326: Psychobiotics & the best foods for managing stress | Leading scientists Bonnie J. Kaplan, Ph.D. & Julia J. Rucklidge, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Bonnie J. Kaplan, Ph.D. & Julia J. Rucklidge, Ph.D.: “Our brains are set up to require roughly 30 micronutrients: 15 minerals and 15 vitamins.” Kaplan and Rucklidge, leading scientists and co-authors of The Better Brain, join mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how your food affects your stress, plus: - What we’re still getting wrong about nutrition & brain health - The best supplements for mental health - How a vegan diet affects your brain - The connection between psychobiotics & depression - How to use food to enhance your emotional resilience Referenced in the episode: - Kaplan & Rucklidge's book, The Better Brain. - Scott Anderson, John Cryan, Ph.D., and Ted Dinan, M.D., Ph.D.'s book, The Psychobiotic Revolution. - Rucklidge's study of micronutrients to treat stress and anxiety from the Christchurch earthquakes. - Rucklidge's comprehensive review on psychobiotics. - Rucklidge's research on ADHD and emotion dysregulation. - SUN study in Spain on the Mediterranean diet and depression. Enjoy this episode sponsored by smartwater! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:08.7	Leading scientists and PhDs, Bonnie Kaplan and Julia Rockledge have dedicated their lives to
0:14.6	studying the role of nutrition and mental health. Together, they've published over 300 peer-reviewed
0:21.2	scientific papers, many of which reveal the healing power of nutrients in the form of vitamins
0:26.6	and minerals and the surprising role they play in brain health. In their new must-read book,
0:32.4	The Better Brain, they share their groundbreaking research explaining how to feed our brains to
0:38.4	stabilize our moods, stave off depression and make ourselves more resilient to daily stress.
0:48.3	Bonnie, Julia, welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having us. So I love the book, The Better Brain,
0:54.7	and there's an interesting story about what inspired the book. It's a personal story about a
1:01.7	woman named Autumn. So let's start there about Autumn's story and how her story inspired The
1:09.6	Better Brain. Okay. Well, actually, her story inspired me to try for the third time in my career
1:19.7	to study nutrition and mental health. And you don't have time for me to review the first two times
1:25.4	and why those crashed and burned. But the in the introduction to The Better Brain, I tell about
1:33.9	how I got into it the third time. And it was kind of the magic three because this time it really
1:40.9	led to a greater understanding about the role of the nutrients in the brain, my background,
1:46.6	and also some of Julia's is very physiological. I'll just speak for myself that I was an
1:51.8	experimental physiological psychology postdoctoral training and neurophysiology. This was all down in
1:57.2	the states where I'm from originally. And so I understood a little bit about the biochemistry. I
2:03.2	knew myself taught in biochemistry and some of the neurophysiology the brain. And so I knew that
2:09.8	nutrients were important. And I later found out that our ancestors knew it. But somehow it had
2:16.8	all been forgotten since the psychopharmacology revolution. And so along came these two men from
2:24.0	Southern Alberta and we this is the story we tell in the book, who trying to solve the mental
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