Brain Food

Let me start with a story that changed the way I think about the microbiome. Although this experiment was carried out in mice, the message is powerful and rings true for human babies too. The sterile birth experiment that revealed a huge truth Scientists were curious to see what would happen if they created germ-free…

If you’ve ever found yourself standing in front of the fridge thinking, “I’m not even hungry… I’m just… done,” you’re not alone. One of my colleagues, psychologist Dr Micki Pistorius, puts it bluntly: ‘Food isn’t meant to be emotional comfort, it’s meant to be nourishment for your body.’  And yet, most of us were trained…

Mr LC was 79 when he first came to see me, his wife by his side. He’d come in about a wound on his leg that just wouldn’t heal. But within a few minutes of chatting, I noticed something else — he kept circling back to the same stories, the same questions. His memory was…