A summary of what is happening in the vegetable garden in October…with a reminder of why I’m now doing this monthly…and a picture showing the source of this month’s organic mulch

When we consume real food, we consume fat and every type of fat. There are no exceptions.

Have you noticed that mental illnesses such as depression and Alzheimer’s are on the rise in the same was as things like heart disease and type 2 diabetes? Well, they are. I recently attended a conference in which a compelling case was made for high carbohydrate diets causing mental illness in the same was as they do so-called chronic diseases. This article presents that case and describes a solution.

If you’re interested in mental illness causes and remedies this is a conference you might consider. It was packed with interesting speakers, their inspirational stories of recovery and how a ketogenic diet helped them.

A summary of what is happening in the vegetable garden in September

Getting that autumnal feeling

Everyday foods like fruit juice, bread, croissants, pasta, potatoes, and rice are readily turned into blood sugar when we consume them. Much of that sugar is then turned into body fat. Eating these things all day and everyday goes a long way to explain why so many of us struggle with our weight. I explain how this happens here.

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised that light and microbes are good for us. They are two of the most influential evolutionary influences on human biology

A summary of what is happening in the vegetable garden this month

Did you know that sunlight reaches deep into our bodies, especially in babies and young children? I didn't. Sunlight has benefited all life on earth since the very beginning. Humans harvest sunlight just as we use the nutrition in our food.

11 cookbooks that my wife and I (ahem) use regularly

My wife and I initially struggled with how to eat more healthily. These 11 cookbooks gave us the confidence to get rid of the seed oils, sugars and starches, and grains that formed the basis of our unhealthy eating habits and the roadmap to adopt a new, healthy lifestyle. Eating healthily can be cheap, easy, quick, and delicious. No matter what we’re in the mood for, there are tasty recipes available.

Three years of garden creation captured in pictures. Regenerative gardening prioritises soil health to grow tastier fruit and vegetables, as nature intended. Healthy soil is literally full of life that cross-talks constantly with the plants rooted in it. This article explains those concepts and describes how we created our regenerative garden.

This is not a product endorsement, just a heads-up to an electrolyte mix I like.

If, like me, you are interested in how gut microbiota affect human health, read on. Long under-investigated and poorly understood gut fungi appear to affect health much more than their small numbers suggest and likely influence what happens to the much more numerous bacteria each of us have in our gut.

Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) was the main topic of a recent conference I attended. I learned a lot about the cause, detection and treatment of T2D and wrote this article to summarise what I saw and heard.

Ever wondered why you can stare at natural scenes for ever? There’s a reason for that, and we know what it is. We can also mimic nature’s beauty in our daily lives when we want to.

I eliminated life-long allergies with a handful of supplements and I rarely catch colds and the flu. I share my list of supplements here.

“Food is the bedrock of health. Our food choices can either lead to disease or create health and vitality.” I defy you to read this story and not be inspired by one woman’s story of how she reversed the debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis with food. She now leads a healthy, relatively normal life

This is one of the most fascinating biology books I’ve ever read. This book challenged my long-held assumptions and offers a new way of thinking about how life emerges and works in a world of infinite influences.