Bad Genes

13 December 2021|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Sustainability

Dr Sara Gottfried.  Younger book

‘Turn off those ‘bad genes’.’

Here’s an Amazon customer’s review of Dr Gottfried’s book, which was added to our resource this week at the suggestion of a friend.  (Keep them coming Helen!).

‘The idea being not to live longer as such, but age while keeping up a better quality of life. Thus cutting out illnesses, pain, dementiadepression and enjoy being in your eighties. Meaning keep your body working despite age. 7 chapters in 7 weeks. I am sure most of the lifestyle changes are easy to adopt by almost everyone…. I changed a few habits (already living pretty healthy before) and feel even better. And I know I significantly dropped my chances of acquiring a severe disease.’

Great review – great book.


Delighted to officially welcome Catherine Rolt as a contributor to Double-zero this week:

Catherine Rolt

Catherine is a health practitioner specialising in Integrated Chinese Medicine / Grief and Trauma Recovery with over forty years of experience. Through clinical practice, and living herself with a genetic and rare disorder, she has been able to experience how much more we are capable of in mind, body and spirit, with and in all our challenges. She has continued to get back to thriving after 35 spinal/structural rebuilding operations, three different cancer diagnosis and a stroke. As the levels of chronic Dis-Ease are increasing in society with diabetescancers and Alzheimer’s on the increase, her company, UnRavel Dis-ease Naturally Ltd, intends to educate the next generation, in particular, about what they can do to prevent, stop or reverse Dis-Ease. She hopes to provide a greater understanding of our organs and the huge part Mother Nature is playing in all of our internal and external lives, through the means of online learning, courses, books and their supportive membership that has proven very popular.

We met Catherine through the late Sophie Sabbage, her work is featured on our site – and we’re looking forward to working together, starting early in 2022!


Celery, cucumber, spring onions, cress, avocado, rocket, olive oil.
Plan A. All the media talk in the UK is of Plan B, Plan C….. This one’s working beautifully for us – backed by more and more science too. Whole Food Plant Based – Plan A-Z.

Dr Zach Bush‘s wonderful environmental work is featured on our site.  ‘It takes a village’ Dr Bush, ‘it takes a village’…

Zach Bush MD quote

Tweet by Happy Cow

We featured a restaurant in Girona, Spain last week on our blog, which had 5 star Happy Cow reviews.  

Happy to support this fantastic app, which has had over 2M downloads to date, giving recommendations in over 180 countries to date.

Given that it’s for vegetarian and vegan restaurants that makes for lots and lots of happy cows!


Pink rose, gypsophila, pink flowers
Our garden flowers have finally ended for this year. These were a gift from one sister to another, to say she loves and is proud of her. It’s the little things…

Flatbread with avocado, mushroom, pesto and hummus

I entered the world of Instagram recipe sharing this week with this quick, easy lunch:

One flatbread

One quarter covered in garlic mushrooms

One quarter in sliced avocado

One quarter with hummus and 

One quarter with pesto

Fold in half and half again, then fry in coconut oil for a minute either side.

Cheered up a grey winter’s day no end… It may be the first, but not my last Insta recipe foray!


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Denise Stevenson founded the health and wellness charity Double-zero.org in 2021 after healing from stage 3 breast cancer at (5-zero) and realising there was no one source to access the wealth of resources that had guided her back to health without the mastectomy her oncologist said was a certainty. Denise is a church founder and president, author and local councillor. She's English-born and has French nationality after living there with her husband and 3 girls for the past 20 years.

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