Sebastian Rushworth MD is a Swedish doctor who likes detail. He often posts on his website www.drsebastianrusworth.com about Covid 19 outcomes and possible treatments. He recently looked into using a form of Vitamin D3 to treat people *with* the virus but concluded there was insufficient evidence to support any significant Continue Reading
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Vitamin D
What could more topical than Vitamin D and covid? There have plenty of headlines recently about the various vaccination options assessing the speed of development, risk and public accessibility. It’s hard to miss the media’s interest in vaccines whether you’re in favour, anti or just plain confused. While all this Continue Reading
Musings About ‘M’s Part 3 – The Microbiome
It may sound a bit technical or something out of NASA’s plan for the colonisation of Mars, but the microbiome is an essential part of how our bodies work. Did you know there is are good and bad bacteria? We want to get rid of the bad guys but its Continue Reading
Musings About ‘M’s – Mac, Mic & Mal
Let’s have a brief look at some ‘M’s that hang out together. Macronutrients Macronutrients are the nutrients we need in larger quantities and provide us with the means to live and have energy: in other words, fat, protein and carbohydrate. They are generally measured in grams but also calories. Micronutrients Continue Reading
Musings about ‘M’s
I’ve been musing about things to post and came up with a few thoughts based on nutrition-type words beginning with ‘M’ – the list below is not exhaustive, but a good one to start with. I will be posting about each ‘M’ shortly on this blog and in my ebook, Continue Reading
Old Dog New Tricks Part 4 – writing an ebook
It is said that there is at least one book in all of us waiting to be written so maybe this is my “one book”. I often muse, jot and blog about the “health Jigsaw” and occasionally write a more detailed piece about the various components of what I see Continue Reading
Old Dog New Tricks Part 3 – learning WordPress
There’s me thinking I had got my website all sussed with everything looking fine and dandy. But then I discover it won’t load on some browsers scrambled content. So its back to the drawing board to try and unravel the issues. It’s a great learning curve. For reference: I am Continue Reading
Hand Santisers
As with most things it pays to be just a little careful about what you buy. Which? magazine carried out some research recently and found labels to be not accurate with the stated ingredients particularly with the alcohol content. Here’s a link to the public article (you don’t have to Continue Reading
Old Dog New Tricks Part 2 – learning website building & blogging
Years ago, I built my first personal website using Microsoft Word. As you can imagine it was very clunky and not very flexible. Then I learnt some basic HTML commands in Dreamweaver, which produced a much better experience, but that was some years ago, and I haven’t done much website Continue Reading
So what is the health jigsaw?
Who likes doing jigsaws? How do you start? Most people, I think, look for the straight edges and corners first – of course, there are different ways of doing jigsaws but for me, this helps me to provide a framework to sort out what is often a complex picture. I Continue Reading