Stewardship. Precautionary principle, science, public interest, human & planetary health, tech, pollution, nutrition, genetics & epigenetics. Substack/YouTube/Spotify/Insta: @PSGRNZ Website: PSGR.org.nzhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3mfpgc7elts2iWe discuss ketogenic diets & metabolic brain health in our new paper: Reclaiming Health: Reversal, Remission & Rewiring. Understanding & Addressing the Primary Drivers of New Zealand’s Metabolic & Mental Health Crisis. https://psgr.org.nz/component/jdownloads/send/1-root/206-reclaiming-health202625 Feb 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpgc7elts2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3mfncpkkr6s2qThe biology is visible. The exposures are measurable. Yet medicine often treats these forces as background context rather than primary drivers. ...bracketing upstream conditions as multifactorial or “too complex.” https://blanphear.substack.com/p/the-unfinished-revolution-in-medicine?24 Feb 2026 23:22 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfncpkkr6s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3mffzisz4l22mMASSIVE NZ paper - Reclaiming Health. Link here to the Recommendations for Reform Section. This is BIG! Do they make sense? Let us know! Please SHARE! We don't have the $$ budget!🤣😊 https://psgr.org.nz/2-uncategorised/337-ch12-whole-of-system-reform-proposal-nz #diabetes #mental #health #brain #inflammation22 Feb 2026 01:49 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3mffzisz4l22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3mer6uopxdk2o1/2🧵Why New Zealand’s Natural Environment Bill Is Unlikely to Do What It Promises. Or🤨🤔🙄how we keep writing environmental law that sounds strong, feels modern - but consistently avoids the hardest problems. 💯https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/why-new-zealands-natural-environment #greenwashing13 Feb 2026 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3mer6uopxdk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3me5raz6uhs2j1🧵We’ve been humbled by support from some of the world’s leading interdisciplinary scientists & clinicians in metabolic, paediatric & brain health for our New Zealand paper Reclaiming Health: Reversal, Remission & Rewiring. All display integrity, curiosity & systems thinking.06 Feb 2026 01:35 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3me5raz6uhs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3me3ki5xdts2oPRESS RELEASE: New Zealand's Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Gatekeeping Raises Alarm Bells. Can the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission fulfil its statutory mandate to improve mental health outcomes, if nutrition for brain health is deemed out of scope? https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/press-release-mental-health-and-wellbeing05 Feb 2026 04:28 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3me3ki5xdts2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3mdmn7nlio22cFAQs - NZ Report Calls for Urgent Reset of New Zealand Health Policy. #Reclaiming #Health #cholesterol #bloodglucose #insulin #carbs #protein #fat #saturatedfat #micronutrients #macronutrients #vitamins #minerals #neurodevelopmental #brain #metabolic #psychiatric https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/reclaiming-health-reversal-remission30 Jan 2026 06:07 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdmn7nlio22chttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3mdhn5f532k2pSupport for, and encouragement of robust, transparent and accountable knowledge-making, across lay-public, policy-makers, scientists and expert communities, in order to promote 'public-good' spaces of knowledge and information, is what we do. https://psgr.org.nz/science-for-people-policy28 Jan 2026 06:23 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdhn5f532k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3md2fwj5ymk2l🔥🔥🔥Open Letter: NZ Report Calls for Urgent Reset of New Zealand Health Policy. 📢 Media release. 📃Open Letter. 🔶Summary 3 pager + reform outline 💯Full report: Reclaiming Health. All available via this link: https://psgr.org.nz/reclaiming-health23 Jan 2026 00:09 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3md2fwj5ymk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3mcom63cja22wHeads-Up: Massive Public-Interest Health Paper About to Land. New Zealanders have been told that rising rates of diabetes, heart disease, obesity, anxiety, depression, & neurocognitive disorders are complex and best managed one condition at a time. https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/heads-up-massive-public-interest18 Jan 2026 07:29 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcom63cja22whttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3mcdrt2nrys2rA Brief Response: The Telecommunications and Other Matters Amendment Bill. Our thoughts for the Select Committee. A particular focus on MBIE's Regulatory Impact Statement - which provides the underlying reasoning for the Bill. https://psgr.org.nz/pub-res/general-government/314-telecommunications-and-other-matters-amendment-bill14 Jan 2026 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcdrt2nrys2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3maz64dzppc2t2025 -That's a Wrap! 🔥The latest: 1. A scientific squabble on outdoors gene editing. 2. Amazing results with health coaching to shift diets away from refined carbs. 3. Water Fluoridation: US moving away while NZ enforces it. psgrnz.substack.com/p/thats-a-wrap https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/thats-a-wrap28 Dec 2025 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3maz64dzppc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3maaanno6ys2jHealth coaching which adopts a three-pronged approach: whole food, carbohydrate reduction; a health coach, behaviour-change-based delivery approach; and community- or peer-based initiatives - seems to work! NZ paper just out -prediabetes and type 2 diabetes declines. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/24/395318 Dec 2025 03:35 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3maaanno6ys2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m7gjligpnc24Along with many others, @psgrnz.bsky.social expressed alarm that the Australian OGTR required so little evidence before proposing to release a genetically modified mosquito strain to help prevent dengue outbreaks. The company application has since been withdrawn. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-06/controversial-gm-friendly-mosquito-release-paused-csiro-oxitec/10610819007 Dec 2025 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7gjligpnc24https://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m7e2akvxms24EXPOSING THE TREATMENT GAP: When New Zealand’s long-term mental wellbeing strategy ignores the role of nutrition in protecting and sustaining mental health. 🔥SAANZ CONFERENCE 2025 https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/exposing-the-treatment-gap-when-new06 Dec 2025 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7e2akvxms24https://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m7e26pamyk24Building in policy for ‘fantastically cheerful medicine’. Why NZ's Ministry of Health may choose to ignore a key UK Case study. New Zealand Sociology (SAANZ) conference 2025 presentation on health reform. #diabetes #metabolicsyndrome https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/building-in-policy-for-fantastically06 Dec 2025 22:25 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7e26pamyk24https://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m6ndb4ftos23Great to be involved with this nationwide protest TOMORROW 🥰27 Nov 2025 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ndb4ftos23https://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m6la73jtbk23🔥Glyphosate = case study of regulatory capture. Symptom of a broader problem. NZ EPA haven't risk assessed glyphosate since the '70s. Rejected ELI's application for risk assessment. @eli-aotearoa.bsky.social sought judicial review. Now off to Court of Appeal. https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-can-the-courts27 Nov 2025 01:36 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6la73jtbk23https://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m5kn24yzmk22Zespri HQ. Prof Jack Heinemann & economist Dr Kris Kramer-Walter: gene editing & risk - economic & environmental. If you're interested in the scientific problem of substantial equivalence as a regulatory trigger for environmental GMO risk assessment - this talk is for you! vimeo.com/1135963956 https://vimeo.com/113596395614 Nov 2025 02:28 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5kn24yzmk22https://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m4whfansic2i🔥Big constitutional problem. PSGR's open letter to NZ Members of Parliament. Do MPs know? 👉EU legislation not finalised, NZ legislation would be premature. 👉MBIE didn't do cost-benefit assessment 👉Regulation moves to agency with big COIs - MBIE. https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/psgrs-open-letter-to-nz-members-of06 Nov 2025 01:53 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4whfansic2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m4jbjdirmk2gDoctors struggle to advise patients to consume low-carb diets - when the evidence for refined carbs as a driver of mental & metabolic illness explodes. However 🔥🔥🔥the addictive potential of these foods must be taken into account. https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/the-link-between-food-addiction-and31 Oct 2025 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4jbjdirmk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m4gxa44vn22pThank you RCR for interviewing @PSGRNZ trustee @JodieBruning on MBIE's plan to migrate regulatory powers from the agency responsible for environmental regulation, to MBIE - an institution dedicated to pursuing economic growth. https://rcr.media/episodes/jodie-bruning-lead-researcher-at-psgr-stand-up-turn-up-be-counted/30 Oct 2025 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4gxa44vn22phttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m4aa7azps22m🔥New Zealand Big Risk: Will Parliament expedite the Gene Tech Bill into legislation? The Health Select Committee have failed to reject or amend MBIEs Gene Technology Bill to reflect public concerns & have recommended that the Bill progress to law. https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/big-risk-will-parliament-expedite28 Oct 2025 05:46 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4aa7azps22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m2sctzvr322jGene technology panel: Innovation or irreversible risk? Select Committee report out soon - what will their decision be? Great wide-ranging discussion on RCR. https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/gene-technology-panel-innovation09 Oct 2025 23:31 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2sctzvr322jhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m2avvdwef22mNZ EPA consultation on a brand new toxic, endocrine disrupting herbicide ends next Wednesday. Strangely, the EPA drew from European info but then deviated to contradict the EU position. https://psgr.org.nz/pub-res/nzepa/309-triflusulfuron-methyl-202503 Oct 2025 01:24 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2avvdwef22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3m2auxkak322kWe’re familiar with the commercial and in confidence nature of chemical formulations from personal care products to pharmaceuticals and pesticides, the formulation for AI LLMs are also confidential in nature, enshrined in silico. https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/it-is-not-your-saviour-it-is-a-tool03 Oct 2025 01:07 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2auxkak322khttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3lzhz6tb7b22tWhy is the NZEPA using European data to support their position, but then failing to adopt the European position on a risky new sulfonylurea herbicide? https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/nzepa-consulting-on-herbicide-with23 Sep 2025 03:46 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzhz6tb7b22thttps://bsky.app/profile/psgrnz.bsky.social/post/3lzew2gydc22tThe dilemma for farmers and livestock producers, is that regulatory agencies downplay complex biological processes that are essential to sustain the health & fertility of livestock over the long term. By ignoring them, they write them out of concern.' https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/glyphosate-in-eggs-taking-glyphosate21 Sep 2025 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:3nm62grnhttwa7gg67rn4pse/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzew2gydc22t