The Photovoltaic Podcast

Checkout this video by Barbara Wren, where she explains how cellular dehydration is at the very core of understanding how to optimise our health and wellbeing  https://youtu.be/-EWZ4y1VQBE

These days the term naturopathic is bounded around by a wide range of health providers who want to associate their activities with an ability to work with natural rhythms that influence our bodies, for example the circadian rhythm, in a non-suppressive manner. Yet on closer inspection, we have to ask how many really live up to this esteemed label? An example of this quandary is the controversial q...

COVID-19 has been having a huge impact on all our lives over the past few months: socially, emotionally, and financially. The current government restrictions have meant that normal life, and all its freedom, is unlikely to be fully reinstated for the foreseeable future, in a bid to slow down the infection rate.  But the origin of this ‘virus’ is still unclear and is a vaccine our only hope of seei...

This week Andrew Wren interviews Barbara Cousins, the author of the wonderful cook book entitled "Easy, Tasty, Healthy Food".

According to a panel of experts from the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN UK), the ongoing situation surrounding Coronavirus could soon lead to dietary deficiencies among the country’s population, with a potentially detrimental impact on our immune function and ability to fight disease. In the view of CRN UK, if existing circumstances prevail, we could soon begin to experience a severe lack...

What are they? Probiotics are live bacteria, or microorganisms, found in the digestive tract which have been shown to benefit human health and contribute to a healthy microbiome.  The microbiome refers to the balance of different types of bacteria in the gut and a healthy microbiome contains plenty of beneficial strains (or probiotics).  Numerous studies show that a healthy microbiome can positive...

This week - David Green reviews the role of a lesser noncompound INDOLE, a special compound present in many cruciferous foods, like broccoli, Kale, Cauliflower, Cabbage, and even our own gut bacteria and its protective role in protecting our livers against Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver (NAFLD)that is reported to affect a staggering 33% of all UK adults.

I for one place a lot of faith in castor oil packing as a beneficial naturopathic technique. Administered for its anti-inflammatory and circulatory properties, it has been used as a natural remedy in countries across the world for centuries.  Naturally occurring in India, castor oil has long been used in Ayurveda, a school of eastern medicine. Believed to be possessed of ‘hotness’, it was traditio...

Since the publication of two papers in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, by husband and wife team, George and Mildred Burr in the early 1900s, highlighting the potential health benefits of Omega 3, our understanding of this fascinating subject has developed precipitously, attracting vast media interest, fuelling an insatiable global demand estimated to be worth a staggering fifty-seven billion...

The importance of the liver for overall health The liver is the second largest organ (after the skin) of the human body and probably has the most diverse metabolic activity. It is part of the digestive system and performs many vital functions.  Many of these processes happen on membranes, either the plasma membrane or internal membranes of organelles, which are thought to add up to 33,000 square m...

We all know we should eat more fruit and veg and increasingly look to fortify our diets with our chosen “ Super Food ” powders.  However, many of these powders vary greatly in their active ingredients, raising the question; “What should we be looking for in our chosen “Super Food” powder? First, let’s look at the ingredients found in most standard superfood blends: - Spirulina Spirulina is a type...

Antioxidants are an important group of substances that can be obtained from natural food sources or food supplements. They are substances that can slow down or prevent damage to our cells caused by free radical activity, connected to the visible signs of aging and many other associated dis-eases (inflammation). The better-known antioxidant nutrients are vitamin C, vitamin E, Coenzyme Q10, beta car...

Discovery of vitamin D Vitamin D was one of 13 vitamins discovered in the early 1920s by a group of doctors researching diseases resulting from nutritional deficiencies, such as rickets.  Since then scientists have defined vitamins as being carbon-containing chemicals that must be obtained through diet because they are not produced by the body’s tissues.  These vitamins play a vital role in our bo...

David Green,  Reviews the UK's concerning addiction to opioid pain killers whilst sharing some exciting research that's set to change the face of natural pain management forever. An estimated 43.5% of all UK adults suffer from chronic pain . This goes up to almost two thirds in patients over age 75 . Unfortunately, many popular pain-killing medications, like paracetamol, non-steroidal an...

David Green, Reminds us of the importance of a good night's sleep whilst identifying the growing concerns over the 30% of adults reporting poor sleep.    Unfortunately, in our busy always moving 24-7 society, sleep has all too often become devalued and even considered a waste of time, or worse still a sign of laziness.  In fact, some professionals consider missed sleep as something to brag ab...

An approach that goes beyond the simplistic observations of biochemistry, favouring instead the development of observational methods designed to evaluate our ability to hold and convert light into energy. Just like a solar panel our mitochondrial function holds the ability to create ATP (needed for respiratory energy), the more anaerobic a cell the less effective it would appear to be at creating...