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The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire

387. How to Calm Your Mind with Food with Harvard's Dr. Uma Naidoo

The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire

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Balancedblondespiritualitywellness, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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I LOVED this conversation with Dr. Uma Naidoo! Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the United States. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at MGH Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. 

She was considered Harvard’s Mood Food Expert and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Naidoo is also the national bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Food. 

In her book, she shows the cutting-edge science explaining the ways in which food contributes to our mental health and how a diet can help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues, from ADHD to anxiety, depression, OCD, and others. 

Her newest book, Calm Your Mind with Food is available now. 

In Calm Your Mind with Food, Dr. Naidoo shows readers a full-body approach to relieving anxiety. Her book presents research about ways anxiety is rooted in our brains and connected to our entire bodies, from our immune systems to our digestive systems. Accompanied by anti-anxiety recipes and meal plan guidelines, Dr. Naidoo shows us how to effectively use food and nutrition as an essential tool for calming the mind. 

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:04.0

Hey guys, it's Jordan Younger, your host of the Balance Blonde Soul on Fire podcast.

0:14.4

Here we go deep on all things astrology, awakening, wellness, motherhood, channeling,

0:20.0

aliens, and so much more. We have deep conversations, we go to other realms, it's a lot of fun, so stick around, let's dive on in. I cannot wait to connect.

0:39.8

Hello? Hello guys welcome back to the show I'm so happy that you're here today we have an amazing guest I have been saving this one and I'm so excited. She is

0:45.1

Uma Naidu. She is a Harvard trained psychiatrist, a professional chef, a

0:51.4

nutrition specialist, and a best-selling author,

0:54.7

most recently of her newest book, Calm Your Mind with Food.

0:59.2

I was super interested in having Uma on the show because I have had a lot of anxiety in my life.

1:05.4

A lot of you guys know that and I have always found a lot of healing through food and nutrition.

1:11.9

So basically the subtitle of her book is a revolutionary guide to controlling your

1:16.2

anxiety with food.

1:18.0

She also is the author of the bestseller,

1:20.7

this is your brain on food and she is a powerhouse of

1:25.3

knowledge so we're talking about how inflammation affects everything from

1:29.2

anxiety and depression to Alzheimer's,

1:32.6

how the trillions of bacteria living in our gut

1:35.3

are the key to controlling our anxiety,

1:38.0

the pillars for calming the mind,

1:40.2

what to eat to balance different peptides in the body and how to incorporate specific anxiety

1:46.4

busting foods in our diet as well as herbs and different things.

1:51.3

I hit her with some hard hitting questions like if you could

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