Low Nightshade Diet - Food guidelines
Dietary Guidelines for a low nightshade diet "Nightshades" is the common name for a group of plants belonging to a scientific order called Polemoniales and to a scientifically family called Solanac...
ATP Science Manufacturing - A History
When ATP Science first started we followed conventional business advice, or so called “Best Practice” and looked to outsource everything. Slowly but surely after constant disappointment we insource...
Vasoactive Amine Food - Guidelines
Vasoactive Amine Foods Vasoactive amine foods contain chemicals that can alter blood vessel activity and may trigger migraine or other vascular headaches. Every person will have different degrees o...
Top 10 Tips for Living in a Toxic World
In our podcasts, we touch on a lot of topics to do with toxins. Avoid the toxins you can and learn tricks to live with the toxins you can’t avoid.1. NRF2 Activators - The NRF2 gene is our resilient...
Gluten Free Diet - Guidelines
What is Gluten? Gluten is the protein found predominately in wheat. Gluten is often added to foods such as chewing gums, sauces and vegetarian meat alternatives to enhance the flavor or texture. Gl...
Lactose Free or Low Lactose diet - Guideline
What is Lactose? Lactose is milk sugar. It is formed in the mammary glands of all lactating animals. Human breast milk, cow’s milk, goat’s and sheep’s milk all contain lactose.Lactose intolerance m...
Franken-Food 2.0
Food has changed. Some things have improved. For example, the concept of mechanical refrigeration began when William Cullen, a Scottish doctor, observed that evaporation had a cooling effect in th...
Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR)
Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR) Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR) polymorphism is the most common genetic cause of elevated levels of homocysteine in the plasma (hyperhomocyst...
Salt (or Sodium), Is It Really That Evil?
Now days, you literally can’t walk down a supermarket aisle without finding a low salt version of the product you have eaten for years.And you will search it out because of the marketing hype surro...
Insulin Resistance
Insulin 101 The overall action of insulin is to increase energy storage in an organism in the form of transient glycogen and enduring fat. In addition to increasing glucose utilization form blood, ...
Cholesterol - Fact, Fiction or Conspiracy!?
Is the ‘Bad’ LDL Cholesterol really that Bad? Most of us have been told by our doctors that cholesterol is a bad thing. At social gatherings when the topic of health arises (like it always does), t...
My Gut Bugs Made Me Do It
Gut Microbiome You may have noticed everyone talking about probiotics; fermented foods like kombucha and Kim Chee and Sauerkraut are all the rage at the moment and there are so many new probiotics ...
The Benefits of Schisandra
Schisandra chinensis is the herb that all Naturopaths and Herbalists fall in love with. In fact, my senior lecturer at university loved Schisandra so much she named her dog after it! I would like t...
