Week No 42 | 16/10/2019

Personalised medicine, real food and herbal sleep

The title of this week’s heartbeat newsletter provides three ingredients in a classic recipe for a health revolution, one that’s gathering a head of steam across the world. We open with some insights from this year’s Thought Leaders Consortium at Dr Jeff Bland’s Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Seattle, from where I have just returned. What a meeting it was – and it’s fair to say, the personalized medicine revolution that puts nutrition and lifestyle centre stage is now really gathering momentum!

Moving across the land mass of the US and continuing across the Atlantic to the UK, you’ll find our piece on the latest real food 'issue' in the peer-reviewed journal of the British Holistic Medical Association. The contents of this issue are both fascinating and incredibly relevant to today’s dual and interrelated challenges around human health and the natural environment. The series of articles, including my critique of the EAT-Lancet report, are all authored by leaders in their respective fields. They are about the importance of real food and what needs to be done to create a transition from unsustainable nutrition and farming practices to ones that work in concert with natural processes.

We follow up with the third in our 3-part series on sleep, this time looking at herbal solutions that have been tried and tested, often over hundreds of years. Perversely, that still doesn’t make them sufficiently worthy of entering the curriculum of the vast majority of medical schools around the world.

Finally, in our international news round-up, you’ll read about Pharma's lack of interest in antibiotic resistance for which it was responsible, more blind adoption of EAT-Lancet's 'planetary health’ diet, Singapore's sugary drink tax, pushback against GM in Europe, nature prescription, Brazilian bee deaths, and more.

In health, naturally and sustainably,

Rob Verkerk PhD

Founder, executive & scientific director

The Personalised Lifestyle Medicine revolution

16/10/2019

Rob Verkerk reflects after his return from the 7th annual international meeting of the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Seattle

The Real Food 'Issue'

16/10/2019

Rob Verkerk joins UK health leaders in discourse over real food in special issue of the Journal of Holistic Healthcare

Six botanicals to transform your sleep

16/10/2019

Practical tips for your every day life, based on the most up-to-date scientific thinking. In the last part of our sleep series, we talk about botanicals that could help you get more and better sleep.

News Alerts: Week 42, 2019

16/10/2019

Big Pharma cuts antibiotic research; Singapore ad bans on sugary drinks; Mayors sign-up to Planetary Health Diet; Childhood obesity crisis; Big Ag EU GM pushback begins; Nature prescriptions; Brazil bee deaths

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