While it may initially seem farfetched that bacteria in our gut can affect physiological processes occurring within the brain in Parkinson’s

After a nervous listen, I am pleasantly surprised at the sound of my own voice on a podcast called Memory Health Made Easy.

Tonight I’m talking ‘Your gut, brain and bacteria’ as part of a worldwide festival called the Pint of Science. Thousands of scientists will be hitting pubs a...

You may have heard about AGEs - yet another fancy term for something that is apparently bad for our health. AGEs are allegedly another type of nasty found in...

In the previous article, we discussed limitations of current drug treatment approaches for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and the growing understanding about the i...

Watching a loved one’s gradual decline from Alzheimer’s Disease is no easy feat. My family experienced this first hand as we watched my beautiful Nan - Dorot...

We have trillions of bacteria living inside us, with most residing in our gut. Until recently, it has been challenging to explore our gut bugs, but advanceme...

We’re learning exciting new things about the microbiome all the time. As a psychologist and a neuroscientist, I’m most interested in how the bugs in our guts...

So what is the real story behind the food-mood link? What kinds of foods affect the brain, and how? Sarah is one of my colleagues at the aptly-named Food and...

A concept that is strongly linked to the microbiome and its impact on the body, is epigenetics. As Dr Emma Beckett explains in this article, epigenetics is o...

Update: February 2020 This week, the journal article that the presentation I describe below was finally published! It was the longest time to publication tha...

On a recent trip to visit my sister in Hobart, Tasmania, I met up with Ronald, of the Hobart-based fermenting outfit, Southern Wild. I quizzed him on how som...

So…what is the gut microbiome anyway? The gut microbiome is the combined genetic material of a community of microorganisms that live in various parts of the ...

A few weeks ago, I attended a microbiome conference as part of the Frontiers of Science, an initiative of the Australian Academy of Science. It was chock-ful...

Last week I attended an incredibly inspiring meeting of Australian early and mid-career researchers working in the microbiome field, an initiative of the Aus...

You might have heard about fermented foods. But there are so many crazy food fads going around these days — lemon juice detox, anyone? So how do you know thi...

Who wins in the contest between our neanderthal stress-response system and the demands and joys of our modern lives? Spoiler alert — neither. It’s a zero sum...

Our gut does more than help us digest food; the bacteria that call our intestines home have been implicated in everything from our mental health and sleep, t...

This week I attended a 5-hour workshop on the microbiome with about 40 other clinicians, researchers and thought-leaders. Expertise ranged from diet, Crohn’s...