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  • News that the FDA Dragon Slayer, top constitutional lawyer, Jonathan Emord, is joining the ANH team is reaching far and wide as natural health organisations recognise the opportunities his appointment presents in the post Chevron doctrine era to use litigation to protect people's access to natural health options
  • The time taken to diagnose children aged 6-17 years with ADHD, could be significantly reduced after the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended the use of the Qb test, an online system, to support diagnosis. Adoption of the new system is predicted to reduce diagnosis times from years to months, which could result in a significantly higher number of children (and potentially adults) being diagnoses. The guidance, which is now out for consultation, is clear that using the test should be just one part of a professional led assessment
  • BBC research, based on Freedom of Information requests, has found that just under 200,000 British adults are currently waiting for an ADHD assessment and that it could take, on average, 8 years for all of them to seen. Such a situation presents a perfect opportunity for qualified health professionals, such as nutritional therapists, to work with those waiting for a diagnosis on a range of, what could be, life-changing changes to their diet and lifestyle using targeted functional testing to personalise and tailor interventions, such as those set out in the ANH Blueprint for Sustainable Healthcare Systems
  • Eating a healthy diet during pregnancy can reduce the likelihood of children developing autism according to a new study using data from Norway and the UK, published in JAMA Network Open. The study emphasises the importance of good nutrition both before and during pregnancy to ensure the developing baby gets all the vital nutrients needed for the development of a healthy brain.

>>> Take a 15-week journey to prepare to Create a healthy baby, Naturally

  • Frightening new analysis, published in the European Journal of Nutrition, using data from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey, from 2008/9-2018/19, has found that UK adolescents get most of their calories from ultra-processed foods (UPFs). Many of the foods being consumed are low in essential nutrients, which can significantly impact young people’s mental health and wellbeing
  • Robust gut health promotes a healthy brain and high resiliency leading people to be less anxious and depressed and enjoy better cognition. A recent paper published in Nature Mental Health found that resilience is a whole body phenomenon rooted in good gut health

>>> Find out more about how what and how you and your children eat can both positively and negatively affect their brain health

>>> The diet/depression link in teenagers

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>>> Resilience and the values crisis – critical time for reappraisal

  • Answering the clarion call for ethical science, this week saw the relaunch of the Science, Public Health Policy and the Law journal with support from the Westreich Foundation, The McCullough Foundation, MWGFD, IPAK-EDU and others. The journal is founded on the principles of good science carried out ethically and has a 35 strong Institutional Review Board. Find out more from journal editor, Dr James Lyons-Weiler.

>>> Why we need future fit bioethics for health sustainability

  • Increasing digitisation of GP services through online services are causing serious harms and even deaths as patient symptoms are misdiagnosed or even missed. It's time to return to basic medical care based on face to face consultations by GPs that know their patients and implement systems that encourage and prioritise self-care, using appropriate nature health professionals, alongside dietary and lifestyle changes to preventative rather than manage disease.

>>> Find out how we can all be involved in co-creating a system that focuses not on manging disease, but on optimising health.

  • Hungary has notified the European Commission of its plans, following Italy’s lead, to restrict the production and sale of cultivated (lab-grown) ‘meat’. As concerns over its safety and nutritional value mount, those supporting its wholesale introduction recently unveiled a YouGov survey purporting to find that over half of those surveyed support the introduction of lab-grown ‘meat’ as long as their governments proclaim it to be safe
  • RethinkX has created a ‘Periodic Table of Precision Fermentation’ highlighting the extent to which synbio products created using ‘precision fermentation’, are already being used for a range of medical, health-related and food purposes, without our knowledge
  • An article, also from RethinkX , shows the amount of dairy proteins, made using precision fermentation, that are now entering the food chain, as Big Food concentrates on creating ‘food’ products sans nature.

>>> Is Big Food Banking on Synbio for its Future?

  • Not only is there a concerted effort from Big Biotech to deregulate gene edited organisms, we’re now facing an even greater threat from the introduction of pesticides designed to ‘edit’ the genes of organisms directly in the environment. A new paper, published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, warms that although such genetic pesticides are claimed to be more environmentally ‘friendly’ than conventional pesticides, there’s a very real danger such technology could affect non-target organisms. As has often been said, once the lid has been removed from Pandora's Box, there's no knowing what might happen nor is there any going back
  • A paper written by an Indian doctor, Cyriac Abby Philips, known on X (Twitter) as ‘TheLiverDoc’, - where he regularly criticises and dismisses traditional therapies such as Ayurveda and homeopathy - suggesting a herbal supplement may harm health, has been withdrawn after the company that sells the products in question, sued for defamation. This isn’t the first time one of his paper’s has been retracted for defamation of herbal products.

ANH-USA Update

  • The ANH-USA team has announced exciting news that leading constitutional lawyer, Jonathan Emord aka the FDA Dragon Slayer, is joining the ANH team as General Counsel. The appointment opens up a multitude of thrilling opportunities to break down regulatory barriers that prevent people from accessing natural health options and exercising their right to choose how they look after their health and wellbeing. Find out more…
  • A study using a ketogenic diet to treat schizophrenia has been shut down by the Maryland Health Department, whilst a study by the same team of a powerful antipsychotic mediation has been allowed to continue. No specific reason for shutting down the keto study has been given. Read more and sign Dr Christopher Palmer’s petition calling for the study to be reinstated.

>>> Listen to Maryland's Keto Kibosh podcast with ANH-USA and ANH-Intl executive and scientific director, Rob Verkerk PhD, and ANH-INtl executive coordinator, Meleni Aldridge, on X Space ‘The Speaker Salon’, hosted by Alana Newman

  • A new amendment has been added to the FY 2025 Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies subcommittee appropriations bill that threatens American's access to CBD and hemp oil products. The amendment, if passed, would essentially ban any hemp-derived cannabinoid product containing ‘quantifiable’ amounts of THC. Help the ANH team protect your access to CBD!

Covid Update

  • A study of excess mortality across 125 countries, published by Canadian non-profit, Correlation Research in the Public Interest, led by Denis Rancourt PhD, finds draconian covid control measures including jab mandates and lockdowns were a major cause of excess deaths. The authors of the study concluded that had a pandemic not been declared and acted on “nothing special” would have happened in regard to overall mortality. The Defender has more…
  • German journalist, Aya Velázquez has published uncensored minutes of meetings of the German Robert Koch Institute (RKI), given to her by a whistleblower former employee of the RKI. The documents present a damning picture of lies , lack of robust, rational scientific support for covid protocols and interference from government and Big Pharma. Watch the press conference (in German). Writing in the Daily Sceptic, Robert Kogon, throws doubt on the veracity of the leaked paperwork
  • Proposals for an updated Bill of Rights, in the Canadian province of Alberta, will include protections that allow people to make their own informed decisions about their health including vaccination, according to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
  • Following the publication of a report by US organisation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Japanese officials are now considering introducing new measures to combat mis- and disinformation
  • According to information obtained by Freedom of Information requests by the Children’s Health Defence team, researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) knew about a significant number of peer-reviewed case reports and/or research articles detailing adverse reactions to covid shots, as early as January 2022. The Defender has the full story…

 

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