296: Nutritional Psychiatry: How Food Impacts Your Mood, Energy & Mind with Drew Ramsey
The Lavendaire Lifestyle
Aileen Xu
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
What if mental fitness is about so much more than eating well? In this episode, Drew Ramsey reminds us what we already know in our hearts: connection, movement, sleep, and presence matter just as much as nutrition. We walked through the science of processed foods, discovered the brain foods that actually protect your mood, and learned the tenets of mental fitness that transform our lives.
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TIMESTAMPS
10:49 What Everyone Should Know
16:08 Processed vs. Unprocessed Foods
19:28 Food Contaminants
28:07 Building the Perfect Meal
36:07 Brain Food Hacks
51:30 Daily Habits & Practices
1:01:34 Final Message
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| 0:00.0 | If you're watching the video version of this and just look at me here, right? What makes Drew |
| 0:03.9 | Ramsey and Eileen, each of us is only 27,000 genes. That's it. Two seven and three zeros. That's all the |
| 0:12.9 | parts that it takes to make a human. Those are all the proteins you need. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to the Lavenderet Lifestyle, the podcast on personal growth and lifestyle design. |
| 0:26.3 | My name's Eileen, and I'm here to guide you to shine as your brightest self and create |
| 0:30.6 | your dream life. |
| 0:31.9 | We all have a light within and the power to create a life we love. |
| 0:36.2 | Every Sunday, we'll share thoughtful conversations exploring how we can build a better |
| 0:39.9 | future for ourselves and our world. |
| 0:43.0 | Life is an art. |
| 0:44.3 | Make it your masterpiece. |
| 0:47.8 | Hello, my loves, welcome back to the Lavender Lifestyle podcast. |
| 0:50.7 | It's Eileen. |
| 0:51.7 | Today's episode is on mental fitness and nutritional psychiatry. So what foods |
| 0:57.3 | and nutrients do we need to nourish our brain and mental health? And how can we change the way we |
| 1:02.7 | think about constructing our meals for better nutrition? We also cover the nine evidence-based |
| 1:08.5 | tenets to cultivating a healthy and happy life, which is all part of mental fitness. |
| 1:13.7 | Our guest today is Drew Ramsey. |
| 1:16.3 | Drew Ramsey, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, five-time author, and leading voice in nutritional psychiatry and integrative mental health. |
| 1:24.7 | He is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the founder of the Brain Food Clinic and Spruce Mental Health. He is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the founder |
| 1:28.8 | of the Brain Food Clinic and Spruce Mental Health. For 20 years, he served as an assistant |
| 1:33.8 | clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, where he taught and supervised psychotherapy |
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