The pharmaceutical industry has come increasingly under fire over the past couple of years with stories emerging of research cover-ups and safety concerns regarding some popular drugs. Now, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), it appears that over 50% of medicines prescribed, dispensed or sold worldwide are done so inappropriately. Continue reading…
Faecal Transplant a realistic treatment
Yes really. You may already share a lot with close family members (living space, meals, secrets and the like), however one doctor in the UK is now suggesting you share something a little more stomach churning…..oh and that it is transplanted through your nose! Continue reading…
Health News, second brain discovered in digestive system
Breaking News: Researchers Discover that Humans Have Two Brains! By Caroline Noonan, Distance Learning Manager
It may sound like something straight out of a bad science fiction movie but I kid you not, scientists have indeed discovered a second ‘brain’ in the human body. Where?… right there in your digestive system! We have known for a while now that the gut houses certain elements of the nervous system, such as brain chemicals known to influence mood, but this exciting new research has established that the gut actually has a completely separate and independent nervous system that exists without control by the human brain. So what does all this mean? Continue reading…
Benefits of Turmeric in the treatment of Cancer
It’s no longer a well kept secret that turmeric has some great health giving properties, with news of its powers leaking slowly into the press over a number of years now. However with number of high profile individuals, including Steve Jobs, sadly succumbing to cancer , the amazing research on turmeric’s cancer fighting properties has catapulted the results from over 200 published studies into the press; and boy are the results impressive. So much so that we are left asking…..is turmeric actually a life saver? Continue reading…
Moira Browne, IHS Academic Manager, at the IFM Conference in Colorado
As part of our commitment to ensuring that all IHS course material is kept up to date with the latest research, Moira Browne - IHS Academic Manager - has just returned from Colorado in the USA where she completed the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) Advanced Practice Module (APM) in Detoxification. Continue reading…
Warning, water does not ease dehydration
I know. I was astonished too. As a healthcare professional for over 10 years I feel terrible. There I was inadvertently lying to my clients for all these years only to find that according to the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) water cannot reduce dehydration after all and if anyone claims it can they could be slapped with a hefty fine, or in some European countries even a prison sentence. I am not quite sure what else I am going to suggest for a dehydrated individual yet but am waiting with bated breath to find out whether oxygen is in fact required for breathing or whether food contains any calories or nutrients after all! Continue reading…
Congratulations to Ciara Wright, PhD, BSc, Dip NT IHS
Congratulations to Ciara for having an article, based on her IHS Nutritional Therapy Diploma final year literature review, published in Reproductive Biomedicine Online. She has also recently started working with Positive Nutrition / Glenville Nutrition. Continue reading…
Functional Sports Nutrition Course with Dr Fionnula McHale
IHS brings the very latest theories in sports nutrition to Dublin this June. Join Dr Fionnula McHale for our Functional Sports Nutrition CPD course, which applies the Functional Medicine model to the Sports Nutrition arena, creating a new and more effective way of working with sports enthusiasts.
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Ask a silly question
In a rather melodramatic editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine titled ‘Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements’, the authors claim that multivitamin supplements show no evidence of a beneficial effect on all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, cancer, or cognitive performance (1). They also re-issued outdated studies that appear to demonstrate that beta-carotene, vitamin E, and possibly high doses of vitamin A supplements increase mortality.
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