Key points
- The ‘gut’ is the gastrointestinal system, comprising the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, and small and large intestines, and accessory...
Key Points
- Get to bed at a time that allows at least 7 hours of total sleep before waking
- This time...
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- Getting enough total energy from your diet is likely to improve sleep duration and quality
- Sufficient protein is also...
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- Poor sleep affects health
- Health status also affects sleep duration and quality
- Poor sleep is associated with cardiometabolic disease,...
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- Exercise improves health and immunity
- Overtraining can reduce immunity though and make us more prone to infections
- It is also...
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- Stress has a significant impact on immunity
- Job stress and burnout are implicated in reducing immunity
- Particularly the amount of reward...
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- Sleeping too little or too much are associated with impaired immunity and increased inflammation
- Poor quality sleep is also...
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- There are meaningful benefits from the diet for inflammatory bowel conditions
- There are also possible benefits for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
- Studies...
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- Auto-immune conditions result from the body attacking ‘self’ tissue with the immune responses
- The shift to a modern diet high...
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- Various nutrients are integral to supporting healthy immune responses
- Many people don’t get enough of these nutrients in the modern...

The Carb-Appropriate...
Dr Cliff Harvey PhD, is a...
Issue 4 | Volume 2 | April 2020
In this issue:
This month The Carb-Appropriate Research Review goes deep on MCTS. Find out what...
Key points
- MCTs reliably increase ketone levels in the body
- Increased ketones are associated with improved brain health and resistance to neurodegeneration...























