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Today’s Brain Booster is: Look after your eyes to stay sharp and wise. Maintaining good eyesight, and treating vision loss, can help reduce the risk of developing dementia. Conversely, the [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Improve your mind by being kind. Being kind to YOURSELF lowers stress hormones, and lights up the brain’s reward centres to improve brain function and overall [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Visualise to actualise your healing. Have you ever imagined something so vividly that your body responded as if it were real? You imagine your child falling off their [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Calm your fear, and pain will disappear. Last week I did a deep dive into pain, and the key points were that there are two types of pain, classified by their cause: [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Retrain your brain to release chronic pain. Since starting my podcast I’ve received a lot of questions about how to manage chronic pain, including back, neck and [...]

Today’s Brain Booster was prompted by a whether question from Maya: My doctor said that the shingles vaccine can reduce the risk of dementia. I’d like to know whether this is true, and if so, [...]

I took this photo on top of Whistler Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. Known as the ‘walls of ice’, these towering corridors of snow are carved out each spring, as crews clear the alpine [...]

I took this photo at a street corner in the German-style town of Helen, near Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Planting seeds that blossom into beautiful flowers is analogous to planting empowering beliefs [...]

Today’s Brain Booster is: Yearn to learn. In order to powerfully boost your brain through learning, look for something that fulfils the following criteria: It’s something you genuinely love [...]

The wooden figurehead in the window of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is called a Gaper. Starting in the late 16th century in the Netherlands, Gapers were displayed outside pharmacies, and soon [...]