#315 How to Heal the Modern Brain with Food, Grounding and Gratitude | Dr Drew Ramsey MD
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
What if there were chemicals in the air and energy charges in the ground that benefit your brain for better clarity and protection against mental illness? This is what today’s guest has written about in his research and why his prescriptions for better mental health include nature, food, movement, and gratitude.
In this episode I’m joined by Dr. Drew Ramsey, board-certified psychiatrist, author, and pioneer in nutritional psychiatry, to talk about how we can strengthen our mental fitness in today’s world.
We explore:
🌳 Why modern city living takes a toll on the brain and how green spaces restore it
🥦 The power of food and myokines from exercise to fight inflammation
🙏 Simple grounding practices, purpose, and gratitude as medicine for the mind
🌄 Drew’s personal journey moving to the mountains and finding balance with his family
Dr. Ramsey shares practical, science-backed tools for building resilience, protecting your mental health, and reconnecting with what matters most.
Learn how to start your own “outdoor prescription” and build lasting mental fitness for the modern brain.
DREW RAMSEY, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, author, and leading voice in Nutritional Psychiatry and integrative mental health. He is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the founder of the Brain Food Clinic and Spruce Mental Health. For twenty years, he served as an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, where he taught and supervised psychotherapy and nutritional psychiatry.
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| 0:00.0 | What if there were chemicals in the air and energy charges in the ground that benefit your brain for better clarity and protection against mental illness? |
| 0:11.7 | Well, this is what today's guest has written about in his research and why his prescriptions for better mental health include nature, food, movement and gratitude. |
| 0:25.3 | Hi, I'm Dr. Rupi. I'm a medical doctor and nutritionist. And when I suffered a heart |
| 0:30.4 | condition years ago, I was able to reverse it with diet and lifestyle. This opened up my |
| 0:36.0 | eyes to the world of food as medicine to improve our health. |
| 0:40.2 | On this podcast, I discuss ways in which you can use nutrition and lifestyle to improve your |
| 0:46.1 | own well-being every day. I speak with expert guests and we lean into the science, |
| 0:51.1 | but whilst making it as practical and as easy as possible so you can take |
| 0:55.7 | steps to change your life today. Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. In today's episode, |
| 1:06.7 | I'm joined by Dr. Drew Ramsey. He's a board certified psychiatrist, author and pioneer in nutritional |
| 1:13.4 | psychiatry. And we're going to be talking about how we strengthen our mental fitness in today's |
| 1:19.3 | world. And we get into exactly what we mean by mental fitness as well. I've known Drew for a number of |
| 1:25.0 | years. We've really aligned over the subject matter of nutrition |
| 1:30.0 | and how that pertains to psychiatry, but also the wider context of food as medicine. And as you'll |
| 1:35.5 | be able to tell on today's pod, we really do vibe quite a bit. Even though he lives halfway |
| 1:40.9 | around the world, whenever I do see him in person, it's like seeing an |
| 1:44.5 | old friend. Today we're going to explore why modern city living takes a toll on the brain and why |
| 1:50.8 | green spaces restore it. And this is something that I have personal experience with as well as patient |
| 1:57.2 | experience as well. We talk about the power of food and myokines from exercise to |
| 2:01.4 | fight inflammation and actually what inflammation means to him and how he explores that through |
| 2:07.8 | the lens of psychiatry. We also dive into simple grounding practices. This is actually something |
| 2:13.9 | that I wanted to start on because I'm really interested in this subject |
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