Honest medicine

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract. I’m Sara Lo Russo, a biologist and behavioural neuroscientist. I’ve spent a decade between the lab, clinical nutrition practice and science writing, and this site exists because I wanted an Italian voice on longevity, neuroscience and nutrition that stays anchored to the literature — not to marketing. Articles are structured the way a good study is: a plain-language introduction anyone can follow, then progressively more technical sections for readers who want the mechanisms and the citations.

Where I come from¶

Master’s degree in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, with a thesis in behavioural neuroscience on the role of genetic background in maternal behaviour and stress resilience. Co-author of five peer-reviewed publications in international journals — Biomedicines, Neuroscience, Developmental Psychobiology and two in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (one, the other) — on how genetics, epigenetics and maternal care shape behaviour and neuropsychiatric vulnerability in murine models (laboratory mice and rats).

Preclinical research at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome and at the FutureNeuro Centre of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin. Years of clinical nutrition consulting with adult patients, including complex contexts: chronic disease, eating disorders, ketogenic diet therapy for epilepsy. Italian secondary-school teaching qualification in Mathematics and Science.

The full picture — publications, roles, training — lives in my curriculum.

What I want to do here¶

I want an integrated, honest medicine, grounded in research rather than in marketing. That means writing about longevity, neuroscience, nutrition and brain health while taking the time to cite the studies, to separate what we know from what we tell ourselves, and to openly state what we don’t yet know.

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Honest medicine

Where I come from¶

What I want to do here¶