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- Chris Woollams Health Watch
- Chris Woollams Health Watch
Gout driven by highly altered microbiome
Gout driven by highly altered microbiome The microbiome of people with gout resembles that of patients with autoimmune disease, with loss of butyrate-producing bacteria and higher levels of Bacteroides, Prevotella, and Fusobacterium, the gum disease and colorectal cancer-linked bacterium. Patients with gout have a completely different microbiome to healthy individuals; it is associated with chronic inflammation and unregulated urate degradation.…
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Low-cal Mediterranean diet rejuvenates the immune system
Professor Valter Longo has shown that using a fast or a low-calorie Mediterranean Diet for five days a month improves the immune system, the response to vaccination, and reduces weight, fat levels, fasting blood sugar and blood pressure, encouraging longevity. In an old and damaged immune system, fasting encourages stem cell production of new white immune cells. Professor Valter Longo,…
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Major health benefits of walnut consumption
Walnuts are an important part of the Mediterranean diet and have been shown to improve heart health, lower ‘bad’ cholesterol and blood pressure, improve mental function and even alter the DNA in cancer patients. Not all nuts were created equal. Walnuts are bundles of health. Consuming just 7 walnuts provides 2 gm of fibre and 4 gm of protein along…
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The High Fibre Rainbow Diet
The high fibre Mediterranean diet contains good levels of both soluble and insoluble fibres, providing health benefits in diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, dementia; and in carbohydrate and cholesterol management; all thanks to your gut bacteria. When people hear that a diet is high in fibre, they simply assume that means it keeps you regular. Many people…
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A Mediterranean Diet- the best way to fight cancer
When it comes to cancer, research shows the colourful Mediterranean diet and lifestyle protects and corrects; it is nourishing and full pf bioactive compounds but it is also a lifestyle that includes sunshine and exercise. The Mediterranean Diet and Cancer i) Bioactive compounds – A number of compounds have strong anti-cancer effects. For example, Apigenin, polyphenols and anthocyanin. There’s even…
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To lower liver fat choose the Mediterranean diet
A Mediterranean diet reduces hepatic fat more than a low-fat diet, improving the health and fat content of the liver above and beyond visceral fat changes. A colourful Mediterranean diet (a Rainbow Diet) is certainly not low fat; it contains high levels of unsaturated fat from extra virgin olive oil and nut oils such as walnut oil. It also contains…
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Italian style coffee cuts prostate cancer risk in half
A study involving 7,000 men found that those who drank more than 3 cups of Italian style coffee a day (for example, expresso or cappuccino), had a 53 per cent lowered prostate cancer risk. The reason was put down to the intake of caffeine as no such benefit was seen with those who used decaffeinated coffee. The research was conducted…
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Exercise makes cancer less aggressive
Moderate exercise makes cancer tumours less aggressive and even improves cancer treatments according to research from Kansas State University; it is not just oxygenating – exercise is a powerful anti-cancer drug. Brad Behnke, Professor of Exercise Physiology and fellow researchers have shown that moderate exercise on a regular basis helps to oxygenate tumours making them less aggressive and also more…
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