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Resources I love

A growing collection of research papers, podcasts, essays, and hotlines that I keep coming back to — the stuff that actually helps when you're navigating your own health.

Resources I love

Sleep-dependent memory consolidation and reconsolidation

Sleep duration and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis

The memory function of sleep

Sleep loss activates cellular inflammatory signaling

Sleep is a fundamental property of the immune system

Sleep and inflammation: a translational clinical perspective

Circadian rhythms and metabolic health

Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease with a Mediterranean diet

Dietary fats and cardiovascular disease: a presidential advisory

Carbohydrate quality and human health: a series of systematic reviews

Red meat consumption and mortality

Whole grain consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease

The Western diet and gut microbiome: a pathway to chronic disease

Ultra-processed food intake and risk of cardiovascular disease

Herbal medicine for polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review

Endometriosis: an update on management

Menopausal symptoms and their management

Perimenopause and progesterone deficiency

Heavy menstrual bleeding: a clinical update

Hormone therapy and cardiovascular disease: the timing hypothesis

Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being: a systematic review

The effect of mindfulness-based therapy on anxiety and depression

Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry

A randomised controlled trial of dietary improvement for adults with depression (SMILES)

Relationship of childhood abuse to leading causes of death (ACE Study)

Yoga for depression: a systematic review

Association between stressful life events and autoimmune diseases

Gut microbiota and autoimmune disease

Microbiome and autoimmune disease

Rheumatoid arthritis

Inflammation and depression: a causal connection

The Human Intestinal Microbiome in Health and Disease

Current understanding of the human microbiome

The ancestral and industrialized gut microbiota and implications for health

The impact of the gut microbiota on human health

Revised estimates for the number of human and bacteria cells in the body

Role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health

The gut flora as a forgotten organ

Lack of exercise is a major cause of chronic diseases

Physical activity and all-cause mortality

Exercise as medicine — evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 chronic diseases

Health benefits of physical activity: the evidence

Quantity and quality of exercise for developing cardiorespiratory fitness (ACSM Position Stand)

Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function

Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease

Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory

Nutritional approaches for cognitive function

Reversal of cognitive decline: a novel therapeutic program

Central sensitisation in chronic pain conditions: latest discoveries and potential for precision medicine

Pain neuroscience education for chronic pain: a systematic review

Acceptance-based interventions for chronic pain: a meta-analysis

Mindfulness meditation for chronic pain: a systematic review

The biopsychosocial model of chronic pain

Caloric restriction and aging in humans

The hallmarks of aging

Hallmarks of aging: an expanding universe