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I've been moving house, actually, continents, over the past month. The process has taken longer than I expected. Packing, cleaning, travelling, finding a flat, settling... Indeed, buying the items with a click of a button via the internet takes pretty much no cognitive effort. However, assembling flat pack furniture actually takes a huge combination of… Continue reading Consuming minimalism

I published this piece with Dr Sarah McKay's The Neuroscience Academy program, go check it out for amazing continuing education, and please take a look at her personal site at yourbrainhealth.com.au.  Ketogenic (keto) diets have become increasingly popular for achieving rapid weight loss by eating a high fat, very low carbohydrate diet. On a “normal”… Continue reading Ketogenic diets on the brain

I've got many changes happening at the moment, which is very time consuming and mentally draining. The most notable is that I moved to Canada at the start of April, so most of March was spent wrapping up things (physically and metaphorically) in Australia! I've just joined Western University as part of the new BrainsCAN… Continue reading Update March 2018

This month we got a new paper published in Physiology and Behavior! Impact of high sucrose diets on the discrimination of spatial and object memories with overlapping features We examined how rats fed a high sugar diet were able to remember objects and places when they were perceptually similar. We found that both object and… Continue reading Research update February 2018

An article I originally posted at Australia's Science Channel   Exercise has a wide range of benefits for the body. It improves cardiovascular fitness, lowers blood pressure and reduces the chance of developing heart disease and stroke. But more than just improving your fitness, aerobic exercise has a range of benefits for your brain too.… Continue reading Brain gains – The impact of exercise on the brain

Over January I've decided to quit drinking alcohol. This was for multiple reasons, but particularly after a boozy December I wanted to try to reset some habits (particularly mindless drinking in the evenings while watching Netflix) and stop thrashing my liver after all of those Christmas parties. As it's now nearly over I'm actually feeling… Continue reading Dry January? Febfast? Ideas for giving up alcohol and sugar successfully

I'm interested in what diet does to the brain, but naturally I think about how we digest the foods we eat, and how they influence our physiology. The digestive system is the engine of the body. It's key responsibility is for breaking the foods (fuel) we consume down into glucose (which provides the energy to… Continue reading Love your guts: Prebiotics and Probiotics