Cookies for Breakfast!

Boosted Breakfast Cookies (with oatmeal) May is Mental Health Awareness Month! What could help us feel better than a warm cookie? Yesterday, I shared my recipe for Healthy Breakfast Cookies with Brooke at KUTV’s Fresh Living – see the segment here They contain citrus flavonoids (to boost brain neurotransmitters in your first brain) – as

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Financial Wellness is Mental Wellness

Recent surveys such as the World Happiness Report have shed new light on the devastating impact of the pandemic on mental health and mental well-being (defined in the report as, “the full breadth of a person’s emotional, social, and cognitive function and capability”). Younger age groups have experienced the steepest declines in mental wellness during the pandemic

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Pre-Order Mental Fitness

My new book – Mental Fitness – is available for pre-order! Sept 14 release date – and covering how to maximize mood, motivation, and mental wellness by optimizing the brain-body-biome (3 brains, microbiome, mindset, movement, mental wellness diet, probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics, phytobiotics, and much more)… — Read on www.turnerpublishing.com/books/detail/mental-fitness

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Languishing and the Food/Mood Connection

Just the other day (May 6), the New York Times published yet another article highlighting the profound links between our diet and our mental wellness – the proverbial “food/mood-connection” – showing quite clearly that what we eat dramatically influences how we feel. Diving into the science underlying the food/mood-connection shows us the close links between

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