Comments on: Patrick Holford, the Poet of Putney http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/ The truth about Patrick Holford, media nutritionist Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shinga http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/comment-page-1/#comment-2145 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:51:39 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/#comment-2145 Anandamide – I wonder if you have solved the mystery of the inspiration behind the little Vitamin C ditty…

You’re not asking Holford for a plausible uptake mechanism for his recommendation, are you? There are references and everything – I’m sure they go up to 11. :-)

]]> By: anandamide http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/comment-page-1/#comment-2106 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:33:58 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/#comment-2106 ” “You sound like you need some of this,” he says, in response to my mutterings about being a tense type. He offers me three capsules before popping three himself. “These are for fun,” he adds”

Because pills are for fun, kids!

How much, if any, 5-htp absorbed by the gut actually gets to the brain to then be converted into 5-ht?

]]> By: LeeT http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/comment-page-1/#comment-2090 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:43:09 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/#comment-2090 In view of his commercial interests and his newletters being criticised by the ASA I think it is particularly ironic there is, we are told a sign on his door saying: “No junk mail, newsletters, salesmen”. See the following article for more information:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article500203.ece

]]> By: Shinga http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/comment-page-1/#comment-2087 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:02:08 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/#comment-2087 Oh yes – the suppression of 5-HTP by Big Pharma so they could promote Prozac is still an open wound…5-HTP for depression features on his website and in Food Is Better Medicine Than Drugs.

One does wonder about some of the Mayhew piece. Does anyone have a non-free-range pet rabbit? Does any child in the UK raise battery-bunnies for entertainment?

]]> By: Shinga http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/comment-page-1/#comment-2086 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:55:29 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/#comment-2086 Ceec – there is a time, like the lamented McGonigall, when this stuff can back into genius. However, this is not one of those times, eh?

]]> By: coracle http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/comment-page-1/#comment-2085 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:40:52 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/#comment-2085 Oh goodness, that Mayhew article is horrendous. It’s so utterly lacking in any critical analysis I almost hope that Holford paid for it.

And as for these snippets:

Patrick Holford, health spokesman and founder of the Institute of Optimum Nutrition, radiates flawlessness.

…returned his daughter’s free-range rabbits to their cage…

just, huh?

Tell me, does he still recommend 5HT for depression? It’s a while since the article was published.

]]> By: Ceec http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/comment-page-1/#comment-2084 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:39:11 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/#comment-2084 Is it a coincidence that it’s nearly an acrostic for “nitwit”?

]]> By: Shinga http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/comment-page-1/#comment-2083 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:47:44 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/#comment-2083 Renaissance Man incarnate, eh? Of course, in addition to his literary skills, according to a piece by Lucy Mayhew:

he claims it was he who brought punk to [York]. He used to play tennis with bestselling author and theoretical physicist Fritjof Capra. He plays the tambura, a South American pipe, and enjoys mountain climbing. On his mantelpiece, next to a branch of ayahuasca wood – a gift from the Amazonian Shipibo tribe – is a fist-sized meteorite.

And who can forget that he has recently been kayacking, watching seals and avoiding polar bears while pausing to give a homily on the fate of the Beluga Whale?

]]> By: selfishgene http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/comment-page-1/#comment-2081 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:05:19 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/10/02/patrick-holford-the-poet-of-putney/#comment-2081 The man is truly gifted

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