota refusing to cooperate with Medicaid fraud corrective action plans, even when up to 50% of their spending is flagged as potentially fraudulent
Only 2 of 20 states applying for SNAP waivers (to remove junk food) are blue states, despite this being something Bernie Sanders previously supported
Democrats publicly condemned his Tylenol pregnancy warning, with viral TikTok videos of pregnant women eating Tylenol specifically to defy the recommendation — which he found genuinely distressing
The Food System More Broadly
Frustrated that 70% of children's calories now come from ultra-processed food — a direct result of decades of corrupted dietary guidelines written by food industry lobbyists
Angry that previous administrations, including Democratic ones, allowed this to happen with no accountability
Concerned that Americans have lost the ability to cook, which he sees as both a health and a cultural loss
The Black Market for Peptides
The Biden administration illegally moved 19 peptides to a "do not formulate" category without any safety signal to justify it, creating a black market
People are now buying unregulated, unverified peptides with no quality control — a problem his administration created the conditions for and is now trying to fix
The Overall State of the Agency When He Arrived
Describes HHS as having been run as a "sick care" system rather than a healthcare system
The Biden administration deliberately shut down the program integrity office, going from hundreds of staff to just six people, with explicit orders to focus only on enrollments
Nobody in the agency was being held accountable for the fact that Americans kept getting sicker under the watch of the world's most expensive health agency
Diet Coke / Aspartame
Brought up Donald Rumsfeld's role in overriding an FDA ban on aspartame to push it to market through his ownership of the company making it — clearly views this as emblematic of how corporate interests have corrupted food and drug regulation for decades, though stops short of saying what he's doing about it specifically
Under his umbrella RFKJ oversees:
FDA — headed by Marty McCary
NIH — headed by Jay Bhattacharya
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — headed by Dr. Oz
CDC (Centers for Disease Control).

02/03/2026

Mice and cherry blossoms… Research shows that mice can pass on learned fear-based, scent-specific memories to their offspring and grand-offspring through epigenetic mechanisms, altering neural structure without changing DNA sequence. Male mice trained to fear a scent (e.g., cherry blossom/acetophenone) pass this sensitivity via DNA methylation in s***m, causing descendants to have more scent-detecting neurons.
Emory University
Emory University
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Key Findings in Mouse Scent Epigenetics:
Transgenerational Inheritance: F1 (sons) and F2 (grandsons) generations born to trained male mice showed increased fear/sensitivity to specific odors (like cherry blossom) they had never previously encountered.
Epigenetic Mechanism: The fear memory is passed down through epigenetic marks—chemical changes to DNA (specifically reduced methylation of the odorant receptor gene Olfr151 in s***m)—rather than a change to the underlying DNA sequence.
Neurological Changes: Descendants had a physically larger olfactory structure (glomerulus) in their brains associated with detecting that specific scent.
S***m Transmission: The, change in gene expression was found in the s***m of the trained fathers, demonstrating how the environment can influence future generations.
"Fear" vs. "Sensitivity": The offspring do not inherit the fear itself, but rather a heightened sensitivity to that specific odor, allowing them to react to potential danger.
BBC
BBC
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This, research, particularly the 2013 *Nature Neuroscience* study by Dias and Ressler, suggests that ancestral experiences can influence the brain structure and behavior of future generations, providing a mechanism for environmental adaptation.
National Institutes of Health (.gov)

15/02/2026

Love dark chocolate!!!

One of the core components of my microcirculation phytonutrient diet is cocoa, usually as very dark chocolate (85 to 90%), chosen for its higher flavanol density and lower sugar load. A 2025 systematic review rigorously evaluated the clinical evidence to determine whether cocoa flavanols meaningfully enhance microvascular function. The review included 19 randomised, placebo-controlled human trials, comprising 13 acute studies and 7 chronic studies (with one study containing both phases), spanning effects on skin, skeletal muscle, cerebral and retinal microvascular beds.

Participants were not simply eating ordinary chocolate. Most of the trials used standardised, high-flavanol cocoa beverages, concentrated cocoa extracts in capsules, or specially prepared high-percentage dark chocolate, delivering pharmacological doses of flavanols. Acute doses commonly ranged from 500 to 1350 mg total flavanols (with 45 to 255 mg of (-)-epicatechin), and some chronic studies delivered up to 900 to 1800 mg/day.

A conventional meta-analysis was not possible because the studies varied widely in assessed vascular beds, measurement techniques (Laser Doppler, plethysmography etc), and stimulus conditions (reactive hyperaemia, hypoxia, mental stress, exercise). The authors therefore used vote counting, a Cochrane-recognised fallback method. In this approach, each study subgroup was assigned a “vote” based solely on whether cocoa performed better than placebo (1) or not (0), regardless of statistical significance or effect size. They then tested whether the proportion of positive directions exceeded chance (50%).

Using vote counting (direction-of-effect analysis), 12 of 14 acute subgroups (85.7%) showed improved vasodilator responses with cocoa flavanols, a proportion significantly greater than chance (p = 0.013), with 100% of the low-risk-of-bias (higher quality) acute studies favouring cocoa. For chronic supplementation, the direction was also generally favourable but less robust: 8 of 11 subgroups (72.7%) showed improved vasodilator responses and 7 of 9 (77.7%) favoured cocoa at rest, but these proportions did not reach statistical significance. (Note that some trials generated more than one subgroup for analysis.)

Hence the strongest signal was for acute enhancement of microvascular reactivity within 1 to 3 hours after ingestion, coinciding with peak circulating flavanol metabolites and nitric oxide-related activity. Chronic effects were less consistent, and there was little evidence of structural microvascular remodelling or reversal of established disease. The current clinical data therefore position high-dose cocoa flavanol extracts as performance enhancing short-term endothelial modulators that may enhance vascular responsiveness under stress (cognitive demand, hypoxia, reactive hyperaemia).

The fact that the clinical evidence favours acute effects from cocoa does not rule out benefits from long-term chronic intake. However, it does highlight that the use of a multicomponent sustained input, as per my microcirculation diet, is more likely to have the greatest impact on chronic microvascular compromise.

For more information see: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40217225/

03/02/2026

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02/02/2026

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31/01/2026

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27/01/2026

Even with unprecedented investment, the dementia drug pipeline continues to deliver modest and uncertain gains at best. Despite the media fanfare, recent agents largely target late-stage amyloid pathology, offering small statistical benefits that translate into limited real-world clinical impact, while carrying substantial costs and safety concerns. There is little in the current pipeline that convincingly alters disease trajectory once neurodegeneration is established. This sobering reality underlines a critical truth: dementia is unlikely to be “cured” pharmacologically after onset. The greatest opportunity lies earlier—shifting focus toward prevention and delay through vascular health, metabolic resilience, inflammation control, and lifelong neuroprotection—where the biological leverage, population impact, and cost-effectiveness are far greater.

A recent umbrella review underlines that we already know a good deal about what to do. A total of 45 reviews covering 212 meta-analyses (including around 10,000 individual studies in total) were synthesised. From this the authors identified 14 broadly defined modifiable risk factors that were significantly associated with dementia disorders.

They were: alcohol consumption, body weight, depression, diabetes mellitus, diet, hypertension, less education, physical inactivity, sensory loss, sleep disturbance, smoking, social isolation, traumatic brain injury and vitamin D deficiency. All 14 factors were associated with the risk of major neurocognitive disorders (NCD), and five were associated with mild NCD. Of note, the scientists found considerably less research for vascular dementia and mild NCD.

The study highlighted the role of a key nutrient in prevention, namely vitamin D. Beyond vitamin D, several B vitamins and selected herbs may contribute meaningfully to dementia prevention. Folate and vitamin B12 are central to homocysteine metabolism; elevated homocysteine is strongly linked to brain atrophy, white-matter damage and faster cognitive decline, with trials suggesting benefit when deficiencies or low-normal levels are corrected. Among herbs, Ginkgo biloba has the most consistent human evidence, supporting cerebral microcirculation and endothelial function and mitochondrial activity. Turmeric (particularly bioavailable curcumin) targets neuroinflammation, oxidative stress and amyloid pathology. Low-dose lithium, even at trace nutritional levels, has emerging epidemiological and clinical support for neuroprotection, possibly reduced tau phosphorylation and enhanced neuronal resilience.

For more information see: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38346414/

25/01/2026

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25/01/2026

There is too much plastic… every little bit of change helps

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19/01/2026

“A natural rescue mechanism borrowed from plants”, enhancing overall wellness for a healthier you. A daily dose of these key phytonutrients or nesems can help replace what is lost from our modern-day diets.

18/01/2026

"A natural rescue mechanism borrowed from plants”, enhancing overall wellness for a healthier you. A daily dose of these key phytonutrients or nesems can help replace what is lost from our modern-day diets.