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Clinically-informed pieces on metabolic health, food quality, and the BioChef service. Written by our practitioners. No guest posts.

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Service Guide
15 Mar 20261 min read

How to Choose the Right Private Chef for Your Family

Dietary expertise, personality fit, and logistics — the five things that matter most when selecting a private chef.

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Having a Private Chef
23 Feb 20237 min read

Why The Affluent Hire Private Chefs For Their Health

We're going to discuss why hiring a private chef can be a great idea for your health, and some of the common reasons people look for personal chefs. Hiring a private chef is more common than you may think.

Edinburgh Night Time Skyline
News
24 Jan 20234 min read

The Tragic Reality of Edinburgh's Red Meat Ban: The Consequences for Children and Elderly

In this article, we're going to look at Edinburgh's red meat ban in the controversial move to commit to eliminating meat from its menus in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes, disregarding the sacrifices our ancestors made for our freedom to eat meat and be healthy.

Child fed up with being forced to eat vegetables
Working With Nutritionists
17 Jan 20238 min read

The Truth About Veganism for Health: Separating Fact from Fiction

In recent years, there has been a surge in the popularity of veganism and vegetarianism, with many people opting to exclude animal protein from their diet. It is important to consider animal protein's role in human evolution and the potential risks of excluding it from the diet.

Tractor on Dead Field on Monoculture Crops
Regenerative Agriculture
31 Dec 20228 min read

Exploring the Other Side of the Story: The Negative Impacts of a Vegan Diet and the Positive Environmental and Animal Welfare Benefits of Animal Farming

Is it true that plant-based diets are always more environmentally friendly and sustainable, or is it possible that they may have negative impacts such as soil degradation and erosion due to the reliance on monoculture crops and the use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides,…

Man Sleep Restfully in His Bedroom
Health and Lifestyle
21 Sept 202110 min read

Mastering the Art of Sleep: A Guide to Achieving Restful and Renewing Sleep

Sleep resets, rebuilds and repairs every facet of our body from our muscles to our gut to our brains. Most people realise the importance of getting a good night's sleep just by how you feel if you don’t. Why is it then that so many people complain of non-restorative sleep or…

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Ape On Black Background Resembling Evolutionary Change to DNA
The History of Health
12 May 20218 min read

Genetic Pre-Dispositions: Nature's Misunderstood Gift

Between 250,000-10,000 years ago your ancestor’s ability to get fat determined your ancestor's ability to survive freezing cold ice age winters in northern Europe. Insulin resistance in an environment of scarcity spares energy in your body for brain and reproductive capacity.

Ripped Man With Six Pack By Controlling Blood Glucose
Fat, Muscle, & Skin Secrets
09 Mar 20215 min read

How to Control Your Weight and Energy Levels through Blood Glucose Control

What is key is that the more muscle we have, the more glucose we can store which means the more we can handle in our diet. This is why muscle is a true longevity organ and why we all need to be lifting heavy things on a regular basis.

Type II Diabetes Blood Glucose Monitor
Health Conditions
01 Mar 202117 min read

How to Reverse Type II Diabetes Through Diet

There is plenty of evidence in using lifestyle and nutrition to come off diabetic medication and attain normal control of blood glucose. So if you’re seeing a practitioner of any kind who says this is not possible – it’s time to find a different practitioner.

Overweight Business Man With Metabolic Dysfunction
Health Conditions
09 Feb 20219 min read

Metabolic Dysfunction: Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Alzheimer's

Low-level, uncontrolled, and unresolved inflammation plays a role in pretty much every single chronic disease we know about, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, auto-immunity, and high blood pressure.

Common Wealth Games Pole Vaulter
Sports and Performance
07 Jan 20213 min read

From Injury to the Commonwealth Games: How Good Nutrition Healed My Body and Revitalised My Athletic Career

Health Drives Performance - This is an overlooked concept in sport; we get so set on specific performance focused interventions, that we totally forget that the basis of any quality training session, of consistent training and optimal adaptation is health.

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Organic Foods & Ingredient Quality
05 Jan 20215 min read

Fruits and Vegetables: Why Organic Is Superior

In this blog, we're going to explore the world of organic farming, and discover the truth about organic vs. conventional foods. We'll talk about the impact of pesticides on the environment and our health, the effects of glyphosate and other agrochemicals, and the benefits of…

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Dorian Soanes
Dorian Soanes
Registered Nutritional Therapist (mBant, CNCH)
Registered Nutritional Therapist (mBant, CNCH)

Dorian Soanes is the founder of Summit Health and the creator of The Symptom Reversal Formula. Dorian is a registered nutritional therapist who specialises in evolutionary medicine and applies his own experience from reversing his own graves disease (an autoimmune condition of the thyroid) and bodybuilding.

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Optimise Performance
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Henrietta Paxton
Henrietta Paxton
Head Nutritionist at Biospan (MBANT, CNHC)
Head Nutritionist at Biospan (MBANT, CNHC)

Henrietta is a former international athlete for England and Scotland in the Common Wealth Games. She specialises in ancestral nutrition, sports nutritions, and natal/child nutrition.

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Reverse a Condition
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Maximilian Burrell
Maximilian Burrell
CEO & Founder of Biospan
CEO & Founder of Biospan

Health was always a passion of mine, and it became obvious to me that it was impossible to buy real food in the UK, unless you cook it at home yourself - from scratch. So I started Biospan in 2020 to build a food service personalised to your health and biology. This service would use the highest quality ingredient, and provide home-cooked meals, just like our ancestors would eat. I called this a Biocheffing service. I've been fortunate enough to spend lots of time around health practitioners, and develop my knowledge. I write content based on my personal experience with health, my experience growing up on a farm, and new learnings that I think you should know.

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The Chef Service
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