This book demystifies the role of the genes we were born with and how they are effected by the lifestyle choices we make every day. It explains how simple changes to our diet and routine can improve our immunity and help prevent premature aging, degenerative diseases and our biggest killers, infection, covid-19, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
Most importantly, as well as advice on “How not to die” it explains how we can the best out of our bodies to improve our exercise and work performance and, above all, ” How to live” free of diseases, which affect our ability to have lead a full-filling life.
The Author Professor Robert Thomas is a full time NHS Consultant Oncologist at Bedford and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals, a teacher at Cambridge University, a Professor of Sports and nutritional science at the University of Bedfordshire.
He manages patients with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormones and biological targeted treatments but incorporates nutritional and lifestyle strategies into routine management to enhance their effect, reduce side effects and improve outcomes.
In addition, he is head of a Lifestyle and Cancer Research Unit which designs and conducts government and university approved scientific studies which evaluate the impact of exercise, diet, gut health and natural therapies on cancer, long covid other chronic diseases and exercise performance. He is currently chief investigator of the national covid vaccine nutritional intervention study and the YourPhyto study evaluating phytochemical and probiotic strategies to improve gut health and their impact on prostate cancer progression. The scientific papers from this research, can be reviewed on cancernet.co.uk/rthomas.htm. He has been awarded the UK’s “Hospital Doctor of the Year”, The British Oncology Association “Oncologist of the Year” and The Royal College of Radiologist Research Medal.
Some of the intriguing facts you will find in the book
- A glass of red wine and eating olives after sunbathing reduces skin damage?
- Which foods elevate mood and improve gut health
- Why tasty, aromatic and colourful foods have such a positive impact on health
- What houseplants improve concentration, mood and remove air toxins more than others?
- Your choice of deodorant can affect your long-term risks
- The best time to exercise to lower your cholesterol and reduce your risk of diabetes
- How bacteria in your gut can help your blood pressure, immunity and bone strength
- Not cleaning your teeth can cause bowel cancer
- Exercising and improving gut health before and after a flu vaccine enhances its affect
- After genetics, the biggest cause of childhood cancer is “over clean kids”