What a family, welcome to bonus episode 101 of the Genius Life.

What a family, welcome to another bonus COVID-19 themed episode of the Genius Life.

This show is going on Monday, April 6th, 2020, you know that episodes of my show typically go up every Wednesday,

but I'm trying to put out these bonus episodes to cover topics that I think are really topical in terms of their relevance to what we're all dealing with right now.

The global COVID-19 pandemic and this episode of the show is going to focus squarely on mental health, a topic that I don't think is being discussed enough in mainstream media and even on social media.

So over the course of the next hour, you're going to discover ways to cope with anxiety, with depression, with the social isolation, with the financial pressures.

That all of us are no doubt experiencing.

My guest is Dr. Drew Ramsey. Dr. Ramsey is a psychiatrist, he's an author, and he's also a farmer.

He's a clear voice in the mental health conversation, and he's one of psychiatry's leading proponents of using nutritional interventions to help deal with mental health issues.

He's also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and he's a good friend of mine.

He's an overall very smart guy, very down to earth, very pragmatic.

And yeah, I'm excited to have this conversation.

And like the last bonus COVID-19 episode that I did, which I highly recommend you check out if you haven't already with Dr. Molly Maloof, I take questions from the audience in this one.

I implored my followers to text me their mental health related COVID-19 questions to my text message community, which you can join at any time by sending the word genius to 310-299-9401.

And we got some great questions from the community. We answer questions about how to deal with the quarantine if you've struggled with an eating disorder in the past.

We talk about ways of reaching out to loved ones, or even close friends that might not be coping with the loneliness factor all that well.

So there's a lot within this episode, and Dr. Ramsey is just a wealth of knowledge. So yeah, I'm excited for you to dive in with us.

This episode is brought to you by Navitas Organics. Navitas makes a line of super delicious, super healthy, shelf stable organic snack foods and smoothie ingredients.

I am always picking up stuff whenever I go to the supermarket. Made by Navitas, they make, I mean, they produce everything from cacao nibs to chia seeds to really great nut products like turmeric coated almonds.

And they now have like a they have goji berries and golden berries. If you guys have never tried a dried golden berry, you're in for a treat.

I love dried golden berries. They are super tart and sour. They're sort of like nature's sour patch kids. If you remember those, I was a huge fan of those growing up.

And they just yeah, they make super high quality stuff that you can just load your pantry up with. Throw them into smoothies, make your untrial mixes.

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