In our bodies, the relationship of micro-biota and our immunity is like a seesaw. It’s an intimate relationship, if the host immunity breaks down and the invaders “over-exploit” us as hosts, then the organisms which live within our bodies are also under threat – it’s in ours’ and the commensal o...
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Like lung health, heart health is something we take for granted until something goes wrong. Darcy suffered a heart attack a few years ago, which was connected to his sarcoidosis and like when you buy a new car and notice everyone else driving the same car - he now seems to know and chat with eve...
I was speaking to a friend who told me that giving up smoking saved her $500 a week. I just about fell over - $500 extra dollars a week that’s a pretty good reason to kick the habit, imagine what that money could go towards instead. A new kitchen, a new car, a family holiday, onto the mortgage,...
The best way to boost immunity is via multiple layers of defence, like the “Swiss cheese” model – a great metaphor where we know there are holes in the cheese but if we have multiple layers, hopefully, they won’t line up – the multiple layers are hygiene, masks, a healthy (bolstered) immune syste...
The reality is, is that many people suffer from more than one disease. The medical term for this is “presenting with co-morbidities.” The challenge of course, is that for someone presenting with co-morbidities, it feels a bit like dominoes – or as Darcy describes it, “cascade failure.” One dis...
For those who question the efficacy of plant medicines, close to 50% of modern pharmaceuticals, approved in the past 30 years, originate from plants, or are analogues of plant compounds. Further to that, 80% of these plant derived pharmaceuticals are related to their original ethnopharmacologica...