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27/06/2023

Om tre dagar blir detta en flädersaft (gjord på mindre socker). Skörda i trädgården 😋

14/06/2023

På IFM’s annual international conference för ett par veckor sedan träffade jag fantastiska Elizabeth, MD och Mary Ellen funktionsmedicinsk tandläkare. De har varit en viktig del av min IFM resa under senaste 11 åren.

02/06/2023

This morning’s lectures at the IFM annual conference started with legendary Joe Pizzorno speaking.

02/06/2023

The IFM annual international conference always take place during my birthday, yesterday I turned 49. Celebrating with a fabulous group of people 🥳 (Leonie Ash, Datis Kharrazian, Patrick Hanaway, Karen Olsen, Robert Rountree, Jeremy Hawkey, Patrick Engles, Karyn Duggan)

02/06/2023

At a lunch at the IFM with Pippa

31/05/2023

On my way to the annual conference with Patrick Engles. Looking forward to meeting , and other friends.

28/05/2023

På långpromenad med min fina Joy i solen - både mindfulfess och träning (150 walking lounges)

24/05/2023

Övertygande bevis från forskning har visat att fysisk aktivitet och träning kan förebygga vanliga psykiska störningar, såsom depression och ångeststörningar och har fler positiva effekter på den fysiska och mentala hälsan.

Ökad fysisk aktivitetsnivå i befolkningen kommer sannolikt att minska den psykiska hälsobördan.

Ett multidisciplinärt tillvägagångssätt behövs för att övervinna barriärer och förbättra följsamheten och fördelarna.

Länk till studie: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33890431/.

Enkelt uttryckt kan livsstilsmedicin förbättra mental hälsa. Följ 👆för mer forskning och tips och besöka vår hemsida 👇

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25/04/2022

Här kan ni läsa mitt senaste Food Pharmacy inlägg om vaskulär hälsa. Den kommer vara med i en pod senare i vår.

Vissa kroppssystem ägnar man oftast inte en tanke åt, som till exempel det vaskulära systemet eller lymfsystemet. De bara finns där och arbetar tyst och

24/02/2022

Read Maria’s latest article about stomach acid and its importance for healthy digestion and more (in Swedish)

Jag pratar väldigt ofta om hur viktigt det är att försöka utvärdera hälsan av mag/tamsystemet och då använder jag mig...

24/01/2022

Maria's latest Food Pharmacy article is about fasting and genetics. Have a read!

Ja må då säga att året började exceptionellt hälsosamt och piggt. Vännerna vi skulle till på nyår fick en dunderförkylning...

20/12/2021

https://foodpharmacy.se/2021/12/behandling-av-akne-14-dos-and-donts/

Today you can read Maria’s latest post about acne and triggers that can make it worse at this time of year. A very common problem nowadays, among both teenagers and even adults. Enjoy! 🎅🎄

Jag genuint älskar julen. Att ge bort en julklapp som jag vet kommer uppskattas känns tillfredställande. Sen tycker jag att...

29/11/2021

Read Maria's brain, cognition, and dementia article on Food Pharmacy today!

Visst är det ganska nice att ligga i soffan och skrolla på sin mobil? Det har trots allt varit en...

29/10/2021

Food Pharmacy has just posted the second part of Nordic Wellth's brain health series, this time on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Did you know that diet and lifestyle medicine can help with early cognitive impairment? That's the topic of the next, and final article in the series (Swedish).

Då var det dags för hjärninlägg nummer två. Denna gång går jag mer in på djupet med de två vanligaste...

12/10/2021

Read Maria's new post on brain health and dementia! (in Swedish)

Nu vill jag inte någon ska missa mitt senaste inlägg hos fantastiska Food Pharmacy. Denna gången handlar det om hjärnhälsa och demens. Som jag nämnde i mitt senaste blogginlägg så spenderade jag hela förra veckan med att göra en ny amerikansk kurs inom detta ämne bara för att få den abs...

27/09/2021

Maria’s latest article on how to avoid constipation is the latest in our gut health series

Maria Berglund Rantén Maria Berlund Rantén är näringsterapeut med examen från Westminster University i London, specialiserad på funktionsmedicinsk behandling av autoimmuna sjukdomar och kroniska symtom. Hon är också som ensam svensk certifierad via Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), sa...

22/08/2021

Does curcumin have anti-inflammatory properties? Read what Karolinska researcher Carla Maria Avesani and Nordic Wellth's Maria Berglund Ranten have to say in Aftonbladet's Wellness article.

Gurkmejan är inte bara en magisk smaksättare, den lilla roten har även en hel rad hälsoegenskaper.–Jag brukar få väldigt bra resultat hos personer som lider av neurologiska besvär samt tarm- och hudproblem säger näringsterapeuten Maria Berglund Rantén.

18/05/2021

How does a low- diet affect ? Read Maria's latest article on the Food Pharmacy website (in Swedish).

Detta inlägg kommer att utforska låg FODMAP-kosten - vad den innebär, vad forskningen säger och hur effektiv den är i långa loppet. Läs här!

09/03/2021

Antinutrienter är anti-näringsämnen, dvs ämnen som kan ha en negativ effekt på processer i kroppen, i motsats till nutrienter som kan främja vår hälsa. Olika antinutrienter kan ha olika inverkan, vissa kan påverka metabolismen eller hur kroppen använder sig av olika näringsämnen, andra absorption av mineraler. Absorption är den process där näringsämnen tas upp i tarmen och passerar ut i blodomloppet för att distribueras runt till kroppens celler. https://foodpharmacy.se/category/maria_berglund_ranten/

16/12/2020

In och läs Maria's senaste artikel på Food Pharmacy

Kruciferösa grönsaker uppmärksammas allt mer då de innehåller viktiga antioxidanter som kan motverka cancer. Maria Rantén reder ut begreppen.

16/11/2020

Maria's latest article in Food Pharmacy is about microbial diversity, in our guts and in nature.

"Från sekunden vi föds sköljs en myriad av mikrober/mikroorganismer över oss och de hjälper och påverkar oss genom hela livet. Vi har under miljoner år utvecklats med hjälp av mikrober och har sammanvävts med dem. Vi samlever med miljarder av olika arter – bakterier, virus, svampar, parasiter mm – och vi har fler mikrober i tarmen än vi har celler i hela kroppen. Detta betyder att vi faktiskt är mer mikrob än människor … (ganska fascinerande tanke). De lever i symbios med oss (eller snarare tvärtom) och kontrollerar många olika kroppsfunktioner, och immunomodulering."

Vad innebär biologisk eller mikrobiell mångfald i tarmen? Maria Rantén reder ut begreppen och visar hur du gör för att ta hand om tarmfloran.

12/10/2020

Our head nutritionist Maria Berglund Ranten was featured on Powertalk this weekend discussing nutrition, autoimmune disease, and other chronic diseases, mental health, teenage su***de, parenting COVID and much more.

06/04/2020

Nordic Wellth's Maria is now a regular columnist for Food Pharmacy. Her latest column is about training and autoimmune disease - read on to find out how training can be beneficial for those with autoimmune disease

In Swedish: https://foodpharmacy.se/2020/04/autoimmunitet-med-maria-berglund-ranten-traning-och-aterhamtning/

In English: https://foodpharmacyco.com/2020/04/autoimmunity-with-maria-berglund-ranten-training-and-recovery/

Hur påverkar träning och inaktivitet autoimmuna (AI) förlopp i kroppen? Läs vår intervju med Maria Berglund Rantén här och lär dig mer!

19/03/2020

Read Nordic Wellth's article about viruses and your immune system on Food Pharmacy's Blog today https://foodpharmacyco.com/2020/03/viruses-and-your-immune-system/

"Let’s say that your immune system must react daily to foods that your body cannot tolerate. After some time, or several years, this can lead to decrease in the activity of the immune cells and the immune system as a whole, which then becomes less effective at fighting off infections. During my 15 years in practice this is something I have often witnessed in my clinic. Many clients with chronic health conditions/symptoms or autoimmune disease have a low leukocyte count. 4-9 months after changing dietary and lifestyle factors, the leucocyte count returns to normal while chronic symptoms disappear or are alleviated".

The coronavirus has many wondering how they can keep their immune systems up. Read Maria Rantén's deep dive on viruses and your immune system.

21/10/2019

Study leader Dr Ali Guermazi, of Boston University School of Medicine in the US, said: "We've been telling patients that even if these injections don't relieve your pain, they're not going to hurt you. But now we suspect that this is not necessarily the case."

"We are now seeing these injections can be very harmful to the joints with serious complications.’

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Cortisone injections for hip and knee pain lead to more complications than previously thought, research has found.

18/10/2019

New Study on the dietary treatment of polycystic kidney disease (PKD)

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-reversing-polycystic-kidney-disease.html?fbclid=IwAR1YFEB3oTicz64-8cLJ4sQl5U_TiNXk0OBZgtwrjvVYw_DaUZw1Epmfv_A

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) has long been thought to be progressive and irreversible, condemning its sufferers to a long, slow and often painful decline as fluid filled cysts develop in the kidneys, grow and eventually rob the organs of their function. But now ketosis has been shown to stall and even reverse PKD.

"It's surprisingly effective— much more effective than any drug treatment that we've tested," Weimbs, whose work focuses primarily on the molecular mechanisms underlying polycystic kidney disease and related renal diseases, said of his group's discovery. Their work appears in the journal Cell Metabolism.

The problem with typical Western diets is that we almost never go into ketosis: we eat high-carb, high-sugar foods almost continuously throughout the day, securing for ourselves a continuous supply of glucose. In the ketogenic diet, the body's typical "go-to" source of energy—glucose—is taken away as ketogenic dieters focus on non-carbohydrate foods, eventually forcing their bodies to mimic the fasting response. Time-restricted feeders, meanwhile, reach that state by limiting the window of time they eat to a small part of the day, leaving the remaining 16-20 hours of their day for the body to use up the carbs and sugars and switch over into ketosis.

In fact the researchers were so surprised by their result they thought they had made a mistake. "I was so surprised by the effect of BHB treatment that I had to go and double-check all the genotypes of the animals to make sure they had PKD to start with," said Torres, the paper's lead author. "The effect was really unlike anything I had encountered before.

"The impact of this research has huge implications on the field of PKD," Torres continued. It provides a framework, he said, for understanding the pathology of PKD from a metabolic viewpoint and adds another disease to the list that a ketogenic diet can be used to treat. "Our discovery also has implications for understanding cellular metabolism at a fundamental level as we learn more about what has gone wrong in our disease models. I am really looking forward to the future of research in this field as we explore this new space and uncover even more about what is really going on in PKD."

Hereditary and relatively common, polycystic kidney disease (PKD) has long been thought to be progressive and irreversible, condemning its sufferers to a long, slow and often painful decline as fluid filled cysts develop in the kidneys, grow and eventually rob the organs of their function.

18/10/2019

A summary of a new paper entitled at The Impact of Food Additives on Gut Homeostasis: a discussionary review of literature.

“…The Western diet is characterized by high consumption of proteins, saturated fats and sweets, as well as by a broad use of food additives (e.g., emulsifiers, bulking agents) used to preserve and enhance food quality…”

“…Accumulating evidence suggests that food additives can perturb gut homeostasis, thereby contributing to promote tissue-damaging inflammatory responses…”

“…In this review, we report and discuss the current knowledge about the impact of food additives on gut homeostasis and their potential contribution to the development of inflammatory disorders…”

“…(There is a need to evaluate) potential detrimental effects of these substances on human health, especially for those subjects with intestinal or systemic disorders (e.g., IBD patients, metabolic syndrome patients) or increased susceptibility to pathogenic conditions (e.g., relatives of colon cancer patients, relatives of IBD patients)…”

“…[Recently] many pre-clinical studies have recently linked the increased and prolonged consumption of food additives with the development and progression of various forms of colitis, colorectal cancer, and metabolic syndrome, which is characterized by increased adiposity, dysglycemia, and low-grade intestinal inflammation…”

For example…

“…[Recent] findings have suggested that dietary emulsifiers may have an impact on the gut-brain axis and induce psychological/behavioral disorders in the exposed subjects through a microbiota-dependent mechanism…” (Think products like OATLY Ikaffe and margarine/spreads that melt easily).

“…[In addition] accumulating evidence suggests that maltodextrin can impair gut homeostasis via multiple mechanisms and promote intestinal pathologies… for instance, maltodextrin has been involved in the development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a severe intestinal disorder of the newborns…” (Most välling/formula contains maltodextrin, which is one reason we can’t give formula to preemies).

“…[Moreover] a recent study… investigated the impact of the exposure to titanium dioxide… a commonly used inorganic nanoparticle…food colorant… in pregnant rats… [with] the authors reporting… [changes] in gut microbiota composition at gestation day 10 and 17…in addition [to increased], fasting blood glucose levels, together with the expression of diabetes mellitus-related genes… in the exposed rats… [suggesting] that titanium dioxide particles may exert detrimental effect in pregnant women…”

“…Silver nanoparticles… [have also been observed] to damage intestinal microvilli and glands in the small intestine, cross the intestinal epithelial barrier and decrease body weight of treated mice…however, it is noteworthy that the effects of silver nanoparticles on gut homeostasis would seem to be strictly dependent on particle size, dosage and administration route…”

“…Finally, it is important to point out that intake of anti-microbial agents can also occur through the usage of cosmetics and personal care products…”

“….An example is given by triclosan, a biocidal additive found in several products, such as toothpastes, cosmetics and toys… [and] exposure to low-doses of triclosan (10 and 80 parts per million in diet) promotes low-grade intestinal inflammation, colitis and colitis-associated colon carcinogenesis in mice…”

“…[With one analysis demonstrating] the mechanisms underlying these effects are dependent on the ability of triclosan to promote gut dysbiosis and trigger the signalling cascade downstream the Toll-like receptor 4, a LPS recognizing receptor whose activation promotes intestinal inflammatory responses…”

In conclusion

“…An accumulating number of studies reported detrimental effects of some commonly used food additives on gut homeostasis, suggesting a link between their consumption and the development/worsening of human intestinal and metabolic diseases…”

“…Since most of the studies published so far have been performed in animals, it would be relevant to ascertain whether similar effects occur also in human beings before drawing any conclusion on the deleterious effect of additives on gut homeostasis.”

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/11/10/2334

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14/10/2019

Fungal overgrowth plays a role in cancer progression after all.

’This study highlights a role for fungi in the development of cancer. Excitingly, the work points to the possibility of new therapeutic approaches. Perhaps altering microbial communities by directly targeting specific populations could help ameliorate PDA. Alternatively, therapies targeting immune components such as MBL that control fungal infections could provide a route to combat this lethal cancer.’

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An altered mycobiome promotes pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

18/09/2019

Food Pharmacy had so many questions on their last podcast, they had to interview Nordic Wellth’s Maria. 👏👏 . (In Swedish)

Ojojoj, veckans avsnitt handlar om glutenets vara eller icke vara. Och så pratar vi om klimakteriet, progesteron och dess påstådda koppling till bröstcancer. Samt om tantrasex. Det vill du inte missa.

11/09/2019

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6457/984?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=JHubbard&utm_medium=Facebook

A microbial bond is shared between mother and child that renders the age-old dichotomy of “nature versus nurture” obsolete. Molded by both host biology and the physical relationship between mother and child, this microbial connection is formed at the earliest moments of life when the newborn's s...

28/07/2019

NEW STUDY! (states the obvious but nice to have more research)

’The researchers found that a high-quality diet is linked to more potentially beneficial bacteria; while a low-quality diet is associated with an increase in potentially harmful bacteria. They propose that modifying the microbiome through diet may be a part of a strategy to reduce the risk of chronic diseases’.

A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found an association between diet quality and microbiome composition in human colonic mucosa.

27/05/2019

These findings make a “compelling case” that a change in diet modified the molecular biology of our primate ancestors, says Steven Benner of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution.

Metabolite from lactic acid bacteria activates immune cells

19/05/2019

Have you heard about the link between the gut microbiome and autism?

Autism is a multi-factorial disorder associated with a series of complex behavioral symptoms largely attributed to inflammation in different regions of the brain. Autopsies performed on Autism pati…

18/05/2019

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/may/17/air-pollution-may-be-damaging-every-organ-and-cell-in-the-body-finds-global-review

Exclusive: Comprehensive analysis finds harm from head to toe, including dementia, heart and lung disease, fertility problems and reduced intelligence

16/04/2018

Wondering how Registered Nutrition Practitioners work and how a RN could help you?

The British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) is a professional body for Registered Nutrition Practitioners. Its primary function is to...

15/04/2018

New study on the benefits of Vitamin D on inflammatory markers, at least in diabetic patients: ’This meta-analysis provides level 1 evidence that vitamin D supplementation may reduce chronic low-grade inflammation in patients with type 2 diabetes’.

Nutr Rev. 2018 May 1;76(5):380-394. doi: 10.1093/nutrit/nux077.

23/03/2018

Cardiologist Dr Malhotra takes on the CEO of Pharma giant Astra Zeneca at the prestigious Cambridge Union:

"We have a complete healthcare system failure and an epidemic of misinformed patients and misunformed doctors"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=SLaHCEQ_nkI&app=desktop

"It's time to start taking a different approach to the prevention of chronic diseases. Chronic diseases are not going to be countered with drugs, but with lifestyle change".

Cardiologist Dr Malhotra takes on the CEO of Pharma giant Astra Zeneca at the prestigious Cambridge Union. Follow Dr Aseem Malhotra @ https://twitter.com/DrA...

13/01/2018

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/

The Big Vitamin D Mistake

Since 2006, type 1 diabetes in Finland has plateaued and then decreased after the authorities' decision to fortify dietary milk products with cholecalciferol. The role of vitamin D in innate and adaptive immunity is critical. A statistical error in the estimation of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin D was recently discovered; in a correct analysis of the data used by the Institute of Medicine, it was found that 8895 IU/d was needed for 97.5% of individuals to achieve values ≥50 nmol/L. Another study confirmed that 6201 IU/d was needed to achieve 75 nmol/L and 9122 IU/d was needed to reach 100 nmol/L. The largest meta-analysis ever conducted of studies published between 1966 and 2013 showed that 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels

Since 2006, type 1 diabetes in Finland has plateaued and then decreased after the authorities’ decision to fortify dietary milk products with cholecalciferol. The role of vitamin D in innate and adaptive immunity is critical. A statistical error ...