Tiny Steps. Big Health

The Role of Your Personality in Your Health Outcome

The Role of Your Personality in Your Health Out...

I got quite excited researching the relationship of personality traits to health outcomes. Here's what I found out: These are the "Big 5" personality traits (as published recently in a...

The Role of Your Personality in Your Health Out...

I got quite excited researching the relationship of personality traits to health outcomes. Here's what I found out: These are the "Big 5" personality traits (as published recently in a...

Feeling Sad 😞

Feeling Sad 😞

I understand that corporations have been guilty of putting profits before people's health. I also understand that it can feel like science is always changing. It's not the science that...

Feeling Sad 😞

I understand that corporations have been guilty of putting profits before people's health. I also understand that it can feel like science is always changing. It's not the science that...

The Flu that is Flattening Us 🤧

The Flu that is Flattening Us 🤧

Zinc doesn't do its work floating around in your blood. It has to get inside cells, and cell membranes are fatty and unfriendly to a charged mineral. This is where...

The Flu that is Flattening Us 🤧

Zinc doesn't do its work floating around in your blood. It has to get inside cells, and cell membranes are fatty and unfriendly to a charged mineral. This is where...

💊 Pharmaceuticals and gut health

💊 Pharmaceuticals and gut health

💊 Some pharmaceuticals can influence your gut health: proton pump inhibitors (reflux), metformin (type 2 diabetes), some SSRIs (depression), ACE inhibitors (cardiovascular health), laxatives, and even paracetamol. 🤔 So what...

💊 Pharmaceuticals and gut health

💊 Some pharmaceuticals can influence your gut health: proton pump inhibitors (reflux), metformin (type 2 diabetes), some SSRIs (depression), ACE inhibitors (cardiovascular health), laxatives, and even paracetamol. 🤔 So what...

Plantain, Peas 🫛 and a Dunedin Coffee Factory

Plantain, Peas 🫛 and a Dunedin Coffee Factory

The challenge, of course, is that New Zealand products are more expensive (partly because of the land-value issues identified above). But the counter to not doing this is loss of...

Plantain, Peas 🫛 and a Dunedin Coffee Factory

The challenge, of course, is that New Zealand products are more expensive (partly because of the land-value issues identified above). But the counter to not doing this is loss of...

🌸 Your Gut Changes at Menopause Too

🌸 Your Gut Changes at Menopause Too

When oestrogen is made in your body, or enters it, your liver tags it with a glucuronide molecule 🏷️, which marks it for disposal, shipping it into the gut in...

🌸 Your Gut Changes at Menopause Too

When oestrogen is made in your body, or enters it, your liver tags it with a glucuronide molecule 🏷️, which marks it for disposal, shipping it into the gut in...