by Ian Murton | May 8, 2023 | Mini Blog Series
It’s around this time of year that most people will have already given up on their New Year resolutions. Research has shown that roughly only 9% of people who make a New Year’s Resolution will actually succeed. After gaining my degree I spent 8 years working in health...
by Ian Murton | Apr 30, 2023 | Mini Blog Series
For thousands of years, it has been thought that exercise has had a beneficial effect on our brains. To quote Plato “In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other...
by Ian Murton | Apr 23, 2023 | Mini Blog Series
What is neuroplasticity? Neurons can be thought of as the building blocks of your brain and nervous system. Your brain is thought to contain roughly 86 million of them. Plasticity refers to your brain’s malleability, in other words, its ability to change....
by Ian Murton | Apr 2, 2023 | Mini Blog Series
Research has shown that the trillions of microorganisms that make up our gut microbiome can play an important part in contributing to an improvement in both our physical and mental health. Our gut microbiome collectively weighs about the same as our brains and is...
by Ian Murton | Mar 27, 2023 | Mini Blog Series
After we have woken up we start to build up our sleep drive ready to sleep later that day. When we are awake we are producing a sleep chemical called adenosine. When we have built up sufficient stores of adenosine, have a good functioning sleep/wake cycle and are not...
by Ian Murton | Mar 27, 2023 | Mini Blog Series
It’s a common misconception that fat is bad for our health. When we talk about fat we tend to think about it as just one food group. In reality, it’s split into many different groups with a majority of fats being either saturated or unsaturated. Unsaturated fats...
