Nutrition for Brain Health

Here’s What Happens to Your Brain When You Don’t Get Enough Folate

Here’s What Happens to Your Brain When You Don’t Get Enough Folate
6 min read
  • Folate is a B vitamin that plays a role in many aspects of your health, including your brain. 
  • Low folate intake is linked to mood disorders, depression, dementia and neural tube defects during pregnancy.
  • Folate is found in many foods,
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Mental Health and Brain Health

Four pivotal ages in your brain’s development revealed in new scientific study

Four pivotal ages in your brain’s development revealed in new scientific study
5 min read

James GallagherHealth and science correspondent

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The brain goes through five distinct phases in life, with key turning points at ages nine, 32, 66 and 83, scientists have revealed.

Around 4,000 people up to the age of 90

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Nutrition for Brain Health

A common nutrient deficiency may be silently harming young brains

A common nutrient deficiency may be silently harming young brains
5 min read

Scientists have long recognized that conditions affecting the body can also influence the brain. Issues such as obesity, high blood pressure and insulin resistance place strain on the body’s metabolic and vascular systems. Over time, this buildup of stress can …

Mental Health and Brain Health

How Intermittent Fasting Affects Your Brain Health

How Intermittent Fasting Affects Your Brain Health
8 min read

Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern where you switch between periods of eating and fasting. Fasting typically involves eating no food at all, but in some approaches, it means eating a reduced number of calories.

Scientists have only recently begun

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Nutrition for Brain Health

NIZO and University of Twente partner on lab device to test how food affects brain health

NIZO and University of Twente partner on lab device to test how food affects brain health
3 min read

Dutch food research organization NIZO and the University of Twente have announced a strategic partnership to commercialize the Gut-Brain Axis on Chip, a laboratory device that mimics how the human gut and brain communicate. The technology allows researchers to test

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Mental Health and Brain Health

How Gratitude Transforms Our Physical and Mental Health

How Gratitude Transforms Our Physical and Mental Health
4 min read

We are living through a sustained mental-health crisis. Anxiety, depression, and burnout have reached levels unseen in modern surveys, and the effects are rippling through workplaces, classrooms, and homes. For many, these struggles can feel overwhelming. But sometimes, moments of

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