Noakes vindicated

TIM Noakes is a highly original thinker. Even as far back as his medical school student days all those years ago, he put up his hand in my class to ask a highly relevant question that I tried my best to answer.

In the Cape Times, there was a very recent article on the current book by Professor Tim Noakes. The Cape Times review gave the many positive and the few negative aspects of the book.

The only single negative reservation that I could find was the absence of any scientifically solid large outcome study to support Tim Noakes’ point of view. However, Tim’s concepts are now vindicated by a 2014 experimental study from the group of Professor Amanda Lochner at the University of Stellenbosch Medical School, as published in the journal Cardiovascular Diabetology in July 2014.

Also of interest in relation to better health, recent experimental work supports the novel view that better hearts also mean better brains. Added to these benefits, what is good for the heart also lessens the risk of cancer as Gary Lopaschuk from Alberta, Canada, and I wrote in the European Heart Journal in May 2015.

A final comment is that Tim’s new book is highly readable; Carol, my wife, attests to her not being able to put it down even late at night.