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Offering services such as - live blood analysis, nutritional counselling, neuro transmitter balancing, weight loss clinic, aura & chakra balancing. Stocking the best of both local and international products and with a fully trained staff completment who love to research and assist you - Healthworks is your first stop on the road to health and wellness

GREEN is the word that you heard! Fabulous green powder options available for super nutritious supplementation.
16/09/2026

GREEN is the word that you heard!
Fabulous green powder options available for super nutritious supplementation.



A balanced gut starts with the right support 💚Rawbiotics GUT combines live liquid probiotics with carefully selected her...
15/09/2026

A balanced gut starts with the right support 💚

Rawbiotics GUT combines live liquid probiotics with carefully selected herbal extracts to support digestive comfort and a sensitive or compromised digestive system.

Thoughtful ingredients. Targeted gut support. A little more comfort in your everyday life.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“I have battled with Irritable Bowel Syndrome since childhood. This is the most amazing product I have ever used. I never want to be without it”- Reinette

Available at Health Works.




What actually matters? What’s in the bottle.Pure fruit. No added sugar. No preservatives. No artificial colourants.Just ...
15/09/2026

What actually matters? What’s in the bottle.
Pure fruit. No added sugar. No preservatives. No artificial colourants.
Just the good stuff, kept simple. 🍒

Just Pure Health available at Health Works.




Weight loss is only part of the journey. 💚 The real goal? A body that feels stronger, moves better and carries you confi...
14/09/2026

Weight loss is only part of the journey. 💚 The real goal? A body that feels stronger, moves better and carries you confidently through every season of life.

Our latest blog looks beyond the number on the scale and focuses on building habits for energy, strength, health and long-term vitality. 🌿✨

📖 Don’t just lose weight. Build a body that will carry you through life.
Read it here: https://www.sprezzatura.net.za/post/don-t-just-lose-weight-build-a-body-that-will-carry-you-through-life

available at Health Works.

14/09/2026

Every nerve in your body is wrapped in myelin, a multilayered lipid sheath that insulates the axon and lets electrical signals travel fast. B12 maintains this sheath through two separate pathways, and both fail at the same time when B12 drops.

The first pathway runs through methionine synthase. B12 (as methylcobalamin) converts homocysteine into methionine, which becomes SAMe. SAMe provides the methyl groups needed to build phosphatidylcholine, one of myelin's major lipid components. When B12 is low, SAMe drops and myelin lipid synthesis stalls.

The second pathway runs through methylmalonyl-CoA mutase. B12 (as adenosylcobalamin) clears methylmalonyl-CoA by converting it to succinyl-CoA. Without B12, methylmalonic acid (MMA) accumulates and abnormal fatty acids get incorporated into the myelin sheath itself, weakening its structure from the inside.

What makes this dangerous: the nerve damage can appear before anemia does. In the Lindenbaum NEJM study, 28% of patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms from B12 deficiency had completely normal blood counts. No anemia, no macrocytosis. The myelin was already degrading with nothing on the CBC to flag it. If caught early, repletion can reverse it. If caught late, the demyelination can become permanent.

Scalabrino, Prog Neurobiol, 2009.
Lindenbaum et al., NEJM, 1988.

Whether you are taking the Magnesium Complex or the Magnesium Trace Mineral Complex, we recommend the following:Take onc...
14/09/2026

Whether you are taking the Magnesium Complex or the Magnesium Trace Mineral Complex, we recommend the following:

Take once a day, in the evening.
Take 1 to 2 capsules.
Taking with or without food

Why in the evening?

As magnesium plays a role in normal nervous-system function and muscle relaxation, it makes it a natural fit for a wind-down routine.

Glycinate is particularly popular at night because it combines magnesium with glycine, which is involved in nervous-system function for calm and relaxation.

If citrate has digestive effects on your body, it may be suited to taking earlier in the day.

Natroceutics® Global range available at Health Works.

Wishing all our Health Works customers a sweet and juicy and HEALTHY New Year!
10/09/2026

Wishing all our Health Works customers a sweet and juicy and HEALTHY New Year!



Shana Tova Umetuka to all our Health Works customers. May the New Year be sweet and HEALTHY! Hyde Park Corner
10/09/2026

Shana Tova Umetuka to all our Health Works customers.
May the New Year be sweet and HEALTHY!



Hyde Park Corner

09/09/2026

Vitamin K2 is often discussed in cardiovascular health because vitamin K is required to activate matrix Gla protein, one of the proteins involved in regulating vascular calcification. A new randomized trial provides direct human evidence that this pathway may have a measurable effect on coronary calcium progression.

Researchers randomized 180 adults with symptomatic coronary artery disease and existing coronary calcium to 360 µg/day of menaquinone-7 (MK-7) or placebo for two years. Coronary calcium increased in both groups, but progression was significantly slower with MK-7. Median CAC score increased by 69 Agatston units with placebo versus 49 with MK-7. Using those median changes descriptively, that is about a 29% smaller increase in the MK-7 group.

The important distinction is that vitamin K2 did not remove existing calcium. The signal was slower progression over time.

And coronary calcium is still a surrogate marker. This trial was not designed to show fewer heart attacks, strokes, or deaths, and the authors specifically note that the clinical meaning of the slower calcification remains uncertain. A larger outcomes trial would be needed before MK-7 could be considered established cardiovascular therapy.

So the finding is promising. Two years of MK-7 altered the trajectory of coronary calcification in people who already had coronary artery disease.

Reference:
Vossen LM, et al. JAMA Cardiol. 2026;11(8):719-726. PMID: 42268593. DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2026.1279.

09/09/2026

If you eat bacon, ham, salami, or hot dogs, this is for you.

A new paper published last week in the Journal of Theoretical Biology mapped out what actually happens in your stomach when you eat processed meat, and offers something practical you can do about it.

Cured meats contain sodium nitrite, added as a preservative and to fix the pink color. In your stomach, that nitrite meets stomach acid and turns into a reactive form. That reactive form attacks proteins from the meal and produces a class of compounds called nitrosamines. NDMA, NDEA, and NMBA are the most studied. They are the same compounds that triggered the FDA recalls of valsartan, ranitidine, and metformin in recent years. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies them as probable human carcinogens, and they are a leading hypothesis for why processed meat consumption tracks with elevated risk of stomach and colorectal cancer in large epidemiologic studies.

Vitamin C disarms this reaction. It converts the reactive nitrite compound back into nitric oxide, which is harmless and diffuses away. This chemistry has been known since the 1970s, which is why the meat industry already adds ascorbic acid during processing. The question is whether you can do anything on your end, after the meat is already in your gut. That is what the new model addressed.

McNicol, Basu, and Layton at the University of Waterloo built a mathematical model that tracks how nitrite, vitamin C, and the resulting chemistry move through saliva, stomach, and intestine over the hours after a meal. They ran simulations across realistic dietary patterns and found two things.

First, when vitamin C is naturally present in the meal, as it is in leafy greens and most fruits and vegetables, the protective effect is substantial. The vitamin C is right there when the chemistry happens. This is likely why dietary nitrate from vegetables does not track with cancer risk the way nitrite from processed meats does.

Second, for meals where vitamin C is not naturally present, like a bacon sandwich or a charcuterie board, taking vitamin C after the meal produced a moderate predicted reduction in nitrosamine formation. Not transformative. Measurable.

A few important things to know. This is a modeling study, not a clinical trial. The model is calibrated against decades of published chemistry, but no trial has yet measured nitrosamine biomarkers in people randomized to take vitamin C after meals versus placebo. Treat the predicted effect as a reasonable hypothesis backed by mechanism, not as proven outcome.

Practical version. If you regularly eat vegetables with your meals, the vitamin C is already there and you are doing most of the work. If you eat cured meats without vegetables in the same sitting, taking 200 to 500 mg of vitamin C with water 30 to 60 minutes after the meal has a defensible mechanistic basis and a modest predicted effect. The dose matters less than the timing. Above about 200 mg in a single oral dose, absorption efficiency drops sharply, so megadoses are not the answer.

The bigger idea is that a meal is a chemical environment you can shape. The same food can be a problem or a non-event depending on what else is in the gut at the same time, and when.

McNicol et al., J Theor Biol, 2026
Tannenbaum & Wishnok, Am J Clin Nutr, 1991
Hord, Tang & Bryan, Am J Clin Nutr, 2009

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