Month: March 2019

  Last week I discussed why I believe nutritional supplements can be helpful in certain patients.  Almost as important as the actual supplement taken is the quality and storage of  supplements and is the topic of todays opinion piece. I can’t recommend any specific brands, for a variety of reasons but none more important than…

  One of the most common questions I am asked is-are supplements useful?  Reflecting on last weeks’ column, provides us with one of the reasons why I and my Integrative Medicine colleagues feel they are often helpful.  The wild foods we were evolutionarily designed to eat, contained more ‘good’ fats, vitamins, and minerals.  The pre-industrial…

As mentioned last week the ingredients label of most processed foods reveals a Frankenstein-like ‘chemistry experiment’.  Whilst emulsifiers are my least favourite ‘ingredient’ aka chemical ‘food-like substance’ there are plenty of strong contenders for this dubious position.  Most are deficient in nutritional value and the ones that do add very little with their risks outweighing…