Eating an orange a day may keep the doctor away
Evolutionary changes may be major epochal productions, planned thousands of years in advance but they exhibit a simple truism that has become a Darwinian dictum: “Use it, or lose it.” Man and primates cannot produce their own vitamin C because, as scientific stories suggest, they started eating fruits containing vitamin C. Hence humans must eat enough vitamin C to satisfy our body’s daily requirement or risk disease as our bodies don’t produce any. Babies in the womb can prod
Beyond the Biology of Belief
I meant to pop this article up on my website blog some time back - but one thing led to another and, well, here I am doing it now. I know Bruce Lipton and his wife, Margaret well. They have a beach house in Karekare in Auckland, New Zealand (where I live). I few years ago Bruce, Patch Adams, Helena Noberg Hodge, Anita Moorjani and I were speakers at Uplift festival in Byron Bay, Australia, an annual event that has evolved into a movement for global consciousness. Bruce spoke
Do you vote Tory or Labour? The answer may lie in your genes!
With Theresa May having called an early election, and the UK gearing up for the polls, I thought I would look at how our genes impact our political decision-making. In my book, The Genetics of Health (Simon and Schuster), I call dopamine “The Pleasure Particle.” It is much more than that; Dopamine is involved in behaviours that involve risk and reward. Some studies in the past looked at a gene that is linked to a particular dopamine receptor, DRD4. Previous studies have noted
The London Underground: Genes, Germs and Geography
There is a saying that you can take a boy out of a village, but you can never take a village out of a man. I was born in England, and spent a portion of my childhood in India, and now live in New Zealand (and teach in Australia), so I feel a sense of affinity to all these places and they all feel like home. I tend to come back to the UK mostly for medical research or literary festivals these days, and I love these trips. Living in Auckland, which must have the worst public tr
Why get your genes tested? Some myths and misconceptions explained
I must say before I wrote The Genetics of Health (Simon and Schuster, 2017) I myself was a bit sceptical about the value of getting genetic testing done for dietary nutrients. After all, while humans have adapted to the environment over the past 50,000 years (with skin colour changes due to the battle between vitamin D and folate that I explained in Skin, a Biography), and our diets have changed (things like the higher prevalence of lactose intolerance in Asians can be explai
Two articles I think you might like to read...
Two articles posted on Beyond Words - one taken from my new book - The Genetics of Health. It's available from Simon and Schuster, Amazon and other retailers. If you want to take control of your future health I'd love for you to read my book. Also run on Beyond Words is my article on the Myth of Race - this is one of my most requested talks that I give on my tours and I even gave it at TEDx Auckland in 2016. Hey don't forget to keep up with me on my Facebook, Twitter and Inst
