The summer holidays can be a great time to get kids into the kitchen and kick-start long-term healthy eating habits. We’ve picked three easy recipes that you can have fun recreating at home with the little ones. Our Head of Nutrition, Alice, also shares her thoughts on their brain-boosting...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought much disruption, fear and anxiety, and this is particularly true amongst children and teens who have been affected by school closures, physical distancing and new routines. It is no surprise, then, that many children have been feeling more anxious or exhibiting...
15 'Brain Foods' For Your Diet The brain is the most energy hungry organ in the body. Despite weighing just 1.5 kg, it uses around 25% of the body's energy. Like a high performance engine, the brain functions best when it is fuelled with the right nutrients from the foods we eat. In fact,...
Today, the US FDA has licenced aducanumab, an amyloid protein drug developed for dementia treatment. It has already failed in clinical trials, adding to the 300 studies that have failed. In a normal world, if you test a theory 300 times and it fails 300 times you discard the theory –...
According to Dr Vivette Glover, Director of the Foetal and Neonatal Stress and Research Centre: "at any one time during pregnancy, one in every ten women will suffer with depression and around one in every thirty will be depressed both during pregnancy and the postnatal period." It is not yet...
At Food for the Brain our Scientific Advisory Board calls on evidence from world leaders in Alzheimer’s dementia prevention. Our former Chair, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, authored a statement signed by 109 international experts from 36 countries, submitted to...
Methylation and mental health are intricately related. We take a deeper look into the association and why it is important. What is methylation? Methylation has been a buzzword in the integrative health sphere for some time now. This is unsurprising considering its importance to...
One in three of us are addicted According to the charity Action on Addiction, one in three of us are addicted to something, whether it be a substance such as caffeine, cocaine or alcohol, or whether it is in the grips of a particular habit that is preventing someone from living their lives...
Estimated reading time: 5 mins The Gut Brain Axis The gut microbiome, defined as the bacteria that colonises our digestive tract, seems to be a buzz word at the moment within the health industry, as a growing body of research is showing just how important quantity and quality...
Estimated reading time: 9 mins Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating condition that is otherwise known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). Due to the diverse set of seemingly unrelated symptoms that people with this condition present with, it is commonly misdiagnosed and can often...
