Journal

What do you love most about summer? Is it the extended hours of sunlight, the delicious warmth of slow days, the therapy of sun on your skin at the beach, or the abundance of stone fruit, cherries, watermelon and fresh basil?
It is a season of simple pleasures, sweet tastes, and being in our bodies as we make the most of easy living. Hopefully, it is a time of year where we can take some of the load off, and feel physically and mentally lighter.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), summer is the most Yang time of year.

What if we told you the best doctor lives inside you? This is one of the pieces of wisdom offered up by one of our panellists at last Sunday’s inaugural Longevity Panel.

Tomatoes are a nostalgic fruit. Many of us have distinct memories of picking tomatoes in our childhood, wandering barefoot through the maze of tomato bushes to hunt for flashes of red. Maybe we have seen our own children reenact this, thrilled with the joy of discovering the ripe fruit.

A growing body of scientific research shows that gut health lies at the roots of many chronic diseases. It's simple really, and yet there's so much complexity that it’s easy to get it wrong and fall into poor health.