This section covers nutrition and micronutrition.

If you are interested in consulting a nutritional therapist you might like to consult our Therapists' Directory - specifically the section Magnetic Therapy to Osteopathy.

Biolab Medical Unit also maintain a database of medical doctors specialising in nutritional and environmental medicine, and allergy. All doctors on the list are familiar with Biolab investigations and are either members of professional organisations for doctors working in this field or regularly attend Biolab workshops for doctors.

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Other reading

For a comprehensive overview of nutrition in the context of general health see Dr Alan Stewart's website at www.stewartnutrition.co.uk

Tom Stockdale is a long-term member of the McCarrison Society and a former editor of their Scottish newsletter; he has been writing about nutrition for many years. For a selection of his writings click here

There is growing belief that the intensive farming regimes, vastly increased use of chemicals, wide spread consumption of highly processed 'junk' foods and the disappearance of fresh fish from most diets over the last half century have had a significant effect on the micronutrient status of most Western populations.

Many medical scientists are now asking whether insufficient levels of nutrients (vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, amino acids) and the dramatic disruption of gut flora, could be implicated in the dramatic rise in allergy and intolerance (to both food and chemicals), ME, CFS and mental health/behavioural conditions such as depression, ADHD and autistic spectrum disorders.

Articles in this section look at the major vitamins and what they do, major minerals and where they come from, trace elements and their importance, gut flora and probiotics, essential fatty acids and their relevance to mental health and behaviour, amino acids and enzymes - how they can be accessed through food and how and when they should be taken as supplements.

NB Information on this site is not a substitute for medical advice and no liability can be assumed for its use.

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