This Week In Wellness

TWIW 128: Is Glyphosate also linked to breast cancer?

This Week In Wellness in yet another potential blow to Bayer (the acquirer of Monsanto) and their controversial weed killer Glyphosate a pilot study published in the journal Environmental Pollution has suggested that it may cause a 4.5 fold increase in the risk of breast cancer.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33714786/
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TWIW 127: Refined carbohydrates harm your memory

And This Week In Wellness just 4 weeks highly processed, carb laden foods have been linked to inflammation, memory loss and Alzheimer’s whilst Omega 3’s and DHA have been shown to reduce the effects, even without other dietary changes.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211014172753.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889159121005043?via%3Dihub
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TWIW 126: Clean air matters for brain health

This Week In Wellness breathing in clean air has been shown to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Tint particulate matter released by cars and factories known as PM2.5 has previously been linked to memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease due to the capacity of the tiny particles to pass directly up into the brain (via the nose) and hence bypass the blood-brain barrier. It has also been been linked to premature death, particularly in people with chronic heart or lung diseases.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211007122123.htm
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TWIW 125: Your heart may need more than just walking

This Week In Wellness a small study published in the journal Circulation of the American Heart Association has shown that regular intense exercise for people with early signs of heart failure may be able to increase the elasticity of their heart muscles.
https://min.news/en/news/63b7bf508ecb8f13705d1cd3fe7a32ca.html
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.054117
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TWIW 124: Could it be carb intake rather than overeating that causes obesity?

This Week In Wellness Dr. David Ludwig, Endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor at Harvard Medical School has published a paper with the bold claim that over consuming processed carbs rather than overeating is the primary cause of the worldwide obesity crisis.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210913135729.htm
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcn/nqab270/6369073
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TWIW 123: Healthy Lifestyle Choices

This Week In Wellness I launch my new online community Healthy Lifestyle Choices. In a world full of information, misinformation, bias, hyperbole and conspiracy theories it is not hard to find information but it is hard to know which information to trust. And in a social media inspired world of echo chambers, where black and white thinking abounds, it is hard to find a place to have a balanced healthy argument, where people are willing to acknowledge the pros and cons of each side of the debate in the search of truth rather than the search to be right.
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TWIW 122: Reducing sugar could save $160 billion

This Week In Wellness a team of American researchers have shown that reducing sugar by just 20% in packaged foods and 40% in drinks could prevent half a million deaths and save over 2 billion dollars in the US alone within the first 10 years.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210827082431.htm
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TWIW 121: What if we can’t reach herd immunity?

This Week In Wellness with Iceland and Israel in the midst of their biggest Covid outbreaks despite 86% of those over 16 being fully vaccinated in Iceland and Israel having 78% of those 12 and over vaccinated, questions are being asked about whether we will ever be able to reach herd immunity.
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/iceland-deals-with-growing-delta-outbreak-as-high-vaccination-rates-stop-deaths/news-story/b970a814615715e573d67b3a1c1525f0
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-iceland-vaccines-idUSL1N2P918F
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/31/covid-19-recovery-vaccination-natural-immunity/
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1
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TWIW 120: Anti-anxiety drug usage soars by 31%

This Week In Wellness the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has reported that prescription rates of anxiety and depression medication have risen dramatically in recent months amidst the ongoing uncertainty created by the Government’s response to Corona virus.
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/use-of-anxiety-and-depression-medication-spikes-as
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TWIW 119: Mercola removes 15,000 articles after media and political pressure

This Week In Wellness popular American Osteopath and wellness blogger Dr. Joseph Mercola’s, who’s website is reported to get over 1.9 million visitors each month, has removed over 15,000 articles from his website published over the last 25 years in response to pressure from media and regulators alike, including the US-based FDA.
https://www.fox4now.com/news/coronavirus/local-doctor-removing-health-articles-after-claims-of-misinformation
https://www.mercola.com/newsletter-announcement.htm
https://www.counterhate.com/disinformationdozen
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TWIW 118: Bayer to phase out Glyphosate in the US

This Week In Wellness Bayer Monsanto have announced that they will no longer sell glyphosate-based herbicides to residential U.S. gardeners as of 2023, following costly lawsuits over the cancer causing weedkiller, under the label Roundup.
https://sustainablepulse.com/2021/07/29/bayer-confirms-end-of-sale-of-glyphosate-based-herbicides-for-us-lawn-garden-market/#.YQOsP44zY2z
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TWIW 117: Good Cholesterol may protect liver

This Week In Wellness new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that the so-called “good cholesterol”, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) has a previously unknown role in protecting the liver from injury.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210722171210.htm
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/eabe6729
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