I am not against giving more money to the truly innovative medical researchers [like Dr Jeff Holst, with his plan to starve tumours of key nutrients], but our national problem is that most medical researchers are well and truly followers, not innovative leaders.

I believe we could get far bigger and better results via a publicly supported Health Research Future Fund, based on advanced preventive and therapeutic nutrition. I do hope to set this up, with some “foodie docs”, in the near future. We can offer the public such nutritional treats as the primary prevention–including during gestation–of the common mental and physical disorders seen so often in people eating the Western diet.

These include anxiety, ADHD, bipolar, schizophrenia, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and autoimmune disorders.

So, in time, it is likely that nutritional advances will weigh into the cost/benefit analyses done by the BTF, meaning that many new biomedical start-ups may go to the wall, due to public health nutrition already providing the answer to the disease in question.