Gourmet Focus

What coffee does to your brain and body: The good and bad

In the UK, we drink 70 million cups of coffee a day. That is more than the entire population. The question to be answered is ‘Is what we are drinking good for us?’

A little (quality) beef goes a long way

Grass fed beef is becoming increasingly sought after, from some of the best restaurants in the country to the discerning public. It provides numerous health benefits as well as being ethical, sustainable and a much better taste to the alternative of corn fed…

The ‘Calories in / calories out’ model doesn’t work. We need to be smarter about weight loss

The ‘calories in/calories out’ exercise and eating regimen is dead, it doesn’t work and doesn’t make logical sense. Yet for the last 30 years this way of thinking has been…

Better brain: #FullyFocused coffee gives me an edge

There are hundreds of articles overplaying the effects of supplements and their effects on the brain. It’s a minefield for anyone to work out what is good and what isn’t. For decades, fish oil has been shoved down children’s throats from…

How the brain can repair itself and can become stronger

The brain has 86 billion neurons, and 1 trillion glial cells that support the neurons.

However, we lose over 10,000 neurons a day. This is just the average, many things can cause much higher rates of brain…