smell training

Photo of cooking ingredients on a worktop with a person stirring a glass salad bowl of salad. On the worktop there's garlic, onions, mushrooms, broccoli, spinach leafs, olive oil, sweetcorn, carrots, tomatoes, broccoli, yellow and red peppers, as well as herbs in plant pots. The image is brightly lit and colourful.

Cooking Once a Week Could Protect Your Brain

By Dr David R Hamilton | April 8, 2026

Wellness advice often focuses on what we put on our plates – the ingredients – but new research suggests we’ve been overlooking the role of how those ingredients came to land on our plates in the first place.

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Woman with light brown hair with her eyes closed taking a sniff of an essential oil. She has the bottle in her left hand and holds the dropper to her nose with her right hand. She is wearing an olive green top. The background is blurred out, but it's a well lit room with what looks like plants in the background.

Why Aromatherapy Works: The science of smell

By Dr David R Hamilton | January 8, 2026

There’s a well-identified link between smell sensitivity, memory, and cognition. Studies show that smell training impacts the brain and improves memory and cognition.

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