Nutritional boost for your own immune cells

BOOST YOUR BODY’S OWN IMMUNE CELLS WITH NUTRITION Researchers into immunotherapy recently revealed that they had taken human immune T-cells and genetically engineered them to identify and attack cancer tumour cells. Some people were in complete remission after 18 months. T-cells are a class of white blood cell that belong to your acquired or adaptive … Read more

Vitamin D Depletion

Vitamin D isn’t really a vitamin. Whatever the original source – sunlight, food or supplements – vitamin D is turned by your liver into a hormone called calcitriol – or ‘activated vitamin D’. Without supplementation you get most of your vitamin D from sunlight, because surprisingly small amounts are found in a relatively few foods – … Read more

Deep-fried cancer risk offset by fruit and veg?

Dr Paul Clayton’s Health Newsletter June 2014 Interpretation of health research is often difficult. A study showed that people eating deep-fried foods more than once a week had a one-third higher risk of cancer. But was this because the foods themselves caused more cancer; OR because those who ate more fried foods were also eating … Read more

What vitamins should I take?

Dr Paul Clayton Most people consider a vitamin supplement for two reasons. First, to make sure they are not deficient in any important vitamin or mineral. The second reason is to help reduce the risk of long term health problems. Important research shows that achieving the first (preventing deficiency) does not necessarily achieve the second … Read more