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Science-backed writing on the gut-brain axis, soil health, and what it means to eat in a way that builds a better brain.
The Gut-Brain Axis: Why Your Belly Runs Your Mind
Beneath the surface of every mood, every moment of mental fog, and every inexplicable surge of anxiety lives a conversation — one happening not in your head, but in your gut.
Eating From the Earth: How Soil Health Becomes Brain Health
There is a chain of nourishment that begins not on a plate, not in a kitchen, but in a handful of living earth — and what happens to that soil ultimately determines what happens inside your skull.
The Animals We Eat: What Pasture-Raised Really Means for Your Brain
Your brain is largely made of fat. About 60 percent, in fact. And the fats it is made of came, at some point, from the food you ate — and from the food the animals you ate, ate.
The Microbiome Diet: Feeding Your Gut Bacteria for a Better Brain
You are not just what you eat. You are what your gut bacteria eat. And the 100 trillion organisms living in your intestines have very specific preferences — ones that shape your brain more than you might realise.
Inflammation: The Hidden Link Between Your Diet and Your Mood
Depression is not always a serotonin problem. Increasingly, the evidence points to something more systemic — a state of chronic low-grade inflammation that begins in the body and ends in the mind.
Sleep, the Gut, and the Brain: How They All Talk at Night
While you sleep, something extraordinary happens in your gut. The microbiome cycles through its own rhythms, the gut wall repairs itself, and signals travel up the vagus nerve that will shape your mood the following day.