341: Nourish Your Brain: Understanding the Links Between Diet and Mental Health - Dr. Georgia Ede
ON AIR WITH ELLA | Women's Wellness
Ella Lucas-Averett
5.0 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Change your diet, change your mind?
As a nutritional and metabolic psychiatrist, Dr. Georgia Ede specializes in addressing the dietary and metabolic root causes of mental health conditions.
We discuss:
- The impact of food on mental health
- The link between insulin resistance and mental health
- Blood sugar and brain health
- Children's nutrition and what we can't see
- How dietary choices impact mental health issues like anxiety and depression
- What we have wrong about antioxidants and oxidative stress
- Brain superfoods - is there such a thing?
- Protein and the importance of essential amino acids
- Where to start if you're seeking to improve your mood and mental health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. You're on air with Ella, where we share simple strategies and tips from people who |
| 0:08.9 | are doing something better than we are, whether it's wellness or relationships to just living |
| 0:14.0 | better and with more energy or changing your mindset to accomplish more in your own life and |
| 0:19.3 | succeeding however you define it. This is where |
| 0:22.2 | we share the best of what we're learning from the experts and we're learning more every day. |
| 0:26.9 | Live better. Start now. Let's go. Hey, you're on air with Ella and today I am joined by Dr. Georgia |
| 0:35.6 | Eat. Hey, Georgia. How are you? Hi, Ella. How are you doing? Thanks for having me. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm excited to have you and I'm excited to talk about the work that you've been doing for decades |
| 0:43.3 | that has resulted in the book that you've just released in January. Change your diet, change your mind. |
| 0:49.3 | I want to talk to you about this and the connection between mental health and what we eat, Georgia. |
| 0:53.3 | But before we do that, would you please tell us who you are and what you do? |
| 0:57.9 | Sure. |
| 0:58.3 | So I am a nutritional and metabolic psychiatrist. |
| 1:02.3 | So these are relatively new subspecialties within the field of psychiatry |
| 1:05.7 | that focus on the dietary and metabolic root causes of mental health conditions. |
| 1:10.8 | So I train clinicians in these techniques. I see patients. the dietary and metabolic root causes of mental health conditions. |
| 1:13.7 | So I train clinicians in these techniques. |
| 1:14.9 | I see patients. |
| 1:20.2 | I do research and I write and I speak around the world about these interventions, which are really helping people for the first time address root causes of mental health conditions. |
| 1:26.2 | Can you give us an overview at 30,000 feet of what we need to |
| 1:31.2 | know right now before we delve into this conversation about mental health issues, anxiety, |
| 1:37.0 | depression, and how our diet affects that? I'd love the broad strokes here. Yeah, so people need to know, |
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