87 - Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety with Psychiatrist Drew Ramsey

The Verywell Mind Podcast

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education

5 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dr. Ramsey is a psychiatrist. But rather than focus solely on prescribing antidepressants or antianxiety medications, he helps people change their diet. He's a firm believer in the fact that most people can help themselves feel better by changing what they eat. In this episode, he talks about his new book, Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety. Some of the things he talks about are the most important foods you should be eating right now, the nutrients most people aren't getting, and the strategies you can use to take charge of your brain chemistry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. We've interviewed over 100 authors, experts, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and others to help you learn strategies to care for your mental health.
0:22.9	This episode is hosted by psychotherapist and bestselling author Amy Morin. Now let's get into the episode.
0:49.2	Okay. When it comes to good mental health, we often talk about the things that you can do to feel better, like get more exercise.
0:52.5	And we'll say things like you should eat healthy.
0:55.4	But we don't really get into what healthy means.
0:58.3	So today I'm talking to Dr. Drew Ramsey.
1:04.4	He's a psychiatrist, but rather than focus solely on prescribing medication for depression or anxiety,
1:07.2	he often recommends a change in diet.
1:13.5	His new book, Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety, discusses the latest brain science and mental health research. He shares how changing your diet can affect your brain and the
1:18.5	specific recipes that can help you feel better. On today's episode, he shares the most
1:23.4	important foods you should be getting in your diet right now if you want to have better mental health.
1:28.7	Make sure to stick around until the end of the episode for the therapist take.
1:32.3	This is the part of the show where I'll break down my guest strategies and share how you can start
1:36.2	applying them to your own life today.
1:38.4	So here's Dr. Drew Ramsey and the foods you should eat to stay mentally healthy and reduce
1:43.6	anxiety and depression. Dr. Drew Ramsey, welcome to you should eat to stay mentally healthy and reduce anxiety and depression.
1:45.8	Dr. Drew Ramsey, welcome to the very well-minded podcast. Thank you so much. It's great to be here
1:50.4	with you. So I have been reading your book, Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety, and it's a wonderful
1:56.4	book. You made things simple. I'm somebody with a really simple palate, so the idea of knowing what hemp seeds and chia seeds are was a bit outside of my realm of a knowledge. So in fact, as an experiment, as I read your book, I thought, okay, I don't know what a lot of these ingredients are and I don't know where to find them. Can you get them at the grocery store? Can you not?
2:18.0	I found a lot of things you can actually order on Amazon quickly and easily, gets delivered to your door within a matter of days.
2:25.2	And so I made some of your recipes, including the truffles, which happened to be a favorite
2:29.1	here in our podcast studio.
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