{"id":135,"date":"2021-04-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chaimcentre\/2021\/are-you-really-what-you-eat\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T13:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:03:22","slug":"are-you-really-what-you-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/2021\/are-you-really-what-you-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Really What You Eat?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Are You Really What You Eat?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Zo\u00eb Williams, 4th year\u00a0Neuroscience and Mental Health Student<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve all heard the saying, but how accurate is it? This informative video by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zapwilliams\" target=\"_blank\">Zo\u00eb Williams<\/a> explores how the foods we eat can influence our brain and delves into the mechanics of how diet could impact mood and cognition, particularly highlighting the important role of our microbiota in this gut-brain axis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Are you really what you eat?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WhUPXZ-dSCg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Want to learn more?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=awtmTJW9ic8&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\">Food for thought: How your belly controls your brain<\/a>\u00a0<br>\u200b<\/strong><em>TedX talk by Dr.<strong>\u200b\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>Ruairi Robertson (2015)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=awtmTJW9ic8&amp;t=1s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2026\/09\/gfhjadkhjakl.png?1619628548\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/immersive\/d42859-019-00041-z\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2026\/09\/microbiotabackground-b-version-2-b91ad6eaaca3a47019e62832660c71c1-middle-dc105b937b31cc3b1691cd811a4becae.jpg?1619628571\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/immersive\/d42859-019-00041-z\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Milestones in human microbiota research<\/a><\/strong><br>\u200b<em>Interactive research timeline\u00a0 (Nature, 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S235293931600004X\" target=\"_blank\">The role of nutrition in the microbiota-gut\u2013brain axis<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><br><em>Review article (<\/em><em>Oriach et al.,\u00a0<\/em><em>2016)<\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S235293931600004X\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2026\/09\/1-s2-0-s235293931600004x-gr2.jpg?1619628018\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/2019\/a-healthy-gut-a-promising-solution-for-anxiety\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2026\/09\/hafjw568i.jpg?1619628583\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/2019\/a-healthy-gut-a-promising-solution-for-anxiety\/\" target=\"_blank\">A healthy gut: A promising solution for anxiety<\/a><\/strong><br><em>CHAIM blog by Chaya Kandegedara (2019)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zo\u00eb Williams, 4th year\u00a0Neuroscience and Mental Health Student We\u2019ve all heard the saying, but how accurate is it? This informative video by\u00a0Zo\u00eb Williams explores how the foods we eat can influence our brain and delves into the mechanics of how diet could impact mood and cognition, particularly highlighting the important role of our microbiota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/the-chaim-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}