Biodiversity and uric acid

The human thirst for technology and novelty means that many keep hoping that a new technological fix will remedy our world’s increasing number of woes, among them our declining health, fertility, physical, and cognitive, capacities. Nature is often seen as subordinate to technology; less important, less likely to deliver solutions. It is this exact mindset that contributes to the struggle we find ourselves at ANH, protecting our right and access to natural health. As this week’s pieces suggest, we have still an incredible amount to learn from nature.

The first looks at the unfolding ecological crisis in the form of the recent and potentially catastrophic biodiversity loss, which can no longer be hidden under the banner of climate change. We raise questions over how the currently developing biodiversity credit system, modelled closely on the carbon credit system that is to be sold alongside it to the least green corporates on the planet, could be a ruse that helps boost ESG rankings, offers new business opportunities for the exploitation of nature, but does little to avert the sixth mass extinction.

Our second piece – scribed by Meleni in her role as a nutritional and clinical psychoneuroimmunology practitioner – shines a spotlight on how raised uric acid levels, also associated with gout and kidney stones, is an active player in the key cluster of diseases that burden our health systems, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, many cancers, and neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s. Us humans and our primate relatives are among a small group who don’t have the ability to breakdown uric acid to a harmless by-product. Our pre-human ancestors experienced a mutation well over a million years ago that helped them then – and compromises us now. Unless, of course, we follow Meleni’s guidance.  

Don’t forget our bumper news on all things relevant to natural health! And greatly looking forward to seeing some of you – in person in London – or online – at our Masterclass with clinical psychoneuroimmunology (CPNI) founder, Dr Leo Pruimboom, this Friday. 

In health, naturally  

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