Helen Batty
@hbelfry.bsky.social
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
@hbelfry.bsky.social
· 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 ...
skepticalinquirer.org
Great antidotes to #antiNeuroscience see 📚 &blogs by experts GeorgiaEdeMD & ChrisPalmer “BrainEnergy” describing #MetabolicSyndrome basis of autism & other 🧠 ❤️kidney Disorders& UNBIASED EBM #nutrition fix needed at PublicHealth level
Advocacy website NGO #MetabolicMind Jan Ellison
Advocacy website NGO #MetabolicMind Jan Ellison
Rice production ⬆️methane!
livestock is responsible for 30%of humanity’s methane emissions. But it’s not just bovine belching that makes agriculture drive so much warming. Rice cultivation, surprisingly enough, accounts for another 12% of humanity’s global methane emissions.
eos.org/articles/ric...
livestock is responsible for 30%of humanity’s methane emissions. But it’s not just bovine belching that makes agriculture drive so much warming. Rice cultivation, surprisingly enough, accounts for another 12% of humanity’s global methane emissions.
eos.org/articles/ric...
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Rice production ⬆️methane!
livestock is responsible for 30%of humanity’s methane emissions. But it’s not just bovine belching that makes agriculture drive so much warming. Rice cultivation, surprisingly enough, accounts for another 12% of humanity’s global methane emissions.
eos.org/articles/ric...
livestock is responsible for 30%of humanity’s methane emissions. But it’s not just bovine belching that makes agriculture drive so much warming. Rice cultivation, surprisingly enough, accounts for another 12% of humanity’s global methane emissions.
eos.org/articles/ric...
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Excellent overview of all the complexities of #COP30 from @roycerk2.bsky.social and @amywestervelt.bsky.social
"If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry."
"If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry."
Curious about what's happening at #COP30? @roycerk2.bsky.social and I recapped the first week for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP30 So Far: Protestors, Polluters and Paying for Pollution
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Excellent overview of all the complexities of #COP30 from @roycerk2.bsky.social and @amywestervelt.bsky.social
"If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry."
"If COP were a pointless exercise, it wouldn’t be targeted so heavily by the fossil fuel industry."
@choosingwiselyca.bsky.social JasonFung 🇨🇦 nephrologist &author of popular EBM books on physiology of metabolic syndrome for general readers correct all along?
www.linkedin.com/posts/claire...
www.linkedin.com/posts/claire...
#lowcarb #kidneyhealth #deprescribe #lifestylemedicine #metabolichealth #kidneydisease #pcos | Claire McDonnell Liu
🛑 Evidence is growing: keto diet can stop progression or reverse metabolic kidney disease.
💡 Thanks for highlighting Dr Penny Figree.
Research and clinical practice on the breakthroughs in kidney di...
www.linkedin.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
@choosingwiselyca.bsky.social JasonFung 🇨🇦 nephrologist &author of popular EBM books on physiology of metabolic syndrome for general readers correct all along?
www.linkedin.com/posts/claire...
www.linkedin.com/posts/claire...
Was @JasonFung 🇨🇦 nephrologist & popular author of physiology books for general public correct all along …@ChoosingWiselyCanada? www.linkedin.com/posts/claire...
#lowcarb #kidneyhealth #deprescribe #lifestylemedicine #metabolichealth #kidneydisease #pcos | Claire McDonnell Liu
🛑 Evidence is growing: keto diet can stop progression or reverse metabolic kidney disease.
💡 Thanks for highlighting Dr Penny Figree.
Research and clinical practice on the breakthroughs in kidney di...
www.linkedin.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Was @JasonFung 🇨🇦 nephrologist & popular author of physiology books for general public correct all along …@ChoosingWiselyCanada? www.linkedin.com/posts/claire...
the exponential curves of technology, economics and human ingenuity are bending towards a future where affordable, clean energy for all can finally be a reality: www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
The climate action that matters is in the global south, argues an architect of the Paris agreement
But, writes Christiana Figueres, innovation still has to outpace climate impacts
www.economist.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
the exponential curves of technology, economics and human ingenuity are bending towards a future where affordable, clean energy for all can finally be a reality: www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
Food system transformation
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Food system transformation
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If I remember right from the 'old place', I disagree with Rob Yorke on some stuff, but this is (excuse the pun) bang on.
To save and expand what's left of our natural forests, there's no getting round it: we need BOTH carnivores and copper (bullets).
To save and expand what's left of our natural forests, there's no getting round it: we need BOTH carnivores and copper (bullets).
if we want diversely structured woodlands, then we have to deal with Bambi (via carnivore or copper-tip)
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @britishecologicalsociety.org
#woodland #ecology 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @britishecologicalsociety.org
#woodland #ecology 🧪
Light and ungulate browsing interact in shaping future woody plant diversity through natural regeneration
Our results provide strong evidence that in the current context of increasing tree mortality and subsequent light availability, roe deer act as a keystone species. It is crucial to implement browsing...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If I remember right from the 'old place', I disagree with Rob Yorke on some stuff, but this is (excuse the pun) bang on.
To save and expand what's left of our natural forests, there's no getting round it: we need BOTH carnivores and copper (bullets).
To save and expand what's left of our natural forests, there's no getting round it: we need BOTH carnivores and copper (bullets).
Reposted by Helen Batty
Reposted by Helen Batty
when they planned to flood 8.3 million km2 for a hydroelectric project. Campaign was successful & area became a national park after her death in ‘84. #printmaking #sciart
minouette.etsy.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
when they planned to flood 8.3 million km2 for a hydroelectric project. Campaign was successful & area became a national park after her death in ‘84. #printmaking #sciart
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Happy birthday to Indian #botanist E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984), here with plants she studied: #sugarcane, #magnolia & eggplant. 🧪🐡👩🏾🔬 #histsci
A trailblazer for #womenInSTEM in India, expert in cytogenetics, phytogeography, coauthor Chromosomal Atlas of Plants, 1st Indian woman PhD & early woman 🧵
A trailblazer for #womenInSTEM in India, expert in cytogenetics, phytogeography, coauthor Chromosomal Atlas of Plants, 1st Indian woman PhD & early woman 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Happy birthday to Indian #botanist E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984), here with plants she studied: #sugarcane, #magnolia & eggplant. 🧪🐡👩🏾🔬 #histsci
A trailblazer for #womenInSTEM in India, expert in cytogenetics, phytogeography, coauthor Chromosomal Atlas of Plants, 1st Indian woman PhD & early woman 🧵
A trailblazer for #womenInSTEM in India, expert in cytogenetics, phytogeography, coauthor Chromosomal Atlas of Plants, 1st Indian woman PhD & early woman 🧵
Deer? 🦌 & other wild ruminants??
You don’t need to eat any venison but animals that prune errant branches growing too close to ground&pathways, graze away weeds& grasses otherwise accumulating as tinder for forest 🔥 leaving behind essential water&fertilizer 💩 are necessary part of ecology Nature
You don’t need to eat any venison but animals that prune errant branches growing too close to ground&pathways, graze away weeds& grasses otherwise accumulating as tinder for forest 🔥 leaving behind essential water&fertilizer 💩 are necessary part of ecology Nature
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!
🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🦡💚
Sign up for the newsletter below:
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November 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Deer? 🦌 & other wild ruminants??
You don’t need to eat any venison but animals that prune errant branches growing too close to ground&pathways, graze away weeds& grasses otherwise accumulating as tinder for forest 🔥 leaving behind essential water&fertilizer 💩 are necessary part of ecology Nature
You don’t need to eat any venison but animals that prune errant branches growing too close to ground&pathways, graze away weeds& grasses otherwise accumulating as tinder for forest 🔥 leaving behind essential water&fertilizer 💩 are necessary part of ecology Nature
Cheap Quick&East:
Strong flavours of healthy balanced nutrition your grandparents would recognize- cabbage
& liver sautéed in butter, canned fish/sardines, eggs eggs eggs
Strong flavours of healthy balanced nutrition your grandparents would recognize- cabbage
& liver sautéed in butter, canned fish/sardines, eggs eggs eggs
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Cheap Quick&East:
Strong flavours of healthy balanced nutrition your grandparents would recognize- cabbage
& liver sautéed in butter, canned fish/sardines, eggs eggs eggs
Strong flavours of healthy balanced nutrition your grandparents would recognize- cabbage
& liver sautéed in butter, canned fish/sardines, eggs eggs eggs
Real physiology science:
NGO Metabolic Mind
NGO Metabolic Mind
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.
🧪🧬
Any advice or information would be helpful.
🧪🧬
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Real physiology science:
NGO Metabolic Mind
NGO Metabolic Mind
FYI -“food”plants can be variouslytoxic to many humans
@gwillow.me @waiterich.bsky.social
See below & consult physical&brain health experts like Dr Georgia Ede 2024book chapter
“Grains, beans, nuts, and seeds: consumer beware”
@gwillow.me @waiterich.bsky.social
See below & consult physical&brain health experts like Dr Georgia Ede 2024book chapter
“Grains, beans, nuts, and seeds: consumer beware”
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 ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
FYI -“food”plants can be variouslytoxic to many humans
@gwillow.me @waiterich.bsky.social
See below & consult physical&brain health experts like Dr Georgia Ede 2024book chapter
“Grains, beans, nuts, and seeds: consumer beware”
@gwillow.me @waiterich.bsky.social
See below & consult physical&brain health experts like Dr Georgia Ede 2024book chapter
“Grains, beans, nuts, and seeds: consumer beware”
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 ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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
Metabolic dysfunction is at the core of mental disorders.
Exercise, diet & sleep are fundamental to mental health.
🇨🇦 NT Fabiano “Excited to serve as Guest Editor for this Topic Collection at BMJ” call for papers:
Exercise, diet & sleep are fundamental to mental health.
🇨🇦 NT Fabiano “Excited to serve as Guest Editor for this Topic Collection at BMJ” call for papers:
October 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Metabolic dysfunction is at the core of mental disorders.
Exercise, diet & sleep are fundamental to mental health.
🇨🇦 NT Fabiano “Excited to serve as Guest Editor for this Topic Collection at BMJ” call for papers:
Exercise, diet & sleep are fundamental to mental health.
🇨🇦 NT Fabiano “Excited to serve as Guest Editor for this Topic Collection at BMJ” call for papers:
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)
October 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Remember low protein plant forward EAT-Lancet diet specifically cautions unsuitability for pregnancy& breastfeeding, growing adolescents (to age 25) &children, elders - all risk brain 🧠 nutrient deficiency - read the fine print…
🚲🥗🚗 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
October 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Remember low protein plant forward EAT-Lancet diet specifically cautions unsuitability for pregnancy& breastfeeding, growing adolescents (to age 25) &children, elders - all risk brain 🧠 nutrient deficiency - read the fine print…
Corrected resource website for effective family friendly kids’ ( big & little) brain health including renewed interest in use for Autism Spectrum core symptom improvement @theglobeandmail.com
charliefoundation.org
charliefoundation.org
How to Get Started With the Ketogenic Diet
The Ketogenic Diet, or Keto for short, is a way of eating that mimics the effects of fasting. Learn how to get started.
charliefoundation.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Corrected resource website for effective family friendly kids’ ( big & little) brain health including renewed interest in use for Autism Spectrum core symptom improvement @theglobeandmail.com
charliefoundation.org
charliefoundation.org
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...
www.frontiersin.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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...
www.frontiersin.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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...
Reposted by Helen Batty
Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩🔬
Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM
After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
mymodernmet.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩🔬
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Not new but I missed it winning a prize
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...
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Not new but I missed it winning a prize
Reposted by Helen Batty
I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma.
Wow.
Wow.
Long COVID is here to stay—even in children
Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex,
multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact
the daily life of those...
www.thelancet.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma.
Wow.
Wow.