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Welcome to my blog where I post an array of exciting vitality articles, all based around areas of nutrition, food, fitness, longevity and natural beauty. Some articles are based on questions I often receive, whilst others are things I personally recommend and practice, eye-opening ideas you will want to know about, including botanical research that fascinates me and might fascinate you too. All articles are written and researched by me, Kyle Vialli.
Few foods offer up such an intriguing form as the common walnut. The common walnut (Juglans regia), often misleadingly called English walnut is a walnut family member originating from Persia and Eurasia. This famed food of antiquity is remarkably brain-like in appearance, posited, by nutritionists the world over, to be…
This common household item - a white crystalline powder, long utilised as a natural toothpaste ingredient in stand alone and homemade formulations, has recently burst into more widespread popularity thanks to social media sites likes TikTok and Instagram. Baking soda (also knows as sodium bicarbonate and bicarbonate of soda) has…
When we think about the word Theobroma (literally meaning “Food of the Gods”), many of us automatically equate the word with chocolate and the cacao “bean” - the world’s most widely consumed nut. Nonetheless, the “chocolate tree” or Theobroma cacao is just one of 20+ species of fruit-bearing trees in the Theobroma family,…
The Arctic is an astonishingly diverse place. A land of cold during the formidable Winters, yes, but a land of extremes, with a surprising strong heat and UV intensity, radiant 24 hour light and bursting fervent growth during the relatively short "active" season in the lower Arctic. The Arctic encompasses…
This root is a highly under-utilised superhero of the dental health world. Not only does it naturally reduce the presence of bacteria that cause cavities and gum inflammation, it very effectively, and perhaps counter-intuitively, whitens and de-stains your pearls too. If a more effective natural plant product exists for the…
At one time, the addition of chalk to bread was officially recognised as adulteration and banned by law: today, in the name of "fortification", it is mandatory in almost all loaves in the UK, and a large number of other countries.But the adulteration in question doesn't just end with bread.…
There is an island in the Atlantic off the coast of Tenerife. It is called La Gomera. A steeply hilled island with its own rainforest, its own whistling language, and its own Mojo.Mojo (pronounced Mo-ho) is a herbal condiment with deep roots in La Gomera. Indeed, it is interesting that…
In this new pictorial series, I will be demystifying the often surprising behind-the-scenes reality, that is: where our ingredients came from before they got to our plates or kitchen cupboards – how they actually look in the garden or the farmers’ field, at the very beginning, before any form of…
A testament of their famed medicinal prowess, Boswellia trees are capable of thriving in unforgiving conditions. They have been farmed on the desert plains boarding the Dhofar mountains for over five thousand years, tapped 2 or 3 times a year for their sap; an aromatic resin known as frankincense. The…
