Food For Thought

On the show this week we spoke about mood, turmeric and we had guest speaker Kerry Dean from Balance Naturopathy talk to us about BDNF - Brain Derived Nootropic Factor and saffron as a support for those suffering from Major Depressive Disorder along with other foods as medicines.

This weeks show focused on Cholesterol, what is it, the different types and the ways to optimise your nutrition.

On the show today we focus on Hypocalcaemia, or calcium deficiency. Signs and symptoms, causes, RDI and recommendations on enhancing your intake with foods and supplements. As always we finish with a recipe and have our usual Nutrition News, Nutrition Tip and some great tunes.

This weeks topic is Anaemia. What food deplete your iron, B12 and folate and how to build back up your stores.

Today we talked about Cardiovascular Disease and prevention.

Super Saturday - join me tomorrow at 8am for your feel good nutrition program. This week we will be talking about longevity and CoQ10.CoQ10 aka ubiquinone (ideal supplemental form ubiquinone) plays a key role in energy production (ATP) in mitachondria in very cell of the body including the heart. Low levels reported in heart disease, diabetes and AIDs and lower in older people. Also linked with longevity!Food sources, meat, fish, nuts and seeds, broccoli.

Join me this Saturday the 13th of June from 8-9am on Food For Thought your feel good nutrition program. This weeks program is on mental health and we have a very special guest, and colleague of mine Kerry Dean who is a Naturopath at Balance Naturopathy. Kerry specialises in mental health genetics and gastric health.@balancenaturopathy.com.au @keraden_kerry @3wbc @nicolemcauliffe1 @endeavourwellnessclinic @endeavourcollege#nutrition #clinicalnutrition #naturopathy #health #wellbeing #mentalhealth

On the show this week, we focus on Immunity, Vitamin D3 and an interesting nutritional science article on the impact of fats and anxiety.