• [TT] 3+2 Mindful Brain Boost

    Do you have a regular mindfulness practice? Are you curious about this? Here’s a 3+2 mindful list that may interest you today. 3 Brain Health Benefits with Mindfulness: [1] Protect your cognitive function Mindfulness practices can enhance the functions of your brain. Studies have shown that a regular mindfulness can improve concentration, attention, and increase…


  • [TT] 3 ways to protect your best asset

    What is your best asset? Your Brain! 🙂 Perhaps I’m biassed – I am a neurologist of course, and love all things brain-related 🙂 Most of you would probably agree that your brain gives you your personality and intelligence. Let’s do something today to give our brains some love and care! Today I share three…


  • 3 Brain Benefits of a Morning Movement Practice

    What do you do in the first hour of your morning? Perhaps it’s sorting out the kids, getting lunch boxes ready, and rushing out of the door. Perhaps it’s a snooze of the alarm clock for another 30 minutes in bed. Perhaps a Morning Movement Practice? I do love a mindful morning movement practice. I…


  • 3 Steps to Reset

    Do you have days when you feel like hitting the “reset” button? It’s the first few days back after the Easter break, with school restarting in the UK. Perhaps you have been away or have been working extra hard whilst others have been away. Perhaps you’ve just had a stressful encounter, conversation, or email. 3-steps…


  • How To Build Your Information Superhighway

    What information superhighway? Your Gut-Brain information superhighway. More appropriately called your Gut-Brain Axis. I changed it slightly for a more catchy email subject 🙂 How does your gut influence your brain health? In a previous edition of the [TT] newsletter, I shared that your gut has 100 million nerve cells and its own neural network, which is why…


  • Yoga for Your Brain?

    Why Yoga?   I have shared about the importance of balancing your autonomic nervous system for brain health.  How does this work?  The autonomic nervous system is the part of our nervous system that controls the automatic functions such as blood pressure, heart rate, breath rate.  The autonomic nervous system is divided into two parts:   the…


  • Happy Bonus Day!

    Happy Bonus Day!   Today is our extra/bonus day for February – Happy 29th Feb – once every 4 years! A special day to officially start my weekly newsletter? 🙂   Thursday Tips or [TT] – as my thanks to you for joining my mailing list, I commit to delivering you bitesize, useful tips on Thursdays. In…