By Patrick Holford Alzheimer’s is a preventable, but not reversible disease. Less than one in a hundred cases are directly caused by genes. Prevention is entirely possible if you can identify who is at risk early enough and encourage the right diet and lifestyle...
What is the forgotten factor of mental health - despite the research being positive? Homocysteine. This is why we launched our highly accurate and groundbreaking at-home homocysteine test just before Christmas (and quickly sold out) because knowing this marker - your H factor - can help...
By Patrick Holford. This is part one, read part two here. Few people realise the catastrophic decline in mental health that has occurred over the past 50 years. -- ‘Brain health conditions have become a global health emergency,’ according to the Federation of European...
Early-onset dementia, often talked about as ‘genetic’, has been linked to exactly those factors that our Dementia Risk Index questionnaire, part of the Cognitive Function test, assesses. -- In other words, what you do and how you live protects you from losing cognitive function at...
By Patrick Holford The winter months aren’t always the happiest of times. Come December, January or February it has become normal for people’s mood to be low and anxiety to be high. But what if you could reduce your anxiety and boost your mood this winter? -- What cannabis,...
Is the H Factor still the biggest health breakthrough of the century?By Patrick Holford -- You may have never heard of it, let alone know your ‘H’ score, but in your bloodstream there exists a toxic amino acid, largely a consequence of sub-optimal B vitamin status, which if raised (above...
Ask yourself ‘what’s bugging me?’ Depression is often anger without enthusiasm. Or betrayal. Are you living your life true to who you are? Where is the feeling in your body? Get outdoors. Take your omega-3. Supplement 5-HTP. Talk to a
