Overcoming Anxiety
You may have heard of serotonin, the happiness molecule, but do you know what it really does? Serotonin is a chemical produced in your...
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Using food as medicine.
Take Back Your Health
Learn to use food as medicine. Understand Keto and Low-Carb Diets.
Health and Diet Education. The field of nutrition and health is full of myths and mis-information. This blog and my book, "Take Back Your Health", will open your eyes. See link box below.
I have a diploma in nutrition, a certificate in sports nutrition and study good nutrition research. Subscribe for free regular updates.
Take a read, you may be astonished by what you learn.
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George Elder
- Jan 15, 2022
- 4 min
Just reduce calories
Have you heard that before, “Just reduce calories and do more exercise”. If you asked most people including many doctors how to lose...
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George Elder
- Jan 9, 2022
- 4 min
Learning can be slow in Medicine
In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis , a young doctor working in Austria noticed that more young women were dying after childbirth in the hospital...
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George Elder
- Oct 3, 2021
- 7 min
Are Vegetable Oils Killing Us?
It's a puzzle. Despite extensive research on the dangers of excessive levels of linoleic acid in our diet and the resulting increase in...
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George Elder
- Sep 13, 2021
- 4 min
Planned Eating
So, you just had your first consultation with the wellness guide. He first asked about your goals, eating history, explored what foods...
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George Elder
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
Your Microbiome is you
Perhaps you are being controlled more than you realize. Ed Yong wrote a fascinating book called “I contain multitudes” in which he...
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George Elder
- Aug 24, 2021
- 5 min
Cancer and your Diet
There is a debate about cancer, as to whether cancer is a genetic disease, e.g. it’s in your genes and there is little you can do, or is...
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George Elder
- Aug 12, 2021
- 4 min
I have Type-2 diabetes, HELP
You have a problem. Type-2 diabetes is a silent killer and is wreaking havoc on your body. Along the way it will damage your body in ways...
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George Elder
- Aug 2, 2021
- 3 min
Anti-Virus, Anti-COVID
Hi everyone. I just finished listening to the amazing Mary Ruddick talking about how to protect yourself from the more serious impacts...
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George Elder
- Jul 13, 2021
- 5 min
How much protein should I eat?
There are many opinions about dietary protein levels. Here I have attempted to simplify the information to help you choose the best levels.
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George Elder
- Jun 22, 2021
- 4 min
What is Metabolic Health?
In these days of COVID19 we hear that people with poor metabolic health usually suffer a much worse outcome from getting infected with...
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George Elder
- Jun 9, 2021
- 3 min
Antioxidants to beat Cancer?
Free radicals are produced in your body as part of your immune system’s defensive activity, plus other activities such as response to...
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George Elder
- Jun 1, 2021
- 4 min
Fibromyalgia beaten?
They identified a direct correlation between HbA1c scores and the Fibromyalgia.
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George Elder
- May 29, 2021
- 1 min
Pizza Recipe found.
Pizza is easy and very much liked by us, and so when switching to Low-carb (Keto) we went looking for a good replacement pizza recipe....
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George Elder
- May 24, 2021
- 3 min
Are carbohydrates addictive?
Are some carbohydrates addictive. A number of researchers’ are taking this thought seriously and conducting studies to try and establish...
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George Elder
- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
New 3rd Edition released
Preface to the 3rd edition. Have you ever heard of the ‘Dunning-Kruger’ effect? Part of this describes a condition whereby people with...
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George Elder
- May 15, 2021
- 3 min
Changing your genes!
If a ketogenic diet can reduce brain seizures and lower blood
pressure, then what you are eating really matters.
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George Elder
- May 11, 2021
- 4 min
Low Salt, is it really healthy?
Is low salt really healthy? More recent research suggests that we may be healthier with a higher level than current guidelines.
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George Elder
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
Ketone Chemistry
The Keto diet has made ketones a buzzword, and people are buying measurement devices to find out if they are in ketosis or not....
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George Elder
- Apr 30, 2021
- 3 min
Ketones are Good for your Brain
Research plus some peoples experience suggest a keto diet can assist with issues such as seizures, Alzheimer's, depression, and anxiety.
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