#35 Why Depression Isn’t All In The Mind with Professor Edward Bullmore

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

“There is no family in the country that’s going to be untouched by depression”

Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next 20 years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry time has apparently stood still. Up until now, depression has not been considered to be a physical illness but rather something that is all in the mind. In this week’s episode, I talk to world-leading researcher, Professor of Psychiatry and author, Edward Bullmore, about the new science on the link between depression and inflammation of the body and brain. We delve into how and why we now know that mental disorders can have their root cause in the immune system and how identifying the root cause in each individual patient would lead to more effective targeted treatment. Professor Bullmore explains that stress is probably the biggest risk factor for depression and we talk about how lifestyle can be used to combat it. I hope you enjoy the conversation! My upcoming book 'The Stress Solution' is full of actionable tips to help you live a calmer, happier life. You can pre-order it on Amazon.

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0:00.0	One of the big things that we know caused depression, stress is right at the top of the
0:04.4	top. Absolutely. Yeah. It's huge. There's no getting around that. Stress is probably
0:11.0	the single biggest risk factor for depression that we know about.
0:13.9	Hi, my name is Dr. Rungan Chatterjee, Medical Doctor, author of the Four Pillar Plan and Television
0:21.0	Presenter. I believe that all of us have the ability to feel better than we currently
0:25.9	do, but getting healthy has become far too complicated. With this podcast, I aim to simplify
0:32.4	it. I'm going to be having conversations with some of the most interesting and exciting
0:36.9	people both within, as well as outside the health space, to hopefully inspire you, as well
0:42.5	as empower you with simple tips that you can put into practice immediately to transform
0:47.5	the way that you feel. I believe that when we are healthier, we are happier because when
0:52.6	we feel better, we live more. Hello and welcome to another episode of my Feel Better,
1:00.6	Live More podcast. My name is Rungan Chatterjee and I am your host. In today's conversation,
1:07.6	I dive deep into the subject area of depression with none other than Professor Edward Bulmore,
1:14.0	who has written an absolutely fantastic. I'd go as far as saying a game changing book,
1:20.0	the inflamed minds, a radical new approach to depression. I'm utterly obsessed with this book
1:26.4	at the moment. I think it's absolutely fantastic. Professor Bulmore is a professor of psychiatry
1:32.6	at the University of Cambridge and is someone who is really shaking things up in the medical
1:37.3	profession in terms of how we evaluate and treat depression. Today's episode is possibly
1:43.7	a little bit different from most of my previous episodes in that there is possibly less in
1:48.8	the way of actionable tips that you can apply in your everyday life, but there is plenty
1:53.9	of take-home information here about depression. Remember, one in four people in the UK will
2:00.2	have a mental health problem in any given year, so this is something that will affect or
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