A few weeks ago, under the wonderfully knowledgeable guidance of Dr Rachel Nicoll, Biolab ran a day's medical conference on Long Covid. What follows is a laymans' overview of the day so I hope that Dr Nicoll will excuse the fact that it will exclude much of the more technical …
COVID-19
Take Hunger Off the Table – 20-21st March
So - there are now more food banks in the UK (well over 2,000) than McDonald's restaurants (1300)? Actually that figure is now well and truly out of date. Thanks to the rising cost of living and the uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine, there must now be more than twice as …
Hidden healers – parasitic worms?
Long time readers of this blog will be familiar with helminthic therapy, the life changing re-infection with parasitic worms championed by John Scott, a subscriber to the original FoodsMatter magazine. John wrote to us about an article we were carrying on hypoallergenic baby …
The Pfizer booster jab is safe for those with anaphylaxis
The BSACI, the Anaphylaxis Campaign and Allergy UK have all confirmed that the Pfizer and the Moderna booster vaccines is safe even if: you have any type of FOOD allergy (including anaphylaxis) you have had anaphylaxis to WASP or BEE stings you have an identified …
Could Long Covid benefit ME sufferers?
There is now no question that Long Covid is 'a thing'; the Office for National Statistics confirmed in December that an estimated 700,000 peple were still suffering from symptoms a year after their initial infection. And possibly not surprisingly, given that COVID is a viral …