Fermented foods like sauerkraut and kimchi are powerful allies to your mental health, courtesy of the neuroactive microbes and molecules they contain.1 Microbes and their metabolites, created during fermentation modulate the microbiota-gut-brain axis, which involves neural, immune, endocrine and metabolic pathways.2 Writing in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, researchers with University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland… Read More »
Entertainment Health Loading the player… As we’re commemorating the first anniversary of the sad and untimely death of George Floyd, the impact on our psyches has not been completely determined. The tragic murder of yet another Black man at the hands of police being broadcast repeatedly has taken its toll on the Black community, whether we are… Read More »
The pandemic has inflicted terrible collateral damage on the NHS which will necessitate huge rises in health spending for the foreseeable future. In the cancer field, the pandemic has led to delays in diagnosis and treatment but there are deeper wounds. Work on discovery and development of new drugs and diagnostics were abandoned. Labs were… Read More »
Gratitude – does it work? Purpose and Performance Coach, Mark Whittle, will be offering weekly productivity hacks, lifestyle changes and tools to help you through the rest of lockdown Gratitude practice might sound cheesy, but there is much evidence that shows how being grateful for what we have can make us happier and improve our mental health.… Read More »
To our knowledge, this is the first review of its kind to explore the association between diet quality and patterns and mental health in children and adolescents. This study showed that, indeed, a Mediterranean diet did protect against cardiac events and this important finding was published in the NEJM. Highest tertile of snack dietary pattern… Read More »