The Only Way is Up
Patrick 28 Oct 2021
We are led to believe that there’s only one way to deal with the pandemic...
Supplements
D-Day for Ireland
Patrick 9 Apr 2021
On April 8th all people in Ireland were told to supplement 20-25mcg (1000iu) a day...
Vitamin C cuts COVID deaths by two...
Patrick 19 Oct 2020
The world’s first randomised placebo controlled trial, using high dose...
COVID Update - focus on Vitamin D...
Patrick 4 May 2020
I have found, I suspect like almost everyone else, that it is almost impossible to...
Trump dumped WHO - find out why
Patrick Holford 15 Apr 2020
Trump has dumped the WHO, or suspended their funding, as his primary advisor. There...
Reversing Diabetes Revolution
Patrick 12 May 2019
Have you noticed the reversing diabetes revolution is finally happening? More and...
Can Vegans get Enough Nutrients?
Patrick 19 Oct 2017
Lung Cancer B vitamin Risk - should...
Patrick Holford 23 Aug 2017
Lung cancer B vitamins Risk
BBC's The truth about healthy eating
Patrick 3 Jun 2016
The truth about healthy eating on BBC1 last night was a programme with an agenda...
Supplement dangers exaggerated
Patrick 15 Oct 2015
A report out today in the New England Journal of Medicine and reported in The...
Are vitamins harmful to health?
Patrick 21 Apr 2015
This old chestnut, the claim made today in the Daily Mail that vitamin supplements...
85% of natural products to be...
Patrick 24 Jul 2014
A set of regulations based on neither science nor logic, regarding safety, has been...
Which 7 a day fruit and veg give...
2 Apr 2014
A survey of 65,226 people in the UK confirms that having 7 or more servings of fruit...
Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions
31 Dec 2013
My top 5 recommendations for you in 2014 are to:
Vitamins – a waste of money?
Patrick 17 Dec 2013
Three simultaneously published papers appeared today in the Annals of Internal...
Safe natural ways to solve common...
Patrick 5 Dec 2013
After 30 years of clinical and research experience, and treating thousands of...
Key nutrients halve AIDS risk
Patrick 1 Dec 2013
Multivitamins including vitamin C and selenium halve rate of progression from HIV...
Billion Dollar Scam in an article
Patrick 3 Jul 2013
I was recently passed an article entitled ‘Billion-Dollar Scam in a Bottle...
My natural summer survival kit
Patrick 14 May 2013
I often get asked what I take when I go travelling or on holiday so here’s my...
Autism – essential nutrients
Patrick 2 Apr 2013
Autism is a complex condition sharing many similarities with other conditions such...
Supplements help macular...
Patrick 26 Mar 2013
Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is the most common cause of vision loss in...
Kidney stones caused by vitamin C?
Patrick 6 Feb 2013
This old story hit the newspapers this week due to a study of several thousand...
Cancer – screening risks....
Patrick 30 Oct 2012
A report out today concludes that, for every life breast cancer mammogram screening...
Food Hospital TV on supplements
Patrick 9 Nov 2011
Yesterday’s (Tuesday 8th November) Food Hospital ITV programme contained lots of...
Do supplements increase risk of...
Patrick 14 Oct 2011
Headlines rang out over the UK that taking vitamins might very slightly increase...
Do nutritional supplements increase...
Patrick 14 Oct 2011
Headlines rang out over the UK that taking vitamins might very slightly increase...
Are antioxidants harmful?
Patrick 9 Aug 2011
An article yesterday in The Guardian alluded again to a Cochrane Review in 2007...
Who funds NHS vitamin propaganda?
Patrick 3 Jun 2011
Last week NHSDirect published a glossy 34 page booklet entitled ‘Supplements -who...
Are supplements under EU threat?
Patrick 22 Nov 2010
In the past few weeks I’ve received a lot of emails from people who have been told...
Multi-vitamins improve multi-tasking
Patrick 6 Oct 2010
New research has found that taking a daily multivitamin and mineral can have a...
Multivitamin use cuts heart disease...
Patrick 20 Jul 2009
A study of over 77,000 people finds that those who take either daily multivitamins...
Multivitamin users are younger...
Patrick 27 May 2009
A survey of multivitamin users and non-users, measuring their biological age, has...
How multivitamins may extend life
Patrick 21 Mar 2009
A study conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has discovered...
Why Taking an RDA Multivitamin...
Patrick 10 Feb 2009
A recent study analysed the risk, over an average of eight years, of developing, or...
Drug Ads Bias Medical Journals...
Patrick 8 Feb 2009
Pharmaceutical money buys journal influence, says new study. “In major medical...