506: Eat to Beat Depression with Dr. Drew Ramsey

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

280 million people have depression worldwide, and 700,000 people will die of suicide this year. The problem is getting worse, not better, and while mental health awareness is at an all time high, conversations about the role nutrition plays is all but absent. On this week’s podcast, psychiatrist Drew Ramsey helps us rethink our mental health from a food choice perspective.

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How to boost BDNF and why it matters
Seafood, beans, nuts and grees, dark chocolate
Catch-22 of bad food choices when you feel bad
How to rediscover and explore food

Links
Dr. Drew’s Site

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Drew Ramsey is a psychiatrist, speaker and author. He is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He founded the Brain Food Clinic in New York City. He’s had TEDx talks, a video series with Big Think, and the BBC documentary Food on the Brain. He is the author of three books including, Eat to Beat Depression & Anxiety.

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0:00.0	as you're well aware we're in the midst of a mental health crisis with anxiety and depression at
0:09.2	all-time highs in many many places all around the world now obviously this varies from country
0:14.6	to country and certain cities are worse than others but adults teenagers and even very very young
0:20.4	kids are suffering from major depressive disorder generalized anxiety disorder body dysmorphia and
0:26.3	all kinds of other very real mental health challenges and it's hard to know what to do for yourself
0:31.0	as an individual for your friends your colleagues your siblings your family members how to be good
0:35.2	parent to someone who's struggling with mental health and there's no shortage of ideas right take a
0:41.3	walk do a gratitude journal see a therapist as you know join a gym all these kinds of things are
0:46.0	really really great the thing that's very often ignored is what's in your fridge and the food you
0:50.8	eat very much affects your mental health as well we'll get into this in great depth today with
0:57.5	a psychiatrist whose work focus around nutrition if you're new here it's the Lucas Rockwood show I'm a
1:03.3	yoga teacher a teacher trainer a serial entrepreneur on the father of three international kids but at
1:08.1	the end of the day I'm a student I like to learn things so I go into the world try to find people
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1:42.0	welcome everyone it's Lucas here today show is called eat to beat depression I'm joined here with
1:48.8	Drew Ramsey Drew is a psychiatrist a speaker and author he is assistant clinical professor of
1:54.9	psychiatry at Columbia he founded the brain food clinic it's in New York City he's had a few
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