What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ December 2020 - January 2021

For over 30 years, the What Doctors Don’t Tell You team has reported on cutting-edge holistic practitioners of every persuasion who are curing the so-called ‘incurable.’ A few years ago we had a big idea: what if we gathered these pioneers together into a single location where people with health issues—or those interested in finding out new solutions to chronic conditions—could meet these pioneers, listen to talks about their discoveries and find alternative treatments and products proven to work? Last February that dream became reality when we launched the Get Well Show at Olympia, London. We showcased some 70 practitioners across three stages and more than 80 stands exhibiting a vast array of treatments and products—everything from lifestyle changes to qigong and hands-free healing. The show was a huge success, with thousands attending…

Dr Damien Downing, a specialist in allergy, environment and nutrition, is current president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, on the editorial board of Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Chief Medical Advisor of cancer charity Yes to Life (www.yestolife.org.uk), and author of numerous books including The Vitamin Cure for Allergies. Dr Harald Gaier is a UK-registered osteopath, homeopath, acupuncturist, naturopath and medical herbalist. Former director of medical research at The Hale Clinic and a committee member of the Prince of Wales’ Foundation for Integrated Health, Dr Gaier has authored numerous scientific papers and The Encyclopedia of Homeopathy. Dr Michel Odent, a French-trained surgeon and obstetrician, is a pioneer of the natural birth movement, emphasizing home and water birth. Founder of the Primal Health Research Centre in the UK, he has written some…

Supplement with care I was interested to read the glutathione cover story in your Oct/Nov 2020 issue. I practice nutrition, because it is safer and more effective than the alternatives, if used carefully. But there are pitfalls. Glutathione is oxidized in the process of detoxifying harmful chemicals, and has to be reduced back to its original state so that it can be used again. The safe way to keep glutathione levels up is to regenerate it with vitamins B2, B3 and the powerful antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid. My clients with chronic problems often have low vitamin B2. Cysteine, a component of glutathione, is both useful and harmful. Viruses attach to sulfur to pull themselves into cells, where they can replicate. Having plenty of cysteine in the blood distracts the virus from the cell, as…

Healthy Nordic diet. Higher content of plant foods, fish, eggs and vegetable fat, and lower content of meat products, dairy products, sweets, desserts and alcoholic beverages. High-fruit and vegetable diet. Increased consumption of fruit and vegetables. To further increase the polyphenolic load, some studies included regular dark chocolate content. High-fiber diet. Fiber is found in varying levels in all plant foods and is most prevalent in whole grains and legumes. For this reason, most high-fiber diets focus on increasing wholegrain and legume consumption. Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet. Excludes the consumption of all meat, poultry and fish but still includes the consumption of dairy and eggs. The main components include fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. DASH diet. Encourages the consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds and low-fat dairy products and limits…

A plant-based diet—fruits, vegetables, legumes such as peas and beans, nuts and seeds—reduces your blood pressure naturally, even if you’re also eating meat and dairy. One of the heart-specific diets, called DASH, had the biggest impact on blood pressure, reducing levels by 8.74/6.05 mmHg compared to a standard diet. This drop would translate into a 14 percent reduction in strokes and a 9 percent decrease in heart attacks. This doesn’t mean you have to go vegetarian or vegan, say researchers from the University of Warwick. Your diet can still include meat and dairy, but it’s important that plants take up a bigger share of the plate. The researchers looked at the impact on blood pressure levels of seven different plant-based diets, including DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), Mediterranean, vegetarian, vegan, Nordic,…

A low-carb diet—including three eggs a day—is the healthiest for us as we reach our 70s, a new study has found. It reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and even helps us lose weight. And despite the health warnings about how eggs increase cholesterol levels, they actually improve artery health, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham have discovered. Eating three eggs a day—when the advice has been to eat no more than that in a week—improves the body’s overall cholesterol profile and reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. The low-carb, high-fat diet seems especially healthy in older people. The researchers put 34 obese people between the ages of 60 and 75 on either a very low-carb diet or a low-fat diet for eight weeks. Those on the…