Patrick Holford: Simple Wisdom for a Healthy Life

What’s Driving Excess Cardio Deaths? Covid, mRNA jabs, lockdowns or NHS overloads? Are statins the answer?

Both the UK and US report record-breaking excess deaths mainly from cardiovascular disease. Why? Is this a covid infection or lockdown knock on effect? Should we be concerned about repeated mRNA vaccines? Is it the consequence of health service overload? Are statins the answer, as UK government proposes? What’s going on and what can you do to reduce your risk?

I invite back Dr Tess Lawrie from the World Council for Health to enlighten us on all things covid-related and Dr Malcolm Kendrick, expert in all things cardiovascular and cholesterol related, to explore these topics with you and point the way forward.

Dr Malcolm Kendrick, a GP who lives and works for the NHS in Cheshire, is author of The Clot Thickens and The Great Cholesterol Con.

Dr Tess Lawrie is the Director of the Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd, author of over 80 published research papers and is committed to improving the quality of healthcare globally through rigorous research as a founder member of the World Council for Health.

See my website for further information on Heart Health.

The Politics of Health: Who’s Driving Healthcare Policy & What Needs to Change

Healthcare is broken. Both costs and disease rates are rising. The NHS in the UK is the fastest growing failing business. Who is driving the health agenda? Why is prevention ignored and natural medicine under accelerating attack? Are we the losers and big Pharma the winners?

In this podcast I explore this subject with Dr Rob Verkerk, founder of the Alliance for Natural Health who has directed legal actions to protect the right to natural health across a wide range of issues from vaccines to vitamins. As scientific director, he’s authored some 60 papers and knows the inside politics of the health agenda and what needs to be done to not only protect our rights but also fix healthcare.

Visit my website to find out more about prevention and government health legislation.

Should We All be Dropping Acid?

Patrick Holford in conversation with Dr David Perlmutter.

My guest this month is Dr David Perlmutter - a legend in the field of nutritional medicine. He is a Board-Certified Neurologist and serves on the Board of Directors and is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition.  He is six-time New York Times bestselling author. In fact, you may have read one of his books including Grain Brain or perhaps Brain Maker.

I’m here to talk with him about his latest book – 'Drop Acid'. Not LSD, but uric acid. We discuss its pivotal role in your health and the metabolic diseases that are devastating humanity, and why we should all become aware of our uric acid level, and why and how to lower it.

Read more about uric acid in relation to gout in Goodbye to Gout and more about the Low GL Diet and Healthy Eating on my website.

 

Why is Our Immunity Under Attack?

There’s a massive increase in both the number of children and adults with allergic-like reactions to foods and chemicals and the severity of these reactions, as well as auto-immune disease, where the immune system, which should be our friend, starts attacking, not only foods and chemicals but our body. Many people are cruising out of covid or vaccination highly compromised, with such auto-immune issues. What is going on?

In this podcast I interview Antony Haynes, author of the award-winning Food Intolerance Bible, a pioneer in functional medicine and leading expert in auto-immune disease with 30 years’ experience.

Therefore, one of the most common approaches he recommends to his clients involves, not just avoidance, but support for mucosal immunity & integrity, in order to improve oral tolerance. Join us at the cutting edge of science and successful resolution of immune system break downs to learn how to turn to your immune system into your friend, not your foe.

See the Immunity and Auto-Immune Disease topic area on my website for more information on immune health.  

Psychiatry Unplugged - The Way Up from Down

Has the covid pandemic left you feeling depressed and unmotivated? My favourite psychiatrist, known for her expertise in non-pharmaceutical approaches to depression and mental illness, is Dr Hyla Cass.

I had the pleasure of co-authoring a book with her - Natural Highs, in 2001. At that time Dr Cass was an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a highly acclaimed innovator and expert in the fields of integrative medicine, psychiatry, and addiction recovery, including withdrawal from anti-depressant medication. She is also an expert in CBD and its effects on mood, sleep and anxiety. In this podcast we look under the hood of psychiatry to come up with the best ways up from feeling down.

For further information about natural support for mental health see The Feel Good Factor and www.patrickholford.com/topic/mental-health/

Health Heroes Series - Microbiome Facts & Fallacies

Are you confused about the microbiome? Are you unsure what all the new research you keep reading about actually means and what you’re meant to do as a result?

Ben Brown, Director of the Nutritional Medicine Institute (NMI), an educational, advocacy and research group committed to advancing the science and practice of nutritional medicine, unravels what’s being discovered about the microbiome and how that changes what we should do for optimal health.

While definitely ‘trending’ we’ll also explore points of contention, the validity of microbiome tests as well as the politics and money behind this new frontier.

To find out more about the importance of good digestion, visit my website: https://www.patrickholford.com/topic/digestive-health/

Brainstormers Series - What can psychedelics teach us about mental health?

Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof said “Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for astronomy.”

Today’s podcast is on the subject of psychedelics with Amanda Feilding. She is the Director of the Beckley Foundation, a charitable organisation set up in 1998 to initiate and carry out pioneering research into the underlying mechanisms and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, and to create a scientific base for global drug policy reform. Amanda  is perhaps the original ‘disruptor’ reopening the whole field of research into psychedelics, from psilocybin to LSD, MDMA to DMT.

Now two decades later let’s catch up on what’s happening in this exciting new frontier of psychedelics and what this could show us about mental health, happiness and consciousness itself.

See my website for more on mental health https://www.patrickholford.com/topic/mental-health/

Health Heroes Series - Which childhood vaccines are worth having and when?

Which childhood vaccines are worth having and when? Is there a risk with MMR? How safe are vaccines and multiple vaccines? Is there any case for HPV or COVID vaccines for young people? I explore these questions with vaccine expert and former GP Dr Richard Halvorsen, author of ‘Vaccines: Making the Right Choice for Your Child.’

 

Dr Halvorsen has been the ‘go to guy’ for the mainstream media appearing on Channel 4, BBC news and often quoted in the Times and Guardian.

 

In 2007, concerned about the increasing number of vaccines given to babies, especially when these are for diseases that are either uncommon or rarely serious, Dr Halvorsen founded BabyJabs in response to parents’ concerns about vaccine safety and demands for a greater choice of vaccines for their children. 

 

Babyjabs.co.uk continues his work and his updated book ‘Vaccines:Making the Right Choice for Your Child’ gives invaluable assessment of each vaccine, its pros and cons, and a suggested alternative schedule for concerned parents.

Flu Fighters Series - All Things Covid – Latest News – Part 2

In today’s podcast I’m joined once more by the award-winning medical journalist Jerome Burne for an ‘emergency’ discussion of all things Covid, following the reports that the virus was leaked from the Wuhan Lab and top people knew early on.

We will also be looking more closely at new information about the prevalence of adverse effects and deaths associated with Covid vaccines and the early results of booster trials and the latest on alternative approaches.

Flu Fighters Series - Why are you vaccine hesitant?

A few people have expressed concern that some of my content supports a covid vaccine-hesitant position. With one third of the UK population unvaccinated, and to give both sides of the argument a fair airing, in today’s podcast I’ve invited Dr Bnar Talabani, a hospital doctor and a scientist currently completing a PhD in immunology. She has been volunteering with the British Society of Immunology and Team Halo to produce science backed content on the covid vaccines on social media and other channels to help facilitate informed decision making and combat vaccine misinformation. Having straw-polled my subscribers to Facebook and Instagram for their concerns re covid vaccination we discuss your concerns. This post will also include links to key studies referred to giving evidence to support or refute various points relating to ivermectin, vitamin D, toxicity of spike protein, natural vs vaccinated immunity and other key points for your further consideration so you have the most information available to make up your own mind.

 

As an expert in nutrition my primary wish it that everyone, whether vaccinated or not, know how to minimise severity and duration of infection with vitamin C, D and zinc and other immune-supporting nutrients.