Tim Spector: How to eat yourself happy - including an easy-peasy yogurt cake recipe
Professor Tim Spector explores the gut-brain connection, emphasizing how diet influences mood and mental health. He advocates for the consumption of oily fish and provides nutritional advice to reduce inflammation.
Why it matters
The link between nutrition and mental health is an emerging field of science that offers non-pharmaceutical approaches to managing mood disorders.
Tim Spector shares the ways in which food impacts the brain. Picture: Izzy Croker.
Sardines. Cheap, easily accessible, rich in omega-3 fats — and one of the foods that Tim Spector recommends including in your diet to help boost your mood. A professor of epidemiology at King’s College London and co-founder of the ZOE nutrition science company, Spector tackles the importance of the gut-brain connection in his latest book Good Mood Food .
In the opening section, he explains the science behind how the food you eat can affect how you feel. The book includes more than 100 approachable recipes designed to feed your gut and help your brain.
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