Helen Batty
            
            @hbelfry.bsky.social
          
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          Academic Family Physician advocate for rebuilding soil and human health based on scientific nutrition dense regenerative agriculture and optimal mitochondrial function
      
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              Helen Batty
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              · Dec 31
        
        
          
      "A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science" | My new article with Peter Hotez in #SkepticalInquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
    
      
          A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer
          Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...
        
          
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      Happy #WorldVeganDay ! The Vegan Land Movement marked the day creating a future woodland with wonderful vegan volunteers on land removed from dairy farming. 
This is vegan community in action. 💪Join us!
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        This is vegan community in action. 💪Join us!
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      I’m looking for help for a friends teenage daughter. She has been diagnosed with POTS after having Covid. Currently, she’s having a migraine has lasted for four days and won’t end. Says it moves around her head. Also, very light sensitive right now.
Any advice or information would be helpful.
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  Any advice or information would be helpful.
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      pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Favism:
A common hemolytic disease caused by ingestion of fava beans in subjects with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. This is a common erythrocyte enzyme deficiency with sex-linked inheritance
      
          Favism:
A common hemolytic disease caused by ingestion of fava beans in subjects with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. This is a common erythrocyte enzyme deficiency with sex-linked inheritance
Favism: Clinical Features at Different Ages
          Favism is a hemolytic disease due to the ingestion of fava beans in individuals with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. There is wide inter- and intra-individual variability in the development of hemolytic crisis, and several ...
        
          
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      New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue. 
It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)
  It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)
      🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.
WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.
See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC
        WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.
See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC
      Autism spectrum core symptoms may improve with metabolic based nutrition of ketogenic food choices long known safe & effective by pediatric neurologists (Families can see Charlie’s Foundation resource) 
@theglobeandmail maybe ⬆️research worthwhile? @metabolicmind
www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
      
          @theglobeandmail maybe ⬆️research worthwhile? @metabolicmind
www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
Frontiers | Efficacy and Safety of Diet Therapies in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
          Objective: Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder, with a rapid increase in incidence over the past decade. Interest in alternative therap...
        
          
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      Aerosol transmission of SARSCoV2 virus is the dominant route for transmitting COVID-19.
👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
www.rsc.org/standards-an...
  👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
www.rsc.org/standards-an...
          
              Helen Batty
              @hbelfry.bsky.social
          
              · Oct 5
        
        
          
      Look at this massive parking lot in China, all covered in solar and equipped with EV chargers. Utterly dwarfing anything like it in the US, AFAIK. english.news.cn/20250918/85a...
    
        
          
              Helen Batty
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              · Oct 3
        
        
        
            Adherence to the EAT–Lancet Diet: Unintended Consequences for the Brain?
            In January 2019, the EAT–Lancet Commission defined a universal reference diet to promote human and environmental health. However, in doing so, the potential consequences for brain health were not cons...
          
            
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              Helen Batty
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              · Oct 3
        
        
          
      Also the gas you are putting in your car has corn in it
Everything is corn
      
          Everything is corn
Everything Is AWESOME!!! -- The LEGO® Movie -- Tegan and Sara feat. The Lonely Island
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              Helen Batty
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              Helen Batty
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              · Oct 1
        
        
        
            New Research: A Ketogenic Diet was Associated with Improvements in Depression in College Students | Metabolic Mind
            A 10–12 week pilot study at The Ohio State University found that a ketogenic diet significantly reduced depression symptoms and improved overall well-being in students with MDD, with 100% of participa...
          
            
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              Helen Batty
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              Helen Batty
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              · Sep 8