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3 Reasons Your Brain Needs Stomach Acid
3 Reasons Your Brain Needs Stomach Acid
Stomach acid is essential and may play a role in mood, learning, and neurological disorders.
Laura Duffy
Feb 24
Why Giving Up Sugar Is So Good For Your Mental Health
Why Giving Up Sugar Is So Good For Your Mental Health
Sugar makes you fat, which is bad enough. But can it really make you depressed? Clinically depressed, even? The evidence is compelling…
Maria Cross
Jan 1
How Stress Makes You Overeat — And How to Stop it.
How Stress Makes You Overeat — And How to Stop it.
Learn to control the reward centres of your brain
Maria Cross
Dec 20, 2020
Vitamin B12, Memory Loss and Dementia
Vitamin B12, Memory Loss and Dementia
Deficiency affects young and old alike.
Maria Cross
Feb 2, 2020
Thinking of Going Vegan? Read This First.
Thinking of Going Vegan? Read This First.
What you need to know about vitamin B12, before deciding.
Maria Cross
Oct 13, 2017
Alzheimer’s Disease and the Sugar Connection.
Alzheimer’s Disease and the Sugar Connection.
They call it type 3 diabetes — with good reason.
Maria Cross
Sep 23, 2017
How Gut Bacteria Can Lift Depression. Be Sure to Feed Them Well.
How Gut Bacteria Can Lift Depression. Be Sure to Feed Them Well.
If you have ever thought that your innards appear to have a mind of their own, it’s because they have. Deep within your abdomen is a brain…
Maria Cross
Sep 29, 2017
Feed Your Brain: Call for Contributors
Feed Your Brain: Call for Contributors
Tell Your Story….
Maria Cross
Mar 22, 2020
The Four Stages of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
The Four Stages of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Given up animal foods? How to ensure you don’t get to stage four. The damage could be irreversible.
Maria Cross
Sep 16, 2019
Why You Need Cholesterol For Your Mental Health
Why You Need Cholesterol For Your Mental Health
And how it could even save your life
Maria Cross
May 24, 2017
Brain on Fire — How Inflammation Damages Your Mental Health
Brain on Fire — How Inflammation Damages Your Mental Health
From depression to dementia: 5 ways to reduce inflammation naturally
Maria Cross
May 17, 2020
How to stop Alzheimer’s before it begins
How to stop Alzheimer’s before it begins
Four dietary changes that can slow down or block the pre-dementia stage.
Maria Cross
Oct 20, 2018
Look After Your Teeth Now and Avoid Alzheimer’s in Later Life
Look After Your Teeth Now and Avoid Alzheimer’s in Later Life
Good oral hygiene protects your brain as well as your gums
Maria Cross
Sep 24, 2020
How Eating More Fat Can Improve Your Memory
How Eating More Fat Can Improve Your Memory
The ketogenic diet is about much more than weight loss
Maria Cross
Jun 5, 2018
Your Brains are in Your Belly, and That’s Good for Your Mental Health.
Your Brains are in Your Belly, and That’s Good for Your Mental Health.
From depression to dementia, probiotic therapy is the revolutionary, not-so-new treatment.
Maria Cross
Jul 17, 2018
How to Fight Depression With Vitamin D
How to Fight Depression With Vitamin D
And minimize risk of sun damage
Maria Cross
May 22, 2018
Is Gluten Messing With Your Mind? Find Out Now.
Is Gluten Messing With Your Mind? Find Out Now.
How to test yourself for gluten sensitivity
Maria Cross
Jun 27, 2018
What Intermittent Fasting Does For Your Brain
What Intermittent Fasting Does For Your Brain
From depression to dementia, the benefits are proven.
Maria Cross
Mar 10, 2019
How Fermented Foods Calm the Mind
How Fermented Foods Calm the Mind
It has something to do with the limbic (or reptilian) brain.
Shin Jie Yong
Mar 24, 2020
How To Manage Your Stress By Changing Your Diet.
How To Manage Your Stress By Changing Your Diet.
Stress is normal. If your body can cope, your mind is better equipped.
Maria Cross
Aug 4, 2018
How Your Skin Colour is Linked to Your Mental Health
How Your Skin Colour is Linked to Your Mental Health
There is no such thing as race. Only vitamin D.
Maria Cross
Aug 7, 2019
The five best diet hacks to transform your mental health.
The five best diet hacks to transform your mental health.
Your brain is made of what you eat. Change what you eat.
Maria Cross
Sep 6, 2020
The link between diet and depression: 5 important facts
The link between diet and depression: 5 important facts
Depression is a debilitating and potentially life-changing condition. If you receive a diagnosis, you can expect to be treated with…
Maria Cross
Feb 13, 2018
The Physical Symptoms of Mental Illness
The Physical Symptoms of Mental Illness
How to spot the outward signs of a fat-deprived brain
Maria Cross
Sep 1, 2019
Why Babies Need Animal Fat
Why Babies Need Animal Fat
They are born ketogenic — with good reason.
Maria Cross
Jul 11, 2019
How Your Gut Talks to Your Brain and Changes Your Mood
How Your Gut Talks to Your Brain and Changes Your Mood
There is constant chatter. Here’s how you stay in charge
Maria Cross
Apr 25, 2020
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