Sleep and eating habits
Biohacks for sleep and the facts if you don’t Ask any doctor or health specialist and they will tell you sleep is likely to be the most important thing you can do to improve...
Biohacking nutrition and health series
A tips and technique ‘toolbox’ for optimising nutrition and health Biohacking has become a popular term and is used to describe a wide range of techniques to improve our health or fitness. You will...
What is the ‘Dark Matter’ of nutrition and the metabolome
The role of Metabolomics and big data in nutritional science Nutrition has its roots firmly embedded in history. Early observations of how what we ate affected serious conditions like scurvy and rickets, were noted...
Science unravelling nutrition and diets
How is nutritional science being reported? You have to draw some conclusions when trawling through nutritional based research, patterns do appear amongst the chaos of conflicting information. At any one time, there is only...
Simple Pottage recipe
Recipe for a healthy gut microbiome What is Pottage and a short history Pottage is literally medieval, consisting of thick soup or stew made by boiling vegetables and grains. It has its heritage across...
The zoo in our guts (Your microbiome)
What is the microbiome? What is this zoo I hear you cry? It’s the 10’s of trillions of extra cells predominantly living in the full length of your intestine. Weighing up to 2kg or...
An analysis of raw ginger root, it’s compounds and the symbiosis of gut microbiota
A look at the Zingiber officinale Roscoe cultigen and some of the 400 hundred different compounds of ginger A bit of background & history Whether you love or hate herbs and spices, it turns...
What is the best diet?
And why everyone is arguing about whose diet is the best! So I’ve said in a previous post ‘nutritional obsession‘, that I had completed the yo-yo cycle of dieting many times over the years. At...
