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Editor’s note –
June 2026
Specialist cardiologists reveal what they know about nutrition – it’s not pretty
Decades after alternative health experts first identified junk foods as a threat to health, European cardiology specialists have finally got around to issuing a consensus statement saying that ultra-processed foods are linked to a higher risk of heart disease and early death.
Ironically., the authors are urging doctors to discuss UPF intake with patients and offer practical advice on reducing consumption as part of routine healthcare. This despite the fact that doctors receive no training in nutrition (for instance – 30 minutes in a typical Harvard medical degree course, as recently revealed).
Prof Luigina Guasti from the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy, one of the lead authors (see our report on page 31), says: “UPFs, made from industrial ingredients and additives, have largely replaced traditional diets. Research suggests these foods are linked to several risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure, and to the risk of developing and dying from heart disease.
“However, this evidence has not yet made its way into the advice we give to patients on healthy eating”. No, it hasn’t, has it? But then you have no clue what healthy eating is anyway, do you?
I asked Bob, my AI, when the term junk food was first used. “He” referenced a newspaper headline reading “Junk Foods’ Cause Serious Malnutrition” from 1952 – the year I was born! The article was a reprint from 1948, originally titled “Dr Brady’s Health Column: More Junk Than Food” in which Dr Brady said they were anything made mostly of white flour or refined white sugar or syrup. Examples he gave included white bread, crackers, cake, sweets, ice cream soda, chocolate malted, sundaes, and sweetened carbonated beverages. His original term – “cheat food” – was apparently used in newspapers as early as 1916!
There is absolutely NO excuse for doctors – cardiologists of all people – taking this length of time to accept that junk foods are bad for us.
And guess what? The European Society of Cardiology is calling for MORE research! “We need long-term intervention trials to test whether reducing UPFs improves cardiovascular health”. No, we don’t. You’ve wasted enough time, contributed to enough deaths, already.
If these idiot specialists had any shame, they would issue an apology, not a consensus….
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PCOS gets a holistic makeover
But here’s a consensus that is timely and welcome.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has been renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) following an extensive international consensus process published in The Lancet last month.
It signals a major shift in women’s health, according to our contributor, naturopathic physician Elizabeth Bartman, ND, Chief Medical Officer of EndoAxis, the hormone analysis and protocol specialists.
The name-change effort was led by endocrinologist Prof Helena Teede, of Monash University, who says: “What we now know is that there is actually no increase in abnormal cysts on the ovary, and the diverse features of the condition were often unappreciated”.
Elizabeth’s full analysis – what we know about PCOS and why PMOS is such a better fit – starts on page 40.
H2 – it’s a gas
Integrative practitioners are way ahead – again. This time with the early adoption of molecular hydrogen therapy.
UK and European scientists and funding institutions are basically ignoring it, while Japan, China and Russia dig into the molecule that “goes everywhere and does everything”.
Dr Grace Russell has been at the sharp end of research, publication – and the struggle to get funding. I’ve grilled her in depth for this month’s cover story (page 44).
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We don’t put a big emphasis on being “evidence based” in the conventional sense, mainly because the bulk of the evidence used in meta analyses and systematic reviews and to produce “guidelines” is not to be trusted. As Prof Richard David Feinman puts it, the meta-analysis is the “most dangerous” activity plaguing modern medical literature. And RCTs are of no use in assessing complex conditions that we address with multiple interventions – such as Dr Dale Bredesen’s Alzheimer’s protocol. Likewise, we highly value the hard-won clinical experience of multiple practitioners accumulated over the years and handed down over generations of evolving natural medicine practice. That said, we do put a lot of effort into referencing our features. References are online to save space, available within our members area.
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We don’t put a big emphasis on being “evidence based” in the conventional sense, mainly because the bulk of the evidence used in meta analyses and systematic reviews and to produce “guidelines” is not to be trusted. As Prof Richard David Feinman puts it, the meta-analysis is the “most dangerous” activity plaguing modern medical literature. And RCTs are of no use in assessing complex conditions that we address with multiple interventions – such as Dr Dale Bredesen’s Alzheimer’s protocol. Likewise, we highly value the hard-won clinical experience of multiple practitioners accumulated over the years and handed down over generations of evolving natural medicine practice. That said, we do put a lot of effort into referencing our features. References are online to save space, available within our members area.
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