You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the

podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.

It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.

What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism

and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.

And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject

you might not even have thought you were interested in.

Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,

you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

You know those moments when you're listening to the radio and suddenly something will

stop you in your tracks.

Well I had one of my own recently. I just find it

extraordinary that we're sitting on this information. The interview was with a

psychologist Kimberly Wilson who was talking about the

the connection between our diets and our brains.

I think we become so separated from food that we don't consider on a daily basis that it's literally what we're made of.

And it turns out what also influences how we think, feel and behave.

There's a growing body of evidence showing the role of specific nutrients, compounds, and microbes, all essential to our brain function.

Some you'll probably know, such as iodine and Amiga 3 fatty acids, others are less familiar such

as Colleen and the bacterium Biflongum.

The problem is, Kimberly went on to explain,

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