Patrick Holford: Simple Wisdom for a Healthy Life
Episodes
Stimulate Your Mind to Stop Decline
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My guest is Dr Tommy Wood, who is Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Paediatrics at the University of Washington. He also heads research at the F...
How I Reversed Pre-Dementia
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s podcast, my guest is Dr Bill Wilson, a front-line physician who practiced medicine in Minnesota and Massachusetts for over 40 years. Thr...
How To Be Healthy in 2026
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! As we head into 2026, what actually matters when it comes to protecting your health - and what’s just noise? In this month’s podca...
The Science of Sleep and How to Optimise It
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is sleep expert Dr Greg Potter. He is a recent addition to Food for the Brain’s scientific advisory board and helps individuals and o...
Preserve the Reserve: How to Keep Your Brain Healthy and Avoid Alzheimer's
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My next guest is neurobiologist Professor Jonathan Stone, a leading light in biological science in Australia, who served as Secretary in the biologica...
Are You a Food or Drink Junkie?
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you keep meaning to change your food or drink habits but fail, you might be stuck in an ‘addiction’ trap. My guest in this podcast is clinical ...
Will AI Transform Healthcare?
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence is going to have a bigger impact than the ‘digital revolution’ that gave us computers and smartphones. As conventional hea...
Women's Brains Matter - Why do so many women experience cognitive, psychological & physical problems with menopause?
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Dr Louise Newson. She is a physician, women’s hormone specialist and member of the UK Government’s Menopause Taskforce. She is ...
The Ageless Brain - How do you ensure you never get cognitive decline, Alzheimer's and dementia?
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today, is neurologist Dr Dale Bredesen, an expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and author of the book ‘The End of Alzhei...
Can the Symptoms of Autism Be Reversed?
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is autism? Is it truly on the rise, along with the broader concept of ‘neurodivergence’? With one in six children now identified as having sp...
Building Healthy Children’s Brains & Healthy Mothers in Pregnancy
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To what extent is a child’s mental health set in pregnancy? What can women do in pregnancy to ensure optimal mental health for their child? Also, wh...
Genes Unplugged: To what extent is your health destiny pre-determined?
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To what extent is your health destiny pre-determined? Is it nature or nurture – what you eat and how you live that determines your health history? M...
Metabolic Psychiatry: Is this the Mental Health Revolution we've been praying for?
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Christopher Palmer is a Harvard psychiatrist and researcher working at the interface of metabolism and mental health. He is an Assistant Professor ...
The Lancet Omission: Is Ignoring Nutrition Prevention Bad Science?
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The latest iteration of the highly influential Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, authored by numerous professors from around the world, led by...
Obesity is Widespread
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m talking to Steve Bennett, author of The Fibre First Diet, a book which proposes that simply re-ordering the foods you eat can trim your waistlin...
Anti-Age Your Brain Think Tank
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Keeping your brain young is a science. Ageing happens because of oxidation (think wrinkly skin). Nowhere is there more oxidation activity than the bra...
The Brain Fat Think Tank
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I bring the three top scientists who know more about fats and the brain than any others - Professor Michael Crawford, visiting Profes...
What Makes Food Super-Nutritious?
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Dan Kittredge, who knows more about what makes food nutritious than anyone I know. Dan Kittredge has been an organic farmer for mo...
Making Alzheimer's Prevention a Reality: Meet the Experts
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ask the man in the street what’s driving Alzheimer’s and they’ll probably say a third is in the genes. Or that it’s just what happens when you...
Can a Keto Diet Transform Your Mind?
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My podcast guest is Dr Georgia Ede, MD, a Harvard-trained, board-certified psychiatrist based in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. Her interest in nutr...
Calm Your Mind with Food
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Uma Naiidoo who founded and directed the first and only hospital-based program in Nutritional, Lifestyle and Metabolic Psychiatry an...
The Lowdown on Omega-3 for Brain & Body
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My podcast guest today is a legend in the world of omega-3. Dr Bill Harris is Professor in the Department of Medicine in the Sanford School of Medicin...
Why Our Brains Are Shrinking
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Homo sapiens brain size is 20% less than it was 29,000 years ago. IQ is also falling 7% a generation. Mental illness is on the increase. Why? ...
Can Nutrition Stop Alzheimer’s?
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For a change, in this month’s podcast I’m interviewed by Philly J Lay, a long-standing advocate for our health and that of our planet. She is p...
The Myth Stories That Sell Drugs
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are told serotonin deficiency causes depression; too much cholesterol excess causes heart disease; too much acid causes heartburn. Now we are being...
Your Brain on Ketones
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why does your brain fuel on either glucose or ketones, derived from fat? Why do the brains of babies need ketones for rapid building on their neural n...
Autism Has Quadrupled. Why?
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The number of children diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders has escalated from 1 in 250 to 1 in 58 last year in the US. Although often described...
Cancer - Is It Metabolic or Genetic?
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Thomas Seyfried is renowned in the field of cancer for helping keep people with aggressive cancers stay alive by following his science-based...
The Soil - Food - Gut - Brain Superhighway
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I interview two pioneers in making food healthy, from the soil up. Bob Quinn is a botanist with a PhD in plant biochemistry, who helpe...
The Role of Vitamin D in Reducing Risk of Alzheimer’s & Dementia
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I’m talking to Dr William Grant, regarding the recent study showing that those who supplement vitamin D have much less risk for Alzh...
Are You Hooked on Anti-Depressants?
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do you even need them? Is a lack of anti-depressants really the cause of our suffering and are they causing their own suffering in withdrawal? One in ...
What’s Driving Excess Cardio Deaths? Covid, mRNA jabs, lockdowns or NHS overloads? Are statins the answer?
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Both the UK and US report record-breaking excess deaths mainly from cardiovascular disease. Why? Is this a covid infection or lockdown knock on effect...
The Politics of Health: Who’s Driving Healthcare Policy & What Needs to Change
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare is broken. Both costs and disease rates are rising. The NHS in the UK is the fastest growing failing business. Who is driving the health ag...
Should We All be Dropping Acid?
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Holford in conversation with Dr David Perlmutter. My guest this month is Dr David Perlmutter - a legend in the field of nutritional medicine. ...
Why is Our Immunity Under Attack?
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a massive increase in both the number of children and adults with allergic-like reactions to foods and chemicals and the severity of these r...
Psychiatry Unplugged - The Way Up from Down
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Has the covid pandemic left you feeling depressed and unmotivated? My favourite psychiatrist, known for her expertise in non-pharmaceutical approaches...
Health Heroes Series - Microbiome Facts & Fallacies
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are you confused about the microbiome? Are you unsure what all the new research you keep reading about actually means and what you’re meant to do as...
Brainstormers Series - What can psychedelics teach us about mental health?
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof said “Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology...
Health Heroes Series - Which childhood vaccines are worth having and when?
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Which childhood vaccines are worth having and when? Is there a risk with MMR? How safe are vaccines and multiple vaccines? Is there any case for HPV o...
Flu Fighters Series - All Things Covid – Latest News – Part 2
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s podcast I’m joined once more by the award-winning medical journalist Jerome Burne for an ‘emergency’ discussion of all things Covid...
Flu Fighters Series - Why are you vaccine hesitant?
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A few people have expressed concern that some of my content supports a covid vaccine-hesitant position. With one third of the UK population unvaccinat...
Health Heroes Series - What really cause heart disease? The clot thickens
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Malcolm Kendrick is a GP who lives and works for the NHS in Cheshire. He has an enduring passion for heart disease. What causes it and what doesn’t....
Flu Flighters Series - Other Approaches to Covid
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vaccination is one approach to covid, triggering acquired immunity. But what else can be employed a) to support innate immunity and b) to supress vira...
Flu Fighters Series -All Things COVID
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today my podcast guest is the award-winning medical journalist Jerome Burne who has exposed many a scandal, been first to the press with numerous brea...
Health Heroes Series - How To Starve Cancer
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There’s nothing like impending death to sharpen resolve. Faced with grade 4 lung cancer secondaries (there’s no grade 5), my podcast guest Jane Mc...
Health Heroes Series - How Junk Food Kills People
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I interview Dr Robert Lustig who is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San ...
Health Heroes Series - Food Allergies & Food Intolerances
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week I’m speaking to Dr Gill Hart about food allergies and food intolerances, whom I consider to be the most informed scientist on food intoler...
Health Hero Series - Soil Is Food's Medicine
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week I’m joined by Craig Sams. He has always been a mover and shaker in the world of whole foods, but also where food comes from - the soil...
Flu Fighters Series - Nutritional Approaches To Long Covid
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week I am joined by Professor Shirley McIlvenny, a doctor originally from Northern Ireland but now on the Gold Coast of Australia who works at th...
Health Heroes Series - Why You Need Vitamin D
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month’s podcast, I’m talking to my ‘go to’ guy for anything to do with vitamin D. For more years or decades than I care to remember, D...
The Fat Burners Podcast - The Low GL Revolution
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My podcast guest is an award-winning general practitioner, Dr. David Unwin, MD, known for pioneering the low-carb approach in the UK. In 2015, Dr. Unw...
Flu Fighters Series - Can Vitamin C in Critical Covid Save Lives?
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can vitamin C in critical Covid save lives? That’s the topic of this podcast. I’m going to be talking to three of my co-authors of our review on v...
Brainstormers Series - Nutrition Solutions For Mental Health
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, I’m talking to Lorraine Perretta, originally a New Yorker, who is a Fellow of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION)where she tr...
Brainstormers Series - Food For The Brain
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Professor Michael Crawford. He is the Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition. As you’ll find out he rea...
Brainstormers Series - How We Really Evolved
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How did Homo Sapiens evolve and what were we eating? Around six million years ago our ancestral line splits from gorillas and chimpanzees with ever-in...
Brainstormers Series - Alzheimer's Is A Preventable Disease
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In my latest podcast, I talk to Professor David Smith, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, about a decade of ground-breaki...
Women's Health - What You Need To Know About Hormones, Health and Nutrition
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's podcast, I am joined by Dr. Marilyn Glenville PhD, The UK's leading nutritionist specialising in women's health and an expert on hormo...
How to Reboot Your Health, Energy and Immune System in 5 Days
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning medical journalist and co-author of the Hybrid Diet, Jerome Burne, talks with me about autophagy, intermittent fasting, cell rejuvenatio...
Flu Fighters Series - Ep 5 - Vitamin C and The Importance Of Your Immune Health and Beyond
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode of my Flufighters series, join me and Dr Thomas Levy as we discuss his 25 years of clinical practice using high dose oral and intr...
Flu Fighters Series - Ep 4 - The Sharp End of Treatment - How Intravenous Vitamin C is Saving Lives
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode join me and my three special guests, Professor Marik, Dr Rensburg and Dr Mcllvenny as we discuss the use of Vitamin C for frontline s...
Flu Fighters Series Ep3 - What We Know About Vitamin C and Infections
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of this 5-part series, join me and Prof Harri Hemila, from the Department of Public Health at the University of Helsinki in Finland, w...
Flu Fighters Series Ep2 - How Vitamin C Reverses Respiratory Disease
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 2nd episode of this 5-part series, join me and Doris Loh, a biochemical researcher as we delve into the body and discover what Vitamin C really...
Flu Fighters Series Ep1 - Vitamin C trials in China
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1st episode of this 5-part series, join me and Dr Richard Cheng, MD, PHD, who is on the front-line with the latest trials for pandemic patients...