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Gut-Brain Axis

This is your brain on junk food (according to a neuroscientist, Part 6).

We know high fat and high sugar “junk” foods are bad for our health, but we often sneak ...

Food for thought (Part 5)

The foods we eat can have a huge impact on our brain’s function. Neuroscientists show that rats fed ...

Ketogenic diets and brain health (part 4)

Is a diet where you can eat chocolate-dipped bacon AND lose weight too good to be true? Part ...

The emerging field of psychobiotics (Part 3)

Today in Part 3 of our series on the gut-brain axis, Drs Amy Reichelt and Sarah McKay discuss ...

How does the microbiome influence our health? (Part 2)

  This is the second post in a series exploring the neurobiology of the gut-brain connection published in ...

The neuroscience of the gut-brain connection (Part 1)

Coloured scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli, grown in culture (CC BY 2.0) This is the first post ...

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