Your Nutrition | Dr. Max Health

Vitamins and minerals are referred to as ‘micronutrients’ and are all essential for life and certainly for good health. Most have had RDA’s (recommended levels) set many years ago but many of the RDA’s are out of date and are ch…

‘We are what we eat’ is a little out of date now….we are actually ‘what we absorb’. It’s what is actually digested and utilised in our bodies which really influences our health!

Science now has proven that what we ingest can have …

We have been fed with public health messages for years and years now on what is a good diet etc etc. However, why are we in an obesity epidemic? Why are we more prone these days to type 2 diabetes? Wh…

Carbs are the main energy source for energy in our bodies….but carbs also seems to be a massive talking point these days and many carbs have been demonised as unhealthy. However, the term ‘carb’ is a collection of many nutrients, so…

Like carbs, the term ‘sugars’ is confusing to many people. Sugar itself is obviously a sugar, but it’s also comprised of two other sugars(glucose and fructose), hence the confusion! Sugar is also a carbohydrate too!
There is a huge anti-sugar movement…

Like carbs and sugars, fats too, is a term which comprises a very long list of both healthy and unhealthy types of fats.

Over the last fifteen years, fats have been demonised as very unhealthy, but recent science shows that fats (eve…

We cannot survive without protein, as protein contains amino acids, which are the very building blocks of enzymes, some hormones, muscle, bone, tendons and much more.

There is huge controversy over how much protein we really need and the dietetic advice an…

Cholesterol has always been called out as the ‘bad guy’ for many years, ever since it was demonised many years ago by a public health official in the USA called Ancel Keys.

Good and bad cholesterol (HDL & LDL) are also term…

Micronutrients (vitamins & minerals and others) are needed for hundreds and hundreds of important biochemical reactions and basically look after our overall metabolism is so many ways.

However, Public Health England (PHE) data clearly shows that the majority of adults for examp…

In addition to the classical vitamins and minerals, other micronutrients and some macronutrients are of interest and relevance to health outcomes.

These include co-enzyme Q10, black pepper extract, polyphenolics, NAD/ NR, glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM, hyaluronic acid, vitamin K2, amino acids, leucine, …

There are tens of thousands of various products within the food and the drink aisles, many of which are extremely unhealthy. Trying to decipher labels, understand calories and work out if they are healthy, as well as tasty, can be co…