Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am your host, Danny Lennon. This is episode

421 of the podcast. You are very welcome. If you are

either a new listener or maybe a long time loyal listener of the podcast, thank you for tuning into

this episode. Today I'm delighted to be joined by Dr. Brendan Stubbs, who is a clinical lecturer and

researcher at King's College London,

where he conducts research on physical activity and mental health, the mind-body interface,

and meta-research.

And he has incredibly published over 600 academic papers at this point in the biggest journals

in science and medicine that you can

think of in a number of different fields. He's also a clinical physiotherapist where he's worked

in practice for many, many years. He's been head of physiotherapy at the South London and

Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He has a master's

degree in neurological rehabilitation, as well as a PhD in pain medicine and rehabilitation.

And a lot of his work has gone on to inform policy guidelines in the UK, around Europe,

with the World Health Organization. And really a comprehensive rundown of his background is not possible

in the time we have in this introduction, but you can certainly find that in the show notes.

So we're going to discuss much of his research and expertise in the area of looking at exercise,

physical activity, movement, and how that relates to mental health,

in particular depression will probably focus on most notably in both a preventative and an

interventional situation. We'll also then spend a lot of time discussing more meta-level

ideas around doing research and how do we get good answers to questions through

research, some of the problems that are currently there, and how we should think about

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