Hey everybody, I'm Max Lugovier, a filmmaker and health and science journalist.

I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind how our choices,

including what we eat and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance,

as well as our health span and risk for disease. In this episode of the show,

I'm super excited to introduce you guys to Felice Jacca. She is the director of Deakin

University's Food and Mood Center, and she's an expert in the role of nutrition in mental health.

She's the lead author of a study that was published in 2017 that was the first ever randomised

control trial to show that by improving one's diet, you can improve symptoms of depression,

even if you have major depression. She's also the researcher behind a very interesting study that

was published in the year 2012, published in psychotherapy and psychosimatics, that looked at

1,000 Australian women and found that those who did not consume the nationally-recommended

three to four servings of red meat per week were twice as likely to be diagnosed with a depressive

or anxiety disorder as those consuming the recommended amount. She also found that women who consumed

more than the three to four servings that are recommended per week were also more likely to be

diagnosed with a depressive disorder. So we get into both of these studies that she's published,

and it's a fascinating episode, so I really hope you listen to the whole thing. Dr.

Jacket can be found on Twitter as well. She gives all of her contact information away,

while not all of it, but she gives a lot of it away at the end of the episode. So enjoy it,

and also remember that if you do enjoy it, it would really help this podcast out a lot if you

would go to iTunes and rate it and leave a review. All right, without further ado, here is Dr. Jacket.

Dr. Jacket, thank you so much for joining me on this podcast. I'm really excited to be

speaking with you. Your work is so exciting. And let's just, you know, before we get into the science,

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