Are we taking too many prescription drugs as we age, and at what cost? Patrick Holford explores the risks of polypharmacy, overprescribing, highlighting how many commonly used medications offer minimal prevention while opening the door to serious side effects, drug interactions, and even nutrient depletion.
Detox can help reduce inflammation and enhance your health. Learn about the liver's detoxification role, signs of high toxic load, and follow a 9-day detox plan to rejuvenate your body. Boost your well-being with essential nutrients and natural anti-inflammatory supplements.
Blood sugar imbalances, allergies and deficiencies in vitamins, essential fats and amino acids have all been linked to low mood. If you suffer from depression, it’s best to start by correcting these. But there is much more that you can do, and that’s what this article explores in depth.
The most common medical treatment for inflammation is anti-inflammatory drugs which are effective symptom suppressors, providing pain relief, but do nothing to address the causes of the inflammation. Discover the natural solutions to pain and inflammation.
Are you struggling just a bit to read the words, but you don’t want to really admit it? Or, perhaps, your eyes are ‘just fine’ and you don’t need to give your vision a second thought. Either way it’s time to see the light and take action to slow down eye deterioration.
The wheat you eat today bears little resemblance to the wheat mankind has eaten for thousands of years. Not surprisingly, many of us do badly on this food, with varying degrees of intolerance.
Diabetes is not a stand-alone illness as it is the cause of several conditions, some of which are life-threatening, including heart disease, kidney failure, Alzheimer's disease and cancer. Many people who have diabetes do not know they have it. This article by Patrick Holford gives dietary advice on how best to control diabetes.
Are Omega 3 + B vitamins - the dynamic duo for dementia prevention? There are many factors that increase a person’s risk for dementia, such as age, but very few that are ‘disease modifying’. A risk factor such as age is obviously not modifiable. You can live to any age without getting Alzheimer’s. That means that Alzheimer’s is not a natural function of age. Age might ‘predict’ increased risk but it tells you nothing about how to prevent it.
Hay fever season leaves many people feeling miserable with streaming eyes and noses and itchy throats. During this period those with heightened allergic potential also tend to suffer more from other allergens such as food allergens. Patrick Holford offers some good medicine solutions to these irritants.Eating the right foods and taking the right supplements will give you bright eyes and a clear nose during hay fever season.
In the past, many more men than women died from heart disease, but in recent years the numbers have evened out, with more women than men dying from strokes. For most people over 50, having cancer or losing one’s memory holds the greatest fear, but in fact more people die prematurely from diseases of the heart and arteries than anything else – roughly half from heart attacks and a quarter from strokes.
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