28 July 2022 | OVC  In this blog, Clinical Neuroscientist Miguel Toribio-Mateas discusses the benefits of a diet full of colour for healthy cognition and different brain processes; from memory to reaction time. Cognition refers to a range of processes relating to the acquisition, storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information by the human brain. It underpins nearly all of our daily activities, in health and disease, across the age span.
Cognition can be separated into multiple distinct functions, dependent on particular areas of the brain or “brain circuits” that work based on a number of natural chemicals known as neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are created by the body using building blocks that come from nutrients, hence the importance of being aware of what foods can act as sources of the necessary active components of the molecules that drive our brain processes.
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21 October 2014 | Admin Whether you're adding some honey to your tea or hot drink, or making a honey & lemon drink, here are a few quick tips to keep in mind. |
6 June 2014 | Admin Bananas and Manuka honey go really well together. There are all sorts of food recipes, as well as homemade natural skincare where they make wonderful joint ingredients. Here are 11 ideas. Mostly food, but also a couple of skincare ideas too. |
11 May 2014 | Admin Comvita Manukacare, the tubes of sterilised manuka honey for wound use, has been discontinued. Instead it is replaced by the Medihoney sterilsied Antibacterial Honey product. |
6 March 2014 | Admin Smearing honey on the scars of women who have had Caesarean sections can cut infection rates by half, a pilot study at the Royal Hampshire Hospital in Winchester has claimed. |
25 August 2013 | Admin The Sunday Times in the UK and New Zealand Herald in NZ have published stories 25th August 2013 highlighting potential fraud with more manuka honey being sold than what is produced.
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