It seems that people across the planet are hooked on Botox to make themselves look younger and in particular to eradicate frown lines and crows feet around their eyes, but, although the physical aspects of this treatment might seem great if you’re feeling down in the dumps about your looks, could it just be that, in fact, the treatment is making you depressed?

My mother has recently been diagnosed with the early stages of dementia and, needless to say, this is causing me concern and I’m losing sleep as a result. I’ve tried to get a good eight hours before I have to get up and start work by 9.00 – fortunately I work from home as a writer/digital typist for the real estate industry so I don’t HAVE to be up before 8.30, but even if I go to bed at midnight and read or listen to dreamy classical music on the radio for half an hour, I still find myself tossing and turning well before the end of my eight hour sleep!

It would seem that US researchers have found a link between eating probiotic yoghurt and treating depression. This discovery may, in the future, help not only those people suffering from depression but also general stress and anxiety and possibly Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Irritable Bowel Syndrom and autism to name but a few!