Over 50 million people have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to profile their personality. What can it tell you about yourself and is it worth the money? Newsletter sign up How to Build a Healthy Brain * Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing to Your Brain * Patreon *Affiliate links MBTI website quotes accurate on 29th April 2024. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 29, 2024•14 min
The world’s largest food and drink company, Nestlé, hit the headlines recently due to unethical practices with baby foods in countries in the global south: Asia, Africa and Latin America. But this isn’t their first rodeo. In this episode I discuss the original baby food scandal from the 1970s, which caused millions of excess infant deaths, and their latest moral failings. Links Newsletter sign up How to Build a Healthy Brain * Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing to Your Brain * Patreon Referenc...
Apr 22, 2024•13 min
This episode is a follow-up to the previous episode: Prebiotics, Probiotics, Postbiotics & Psychobiotics. This time I want to talk to you about leaky gut . What is it? How much of a problem is it? And what, if anything, can we do about it? Newsletter sign up A probiotic I use and trust * How to Build a Healthy Brain * Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing to Your Brain * Patreon *Affiliate links Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...
Apr 15, 2024•16 min
This episode is all about microbes. Specifically, the ones in your gut that we are discovering play important roles in supporting your overall health, including your brain and mental health. But there is a lot of noise out there, and a lot of grand claims being made. In this episode I want to help you cut through the noise and make sense of this fascinating but complex area of research and to know, when it comes to gut health, where you should be spending your time and money. Newsletter sign up ...
Apr 08, 2024•15 min
This episode is all about Ozempic or, more specifically, the GLP-1 receptor agonist medications that have, far beyond their original medical use, taken the dieting and weight loss world like an absolute hurricane and now clinical trials are recruiting children aged 6-18. In the episode I give a very brief outline of their physical targets and actions, but really I want to talk about the psychology of these drugs and to speculate on what they might mean for body sovereignty and how we relate to w...
Apr 01, 2024•15 min
This is part two of the brain health Q&A and I’ll be covering binge eating and the links between stress and dementia. Newsletter sign up How to Build a Healthy Brain * Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing to Your Brain * Patreon *Affiliate links Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 26, 2024•14 min
In this Q&A episode, I answer your questions including: Does sugar cause anxiety symptoms? What does magnesium do for the brain? What foods support brain health Newsletter sign up How to Build a Healthy Brain * Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing to Your Brain * Patreon *Affiliate links Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 19, 2024•20 min
The concept of Love languages, the five ways we give and receive love, is hugely popular, spawning thousands of posts and articles where people confidently proclaim what their or their spouses primary love languages are. But is it real? In this episode I look at the science - and pseudoscience - behind Love Languages and ask when will there be justice for Ann? Instagram post for this episode. Newsletter sign up How to Build a Healthy Brain * Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing to Your Brain * P...
Mar 12, 2024•22 min
Hyper independence is described as a trauma-related response that includes behaviours like a fear of relying on others and a reluctance to ask for help even when it is needed. But...says who? Where's the evidence? And what are the harms? Instagram post for this episode. Newsletter sign up How to Build a Healthy Brain * Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing to Your Brain * Patreon *Affiliate links Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...
Mar 05, 2024•11 min
In this episode I describe the phenomenon of regret: the different types of regret, how it is generated in the brain, what our biggest regrets are, and how to reduce the amount of regret you experience in the future. Newsletter sign up How to Build a Healthy Brain * Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing to Your Brain * Patreon *Affiliate links Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 23, 2024•14 min
There is a growing ideological chasm between the men and women of Gen Z, which is unlike anything we have seen before. What's behind it, what are the implications for society. And what has Joe Rogan got to do with it? Refs King's College Survey https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/emerging-tensions.pdf Change Research Survey https://changeresearch.com/post/young-women-are-more-liberal-than-young-men/ Newsletter sign up How to Build a Healthy Brain * Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing ...
Feb 16, 2024•13 min
In this short episode I share some thoughts on understanding and managing a particularly harmful aspect of envy. Newsletter sign up How to Build a Healthy Brain * Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing to Your Brain * Patreon *Affiliate links Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 01, 2024•10 min
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May 04, 2021•42 min
Audio from the November 2020 book club Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 11, 2021•51 min
Audio from the October 2020 book club. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 21, 2021•50 min
Audio from the September 2020 book club. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 14, 2021•51 min
Audio from the September 2020 book club. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 07, 2021•49 min
Audio from the July 2020 book club. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 28, 2021•47 min
Audio from the May 2020 book club. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 09, 2021•44 min
Audio from the April 2020 book club. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 24, 2020•48 min
Audio from the March 2020 Book Club. P.s. The transition you hear 10 minutes in is my microphone, not your device! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 30, 2020•46 min
Good relationships are one of the most important resources for psychological resilience. But toxic relationships can do real harm and seriously undermine mental wellbeing. In this first of two episodes I want to talk about a particularly unhealthy and unhelpful type of friendship: The Frenemy - someone with whom you are friendly or consider a friend but who does not have your best interests at heart. In this episode, my guest, Emmie Harrison-West describes the shocking end of her relationship wi...
Aug 15, 2020•53 min
The evidence of improved behaviour and academic outcomes for children with access to breakfast clubs, of reduced violence with improved nutrition in prison populations, as well as other research from around the world on nutrition, brain and behaviour, is well-established. But we’re still no closer to answering on key question. Why aren’t we doing anything with this information? In this final episode I speak to legal experts to try understand why the UK government and judicial system has failed t...
May 09, 2020•1 hr 7 min
In this episode we move away, temporarily, from the prison studies to consider other research being conducted around the world showing the profound effects of nutrition on behaviour and mental health including decision-making and protection from stress and PTSD. Contributors Prof. Dr. Soyoung Park - Head of department of Decision Neuroscience & Nutrition and Joint professor of Charité – University Hospital Berlin and the German Institute of Human Nutrition Prof. Julia Rucklidge - the Directo...
May 04, 2020•52 min
In 2002, a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial showed that nutritional supplementation could reduce violence in prison by 37%. This study has since been replicated in prison populations in the UK, The Netherlands and Singapore. So why, when violence in UK prisons, including assaults on staff, is at an all time high are we not using this cheap, low-risk, accessible intervention? In this episode I speak to scientists behind this inexplicably ignored research. Support this show http:...
May 02, 2020•1 hr 2 min
This episode examines the evidence that shows a beneficial effect of nutrition on childhood behavioural disorders, and the surprising and worrying link between hunger and school exclusions. Contributors Dr. Alex Richardson - Founder Director of Food and Behaviour Research, Research Associate, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy Genetics, University of Oxford Carmel McConnell MBE - Activist and Founder of Magic Breakfast Sarah Dove - Strategic Director Phoenix Education Consultancy. President of PRUsAP S...
Apr 29, 2020•1 hr 5 min
In 2019 acts of self-harm and violence in prisons across England and Wales hit an all time high. There were nearly 60,000 acts of self harm, over 34,000 assaults, and more than 10,000 assaults on staff. There is something going very, very wrong in the prison system. But what if I told that there is already a scientifically proven way of reducing violence in prison by 30%? At current rates that could mean 20,000 fewer acts of self harm, 11,000 fewer assaults, 3000 fewer assaults on staff and perh...
Apr 28, 2020•3 min
How to Build a Healthy Brain - I realised that while those of you who follow on Instagram will know where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to I hadn’t officially announced it on the podcast. So, in case you didn’t know I have spent the last year writing a book all about taking care of your brain and I thought I would give you a quick audio overview of it. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 09, 2020•14 min
This is the audio recording of the February 2020 book club. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 25, 2020•48 min
In this session of the Thinking Space Book Club the featured book is Lost Connections by Johann Hari and in the discussion I give an overview of the biopsychosocial model of depression, The Serotonin Hypothesis, the difference between the colloquial ego and the analytical ego, how trauma can become lodged in the body and outline my manifesto for improving GP assessments. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/strongerminds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 29, 2020•49 min
