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Your Mighty Moody Microbiome – Part 9
Zombie Gut Bugs – Can You Eat Your Way out of a “Microbiome Depression”?

Exciting new research suggests sometime in the not-too-distant-future, depression and other mental illnesses could be targeted and treated not in the brain… but in the gut

Your Mighty Moody Microbiome – Part 5
Convert Your Microbiome to a “Team Player” to Alleviate Depression, Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder

How your microbiome can be an underachiever—and what you can consider doing to make it work for you as an overachieving teammate!

Your Mighty Moody Microbiome – Part 1
Your Microbiome – An “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”?

In our new series, “Your Mighty Moody Microbiome,” you will learn how the DNA in these microorganisms is an extremely important “manufacturing plant” that also helps regulate the DNA in your body’s cells, and how you can use that information to improve your emotional health.

The DNA of Emotional Health – Part 8
Inflammaging – ”Unzip” Your DNA to Prevent
32 Trillion Cells from Screaming for Relief

One of the most common ways in which we forget (or deny) that our actions have consequences is in the process of aging… or for some, “inflammaging”.

The DNA of Emotional Health – Part 5
You Eat What You Are: How Genes in 32 Trillion Cells Can Sabotage Your Self-Esteem

You Eat What You Are: How MCR4, FTO, and PPARG Gene Variants May Lead to Unhealthy Mind-Body Outcomes

Your Ultimate Brain Health Gene Chart

Your Ultimate Mental Health Gene Chart

DNA Battle of the Sexes
Weaponized Genetic Testing and Depression in a Married Couple

We should be careful NOT to conceptualize mental illness as synonymous with “personality flaws”—and how toxic it can be to a love relationship when the biologic basis of mental illness is “weaponized.”

Bipolar Depression: For Some, It’s a Gut Feeling
How Regulating CD33, PPARG, COMT and other Genes can Lift and Stabilize Mood, Improve Cognition, Reduce Stress Response, and Cause Weight Loss

A story that illustrates the complicated truth that mental illness can “inhabit” the entirety of our bodies.

“Bipolar! I’m not really Bipolar… am I?”
How Modifying the Expression of CACNA1C, ANK3, MTHFR, and SLC6A4 Genes Can Help You Recover from Bipolar Depression

What beliefs do you hold about who and how you are—and how might they be holding you back?