PPI Overprescription
Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) are a class of medication used to treat stomach acid imbalance. Reducing stomach acid production, by blocking the enzyme responsible for acid secretion in the …
Is your lifestyle good for your blood pressure?
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a condition that can develop without presenting noticeable symptoms. It increases the risk of heart attack or stroke, as well as placing significant strain …
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 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 …
Who do you rely on for healthy food choices? Part 2
Most of the UK is Nutritionally Deficient Nutrition-related risk factors are linked to both acute and chronic disease, contributing significantly to a large burden of preventable non-communicable diseases and increasing …
Who do you rely on for advice on healthy food choices? Part 1
We all want to believe that our governments, scientists and medical professionals are giving us independent expert advice on making healthy food choices. But are they? In March of this …