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“Regular exercise is associated with greater hippocampal and overall brain volume. Since the brain naturally starts to shrink by 1–2 per cent per year starting around the age of 40, regular exercise can, in effect, reverse brain ageing. For the moment, exercise is the closest thing we have to the fountain of eternal youth.”
― Kimberley Wilson, How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain

“And, most extraordinarily, could conditions that were apparently far removed from microbial epicentres, such as allergies, autoimmune diseases and even mental health conditions, be brought on by a damaged microbiota?”
― Alanna Collen, 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

“Around 75 per cent of the wet weight of faeces is bacteria; plant fibre makes up about 17 per cent.”
― Alanna Collen, 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

“It’s vital to remember that the daily counts on the news of the ‘28-day’ death figures do not represent deaths that happened in the last 24 hours, but those newly reported. Figure 11–1 shows a clear weekly cycle: the daily figures tend to be higher on Tuesdays and Wednesdays because of reporting delays over the weekend. This has led to some dramatic differences in England: there were 560 deaths reported on Monday, 18 January 2021, jumping to 1,507 the next day. Since all these numbers are released at around 4 p.m. each day, they become ‘news’ and so are given prominence by journalists, regardless of their relevance.”
― David Spiegelhalter, Covid By Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data