527. Mind-Gut Harmony: Nourishing Mental Well-Being with Dr. Will Cole and Dr. Uma Naidoo
Commune with Jeff Krasno
Commune Media
4.6 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Topics covered:
00:03:14: What is a nutritional psychiatrist?
00:06:06: What are some small tweaks we can make to feel better?
00:11:30: Spices that affect our mental health
00:11:44: What are the different highways between the brain and the gut?
00:14:17: How the gut and the brain communicate
00:15:00: The connection between inflammation and mental health
00:20:06: Foods that cause gut dysbiosis
00:23:21: How effective are SSRIs?
00:27:14: What are some of the ways our minds impact our physiology?
00:30:38: How our “fight or flight” response works
00:33:40: How do you define shame?
00:38:36: The transgenerational heritability of trauma
00:46:09: What are some practices we can adopt to create a better relationship between the gut and the brain?
00:53:00: Self care practices to improve vagal tone
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| 0:00.0 | Medications have certainly saved the lives of many of my patients, but I don't think it's the only solution. |
| 0:05.4 | And as I've evolved in my career, nutrition has really played a role in understanding a person's |
| 0:11.6 | lifestyle, metabolic health, and also a way to really help them feel emotionally fit. |
| 0:18.4 | We have to really cultivate what are ways that we can metabolize toward trauma? |
| 0:23.7 | What are ways we can clear this out and retrain our nervous system, retrain our brain to be more |
| 0:29.1 | in a parasympathetic state and support vagal tone from that side as well. |
| 0:43.3 | Welcome to Commune. My name is Jeff Krasnow. Today we're exploring mental health. |
| 0:46.3 | Now our cultural understanding and awareness of this term has significantly evolved in recent years, |
| 0:53.3 | from media coverage of mental health-related stories |
| 0:56.0 | to celebrities discussing their challenges, |
| 0:59.0 | from global events like World Mental Health Day |
| 1:02.0 | to public institutions investing more in services. |
| 1:05.0 | These efforts all ultimately lead to more access to information on how to address what has become a global |
| 1:14.3 | epidemic. As our awareness around mental health has increased, so have research efforts geared |
| 1:21.0 | towards unraveling both internal and external factors that contribute to our mental disorders. |
| 1:29.5 | An emerging area of study has been the link between the health of our gut and the health of our |
| 1:35.6 | minds. This gut-brain relationship is complex and dynamic. Now there are several ways in which |
| 1:42.2 | they are connected, including but not limited to the vast |
| 1:46.0 | community of microorganisms collectively known as the gut microbiome. |
| 1:52.0 | These microorganisms play a crucial role in maintaining brain function. |
| 1:58.0 | Now, our gut microbiota contribute to the production of important neurotransmitters |
| 2:04.1 | like serotonin, dopamine, and GABA. Now, these molecules play an essential role in regulating mood, |
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