The Body-Mind Connection

Welcome to the body-mind connection, by me, Caroline Williams. I’m a science journalist and over the past 25 years, I have written for New Scientist, The Guardian, The Observer, National Geographic and many more. I’ve also written three books on neuroscience, psychology and health and edited a few, too.

Now I’m striking out into the brave, new (to me) world of Substack. Here, I’ll be sharing news and insights from what I think is the most exciting development in science and medicine for decades: that the mind doesn’t begin and end in the skull, but emerges from dynamic interactions between body and brain.

This doesn’t only matter for scientists trying to understand how the mind works, it matters for for all of us. The body-mind connection affects our health, wellbeing, mood, mindset and how we understand ourselves and other people. And it opens up new ways to tackle stress, a lack of energy and a host of common and hard-to-treat issues that affect body, mind, or both.

Best of all, much of what scientists are learning about the mind-body basis health is easy to apply in everyday life. Many interventions are free, and don’t involve getting up at 5am, taking handfuls of supplements or living like a monk. Which, to me, makes them worth sharing as widely as possible.

What you won’t find here, though, is marketing hype. I have no interest in squashing the complexity of human health into social-media friendly “hacks” or products that cost an arm and a leg. In a world where everyone wants to sell you ‘one weird trick’ , I want to share the bigger picture.

If 25 years as a science journalist has taught me anything it’s that only by leaning in to the complexity of science and human health, by getting to grips with what we know - and what we don’t - can we begin to make properly informed decisions about how we live our lives. And only then can we navigate the world of online wellness, confidently sorting the science from the pseudoscience.

The other thing you won’t find here is content for the sake of content. I’ll only post here when I have something genuinely interesting to share.

It’d be nice if I wasn’t just shouting into the void, though. So, if you would like to subscribe below and share to whoever you think might be interested, please click the buttons below:

Thanks! More soon…

Caroline

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