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7 Ways to Build More Mindfulness Into Your Day

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5 Brain and Mental Health Conditions Linked to Your Gut

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Depression and dementia in the age of COVID-19

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This Is How Intermittent Fasting Improves Your Brain

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Everything Your Brain Needs to Know About Mindfulness

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8 Ways Walking Improves Your Brain

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February 28, 2021 mindfulness

7 Ways to Build More Mindfulness Into Your Day

If there was a free pill you could take daily that had the potential to help make you mentally and physically healthier and change your brain for the better, you’d probably take it, right? At least give it a try?…

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February 11, 2021 gut bacteria

5 Brain and Mental Health Conditions Linked to Your Gut

It’s a relatively new scientific discovery that the bacteria living in your gut influence your overall health and according to a growing body of research, your mental health too. Your gut bacteria help build your immune system and influence many…

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January 17, 2021 dementia

Depression and dementia in the age of COVID-19

Every seven seconds, someone in the world is diagnosed with dementia. A typical case that I often see in my practice is as follows: A 76-year-old woman has a two-year history of progressive worsening of short-term memory and cognitive decline. She…

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January 3, 2021 fasting

This Is How Intermittent Fasting Improves Your Brain

Fasting was an evolutionarily advantageous trait for our ancestors. Humans whose brains and bodies could go without food for prolonged periods of time and still function well were more likely to survive and reproduce. Our Greek forefathers, including  Plato, Hippocrates,…

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December 20, 2020 mindfulness

Everything Your Brain Needs to Know About Mindfulness

Over recent decades, mindfulness has gone from an “out there” topic not taken seriously to become a mainstream scientifically-validated mental health practice. It’s now being utilized as a method of therapy, a tool to increase corporate well-being, and a way…

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November 29, 2020 brain fitness

8 Ways Walking Improves Your Brain

Exercise is one of the best things for your brain. Some scientists even believe that the main purpose of your brain is to move your body. The benefits of exercise for your body have been well-known for a long time.…

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November 22, 2020 dementia

What Your Brain Needs to Know About the Link Between Diabetes and Dementia

Diabetes affected 463 million people worldwide in 2019, according to the International Diabetes Federation. That number is expected to grow to 700 million by 2045. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke, and lower limb…

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November 8, 2020 antidepressants

10 Vitamins and Minerals the Latest Research Shows Help Improve Depression

It’s well-documented that natural disasters, wars, and other mass traumas can lead to significant increases in population-wide psychological distress. Depression was a leading mental health concern worldwide before the COVID-19 pandemic. After more than half a year of living with it…

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October 25, 2020 Mental Health

Would You Rather Be Right or Happy?

This past year has been stressful — to put it mildly. As we have moved through 2020, we’ve seen a global pandemic put the world in a death grip. We’ve witnessed major social unrest with civil protests around the globe.…

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October 11, 2020 mindfulness

How You Can Use Mindfulness to Guide Neuroplasticity to Improve Brain and Mental Health

Your brain is literally changing its physical form and function every day in response to your experiences, behaviors, and even your thoughts through neuroplasticity. You can learn to guide this process to help you. An easily accessible way to do…

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September 21, 2020 brain

Your brain is wired to seek pleasure. So, quit feeling guilty about it already.

We all have them — even if we don’t admit it publically — guilty pleasures. It may be anything from spending an entire weekend playing the new release of Call of Duty to binge-watching five seasons of The Office to…

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September 6, 2020 Depression

What You Think Is Depression May Really Be Trauma Defenses

As children, we do not have healthy ways to manage and process overwhelming feelings and circumstances. To protect us emotionally, our brains develop defenses as ways to avoid painful, uncomfortable, or conflicting emotions. At the time they were created, these…

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