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November is Diabetes Awareness Month, World Diabetes Day is 14th November. So, here are a few of my top diabetes tips for you. As some of you know, I am on the cusp of diabetes Type 2 myself after years of PCOS insulin resistance. I've done well to hold it off so well - and …
Happy new week. Hope you enjoyed the recipes last week and have been happily chomping some quinoa salad! Here are this week’s posts for you. Hope you find something useful x If you’ve just come across this and aren’t a subscriber, please help me keep this newsletter going so we can get more health messages …
I am coming across quite a few people who, despite supplementation and the usual approaches, just can't seem to get their Vitamin D level up to what I would term adequate levels. See my Vitamin D factsheet here for more on specifics. So, I was interested to see a paper here in Orthomolecular News discussing …
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A good overview from one of my labs today on this. You can also see my Vitamin D factsheet here and, sadly, I can't get the Precision Point wellness panels they mention here in the UK, but the Viva ones listed here for women and men are good too. Or you will find a simple …
From Dr Jill Crista today, I thought this was interesting: For people affected by mold, I use D in the liposomal form, because mycotoxins impair absorption of fat-soluble vitamins like D. Liposomal forms work around this impairment, and because they maximize absorption, less dose is needed overall for the same impact. I also like supplements like Liposomal …
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Well it wasn't reported much was it, I nearly missed it?! Scotland and England ministers have decided - at last - to send vulnerable people free Vitamin D to help keep them topped up. Many studies over the last few months have suggested Vitamin D deficiency may well not be helping in people contracting and …
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“Vitamin D could almost be thought of as a designer drug for helping the body to handle viral respiratory infections..... It boosts the ability of cells to kill and resist viruses and simultaneously dampens down harmful inflammation, which is one of the big problems with Covid.” Dr. Adrian Martineau, a professor of respiratory infection and immunity …
Following on from my last post talking about why BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) groups may be more at risk of COVID-19, the same reason may be why men seem to be more at risk than women. Put simply: men have more ACE2 enzymes in their blood than women do. High levels are found …
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Yes, I'm back with my updates for you! Sorry about the hiatus whilst I moved home amongst this madness. This time, I was wondering why we are seeing more COVID cases in black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) populations - so the news was telling me last night. Could it be that they are traditionally …
Continue reading "Keep Calm & Boost Immunity 15: Is It Vitamin D?"
We all know by now that Vitamin D is much more than a vitamin; it's more of a hormone and it seems almost every week we learn about another mechanism where it can help in the body. Happily, levels are easy to test for and any anomalies simply corrected in most cases. That is: if …