What Science Says
What Science Says
Mahshad Kolahdouzan
On What Science Says podcast, our goal is to bring your attention to actionable items that are scientifically proven to improve your health and wellbeing. Together, we will discuss existing and emerging science about how our body works and how we can cooperate with it, with evidence-based methods from world experts and peer-reviewed publications. Mahshad Kolahdouzan, our host, is a neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children. She has extensive knowledge on the effects of nutrition on the brain and how chronic pain develops.
21. How Probiotics Can Help Manage Autism Symptoms
In this episode of the What Science Says Podcast, we learn about how probiotics can help manage the symptoms of autism by helping manage gastrointestinal symptoms and potentially changing brain activity patterns.
Sep 13, 2023
8 min
20. Ten (10) Ways to Prevent Autism in Children
In this episode, we are going to talk about the critical time periods that gut dysbiosis that increase the development of autism. We will end with 10 ways to take care gut microbiome of the child both in and out of the womb, to help reduce the risk of autism development.
Sep 6, 2023
9 min
19. Three (3) Ways Gut Dysbiosis Leads to Autism Development
Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of the What Science Says Podcast. In today’s episode, we talk about how gut dysbiosis can significantly increase the risk of autism, by impairing brain development in critical early years of life.
Aug 29, 2023
8 min
18. Six (6) Ways to Heal Your Gut and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease
In today’s episode of What Science Says, we talk about the five ways that gut dysbiosis contributes to Alzheimer’s disease development and progression. We then go into 6 ways to enrich the gut microbiome using tools that are within our control.
Aug 9, 2023
13 min
17. Heal Your Gut to Heal Depression
In this episode, we go through all the ways that gut dysbiosis can cause depression. We also outline multiple lines of evidence that show that enriching the gut and maintaining a healthy gut can help alleviate symptoms of depression
Aug 1, 2023
11 min
16. The Gut-Brain Axis Explained
In this episode of the "What Science Says" podcast, we set the groundwork for future episodes, but introducing the gut brain axis, and how the gut microbiota impact and interact with this axis.
Jul 24, 2023
10 min
15. How stress damages the brain and impairs decision making
Welcome to today’s episode, where we talk about how the brain changes in response to uncontrolled stress. The information from this podcast comes from a beautiful review published by Amy Arnsten in Nature Review Neuroscience n 2009, titled “Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function”
Jun 29, 2023
8 min
14. How Caffeine Prevents Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
In this episode, we explore how caffeine exerts powerful anti oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, and therefore prevents Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease in both men and women
Jun 22, 2023
6 min
13. How hormonal birth control affects brain health and emotional regulation
In this weeks episode of the What Science Says podcast, our host and in-house neuroscientist, Mahshad, talks about how hormonal birth control affects our brain and emotional regulation. We learn the changes that happen in amygdala and how they manifest as changes in response to emotional situations.
Jun 15, 2023
6 min
12. How Our Brain Changes During the Menstrual Cycle
In today’s episode, we learn the changes that our brain undergoes throughout the menstrual cycle, in response to the cyclical hormonal changes.
Jun 8, 2023
8 min
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