Resources
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Whole-Person Health
Gut
by Giulia EndersOur gut is as important as our brain or heart, yet we know very little about how it works and many of us are too embarrassed to ask questions.
In Gut, Giulia Enders breaks this taboo, revealing the latest science on how much our digestive system has to offer.
Wired to Eat
by Robb WolfIn Wired to Eat, Robb Wolf will show you how to change your eating habits for good, tailor your diet to fit your personal needs and shed weight fast.
One month to reset your metabolism for lasting fat loss. One week to discover the carbs that are right for you
The Joy of Movement
by Kelly McgonigalKelly Mcgonigal introduces a surprising science-based book that doesn’t tell us why we should exercise but instead shows us how to fall in love with movement. Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it’s a chore.
Fat Chance
by Dr. Robert LustigWith busy lives and little time left for cooking we find ourselves relying on a diet of processed food. But this is what’s responsible for our chronically expanding waistlines, soaring levels of diabetes and a catalogue of diseases.
Dr Robert Lustig reveals the truth about our sugar-laden food.
The Inflamed Mind
by Edward BullmoreWorldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next 20 years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still… until now.
The Oxygen Advantage
by Patrick McKeownPatrick McKeown combines his successful breathing exercises with techniques designed to simulate high-altitude training in a highly successful programme that will significantly improve anyone’s health but will also empower athletes to improve their sports performance.
They Are What You Feed Them
by Dr. Alex RichardsonEmpowering and extremely practical, this book sorts out food fact from food myth and shows parents how to bring the best choices into their children’s everyday diets.
Brain Changer
by Professor Felice JackaA combination of Professor Felice Jacka’s love of food and her own experience of depression and anxiety as a young woman led her to question whether what we put in our mouths everyday affects more than our waistline.
Spark
by Dr John J. Ratey, Eric HagermanThis new scientific revolution will teach you how to boost brain cells, protect yourself against mental illness and dementia, and ensure success in exams and the workplace.
Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong
by Tim SpectorFeel Better, Live More with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee Episode 131
Nutrition, Movement & Stress in Covid-19
by Sam MacIntosh, Laura RutterfordEndure Stronger Podcast Episode 8
Rethinking Stress with Ori Hofmekler
by Gabrielle Reece, Neil StraussThe Truth Barrel, 3 Oct 2017
What You Eat & Why You’ve Been Programmed to Eat It
by Brian FishbachDr Robert Lustig, The Truth Barrel, 20 June 2017
The Sleep Episode: Everything you want to know about sleep
by Will AhmedThe Whoop Podcast #14
On Running and Mental Health
by Sam MacIntosh, Laura RutterfordThe Endure Stronger Podcast #5
Women’s Health & Fitness
Roar
by Stacy SimsHow to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life
Female-specific training & performance optimisation
by Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Julie FoucherThe Wild Health Podcast Episode 178
Nutrition & Mental Health
Food For The Brain
At Food for the Brain we wish to raise awareness of the importance of optimum nutrition in mental health. We are a not for profit charity working to inform organisations and empower individuals to change their diet and lifestyle and take greater control of their own mental health.
The Brain Bio Centre
The Brain Bio Centre specialises in supporting you with a wide range of mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, learning and behavioural issues (in both children and adults), psychotic disorders, cognitive decline and various neurological conditions.
The Leslie Korn Institute
Dr. Leslie Korn is a Harvard Medical School-trained traumatologist specialising in mental health nutrition and integrative approaches to treating the mind and body.
Brain Changer
Brain Changer explains how and why we should consider our food as the basis of our mental and brain health throughout our lives.
They Are What You Feed Them
Empowering and extremely practical, this book sorts out food fact from food myth and shows parents how to bring the best choices into their children's everyday diets.
The relationship between inflammation and depression
University of Cambridge Professor Edward Bullmore reveals the breakthrough new science on the link between depression and inflammation of the body and brain.
Why Fish Oil is Good for Your Brain
The benefits of fish oil are numerous. Fish oil contains omega fatty acids and in this video covers omega 3 fatty acid benefits and how it can help depression and other mental disorders.
The Mediterranean Diet for Mental Health
Did you know that A healthy diet is associated with an approximately 30% reduction in the risk for depression and a 40% improvement in your thinking? There’s been a growing body of research showing an association between diet, inflammation and depression.
Diet & Depression with Professor Felice Jacka
We all know that a poor diet negatively impacts our physical health. In fact, it is now the leading cause of early death in men and number two in women. But it’s not only our physical health that is affected – the effects on our mental health can also be devastating.
Nutritional Supplements & Information
Cytoplan
Cytoplan is a unique science-based supplement company exclusively supplying the needs of health care professionals and their patients. Cytoplan was founded in 1990, by practitioners with many years experience in nutrition science.
Lamberts Health Care
Lamberts is the UK's leading supplier of specialist dietary supplements to practitioners and pharmacists using nutrition and herbs in healthcare.
Examine
Examine is an independent and unbiased encyclopedia on supplementation and nutrition.
Practical Resources for Reducing Anxiety Now
State: Breathing
State creates custom exercises based on your stress response and continues to evolve dynamically with use.
Breathing for Sympathetic Down Regulation
An educational video about using the breath to down-regulate the sympathetic nervous system (fight & flight) while up-regulating the parasympathetic nervous system (rest & digest).
Weighted Blankets
The pressure from the extra weight mimics a therapeutic technique called deep pressure stimulation or pressure therapy.
Breathwork
How to Do Ocean Breath in Yoga
In this breathing technique, you constrict the back of the throat to support lengthening each breath cycle.
Breathe to Perform: The Online Course
Over the course of 5 lessons we will show you how to build a daily breathing practice to reduce stress, improve energy, and peak mental and physical performance.
Nasal Breathing Development Webinar Recording
Our nose has evolved as the primary structure for dealing with air. It is vital for immune function, oxygen use, and even facial development!
Basic 360 Breathing
An educational video of the anatomy of the breath and the relationship to the pelvic floor.
Breathing for Sympathetic Down Regulation
An educational video about using the breath to down-regulate the sympathetic nervous system (fight & flight) while up-regulating the parasympathetic nervous system (rest & digest).
The CO2 Tolerance Test
There is a very close correlation between CO2 tolerance and state anxiety; the better control you have over your breathing, the less generalized anxiety you feel.
Coronavirus (Covid19) Recovery Breathing Exercises
Practical 40 minute free breathing session with Patrick McKeown to improve respiratory health.
State: Breathing
State creates custom exercises based on your stress response and continues to evolve dynamically with use.
The Science of Breathwork
The Health & Human Performance Foundation
HHPF conducts research and communicates findings on the effectiveness of breath-related solutions for optimising human potential.
Shut your Mouth and Change your Life
Decongest your nose, increase your body temperature and activate your bodies relaxation response in three to four minutes by simply altering your breath.
Family Life & Personal Psychology
My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper
by Gabrielle ReeceWith hilarious stories, wise insights, this is the brutally honest, wickedly funny, and deeply helpful portrait of the humor, grace, and humility it takes to survive the happily ever after.
The Whole-Brain Child
by Dr Tina Payne Bryson, Dr. Daniel SiegelIn this pioneering, practical book for parents, neuroscientist Daniel J. Siegel and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson explain the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures.
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk
by Adele Faber, Elaine MazlishParenting experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish provide effective step by step techniques to help you improve and enrich your relationships with your children.
Hold Me Tight
by Sue JohnsonDr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time.
Why Love Matters
by Sue GerhardtThis book explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and physical health.
The Highly Sensitive Person
by Elaine N. AronThe book offers solutions for a happy and fulfilling life. Particularly in the way an HSP perceives his or herself: the book helps to ‘reframe’ past events, such as a difficult childhood, or how they see themselves – ie. shy.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
by Peter A. Levine, Ann FrederickThe reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events.
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
by Philippa PerryIn this absorbing, clever and funny book, renowned psychotherapist Philippa Perry tells us what really matters and what behaviour it is important to avoid - the vital dos and don'ts of parenting.
Raising Children Without a Power Struggle and Building Healthy Relationships
Covering how to shift your relationship with your children without a power struggle and how trying to help them may actually be hurting them, and how to shift that.
Autism & Asperger’s
A Place for Everything
by Anna WilsonThis is a story of a life lived with undiagnosed autism, about the person behind the disorder, those big unspoken family truths, and what it means to care for our parents in their final years.
Asperger Syndrome and Adults... Is Anyone Listening?
by Karen E. RodmanFocusing on what is referred to as the Cassandra phenomenon, where the neurotypical partner often needs more emotional guidance than the AS partner, this volume gathers together letters, thoughts and poems to give voice to the loneliness, frustration and love felt by many individuals who are close to one or more people with AS.
Cassandra Complex: Living With Disbelief
by Laurie Layton SchapiraThis is the archetypal tragedy of the prophetess, Intuitive,medial women, especially sensitive to coming change, have always been unwelcome oracles of upheaval. Over the centuries they were ostracised, reviled and burned. Eventually, they no longer believed themselves.
Families of Adults Affected by Asperger’s Syndrome
Millions of neurotypical family members whose loved ones are on the Autism Spectrum have for too long been silenced in their attempts to be heard by experts and professionals as to the difficulties of their lives living with family members with ASD.
Neurotypical Children of Parents with Aspergers
Some NT offspring of AS parents have grown up feeling unloved, that their parents were not able to tune in to their needs and their feelings.