Did you know that folic acid and folate are different things? Folic acid is a synthetic, inactive product not found in nature. The term “folate” has a few different meanings but in general, it means the natural forms found in foods (not fortified, that is folic acid again) and the active form known as METHYL-folate (or more technically correct, 5-Methyl tetra-hydro folate, 5-MTHF to her friends). The…
Last Thursday was the end of all C19 restrictions in the UK, time to celebrate and feel some joy as the weight of oppression is lifted. And the beginning of war in Europe with Russia (or specifically Putin) attacking Ukraine. Pretty depressing all around, frankly. If we then throw in the soaring gas prices about to slaughter the budgets of everyone, I am concerned about…
Last week we talked about how statins can affect the body’s ability to make the crucial form of vitamin K2, MK4. As we discussed, the most common side-effect of statins is severe muscle pain and soreness, aka myopathy. The mechanism of statins is that they inhibit an enzyme called HMG CoA reductase, which is part of the mevalonate pathway. At the end of that is cholesterol…
Last week we talked about the beauty of vitamin D is and how it could just save your patients’ lives. At the end, we also touched on why the MK4 form of vitamin K2 is the one we really need. Note that both K1 and MK7 can both convert to MK4 (we will come back to this important but poorly understood conversion shortly). I will…
Well, here we are over two years into a worldwide viral pandemic, but when it comes to the prevention of death/severe C19 using safe, cheap and effective treatments, it sure feels like groundhog day. Yet another study on vitamin D confirms that pre-existing levels are pretty good at predicting who gets really ill and is at risk of dying and who gets it mildly. Given…
Since last year I have been telling anyone that expressed the idea they could avoid getting the C19 infection all together, they would have to accept at some point, we are all going to get it. Well, last week it was my turn. On Monday, by the middle of the morning shift in clinic I was feeling a very familiar sensation that I had with…
Well, it is finally my turn to see what the C19 virus is all about, I tested positive on Monday lunchtime, in bed by 2pm up next day at 9am. Feeling very much better, but my brain is definitely still delicate and inflamed and so today, this will be a suggested best of from articles in 2019 when some of your were not subscribers, enjoy….
In these days of uncertainty, it is nice to have some certainty in your life, some known, knowns as Donald Rumsfeld so rightly said (even if he is the reason aspartame was made legal). Here are a few things I know I can rely on: My ability to eat colossal amounts of sushi. Seriously if it was an Olympic sport, I would be on the…
I am currently eyeballs deep in research on bone health and fracture prevention. As ever when you think you know something, when you read deeper, things are never quite as clean cut as you thought and the general narrative on the subject isn’t really representative of the research. Frankly, once you start really deep-diving into a subject, you realise we are drowning in research, that…
Welcome to 2022. Let us keep faith that common sense, logic and integrity will prevail over this year in terms of C19. Is Omicron a gift from Mother nature/God/Allah/Ganesh/the universe? It may well be. Whether or not this will change policy in some parts of the world remains to be seen. It does sometimes feel like the media narrative and government policies are starting to…