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Today’s Brain Booster is: Break up with bread! After last week’s episode on Ultra-Processed Food, I received so many Whether questions, that I’ve dedicated today’s entire episode to answering [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Quit the cult! For nearly a century, we’ve all been part of a cult. Every single one of us. The common ideology. The daily brainwashing. Blind allegiance to charismatic [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Look after your eyes to stay sharp and wise. Maintaining good eyesight, and treating vision loss, can help reduce the risk of developing dementia. Conversely, the [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Improve your mind by being kind. Being kind to YOURSELF lowers stress hormones, and lights up the brain’s reward centres to improve brain function and overall [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Retrain your brain to release chronic pain. Since starting my podcast I’ve received a lot of questions about how to manage chronic pain, including back, neck and [...]

Today’s Brain Booster was prompted by a whether question from Maya: My doctor said that the shingles vaccine can reduce the risk of dementia. I’d like to know whether this is true, and if so, [...]

I took this photo on top of Whistler Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. Known as the ‘walls of ice’, these towering corridors of snow are carved out each spring, as crews clear the alpine [...]

I took this photo at a street corner in the German-style town of Helen, near Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Planting seeds that blossom into beautiful flowers is analogous to planting empowering beliefs [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Yearn to learn. In order to powerfully boost your brain through learning, look for something that fulfils the following criteria: It’s something you genuinely love [...]

The wooden figurehead in the window of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is called a Gaper. Starting in the late 16th century in the Netherlands, Gapers were displayed outside pharmacies, and soon [...]