Food as Medicine
Saving Lives In Slow Motion
English - June 06, 2024 23:01 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Mental Health health wellbeing medicine doctor care lifestyle medicine meaning behaviour change wisdom Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This is an argument that rages on in the world of nutrition and medicine. In this episode I look at what food is, what it does to us in terms of our health and the mechanisms behind it and give you my verdict on whether I consider it to be medicine or not.
Ultra processed foods - review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10899807/
Protein benefits: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-reasons-to-eat-more-protein
Blue Zones diets: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/what-is-the-blue-zones-diet
Herbs and spices with health benefits: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-healthy-herbs-and-spices
Akkermansia mucinophilia in IBD: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1089600/full
T Reg cells - what are they?
:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.878382/full
Apples and their in vitro benefits: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5490512/
The all important Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (now a therapeutic target for big pharmaceutical companies): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221323172300023X
Short chain fatty acids and heart disease: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24388214/#
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