Mental Health

Think about it. Your ability to think clearly, make good decisions, adapt to inevitable challenges and not go into confusion is probably the one function that’s going to make the biggest difference in your life.
Brain health is at the heart of us functioning well as humans. And what makes us humans so different to other apes is our larger brain, especially the cortex.

Mental health refers to your emotional and psychological well-being. Having good mental health helps you lead a relatively happy and healthy life. It helps you demonstrate resilience and the ability to cope in the face of life’s adversities.

Your mental health can be influenced by a variety of factors, including life events or even your genetics. There are many strategies that can help you establish and keep good mental health, which I cover in this section.

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Modern humans’ brain size has shrunk by 20%

Are we dumbing down? Both brain size and IQ are falling in modern humans, coinciding...

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How to Cut Your Dementia Risk by Three Quarters

Up to 73% of dementia cases can be prevented, new UK Bio Bank study shows.

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How to Stop Your Brain Cells Dying

New research gives a vital clue as to how to stop your brain cells dying...

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Autism Numbers Quadruple – one in six children ‘neurodivergent’

The number of children diagnosed with ADHD has rocketed.

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Two Volunteers Die from New Alzheimer’s Drug

Two volunteers die from new Alzheimer's drug.

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Dorothy Got Her Husband Back from Dementia

Dorothy explains how her husband's dementia symptoms improved with the help of Food for the...

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B Vitamins & Omega 3 – Dynamic Duo Against Dementia

New research shows that B vitamins and omega-3 are a dynamic duo against dementia.

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Supplementing Vitamin D Helps Reduce Dementia Risk

Taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia, according to a new, large-scale study.

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Are You Digital?

I’m interested in nothing – and everything. One’s and zero’s. Neurons either fire or don’t....

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New Alzheimer’s Drug is No ‘Game Changer’

New Alzheimer's Drug is No 'Game Changer'.

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How to Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer’s Today

Both B vitamin and omega-3 studies have done much better than drugs.

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Four simple changes that may halve your dementia risk, say experts

The new research showed that there are four easy ways to cut your risk of...

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5-HTP gets better results than anti-depressants. Discover the natural way to beat the blues.

According to an article in the New Scientist, antidepressants are meant to make things better....

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Mind transforming health tips

As important as good nutrition, exercise, reducing stress, not smoking and creating a toxin-free environment...

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Is social media anti-social?

The advent of social media – emails, texts, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter – has radically changed...

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Discover seven ways to get Earthed

How well connected are you to the Earth and your body's needs? Read on to...

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The Chemistry of Connection – 5 keys to happiness

Before I became absorbed in the power of optimum nutrition, I studied as a psychologist...

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Two thirds of anti-depressant prescriptions are ‘off label’

Two thirds of all antidepressant prescriptions are ‘off label’ given for conditions that have no...

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Magic mushrooms and depression

The findings, published today in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal revealed that 67% of patients were depression free 1 week...

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How to stay young – was BBC’s programme accurate?

Last night’s BBC programme How to Stay Young investigated how to stay young. Did you...

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Enlighten your body, detox your mind

If you get the nutrition right for the brain it is optimum nutrition for the...

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Depression – Food is Better than Drugs

Anti depressant prescriptions to teenagers are up 54%, says WHO despite evidence on no benefit...

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Anti-depressant lies corrected

Thousands of adolescents have been harmed, and some have died by misleading people. The full...

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Escape the stress trap

Chronic stress has dire long-term health consequences - it is as bad for you as...

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Cynicism is seriously bad for you

Three studies have now found that the most negative emotion is not stress, anger or...

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Health and Happiness Survey

We’re excited to be releasing the results of our recent Health and Happiness Survey this...

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ADHD

Now affecting an estimated 1 in 10 boys and 1 in 30 girls in the...

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Beware ‘mood stabiliser’ drugs

If you can double the number of people diagnosed as ‘bipolar’ (meaning sometimes up and...

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Autism – essential nutrients

Autism is a complex condition sharing many similarities with other conditions such as dyslexia, dyspraxia...

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Omega 3s improve reading, behaviour and heart risk

A new study shows that giving children omega 3 supplements improves reading and behaviour. A...

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Sugar makes you fat, sad and stupid

The three part BBC series 'the men who made us fat' explains that it is...

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What if anti-depressants don’t work?

Prescriptions for anti-depressants in the UK have gone up 43% to 23 million a year.An...

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Could B Vitamins Make You Happier?

Do you know your Bs? You’ll probably have heard of folic acid, an important member...

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The protein that can lift your mood

Feeling sad, depressed or low in motivation can often be caused by not having enough...