Living longer – living better …?

Dr Paul Clayton 2013 According to the crude stats, we’re living longer. According to the Global Burden of Disease Study, an enormously expensive and rather fatuous exercise in number-crunching funded by the Gates Foundation and just published in the Lancet (Salomon et al ’13), global life expectancy has risen from 59 in 1990 to 70 … Read more

Omega 3 and Eastern spices both protect health

Dr Paul Clayton 2013 I travel widely for my work. In 2012 I studied and lectured in Finland, Sweden, USA, Australia, Greece, Turkey, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and India. I always try to eat local food, and am constantly surprised by the variety of dishes that different cultures have to offer. Stinky tofu stewed … Read more

Sarcopenia (muscle-wasting) is a top-5 health risk

Dr Paul Clayton 2013 Sarcopenia – loss of muscle mass – is a very common but surprisingly little-known condition related to bad nutrition and an inactive lifestyle. From early middle age on, most of us lose muscle mass. It’s not inevitable – a very physically active lifestyle can delay or prevent it – but people … Read more

Supplements are the best medicine

Dr Paul Clayton 2013 Regular readers of my newsletter know my position on supplements by now. Unlike the nutritionists and medics who insist, against all the facts, that we can obtain all the micro- and phyto-nutrients we need in a well-balanced diet, our position is science-based. There is a wealth of evidence that most people … Read more