Revitalised Mind and Body

15/05/2025

🧠 Added sugar is quietly shrinking your brain.

High-sugar diets are linked to hippocampal shrinkage — the brain’s learning and memory center — and early signs of Alzheimer’s.

This isn’t just about soda or dessert.
Sugar hides in “healthy” snacks like granola bars, yogurt, cereal, sauces, and bread.
And over time, it can shrink memory regions, disrupt your sleep, and leave you feeling foggy, anxious, and unfocused.

If you’ve felt reactive, wired at night, or like your thoughts are moving through mud — sugar might be why.

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What Sugar Is Doing to Your Brain:

• 🍭 Diets high in added sugar are associated with a significantly higher risk of depression
• 🧠 Linked to reduced brain volume and impaired memory
• 😴 Disrupts deep sleep and emotional regulation
• 🔁 Alters your brain’s reward system, increasing cravings
• 🧬 Associated with greater Alzheimer’s risk and amyloid plaque buildup

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Want To Cut Back Without Going Cold Turkey?

• 🍳 Start your day with protein to reduce sugar cravings
• 🍎 Snack on fruit + healthy fats like berries + nut butter
• 🔍 Check labels — sugar hides under 60+ names
• ⏸ Pause before eating: is it hunger, habit, or stress?
• ✨ Cravings aren’t weakness — they’re your brain doing what it was trained to do

Even small changes can lift the fog, stabilize your mood, and give you back the clarity you’ve been missing.

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References (PMIDs):
• 28446423 – Sugar intake linked to reduced brain volume and memory
• 27656397 – Sugar disrupts deep sleep and emotional regulation
• 31125634 – Alters brain reward pathways and increases cravings
• 37418390 – High sugar associated with Alzheimer’s risk
• 37145511 – Promotes amyloid plaque development
• 31622860 – Exacerbates Alzheimer’s disease pathology

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27/08/2024

The humble pea…..tasty, easy addition to many meals and full of nutrients 🫛 why not try and pea & mint soup….easy peasy to make 😂 happy to share recipe if anyone is interested.

23/07/2024

Some great words of truth in this, take the time to read it….

I LOVE THIS ANALOGY:
You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.
Why did you spill the coffee?
"Because someone bumped into me!!!"
Wrong answer.
You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.
Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.
Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.
Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it, until you get rattled.
So we have to ask ourselves... “what's in my cup?"
When life gets tough, what spills over?
Joy, gratitude, peace and humility?
Anger, bitterness, victim mentality and quitting tendencies?
Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.
Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, resilience, positivity; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.

16/05/2024

Over the course of your lifetime, sixty tons of food will pass through your digestive tract - let’s make them the most beneficial ones.

I created a complimentary guide to these 5 foods for the gut-brain axis, including real studies on them plus a delicious recipe to try. Download your guide now: https://bit.ly/5FoodsforGutBrainAxisFB

09/03/2024

Balance your hormones with hormone supporting foods 💥

12/01/2024

Food as medicine 👇

20/02/2023

Search for opportunities, abundance, gratitude and love…

24/01/2023

14/12/2022

Even mild dehydration can dampen your mood and more, causing you to feel more depressed, anxious, tense, irritable, or antagonistic.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3W7pcF8

07/11/2022

Happy Sunday! Here are 8 things to do for your mental health this week 😃

31/10/2022

Specific foods have been shown in randomized controlled trials to improve symptoms like hot flashes.

11/09/2022

Berries may slow brain aging by as much as two and a half years. Eating just one cup of blueberries a day has been shown to improve long-term memory in older adults. You can even correlate the cognitive improvements with enhanced brain activation by using state-of-the-art brain scan technology to actually visualize the improved blood flow to those same regions of the brain caused by the blueberry consumption.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study on children compared about one cup of blueberries to two cups and none at all. What did the researchers find? Blueberries improved cognitive performance, and the more berries, the better. And, the improvements weren't seen after 12 weeks of eating berries, but within hours of just a single meal with blueberries.

If you eat blueberries week after week, you also get chronic benefits, such as reduced artery stiffness and a boost in your natural killer cells, which are one of your body’s natural first lines of defense against viral infections and cancer.

Berries are some of the most healthful foods we should include in our daily routine. This is why they have their own special category in Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen checklist. Download the free Daily Dozen app today, and start ticking off your daily servings of berries.

Learn more and see the study references on https://bit.ly/3ekYbIJ:
"Benefits of Blueberries for the Brain" at http://bit.ly/2l5GumS
"Benefits of Blueberries for Artery Function" at https://bit.ly/2MemEmF
Daily Dozen at https://bit.ly/3axjw2x