Vitamins, minerals, fish oils… the list of nutritional supplements we are told to buy keeps growing. They are convenient, easy and cheap… but are they worth it?

Have you noticed that you crave different foods at different times of year?  Just as our immune system is known to change with the seasons, cold weather brings a desire to eat warming hearty foods.

We might have all sadly experienced gender bias in our day-to-day life, but did you know gender biases are also prevalent within our immune system?

Vitamin D is a unique nutrient but most people think of its important role in bone health. But it actually controls expression of over 1000 processes in the body & is a powerful manipulator of the immune response.

Most research casts doubt on many of the overstated ‘immune-boosting / strengthening / supporting’ marketing claims.  Here we take a critical look at the evidence behind those products touted as immune boosting.