There is a moment after a brain injury when life splits into “before” and “after”. Not always dramatically, not always with a film-scene blackout. Sometimes it is subtler: a sentence that will not land, a light that feels too bright, a walk that suddenly requires concentration, a mood you do not recognise as your own. Nutrition cannot undo the event. But the biology that follows the event is not passive. The injured brain becomes a high-demand construction site that is short

When the lights flicker, the brain notices first If you want a single image to hold in your mind, make it this: your brain is a city that never sleeps, and mitochondria are its power stations. When those power stations struggle, symptoms can feel less like a label and more like a slow blackout, one neighbourhood at a time. Across conditions as different as Parkinson’s disease (PD), dementia, stroke, and motor neurone disease (MND), including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS

This amazing podcast with Dr. Kirstie Lawton and James Maskell talks about a condition that is driving a lot of questions in the UK right now: ALS, known in the UK as Motor Neurone Disease or MND. With recent concern about MND within the professional rugby community, many people are asking the same things: what is changing in the science, where is the hope, and what can nutrition realistically do? To explore that, Dr. Kirstie Lawton, founder of You Nutrition Clinic, unpacks w