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Learn about the latest discoveries in the science of hope and optimism,

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The psychologist Kimberly Wilson works in whole body mental health.

One of the most astonishing frontiers we are on as a species.

Discoveries about the gut microbiome, for example, and the gut brain axis.

The fascinating, vagus nerve and the power of the neurotransmitters we hear about in piecemeal ways

in discussions around mental health.

The phrase mental health itself makes less and less sense.

In light of the wild interactivity we can now see between what we falsely compartmentalized as physical,

emotional, mental, even spiritual.

And so much of what we're seeing brings us back to intelligence that has always been in the very words we use.

Gut instinct, as we say.

It brings us back to something your grandmother was right about for reasons she would never have imagined.

You are what you eat.

There is so much actionable knowledge in the tour of the ecosystem of our bodies

that Kimberly Wilson takes us on this hour.

This is science that invites us to nourish the brains we need,

young and old, to live in this world.

I'm Krista Tippett and this is on Beeing.

Kimberly Wilson runs a psychotherapy and nutrition practice in Central London.

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