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.
Breath by James Nestor
An entertaining and highly informative read about how breath can make or breath our health.
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.
Stress & Anxiety
State: Breathing
The State app creates custom breath training based on your individual CO2 tolerance 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
Supports grounding and stress reduction by activating the parasympathetic nervous system. Ideal blanket weight should be around 10% of your bodyweight.
Whole-Person Health
Gut
by Giulia Enders
Our 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 Wolf
In 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
Fat Chance
by Dr. Robert Lustig
With 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 Bullmore
Worldwide, 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 McKeown
Patrick 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 Richardson
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.
Brain Changer
by Professor Felice Jacka
A 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.
Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong
by Tim Spector
Feel Better, Live More with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee Episode 131
Nutrition, Movement & Stress in Covid-19
by Sam MacIntosh, Laura Rutterford
Endure Stronger Podcast Episode 8
Rethinking Stress with Ori Hofmekler
by Gabrielle Reece, Neil Strauss
The Truth Barrel, 3 Oct 2017
What You Eat & Why You’ve Been Programmed to Eat It
by Brian Fishbach
Dr Robert Lustig, The Truth Barrel, 20 June 2017
The Sleep Episode: Everything you want to know about sleep
by Will Ahmed
The Whoop Podcast #14
On Running and Mental Health
by Sam MacIntosh, Laura Rutterford
The Endure Stronger Podcast #5
Women’s Health & Fitness
Roar
by Stacy Sims
How 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 Foucher
The 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Breathwork
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!
How to Do Ocean Breath in Yoga
In this breathing technique, you constrict the back of the throat to support lengthening each breath cycle.
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.
Family Life & Personal Psychology
My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper
by Gabrielle Reece
With 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 Siegel
In 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 Mazlish
Parenting 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 Johnson
Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time
Why Love Matters
by Sue Gerhardt
This 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. Aron
The 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 Frederick
The 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 Perry
In 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 Wilson
This 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. Rodman
Focusing 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 Schapira
This 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.
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.