Living The Low Carb Lifestyle
In a video released today (4th March 2021) Diet Doctor's Dr Brett Sher takes a look at the latest study revealing there are killer eggs out there just waiting to strike. Could they have been looking at chocolate Easter eggs? A post in PLOS Medicine reveals evidence that eating eggs increases risk of death, in …
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We have probably all heard the rather patronising expression "It's so simple even a child could understand it", when comes to understanding more about nutrition than governments and health 'experts', twelve year old Gabriel Van Wesemael has certainly proven this. In 2015 he was diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic which changed his life for …
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Having attempted many of the low carb bread recipes the internet has to offer, I continually found them to be intensly eggy and cheesy, crumbly or having a strange aftertaste. This recipe is the closest I have got to real bread so far. It actually holds together, doesn't taste eggy and cheesy, doesn't have an aftertaste …
In an earlier article I discussed my findings around the topic of vitamin D and the ongoing debate whether a deficiency in this pre-hormone results in worse outcomes from respiratory infections. I was surprised at the time of discovering the vast amount of information out there on vitamin D that mainstream media hadn't really covered …
Streamed live on 11 Jan 2021 The latest research from the landmark PREDICT study is the first to reveal strong links between specific gut microbes, diet, and health. For the first time, they have found a group of 15 “good” and 15 “bad” gut microbes that are linked to better or worse health, including inflammation, …
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The consumption of berries is said to be associated with a reduced incidence of disorders induced by reactive oxygen species (ROS), including cardiovascular disorders, cancer and inflammatory processes. That aside, they taste great and are low in carbs. Also, using frozen berries at this time of the year means that we aren't adding to the import …
Former Brexit Secretary David Davis MP has recently reported on his success on turning his health around with a low carb way of eating. Mr Davis published his story in the Daily Mail, recalling the health scare he had after stepping down from his cabinet position last year. He reported that a routine medical revealed …
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Research published May 2020 by University of California San Francisco Findings suggest that the effects of ketogenic/low carb diets on the microbiome are not just about the diet itself, but how the diet alters the body’s metabolism, which then has downstream effects on the microbiome. Researchers found that the mere presence of added ketones was …
Tim Spector is a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Kings College London and honorary consultant Physician at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals. He is also an expert in personalised medicine and the gut microbiome and started the famous UK Twin Registry in 1993. He is the lead researcher behind the world’s biggest citizen science health …
Published online 26th September 2018 BMJ Open Heart https://openheart.bmj.com/content/5/2/e000898 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6196963/ Numerous lines of evidence show that the omega-6 polyunsaturated fat linoleic acid promotes oxidative stress, oxidised LDL cholesterol, chronic low-grade inflammation and atherosclerosis, and is likely a major dietary culprit for causing heart disease, especially when consumed in the form of industrial seed oils commonly …
