Overall, infectious disease mortality rates plummeted spectacularly and by the 1970s, it appeared that infectious diseases had been marginalized as a threat to life.

There is a very convincing argument that nutritional guidelines in the UK are long out of date. On average, we are told women should have around 2000 calories a day and men around 2,500. But are all calories equal?

The trajectory of gut microbiome research has gone interstellar. It is driven by the suggestion that there is a vast potential for improving our health. But how much do we really know?

Even in the UK we have access to a good profile of vegetables such as carrots and cabbages that have just as much value as aubergines and peppers seen in the Mediterranean diet. So where is the point of difference? The difference might be extra virgin olive oil.

The food on the end of your fork is one of the most important factors in determining your health. This may sound obvious today, but seventy years ago this idea was met with a great deal of scepticism until the work of Ancel and Margaret Keys.

Psilocybin is the powerful psychoactive compound in 200 species of mushroom. Vilified for decades, there has been a huge resurgence in clinical trials involving psilocybin.

Our habits are now moving well beyond ‘Dry January’. There is now a larger cultural shift to now what is called a ‘sober curious movement’ in an increasing number of young adults.

A flexitarian diet is what the name suggests: a less drastic and a more realistic diet that reduces meat intake rather than eliminating it completely.

Skeletal muscles secrete powerful hormones called myokines. These allow skeletal muscle to interact and influence other organs such as the brain, bone, liver, digestive tract, pancreas, vascular system.

Our emotions and performing complex demanding tasks can reduce neurological pain activation and the pain we feel!

Hypermobility affects approximately 20% of the population. The most common thread for many of these people is a genetic disorder that influences how their bodies make collagen which is the main structural protein that we are made of.

For the first time in 2022 a new exciting technology called CART Cell Therapy was used with a modified gene editing technique called Base Editing to treat cancer.

First came probiotics with the introduction of seemingly beneficial bacteria in the form of supplements. Then there were prebiotics, or the foods these bacteria need to thrive. Now, there is another candidate called postbiotics.

A new study shows the direct association of alcohol consumption and brain atrophy. Another new study also shows that high levels of good cholesterol (HDL) and low blood glucose levels between the ages of 35-50 leads to a lower risk of dementia.

As we are fast running out of options with antibiotics interest in a group of viruses called bacteriophage is now intensifying. Given their ubiquity and specificity, it is no surprise that science is now very interested in harnessing their abilities.

The Epstein-Barr Virus, as emerging evidence is beginning to suggest, has a key role in many autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, and cancers.

Many of us clearly do rely on food labelling to give us information that helps determine our food choices. A food label will after all give us a simple list of nutrients. So, it must be right?

New research strongly suggests that a specific type of fatty acid present in milk products (called odd chain saturated fatty acids or OCFAs) is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease.

In the UK we have never directly addressed iodine deficiency. Eradicating it was an ‘accidental public health triumph’. This relied on the fact that milk consumption by UK consumers increased rapidly in the 1950s and 60s.

The most common headaches are tension-type headache and cervicogenic headache.