How much water should we drink a day? You might have been told, “you must have 2 litres of water a day for optimal health”. Well, if you believe that, I’m sorry to burst your bubble – there is not one shred of evidence to support that as a guideline. Two...
Dr Glen Davies (GP) explains the mechanisms behind weight gain. What actually happens in the body? How can we lose weight, and keep it off? Keen to lose some weight? Join PreKureME Weight Loss Edition. Working with the PreKure Faculty, we use the latest...
Prof Grant Schofield talks about coming out of lockdown and what the next steps are. Should we still be trying to eliminate an endemic virus? And why are we not talking about metabolic health? If we go back six weeks, we learnt that Covid-19 had spread outside of...
I’d like to ask you three questions that we still don’t know the answer to. I’d like to know that answer because I think it would help us get to a better place. Question 1: What is the denominator? Whenever we have cases of an illness or a disease and it...
We are in a rapidly changing landscape. Dynamic would be an understatement. I think that the phrase, ‘In some decades we only move weeks, but in some weeks we move decades’, is absolutely appropriate for what we’re seeing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Let’s...
We need broader and more accurate testing, says Grant Schofield. I’ve been following the recent news with interest, particularly around the numbers of Covid-19 cases in different countries. In New Zealand, as most of you know, we’re in lockdown for four weeks,...
