The Lifestyle Health Foundation

24/12/2025

Did you know your cells are actually "listening" to your feelings? 🧬✨

Recent breakthroughs in Mitochondrial Psychobiology (2025) are changing everything we thought we knew about health. It turns out that mitochondria aren't just the "powerhouses" of the cell—they are our Emotional Translators.

Here is the latest science on how your cells mirror your life:

🌡️ The Menopause Shift: Science now shows that estrogen acts as a "master shield" for mitochondria. When levels drop, cells can experience a "bioenergetic collapse," explaining the root of brain fog and metabolic changes.

🧠 Molecular Mental Health: Your mood has a "mitochondrial signature." Chronic stress can cause mitochondria to become "leaky," triggering immune responses that feel like anxiety or depression. Conversely, positive social experiences actually increase energy-transforming enzymes!

👫 The "Social" Organelle: Incredibly, mitochondria "socialize" within your body, forming networks to solve tasks much like a human social network.

What’s coming in 2026? 🚀
The future is moving toward Mitochondrial Transplantation and "Mito-Psych" prescriptions—diagnostic tools that measure your cellular stress via simple blood tests to provide tailored light, heat, and nutrient therapies.

How to support your "Living Sensors" today:
✅ Movement: Aerobic exercise remains the gold standard for "cellular cleaning."
✅ Circadian Syncing: Regular light exposure helps "set" your mitochondria’s internal clocks.
✅ Community: Because stress is a mitochondrial poison, staying connected is literal fuel for your cells.

Your mitochondria aren't just passive batteries—they are dynamic, "feeling" components of who you are. When you feel "low on energy," your cells might be mirroring your emotional landscape.

22/12/2025

A diagnosis doesn’t just affect the body — it affects everyday life, emotions, and identity.

This short, anonymous survey invites people with non-neurological diagnoses to share what their diagnosis has meant for them as a person. Please take part only if and when it feels right.

💙 My Diagnosis – What it Means for Me

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18/12/2025

This is a time of year when the “magic in the air” can sometimes overshadow a quieter, deeper kind of magic.

The kind that isn’t wrapped or bought.

The magic of presence — of being together, of pausing, of feeling safe and seen.

As the year draws to a close, perhaps take a moment to slow down…

To notice who is here.

To feel the presence of those who remain with us in spirit, even if not in touch.

Sometimes, presence is the most enduring gift of all. ✨

18/12/2025

This is a time of year when the “magic in the air” can sometimes overshadow a quieter, deeper kind of magic.

The magic that fuels the giving of gifts across the world, beginning with those brought by Father Christmas, is familiar and visible.

And yet — there is another kind of magic.

And that magic?

It is the quiet, deeply human feeling that arises when family and friends travel long distances simply to be together at this very special time of year.

Perhaps, as we all begin to wind down in the run-up to Christmas and through the New Year, you might take a moment to pause.

To reflect.

To feel the presence of those whose physical touch may no longer be with us, but whose emotional presence remains.

Sometimes, presence is the most enduring gift of all.

14/12/2025

🌲 A Seasonal Reflection from the Lifestyle Health Foundation

As we move into a busy festive period, it can help to pause and notice what’s happening around us — and within us.

Shorter winter days quietly change our body clocks. They influence when we feel sleepy, when we feel hungry, and how steady our mood feels. This is normal. It’s how our biology is designed to work.

Winter naturally encourages rest and repair.
Yet for many of us, this is the season of late nights, late meals, bright lights, and a faster pace — often for several weeks in a row.

When these signals don’t match, people often notice:
• broken or lighter sleep
• lower energy
• feeling a bit flat or out of rhythm

This isn’t a failure — it’s the body trying to make sense of mixed messages.

Winter tells the body to slow down — our habits can help or confuse that message.

As Christmas and New Year approach, even small acts of kindness toward ourselves — gentler evenings, earlier light, listening to tiredness — can make this season feel easier.

A gentle reflection from the Lifestyle Health Foundation 💛

14/11/2025

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06/11/2025

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A growing body of research points to neurophysiological regulation and recovery as key influences in Parkinson’s progression — linking emotional expression, movement, inflammation, and cellular energy systems through shared brain–body pathways. (Hornykiewicz, 2017; Evans et al.

19/10/2025

Earlier today we saw this post on LinkedIn alerting people to a serious issue (currently happening in the US with the weight loss injections - GLP-agonists:

A company promoting access to the injections for use, and with little if any direct medical guidance.

We are sharing the following information that we also shared on Linkedin this morning and would urge you to take a look and perhaps also share with you friends and family:

“Yes, this needs urgent attention and from our perspective, we wish to raise awareness of the following:

⚠️ Public Health & Regulation Awareness
In the U.S., some direct-to-consumer telehealth brands (like Willow) can prescribe and send compounded GLP-1 or GLP-1/GIP medications such as tirzepatide. That’s permissible under U.S. compounding law.

However, in the UK, compounded or cosmetic-use GLP-1 medicines are not approved or licensed — importing them could be unsafe & unlawful.

When we see posts like these from U.S. users receiving these drugs online after minimal consultation, people in UK and other countries must be cautious not to assume the same services are legal there.

We urge the following in UK:

Report any targeted advertising or shipment of compounded GLP-1s to the MHRA → https://lnkd.in/dt6CJED
– Report online ads promoting prescription medicines to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) → https://lnkd.in/e8GnTeEX
Let’s protect patient safety & uphold UK medicine standards by preventing unregulated imports of potent drugs.”

Thank you

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03/10/2025

Sharing this message to bring to the attention of anyone who you may know being or considering treatment with an or considering
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Neil Bindemann PhD, P-CNS Exec Director and Neuro-Immunologist, in this short article first posted on LinkedIn, shares some of the evidence-based research, highlighting a very significant ‘hidden cost’ associated with antidepressant medications. To read the short post and why this needs urgent attention visit our website at https://p-cns.org.uk/the-hidden-sensory-cost-of-antidepressants-and-the-therapeutic-value-of-fasting/