There’s endless fascination with the microbiome – that jungle of bacteria, viruses and fungi which live on our skin, in our airways and in our mouths and bowels. In fact, most of our DNA belongs to these microscopic organisms. The microbiome trains our immune...
A recent study into aspirin to prevent disease has turned up interesting findings in relation to dementia risk. When the trial was over, the researchers got the people in the trial (around 19,000 of them initially, mostly older) to agree to be followed up to monitor...
There’s been some news about a study which suggests that aspirin might prevent cancers spreading to other parts of the body. It’s been suspected for a while that aspirin might have anti-cancer effects. For example, there’s evidence it can prevent or slow the...
Wherever you look in the world, salt intake is higher than it should be. Of all the deaths from heart disease, excess salt intake is a significant cause in more than 1.5 million of them. Salt raises blood pressure and makes the natural increase of blood pressure with...
There is growing and strong evidence that substituting potassium for sodium in salt is good for blood pressure and stroke prevention. There are a few people who shouldn’t do this, but I’ll come back to that later. The George Institute in Sydney, well known for its...
