Welcome to my blog post ‘Nutritional Status Helps Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease’ where I discuss both dietary and supplement considerations for optimal brain health.. You may also be interested in the section of my blog dedicated to gut health, click here, in particular: Should You Supplement Probiotics For Liver Health? Psychobiotics: Probiotics For Mood And Mental
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What Is Brain Fog? Brain fog is a constellation of symptoms that include reduced cognition, inability to concentrate and multitask, as well as loss of short and long term memory. What’s Associated With Brain Fog? It characterises patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), celiac disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, mastocytosis, and postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS),
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I know through personal experience that ‘what happens in the gut doesn’t stay in the gut”. This blog post both shares my own personal experiences of a gut-brain and gut-body connection, but also some of the research on whether our gut health and microbiome can influence mental health and conditions such as depression and anxiety,
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What Are Nootropics? Nootropics cover a broad category of compounds with ‘cognitive boosting properties’. They can help increase your memory, boost learning ability, improve your mood and assist overall brain function. Also referred to as neuro-enhancers, cognitive boosters, or memory enhancers. Some state that nootropics can be natural or synthetic, others argue nootropics are always
Continue reading »Depression is becoming an increasingly common condition. There are a multitude of factors as to why someone may develop depression from traumatic events in their childhood (referred to as ACE’s, or, adverse childhood advents in the research), or feelings of loneliness, or a lack of purpose or meaning in life, to nutrient deficiencies, imbalances in
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What Is The Gut Brain Axis? The axis is made up of several communication pathways between the gut and the brain. These include: An immune pathway A hormone pathway A metabolite pathway A neurological pathway In the most simplistic terms these pathways, which we refer to as the gut brain axis, are what interconnect these
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