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 …
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 …
Whose health is it anyway?
In the 3rd and 4th century BC Hippocrates, considered the father of modern medicine, wrote: “A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings“ “The greatest …
Do you need a B12 boost?
Lost your va va voom? Been feeling fed up or lacking in energy for a while? Maybe, like many people, you have low levels of vitamin B12. What is vitamin …
What health outcome do you want?
The way we live our lives determines whether health or illness becomes the norm for us. Proactive healthcare – active health creation – mobilises people into a responsible and engaged …