Vitamin attack and our auto-immune crisis
The overall feeling, given the media circus surrounding us that’s again attempting to devalue the benefits of supplementation on the back of a questionable study, is one of huge frustration. Reductionist science based around randomised controlled trials simply can’t provide us with answers that are accurate, relevant or meaningful for public health – or for that matter – well-known to clinicians who go about helping people move from a state of ill health to good health on a daily basis. In our main feature this week, I’ve dissected the latest meta-analysis that’s triggered the current round of anti-vitamin headlines. Our hope is that it might be a useful article to which clinicians can point their patients and clients if they’ve been confused by Big Pharma-associated NewsCorp and its ilk.
In our second piece, Meleni brings you insights on autoimmune diseases from the IFM conference, focusing in on gluten – and inspired by her own experience both as a patient and a practitioner. Many of our readers are already weary of gluten in Western staple foods, but there is a much larger group who have yet to get the wider facts from world-leading researchers and clinicians. Below you’ll find a short-cut to this potentially life saving information.
In other news, we, like others, were crest-fallen at the news of the failure of the British Homeopathy Association’s legal challenge, but unsurprised at EU and US approvals of the Bayer/Monsanto merger. All this and more in our news snippets.
In health, naturally and sustainably
Rob Verkerk, PhD
Founder, executive & scientific director