Olivia Goldhill
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- Sep 30, 2026
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The overlooked power of diet for improving your mental health | New Scientist (opens the original)
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Diet is key to healthy living but, strangely enough, the topic rarely comes up in conversations about mental health. Instead, we tend to focus on medication and therapy, and largely ignore the food that we eat – which, according to psychologist Kimberley Wilson, is a huge mistake. After working at what was once Europe’s largest women’s prison, HM Prison Holloway in London, she became keenly aware of the powerful influence diet has on mental wellbeing. She saw how, deprived of a balanced diet and
The wild, gripping story of the psychedelic secreted by desert toads | New Scientist (opens the original)
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The Ego TripKimon de Greef, White Rabbit (UK); Doubleday (US) If you have heard tales of 5-MeO-DMT, the psychedelic substance secreted by desert toads, then chances are it is due to one man. The Ego Trip tells the story of physician Octavio Rettig Hinojosa, who popularised the use of this intense drug, claiming it could treat addiction and trauma. He portrays 5-MeO-DMT as an ancient practice of the Seri people in Sonora, Mexico, and preaches its therapeutic benefits to his many disciples, promis
New Scientist recommends Dad Brain by Darby Saxby, a vital look at the science of fatherhood | New Scientist (opens the original)
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DID you know that fathers with smaller testicles experience a stronger response in the brain when they look at pictures of their babies? Or that these men are also rated as more hands-on parents by their partners? Of course you didn’t – but these are among the many unexpected details woven into Darby Saxbe’s Dad Brain: The new science of fatherhood and how it shapes men’s lives. Saxbe is a psychologist at the University of Southern California who researches parenting, and acknowledges upfront th
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