This Week In Wellness

TWIW 80: Jenny Mikakos “responsible” for hotel quarantine fiasco

This Week In Wellness Jenny Mikakos, the Victorian health minister who last year controversially called for a review into Chiropractic care for children, despite there being no reports of harm, 98% of parents saying it helped and 99.7% of parents reporting a positive experience, is under fire again. This time from her own premier.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has told the inquiry into the state’s hotel quarantine scheme that he “regarded Minister Mikakos as accountable for the Program. The CCC (Crisis Council of Cabinet) was provided with regular reports by Minister Mikakos containing data relevant to Victoria’s response to the public health emergency,”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-25/victoria-coronavirus-hotel-quarantine-inquiry-daniel-andrews/12704116
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-25/health-minister-knew-about-private-security-in-hotel-quarantine/12702376
https://www.bettersafercare.vic.gov.au/reports-and-publications/chiropractic-spinal-manipulation-of-children-under-12
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TWIW 79: Bouncing back from Rock Bottom

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Bouncing back from Rock Bottom need not always be a complex recovery process that requires a degree in psychiatry to understand. Sometimes you just need real, simple actionable advice that you can understand and follow step by step to find peace, healing and confidence.
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TWIW 78: Oxford Corona vaccine trials paused

This Week In Wellness phase 3 trials of a coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca in conjunction with Oxford University have been suspended after an “unexplained illness”. The potential vaccine, which Australia has already secured 33.8 million doses of, has had it’s trials paused in order to allow for a review by an independent committee. Australia has also locked in 51 million doses of a potential vaccine being developed by the University of Queensland and CSL meaning that with those two commitments alone they will have access to a number of vaccines more than triple the Australian population.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-09/coronavirus-vaccine-on-hold-patient-adverse-illness-astrazeneca/12643812
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TWIW 77: The Covid Doctors Network

This Week In Wellness 13 medical practitioners have penned an open letter to Victorian Premier Dan Andrews about his approach to Covid19 lockdowns and the controversial State of Emergency Bill. This letter has since been supported by a further 270 medical and allied health professionals via an online submission called the Covid Doctors Network, a phrase that strangely shows no results when Googled.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/victorian-doctors-pen-desperate-letter-to-dan-andrews-about-controversial-state-of-emergency-bill/news-story/477352005ec852b6dd4b0e8f31f97441
https://600230e9-a39b-48cd-8ff1-3b49ca999143.filesusr.com/ugd/886b40_76e8e8aa2bf8497a8420940bb6e9d909.pdf
https://www.coviddoctorsnetwork.com/
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TWIW 76: Fructose linked to leaky gut and fatty liver

This Week In Wellness excessive fructose consumption has been linked with leaky gut and fatty liver disease according to a study co-authored by a large group of scientists from all around the world.
Whilst fructose is found naturally in fruit, honey and even in root vegetables it has become prolific in the diet due to the use of high fructose corn syrup to sweeten processed foods, especially in America. Whilst the link between fructose and fatty liver disease has been shown before this is the first time it was shown that it was in fact the leaky gut (also caused by the fructose) that preceded the liver damage.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824131807.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-020-0261-2
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TWIW 75: Low carb diets help the elderly

This Week In Wellness a very low carbohydrate diet has been shown to help older adults with diabetes lose weight, improve body composition and improve insulin sensitivity in just eight weeks when compared to a low-fat diet.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200820151337.htm
https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12986-020-00481-9
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TWIW 74: Boosting not supressing immune system might be the answer for COVID

This Week In Wellness researchers led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have suggested that boosting the immune system might be a good strategy for dealing with COVID-19. Whilst this might initially appear like a sarcastic, parody headline it is in fact in contradiction with the immuno-suppressive approaches that have been used around the world.
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/boosting-immune-system-a-potential-treatment-strategy-for-covid-19/
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TWIW 73: Coke’s “email family” of obesity researchers

This Week In Wellness a paper published online by Cambridge University Press has shown that Coca-Cola paid scientists to downplay the role of sugary beverages in the obesity epidemic.
Scientists used information gathered from over 18,000 pages of emails via freedom of information requests made by a US non-profit public health group “Right To Know”. These emails were between Coca-Cola and public health academics at the West Virginia University and University of Colorado who formed part of the supposedly independent anti obesity think tank the Global Energy Balance Network.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8589497/Coca-Colas-work-scientists-low-point-history-public-health.html
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/evaluating-cocacolas-attempts-to-influence-public-health-in-their-own-words-analysis-of-cocacola-emails-with-public-health-academics-leading-the-global-energy-balance-network/03A12A2379B132AFBDBE7A462ECB4041
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TWIW 72: America’s Frontline Doctors

This Week In Wellness a group of physicians calling themselves America’s Frontline Doctors have dominated world wide news cycles and social media channels, despite efforts to censor them. Social media platforms have this week scrambled to delete the repeatedly posted video featuring 7 doctors claiming to be at the front line of America’s Coronavirus response. Critics suggest that whilst these doctors have active medical licenses they are offering little more than personal opinions from supporters of the Trump administration.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/30/americas-frontline-doctors-tout-hydroxychloroquine-covid-who-they/5535096002/
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TWIW 71: Human rights concerns over facial recognition CCTV

This Week In Wellness facial recognition cameras being trialled in East Perth have raised concerns about their scope of use and the potential for human rights breaches. Whilst facial recognition software is legitimately used by law and border enforcement officials to identify individuals based on their facial features using artificial intelligence technology, in other parts of the world the scope of use is much more broad, with China using it widely for it’s controversial “social credit system”.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-17/facial-surveillance-slowly-being-trialled-around-the-country/12308282
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TWIW 70: Bio-diversity linked to respiratory health

This Week In Wellness creating bio-diverse green spaces can help to “re-wild the microbiome” of our environment and as a result improve human health.
A research team led by the University of Adelaide published a study in Restoration Ecology compared carrying levels of green space diversity from lawns to re vegetated woodlands has shown that re-vegetation of green spaces can improve soil microbiome diversity towards a more natural, bio-diverse state. It is believed that the increased diversity and number of microbiota may provide immune system training and regulation that is beneficial to the overall health of humans.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-microbiome-rewilding-biodiverse-urban-green.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.13175
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TWIW 69: Could new swine flu trigger new pandemic?

This Week In Wellness scientists have identified a new strain of swine flu in China capable of creating another pandemic. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the paper states that whilst it is carried by pigs, it can affect humans and has “all the hallmarks” of becoming highly contagious in humans and needs close monitoring.
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