Dr Sui Wong Empowering Your Brain Health

  • [TT] AGE matters 

    A little word play there with the title 🙂 I’ve been working on my next book “Sweet Spot for Brain Health” (yes, still putting in the final touches, for November launch!) and have been thinking a lot about AGE… AGE = Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs), are compounds formed when proteins or fats combine with…

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  • [TT] Music 3 Ways 🎶🧠

    Have you ever noticed how a simple melody can transport you back in time? Just the other day, I heard “The Eye of the Tiger’” which brought me back to the moment that song came on the radio, at the start of an epic road trip whilst I was working as a Neurology registrar in…

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  • [TT] Alma mater & friends ♥️

    I’m currently in Newcastle upon Tyne. It’s so nice to come back here, where I started medical school 30 years ago! I am here for the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine annual conference, and am excited to give my talk about Sleep & Migraines today – please come say hello to me if you’re here!…

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  • [TT] Sugar Swings High⚡

    So, I recently used up more annual leave to write 😂 I’ve been working on a book about blood sugar for brain health… As I’ve been immersing myself in this topic, guess what came to mind for this week’s Thursday Tips? Blood sugar! 😀 Blood sugar is your brain’s preferred source of energy – it…

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  • [TT] What a week! ⤴️⤵️⤴️+3🧠Tips

    This week started with me excited about going to Sweden as an invited speaker. And then I missed my flight. Wait, what? Yep. Couldn’t believe it. My online check in wasn’t valid, and I got bumped off the flight – no discussion, just “computer says no” (I paraphrase!). It was such an important flight that…

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  • [TT] The 3 Levers of Nutrition for your Brain Health

    Inspired by Dr Peter Attia, author of “Outlive: the Science and Art of Longevity”. Dr Attia has a nutritional framework that considers it in “3 Levers”, and today, I would like to put this in the context of your brain health. Dr Attia’s “3 Levers” for nutrition are: caloric restriction, dietary restriction, and time restriction.…

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  • [TT] Go for 15? Gold!

    In this Summer heat and inspired by the Olympics, I thought about cold water for this week’s Thursday Tips [TT]! You may have heard about the use of ice baths by athletes for muscle recovery. I still recall the London 2012 image of Jessica Ennis (now Ennis-Hill) Olympic gold medallist for the heptathlon, standing in…

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  • [TT] Are you variable, beat-to-beat?

    Fun Fact: Did you know that when you breathe in, your heart rate increases slightly. And when you breathe out your heart rate slows down slightly? That’s your variability, heartbeat to heartbeat! ❤️ Also known as Heart Rate Variability. 📍What is Heart Rate Variability (HRV)? 🌟Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measures the variation in time between…

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  • [TT] The Power of a Fresh Start

    📍The Power of a Fresh Start What’s so special about the first?It’s the power of a fresh start.I first heard this concept from happiness writer Gretchen Rubin in one of her books I enjoyed (I can’t remember which one), they are all good reads, e.g.: The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, The Four Tendencies. There are two…

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  • [TT] Have you charged your (cellular) battery? 

    How well do you know your Mitochondria?3 interesting facts about your mitochondria:🌟 it started out as an ancient type of bacteria, that during evolution, fused with the more complex cells for their mutual benefit with energy production and survival 🌟 it has its own genetic code (DNA)! In rare situations, inherited mitochondrial DNA defects cause…

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