A To Z Blogging Challenge
2021
26 Nerdy Facts About Changing Aging
Nourish Skin and Bones
As meticulous as I have been about ensuring that my micronutrient supplement regimen is what my body needs for healthy metabolism, so have I been skeptical about health claims made for the vast variety of other products offered to us...
Micronutrients: Who Needs Them?
As a newly qualified medical specialist with dual Fellowships in Pediatrics and Medical Biochemistry, the first research problem I tackled was to find out how much zinc and copper was needed for premature babies, too small to be fed orally, who...
Lectins and Leaky Gut ?
In the 90's when the 'eat no fat, no cholesterol, no red meat, no whole eggs' message was the prevailing dietary doctrine, my husband and I spent a week at an institute in California that promoted weight loss, wellness and longevity. Their meals were basically low...
Keep your Greens Fresh
Apart from roasted asparagus and brussel sprouts, my preferred vegetables sources are leafy greens - arugula, kale, spinach. I eat a lot of salads so i was somewhat perturbed to read that outbreaks of food poisoning from contaminated greens are more common than I...
Join the club
Do you live alone? In 2016, for the first time in recorded Canadian history, one-person households were the most common type of household. Single-person households increased from 7 per cent in 1951 to 28 per cent in 2016. Roughly 4...
Intermittent Fasting
When the topic of fasting comes up, and it's happening quite frequently these days, the most common reaction is 'I couldn't fast'. But of course the reality is that we fast every night. Starvation occurs when not eating is forced on us, when food is scarce or...
Glymphatic system – keeping up with…
So here is a confession. One of the reasons I decided at the last minute to do the blogging challenge this year was that it gave me an excuse to read science instead of the self-improvement, leadership marketing, social media and keto recipe books, I'm...
Forgetfulness
As the years pile on... and doesn't it seem as if each year goes by faster than the one before? most of us start noticing that we are becoming more forgetful. Some of us put it down to aging. I prefer to think my mind is simply busy with multi-...
Early Morning Exercising
Last year, when masking, social distancing and isolating became the 'new norm' , I worked hard to keep up my fitness level and avoid regaining the tummy fat I had lost with my ketogenic and intermittent fasting life style. All through spring and summer,...
DNA – Your Blueprint and Whence it Came
DNA testing, once the primary domain of labs performing diagnosis for specific genetic diseases, is now everywhere. You can spit into a collection tube and DNA can be extracted from your saliva and analysed to tell you about your...
Cellular Detox – essential house cleaning
I have always been a bit bemused by those who promote colon cleansing or detoxing unless it's for a valid indication like bowel preparation for a colonoscopy. After all detoxing is what your colon does for you when you poop, cleansing your gut of...
Biological clocks – not on standard time
When I think about the myriad biological clocks that keep the metabolism of our organs and tissues ticking along, so to speak, the image that comes to my mind is of a comic Rube Goldberg device where an action triggers sequential chain reactions to bring...