#169 Build your brain using food, with Dr Uma Naidoo
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On the show today, I catch up with Dr Uma, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef and Nutrition Specialist.
Uma has been on the pod before where we talked about nutrition, OCD and anxiety and on today’s episode we talk through practical tips on:
- hydration for mental health and some practical tips to drink more
- How her views evolved since writing her book “The Food Mood connection”
- The 80/20 rule and the importance of balance and flexibility
- What’s in her cupboard & fridge and some budget-friendly ways to eat well
- Spices that support brain health
- What’s next for the field of nutritional psychiatry, including psychobiotics
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett's The Wellness Edit Podcast. The fifth series of |
| 0:05.6 | The Wellness Edit is out now. The prior four series are obviously still available to stream, |
| 0:10.8 | and this season I am a guest on the podcast. You can hear me chat to host Dr. Gemma Newman |
| 0:17.0 | about the connection between our diet, our mind, the importance of gratitude, and what wellness |
| 0:23.2 | means to me. You can also go back and listen to a whole back catalogue of interviews with guests |
| 0:28.9 | including Ella Mills, Dr. Rungan Chatterjee, and Emma Gunns. Listen to the podcast on the Holland |
| 0:34.8 | and Barrett website, HollandandBarrett.com for a slash podcast, or search The Wellness Edit to |
| 0:40.8 | listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dr. Skitchie. Recipes Health Lifestyle. |
| 0:50.0 | The thinking about it just from bare bones, thinking about the type of salt you have, |
| 0:54.8 | the thinking about the spice cabinet you build out, then thinking about really budget friendly |
| 1:00.5 | ways. I think you've written about this and you talk about which is so important. |
| 1:05.1 | Because people assume that you can only eat for your brain health, your physical health, |
| 1:09.2 | if you're really wealthy. But you can buy dried beans, dried legumes, dried lentils. |
| 1:15.1 | You can get even canned organic chickpeas for example, rinse them out and have a perfectly |
| 1:21.6 | good meal by cooking them the right way. So I'd like people to lean into those things. |
| 1:29.3 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 1:34.5 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, and I'm a firm believer in |
| 1:47.5 | the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the |
| 1:56.2 | multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 2:06.4 | On the show today, I catch up with Dr. Uma, a Harvard trained psychiatrist, professional |
| 2:13.1 | chef and nutrition specialist. Uma has been on the pod before where we talked about nutrition, |
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