Valerie Taylor studies the link between our gut health and mental health.She said gut microbes, the brain, and central nervous system can influence one another via the "gut-brain axis."Her tips for caring for gut health include eating a nutritious diet that suits you best.A professor of psychiatry shared three ways caring for our gut health could improve our mental health.Valeriegut microbiome the trillions of microorganisms in the digestive system and the brain.The gut microbiome is a rapidly growing area of research, with more than 40 times as much funding for related researchResearch suggests that gut microbes, the brain, and the central nervous system can influence each other via what is known as the "gut-brain axis," including by regulating the production of certain chemicals.For example, when people get stressed, their bodies release more of the "stress hormone" cortisol, which can make the gastrointestinal system digest food faster, leading to diarrhea or an upset stomach, Taylor said.Although the research is promising, Taylor doesn't think that addressing gut health can "cure" mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety.But a greater understanding of the gut-brain axis could encourage people to make lifestyle changes that could improve their gutlow serotonin levels, instead believing it is linked to a combination of biological, genetic, environmental, and psychosocial factors including the gut-brain axis.Taylor said,gut-friendly lifestyle changes could help those with mental health issues to maintain a more stable mood after their symptoms improve with therapy, drugs, or time1) Eat a nutritious diet that fits with your lifestyle Adding kimchi to meals can be great for gut health. 4kodiak/Getty Images Certain diets and foods can make your brain and your gut bacteria "very happy," Taylor said.These include the Mediterranean diet and vegetarianism, and fermented foods such as kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut, and pickles preserved using natural processes instead of vinegar.Look for the words "naturally fermented" on labels and bubbles in the liquid when you open the jar, which signal that there are live organisms inside, Taylor said."At the end of the day, as long as you're eating healthy and getting the right balance of essential nutrients, there's no one magic diet, just as long as it's a reasonable diet that people feel well when they eat it," she said.A 2020 review of studies published in the journal BMJ suggested an anti-inflammatory diet, meaning high in fiber, polyphenols, and unsaturated fatty acids, could help to reduce depressive symptoms, but that doesn't mean that a poor diet causes depression.BI has previously reported on how to start eating healthily.2) Consider taking probioticsAfter someone's mental health improves,According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, while probiotics have shown promise for treating gastrointestinal issues, we still don't know which specific ones are helpful, how much to take, or who might benefit from them.But Taylor said she knows anecdotally of people feeling better and having more stable moods with probiotic use. "At the end of the day, there's probably no harm," she said. "And if it helps, it helps."3) Avoid ultra-processed foodsTaylor said that trying to avoid ultra-processed foods might be helpful for people who are predisposed to conditions such as depression and anxiety.A 2022 meta-analysis published in the journal Nutrients found that across 17 studies involving 385,541 participants, those who ate more UPFs were at a higher risk of experiencing depressive symptoms.The researchers suggested that this could be because additives found in UPFs, such as emulsifiers and artificial sweeteners, could disrupt how the body makes and releases chemicals that regulate mood, including dopamine and serotonin.They also suggested that UPFs could change the way the gut microbiome works and cause inflammation, which has also been linked to mental health issues.Bonus tip: Don't take antibiotics unless a doctor prescribes themYou should take antibiotics when prescribed by a doctor, Taylor said.But it's helpful to be aware that they can strip the gut of essential bacteria. When there is "nothing else in your system that replicates what those particular bacteria do," it can cause gastrointestinal issues, Taylor said."We've become a society that really likes to take antibiotics for everything," Taylor said. Antibiotics can help treat bacterial infections, but sometimes people take them when an infection could go away on its own.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encourages healthcare providers to use antibiotics sparingly to prevent antimicrobial resistance and an unbalanced gut microbiome.

Rainbow Six Siege has been around for almost a decade and it'll get a new Siege X Showcase in the next few weeks to reveal more about what's coming beyond 2025Tech15:40, 17 Feb 2025Updated 15:46, 17 Feb 2025Ubisoft still has big plans for Rainbow Six SiegeFor all of the live service shooters, Rainbow Six Siege doesn't get enough love. The game has been around since 2015, and in that time its rivals have launched sequels or just ceased to exist.Siege's longevity is a testament to its intense gameplay and Ubisoft Montreal's willingness to make big changes, even if they don't always pan out, and after almost a decade, the team is ready to show what's next.As teased in a video over the weekend at the Six Invitational esports event, the Siege X showcase is coming on March 13. Here's all we know.The glossy trailer above showcases the attack-and-defend nature of Siege which hasn't changed in a decade, but so much else has.New Operators, weapons, maps, systems, and more have been added over the last ten years, and while the game's next Operation will bring a new playable Operator Rauora and additional features, the Siege X event will seemingly be larger in scale.The event, taking place on March 13 at 5 pm GMT (10 am PT or 1 pm ET), will focus on "the biggest transformation in the games history which introduces new ways to play, deepened tactical gameplay, and major upgrades all around", the YouTube description reads.A statement from the development team says "The R6 team has been working tirelessly to bring to life the biggest transformation in the game's history and its purpose is to reinforce Rainbow Six Siege's position at the top of tactical first-person shooters by introducing new ways to play, deepened tactical gameplay, refined game feel and major upgrades all around.""To celebrate this new age of Siege, we are holding an exclusive event that you're invited to attend; The Rainbow Six Siege X Showcase."I spoke to Alex Karpazis, the game's Creative Director, in Montreal in 2023 and he said the team wanted the game to be around for another decade, and confirmed the studio is not working on a Siege 2.Rauora kicks off Year 10 in SiegeArticle continues belowAs for Rauora, she arrives with her gadget, the D.O.M. launcher, which deploys a bulletproof 'smart cover'. She'll join the game as an Attacker in the new Operation Prep Phase update which is the first seasonal update of Year 10.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters.

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Samsung must really have a thing for rehoming or recycling used electronics, because theyre dropping yet another enormous trade-in deal, this time on the Galaxy Watch Ultra. Max out the $400 trade-in credit offer and get the top smartwatch in the entire Galaxy family for just $250 the same price as Apples third-tier Apple Watch SE.See at SamsungThis rugged 47mm smartwatch comes in three colors, with three types of interchangeable bands available. All three bands and the extremely durable titanium face are designed to make the Galaxy Watch Ultra your ideal wearable for hardcore workouts on land or in the water, and any outdoor adventures youre brave enough to undertake.Fitness FirstThe Galaxy Watch Ultra is a true beauty, but its hardly a vanity purchase. This is the smartwatch you want on your wrist if youre a lover of the active life. Swimmers, divers, kayakers, and other aquatic fans will appreciate the 10-atmosphere waterproofing. If youre going off the beaten path in search of the ideal rock face to climb, the Galaxy Watch Ultras turn-by-turn navigation and improved GPS will guide you back to civilization.All of the fitness metrics and readouts you need are collected and shown on your Galaxy Phone, with incredibly precise heart-rate tracking thats aided by Galaxy AI, which filters out the physical movements of your body for a better reading. VO2 Max and even estimated sweat loss are measured. Runners and bikers can use the Galaxy AI-aided tracking of their last run or ride and compare it to their current one to keep track of their performance.You Need Restbut the Galaxy Watch Ultra is seemingly inexhaustible, with the longest-lasting battery life of any Samsung Galaxy Watch yet. This means your smartwatch is on the job even while you sleep, measuring the quality and restfulness of your slumbers and keeping a watchful eye out for signs of moderate to severe sleep apnea.Galaxy AI is the key to the personalized suggestions and Wellness Tips your Galaxy Watch Ultra delivers to you, as it takes the readings gathered by your watch and synthesizes them into actionable advice delivered to your phone.Were not sure what happens to all of those devices sent to Samsung as part of all of these amazing trade-in offers. All we know is, the credits given back are extremely generous, enabling Samsung to sell top-level wearables like the Galaxy Watch Ultra for as little as $250. Round up your trade-ins and upgrade yourself to one of the best fitness smartwatches on the market today.See at Samsung

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One of the many unseen forces to which you owe your existence is magnetism. If it werent for the magnetic field that surrounds our planet, blocking cosmic radiation and solar wind, Earth would likely have little atmosphere to speak of. Life (at least of the human variety) would be impossible.Changes in the field can also play havoc with satellite communication and electric infrastructure, disrupting the modern world in a big way. Given the importance of this gargantuan bar magnet in our day-to-day lives, its worth understanding how it works and when it doesnt.Where Earths Magnetic Field Comes FromSince the magnetic field is sustained by geological activity deep within our planet, lets start with an overview of its structure. Although weve hardly scratched Earths surface (the center lies nearly 4,000 miles deep, and the deepest borehole penetrated just 7.6 miles), scientists can study the interior with some help from earthquakes: As seismic waves ripple through, changes in their speed and direction provide loads of data on the likely makeup of the different layers. The rocky crust extends 5 miles to 40 miles beneath the surface, depending on your location. Beneath that is 1,800 miles of mostly solid mantle, then another 1,400 miles of molten outer core, and finally, a dense sphere forms the solid inner core. What matters for our purposes is the outer core. Its composed predominantly of iron and nickel which are, importantly, in fluid form. As heat from the red-hot inner core radiates outward, it drives turbulent convection currents in the outer core. All that molten metal conducts electricity, so as it moves it creates an electric current, which in turn generates a magnetic field. As you may recall from Physics 101, a changing magnetic field (like when you slide a bar magnet through a copper coil) induces an electric current. At planetary scale, Earths magnetic field induces such a current, which regenerates the magnetic field, which induces more current, and so on in a self-sustaining process known as a geodynamo.German physicist Walter Elsasser first proposed this mechanism and it is now widely accepted. One day he took the idea to his friend Albert Einstein, a famous stickler for tidy scientific explanations. When Elsasser had summed up the (admittedly messy) hypothesis, Einstein reportedly told him it was too complicated to be impossible. For once, wrote the German historian F. Krause, the great mans craving for simplicity seems to have misled him.Why do Earths Magnetic Poles Reverse? Today the magnetic field is more or less aligned with Earths rotational axis (each pole lies about 11 degrees off from the geographic poles). But it isnt fixed in place the complex motions of the geodynamo cause the magnetic poles to wander, and every so often Earths polarity fully reverses magnetic north and magnetic south swap positions. (Geographic north and south, of course, remain unchanged)These reversals are apparently random. They might happen every 10,000 years, or not for millions. The last one was 780,000 years ago. We only know about them because some volcanic rocks had aligned themselves with Earths magnetism, preserving the signature of the field at the time they cooled. Thus, if we can date the rocks, we can tell north from south in that era.Reversals dont happen instantly, but over a period of thousands of years as the magnetic field gradually weakens. Though its strength has decreased by about 10 percent at Earths surface since scientists began monitoring it in the 1830s, theres no reason to think a reversal is imminent; paleomagnetic records show that the intensity drops by up to 90 percent in the process of pole-switching.How the Magnetic Field Protects UsWe should all feel grateful that we live in a time of magnetic stability, because the field acts as a protective bubble, interacting with harmful particles just beyond the outermost layer of Earths atmosphere. It deflects the cosmic rays that constantly whiz through space from our sun and other stars. That said, it isnt a perfect shield. Sometimes the sun emits large bursts of magnetized solar plasma, called coronal mass ejections, which can cause major disturbances in the magnetosphere. These geomagnetic storms may interfere with GPS systems and damage large conducting systems like power grids and pipelines. At the same time, they also produce beautiful auroras, like the one that dazzled North America in May of 2024.Article SourcesOur writers at Discovermagazine.com use peer-reviewed studies and high-quality sources for our articles, and our editors review for scientific accuracy and editorial standards. Review the sources used below for this article:Britannica. Electric generatorThe cosmic dynamo: proceedings of the 157th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Potsdam. The Cosmic Dynamo: From t= -infinity to Cowling's Theorem. A Review on HistoryNOAA. Coronal Mass EjectionsNOAA. Geomagnetic StormsCody Cottier is a contributing writer at Discover who loves exploring big questions about the universe and our home planet, the nature of consciousness, the ethical implications of science and more. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and media production from Washington State University.