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Editor’s note
October 2024
Stating the obvious, and the mineral that’s gone missing
And this month’s prize for Stating the Blindingly Obvious goes to University College London for this whiz-bang waste of time:
“People who eat more ultra-processed foods (UPF) are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but this risk can be lowered by consuming less processed foods instead, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL”, they proudly announce.
This classic fairly pointless research was published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, has 33 (!) authors and was run “in collaboration with experts at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London”.
We’ve run the full study report in research update this month (pages 42-43) just in case you can find anything helpful in it. They did, after all, claim to identify the highest-risk junk foods.
Who pays for this rubbish? The funding info is complicated, but the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health and Care Research were involved in backing two of the authors, and the entire study seems to have been financially supported by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK) charity, “as part of the World Cancer Research Fund International grant programme” that routinely supports principal investigators with £500,000 grants for a four-year study. Something to consider next time anyone attempts to shame you into donating to cancer “research”.
UCL’s catchphrase is “Where research transforms lives”. Yeah, not really.
What, no cholesterol?
To quote one of our favourite IHCAN Conference presenters Dr Malcolm Kendrick, “The Clot Thickens” (it’s the title of his great book on heart disease).
Columbia University researchers have just declared that arterial plaque is caused by environmental pollution (page 44).
They’re saying that metal exposure is associated with increased calcium buildup in coronary arteries at a level comparable to traditional risk factors like smoking and diabetes. We know that air pollution in particular is an increasing concern, but what’s remarkable about the study published in the flagship journal of the American College of Cardiology is that cholesterol isn’t mentioned. “Pollution is the greatest environmental risk to cardiovascular health”, said Columbia’s Dr Katlyn McGraw.
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Cue Ecological Medicine
But metals in the environment are only a tiny part of the story! “Coincidentally” this month is the 40th anniversary of the British Society for Ecological Medicine. To help celebrate I’ve interviewed its president and founding member Dr Damien Dowing. Among other gems, Damien told me: “In the time that I’ve been practising medicine, cancer rates have quadrupled”.
Originally set up to tackle the then new phenomenon of allergy – disdained by the medical establishment at the time – the Society now educates practitioners on how to help clients detox from a veritable flood of environmental poisons ranging from microplastics to radiation (page 46).
Copper not cholesterol?
Of course copper CAN be toxic, but as we comment on the plaque study, copper is a neglected nutrient and often insufficient. We’ve highlighted the well-argued proposal by mineral guru Dr James DiNicolantonio and colleagues that “Copper deficiency may be a leading cause of ischaemic heart disease”. Check the references to my comment on page 44 and you may well be surprised.
We’re big on copper this month. We’re out to rehabilitate it, and Jason Hommel is just the man to kick this off. Author of The Copper Revolution, he runs the website https://revealingfraud.com, where he reports on the latest research and shares protocols for using copper wisely. In this issue (page 44) he explains why copper is absolutely crucial for mitochondria. Without enough copper on board, we simply can’t efficiently generate ATP. With dietary copper intakes routinely low – no wonder fatigue is such a common complaint and clients struggle to heal.
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