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happiness
7
SOAK MEALS
IT UP Optimise the way you feel,
one bite at a time
Here’s one self-care
cliche with legs –
specifically, those
framed by bubbles. BREAKFAST
According to a Swap milk for kefir in your
University of muesli. A study in Beneficial
Freiburg study Microbes found the probiotics
in Germany, two raised serotonin levels in
EAT BEIGE soaks a week can overworked medical students.
FOODS improve your mood Just what the doc ordered.
more than aerobic
There are many factors at play exercise. Depressive
in your post-lunch slump: low participants who
blood sugar, tiredness, the
prospect of another three hours enjoyed baths, LUNCH
spent grappling with multiple followed by chill Opt for an egg-mayo sanga.
Google Docs. Now researchers time wrapped in a The tryptophan in eggs helps
believe that your serotonin hot towel, reported the brain make serotonin. The
levels may also dip at this point a greater reduction effect is so strong that Leiden
in the day. Crashing? Starchy in symptoms than University in the Netherlands,
carbs help to reverse this. Swap those who did found study participants were
your mid-afternoon berry- interval training more likely to donate to
based snack for peanut butter instead. Researchers good causes after eating it.
5 on toast. Peanuts contain
tryptophan, which plays a vital reckon raising body
role in serotonin production. temp in the arvo to
restore the normal DINNER
circadian rhythm of
6 Drink in the scenery account for the synthesis, while carbs support
temperature could
Believe it or not, lean protein
and greens don’t quite cut it
improvement.
as comfort food. Research in
Separate research
Training in green spaces will brighten
FASEB Journal found that
your day, but look for blue to give your
has linked a pre-bed
the omega fats and vitamin D
brain a lift. A University of Essex study
bath with falling
in oily fish increase serotonin
found that waterside training was best
asleep faster.
for boosting mood. Try a run next to
Take it to the tub.
sleep. Fish and chips it is.
water or, better still, book a holiday.
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