This Week In Wellness

This Week In Wellness day cares in Finland have been able to improve the microbiome and therefore immune system of children in just one month by replacing their floors with lawn, forest undergrowth and planter boxes.

When compared to other urban day cares where the kids play on pavement, tiles or gravel the forest childcare kids showed an increased in their immune markers in their blood (such as T-cells) in just 28 days.

https://www.sciencealert.com/daycares-in-finland-built-a-backyard-forest-and-it-changed-children-s-immune-systems

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/42/eaba2578

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This Week In Wellness 2.5 million care home residents in England will be offered a free supply of vitamin D by the Government as researchers investigate whether there is a link between Vitamin D levels and risk or severity of acute respiratory infections, including Covid-19.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/28/more-than-25m-people-in-england-to-get-free-vitamin-d-supply

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This Week In Wellness after a brief halt to the plan caused by the Coronavirus my home state South Australia will push ahead with its plan to ban some single use plastics (including straws, cutlery and drink stirrers) by March 1 and indicated that more items are likely to be added in the future.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-23/sa-ban-of-single-use-plastics-and-straws-to-start-in-march/13009582

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This Week In Wellness the bones of a 9000 year old female found in the Andes have shed new light into the role of females in hunter gatherer societies. The skeleton was found with 20 projectile points and blades stacked neatly by her side, indicating that she was likely a high-status hunter.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/woman-hunter-ancient-andean-remains-challenge-old-ideas-who-speared-big-game

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This Week In Wellness a new systematic review shows the potential benefits of a ketogenic diet for treating Alzheimer’s disease. With between 400 thousand and 500 thousand Australians suffering from dementia in 2020, and Alzheimer’s accounting for 70% of those, it really is an important finding. Especially as the billions spent searching for a pharmaceutical intervention have been largely ineffective.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/a-ketogenic-diet-may-help-alzheimers-disease

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32597927/

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This Week In Wellness Australian Prescriber published its annual list of the 10 most commonly taken and the 10 most costly prescription drugs for the Australian Government based on Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data collected between July 2019 and June 2020.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/01/zoloft-enters-list-of-10-most-commonly-prescribed-drugs-in-australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-12-01/australias-most-commonly-prescribed-medicines-statins/12936626

https://www.nps.org.au/australian-prescriber/articles/top-10-drugs-2019-20

http://anmf.org.au/pages/the-facts-on-australias-health-spending#:~:text=Approximately%2040%25%20of%20Australia’s%20health,than%202%25%20spent%20on%20prevention

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This Week In Wellness a study published in nature food has shown that sterilising plastic baby bottles at the high temperatures recommended causes them to shed millions of microplastics and trillions of nano plastics every single day.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/19/bottle-fed-babies-swallow-millions-microplastics-day-study

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-00171-y

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This Week In Wellness Doctors and scientists at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s hospital have studied three children who tested negative and did not get seriously ill with Covid-19 despite spending a week and a half with their Covid-19 positive parents and concluded that they had in fact contracted the virus and that it was their own immune system that had been “highly effective” in stopping the virus from replicating.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-18/murdoch-research-children-and-covid-19-immunity/12890670

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19545-8

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This Week In Wellness common household chemicals may alter the gut microbiome. This study measured the levels of semi-organic compounds found in detergents, plastics, soaps, shampoos, hair sprays and stain and water repellent fabrics in the blood and urine of 69 toddlers and preschoolers and then examined their gut microbiome using fecal samples.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201112080906.htm

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00776

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This Week In Wellness new research published in the journal Psychological Science showed that people who feel “enthusiastic and cheerful” are less likely to experience memory decline as they age adding to a growing body of research on the benefits of positivity in ageing.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201029135501.htm

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620953883

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