Miracle Drugs or Hidden Minefield?
Before his passing, Michael Mosley, of “Trust Me I’m a Doctor” and fasting for weight-loss fame, offered words of caution, warning that the new GLP-1 drugs may not be the …
How to protect your cardiovascular health
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a leading cause of mortality globally, despite being almost entirely preventable. Modifiable lifestyle factors contributing to CVD include inadequate diet, physical inactivity, stress, poor sleep quality, …
Education rather than medication
Overmedication has become a pervasive issue in modern healthcare, with pharmaceutical interventions routinely prescribed for preventable, and in many cases reversible, degenerative conditions. Currently, most doctors receive minimal training in …
The Upgrade your Brain Seminar – what we learned
In June, Healthright, and our sister shop Nature’s Harvest in Leighton Buzzard, co-hosted a seminar by Patrick Holford, with Viridian. Patrick is a leading spokesman, researcher and writer on nutrition …
What causes Irritable Bowel Syndrome and what natural remedies are helpful?
IBS is defined as ‘a very common syndrome of abdominal pain and disordered bowel habit for which there is no organic explanation’ – meaning there is no underlying unifying theory …
What is hyperthyroidism?
Hyperthyroidism is a condition where your thyroid becomes overactive. The thyroid is a gland in your neck, producing the hormone T4, and its primary role is the conversion of food …
What is hypothyroidism and how is it treated?
“There’s no way of preventing an underactive thyroid.” according to the NHS, and no way to treat it besides synthetic hormones to eliminate symptoms. (1) However, medical opinion on this subject …
Supporting your nervous system
What is the most complex known matter in the entire universe? Your brain! This highly complex organ provides all the essential functioning to keep you alive and thinking – it’s …
What is depression?
Depression is the number one cause of disability in the Western world. Younger adults and adolescents are most affected, and increasingly at younger ages; suicide is now the second leading …
Diet or genes?
What drives degenerative conditions? In the days of Hippocrates, diseases were blamed on the gods. Nowadays a lot of degenerative conditions are being blamed on genes – because knowledge about …