by | Sep 12, 2026 | Brain Health Articles
The latest World Health Organization guidance on reducing cognitive decline and dementia risk makes an important shift: brain health is not best understood as one behavior, one nutrient, or one clever intervention. It is a multidomain issue.That sounds...
by Dr Teralyn | Sep 7, 2026 | Easy Recipes
This is the kind of dinner to keep in rotation when the fridge is sparse and cooking needs to stay simple. Canned white beans and frozen peas make it feel more substantial than plain pasta without adding much work.It serves two generously, or makes a solid dinner plus...
by Dr Teralyn | Sep 7, 2026 | Easy Recipes
This is the kind of dinner to keep in regular rotation: mostly pantry ingredients, one pot for the pasta, and very little chopping. The beans make it feel more substantial without needing meat.Use any short pasta you have around. The starchy pasta water helps pull the...
by Dr Teralyn | Sep 7, 2026 | Smarter Shopping
Fresh Isn’t Automatically Better We’ve been taught to think the produce section is where the “healthy” food lives and the freezer aisle is somehow second best. That’s not a particularly useful way to shop. Frozen fruits and vegetables are typically frozen relatively...
by Dr Teralyn | Sep 7, 2026 | Easy Recipes
5-Minute Blueberry Brain Smoothie What you’ll need 1 cup frozen blueberries ¾ cup plain Greek yogurt 1 tablespoon chia seeds 1 handful baby spinach ½–1 cup milk of choice Make it Add everything to a blender and blend until smooth. Add more milk if you prefer it...
by Dr Teralyn | Sep 6, 2026 | Health and Wellness, Question of the week, Sleep
Eight hours of sleep has become one of those health rules that can feel less like guidance and more like a nightly grade. You got seven hours and 12 minutes? Not ideal. Six and a half? Brace yourself. Nine? Are you somehow sleeping too much? I wondered when, exactly,...
by Dr Teralyn | Aug 31, 2026 | BRAIN HEALTH, chemical imbalance theory, Health and Wellness, In the News, Medicine
By Dr. Teralyn Sell, PhD Clinically Reviewed by Dr. Teralyn Sell, PhD There is a question I cannot seem to stop asking. If nearly everyone agrees that sleep matters, nutrition matters, movement matters, chronic stress matters, relationships matter, physical health...
by Dr Teralyn | Aug 31, 2026 | Body, Question of the week
Somewhere along the way, 10,000 steps became a health rule. Walk less than that and it can feel like you didn’t quite do enough. Hit 10,000 and you’ve had a “good” day. But there’s a problem with that number: 10,000 steps was never established as the magic threshold...
by Dr Teralyn | Aug 24, 2026 | BRAIN HEALTH, Health and Wellness, Medicine, Mental Health & Anxiety
By Dr. Teralyn Sell, PhD Clinically Reviewed by Dr. Teralyn Sell, PhD Few beliefs in modern psychiatry carry more emotional weight than the idea that psychiatric medication is necessary to keep people safe from suicide. It is a powerful message. It is repeated in...
by Dr Teralyn | Aug 18, 2026 | Being Human, BRAIN HEALTH, chemical imbalance theory, deprescribing medication, In the News, parenting, PSSD, question everything
The Lindsay Clancy case is horrific. Three children are dead. A mother stands accused of killing them. A husband and father has lost his children and the life his family once had. Examining the mental healthcare Lindsay received does not minimize any of that. It asks...
