Dr Min Yeo

24/08/2025

Essential reading

The peak private hospitals body has written to the prime minister, detailing what it claims are some of the worst behaviours by private health insurers.

24/08/2025

A higher consumption of cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflower was associated with a notably reduced risk for colon cancer (CC), with an optimal intake of 40-60 g/d providing a risk reduction of 20%-26%. http://ms.spr.ly/6189snATL

24/08/2025

A paper published in Nature Medicine presents multimodal data from 347 individuals, linking gut microbiome diversity and resting heart rate to glucose levels. This approach enhances understanding of Type 2 diabetes beyond traditional HbA1c measurements.

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23/08/2025

Eat real whole foods, people

A clinical trial using continuous glucose monitoring found that a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-style diet tailored for diabetes...

23/08/2025

Mapping the vast number of environmental and lifestyle factors that influence our health is an enormous task — but one researchers say could hold the key to better understanding disease development.

21/08/2025

Generally I just eat whole beetroots & drink the water that I steam them in

Poor oral bacteria may hinder blood pressure benefits, but Exeter study finds beetroot juice’s nitrates restore balance, cutting BP by 7 mm Hg in older adults.

20/08/2025

Nature Reviews Immunology: In this Perspective, the authors explore how the nervous and immune systems connect and collaborate to respond to internal and external stimuli. In particular, they consider how the exchange of information between both systems is vital for host physiology, in the context of both health and disease.

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19/08/2025

Breathing polluted air increases the risk of osteoporosis, growing evidence shows.

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18/08/2025

MASLD has become the most common chronic liver disease worldwide. Giovanni Targher, MD, Luca Valenti, MD, and Christopher D. Byrne, MB, ChB, review the features of the disease as well as pharmacotherapies targeting the associated liver and cardiovascular–renal–metabolic issues.

17/08/2025

Tail feathers can emit narrow beams of light, a first in the animal kingdom

17/08/2025

13/08/2025

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology: In humans, pH varies across the gastrointestinal tract. This Review provides an overview of gastrointestinal pH and its role in shaping the gut microbiota, highlighting major physiological and dietary factors that influence gastrointestinal pH and how in turn pH affects microbiota composition and metabolism in health and, potentially, disease.

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