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Brain Bites reviews the latest research in brain health and neurodegeneration, with tips and ideas for how to support health conditions through diet, lifestyle, and nutraceuticals
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How Christmas food affects the brain
Christmas Isn’t one day - it’s a pattern your brain feels all week From a neuroscience perspective, Christmas is not one meal. It is a short burst of pattern change. Eating shifts, sleep shifts, routines loosen, social demands increase. This matters because neurodegenerative conditions respond to cumulative metabolic, inflammatory, and vascular signals, not to isolated events. This is why the strongest evidence in brain health comes from dietary pattern trials rather than sin
Dec 16, 202510 min read


Creatine: the small molecule quietly rewriting the story of brain energy
Most people first encounter creatine as a “gym supplement” - something you mix into a shaker before lifting weights. But if you follow the research trail rather than the marketing, creatine keeps appearing in a very different setting: clinical trials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson’s disease and cognitive ageing. It is not a cure for neurodegenerative disease and should never be presented as one. Yet as the evidence base has grown, so has the sense that crea
Dec 9, 202511 min read


The mug that predicts your memory: what tea and coffee do to your brain over decades
If you drink tea or coffee every day, this might be the most important thing you read for your future brain. Most people think their daily mug is about taste, comfort, maybe a little energy boost. Yet quietly, in the background, that same mug is showing up again and again in studies of who does and does not go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other forms of dementia (and where it does nothing at all, like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This is
Dec 3, 202526 min read
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