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Working on Brain Bites project; a co-designed weekly meal box tailored to the specific needs of people living with a neurological condition to help maintain activities of daily living and support healthy nutrition.Working on the launch of ur gut and ongoing clinical trials of ur gut, a unique blend of dietary fibre powder developed by scientists to benefit the gut microbiome of those with sensitive guts.

Thesis title - Diet Quality and Mental Health: How does improved cooking confidence after a food literacy cooking program affect mental health outcomes and associations with dietary and gut biomarkers of the gut-brain axis?ABSTRACTObesity and mental health disorders are rising simultaneously with declining diet quality. The gut microbiome is affected by, and affects, all of these. This thesis found intake of microbiome-specific dietary components positively affected mental health and… Show more Thesis title - Diet Quality and Mental Health: How does improved cooking confidence after a food literacy cooking program affect mental health outcomes and associations with dietary and gut biomarkers of the gut-brain axis?ABSTRACTObesity and mental health disorders are rising simultaneously with declining diet quality. The gut microbiome is affected by, and affects, all of these. This thesis found intake of microbiome-specific dietary components positively affected mental health and, although a 7-week cooking program increased cooking confidence and mental health, it did not change dietary and gut biomarkers associated with the gut-brain axis. Microbial-derived metabolites including bile acids correlated with diet-driven shifts in gut microbiome composition linked with poorer mental health. The diet-microbiome-mental health connection is still unfolding but diet quality presents a key modifiable risk factor in the protection of health. Show less