BONUS Food for Mood with Dr Michael Dixon & Dr Uma Naidoo
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Should we be reaching for the dinner plate before the pill bottle when treating mental illness? Well my next guests certainly think so. Dr Michael Dixon and Uma Naidoo are back on the podcast talking about the Food for Mood campaign, an idea that literally started around the King’s dining table last year!
This idea of food as medicine is truly taking shape in the UK, but without strategies to ensure people can actually attain a level of nutrition to unlock these potential benefits, we’re simply reverberating ideas in an ineffective echo chamber. Michael and Uma are taking up the challenge, and launching the ‘Food for Mood’ campaign that engages multiple stake holders including government, supermarkets and of course, medical professionals and promotes the idea and practical strategies to introduce nutritional psychiatry at scale.
Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard trained psychiatrist, professional chef and a trained Nutrition Specialist and her nexus of interests have found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry. She is also the national bestselling author of This Is Your Brain On Food.
Dr Michael Dixon is chairman of the college of medicine, he’s been a general practitioner at College Surgery in Devon for over 35 years. Since the early 1990s, he has been a leader of the GP/clinical commissioning movement with its aim of allowing frontline clinicians a far greater role in improving local services and health. Since 2007, he has been visiting professor to the University of Westminster (Integrated School of Health) and was also appointed visiting professor of University College, London in 2012.
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| 0:00.0 | Doctor's Kitchen recipes health lifestyle Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen |
| 0:09.7 | podcast to show about food lifestyle medicine and how to improve your health |
| 0:17.8 | today I'm Doctor Rupi your host I'm a medical doctor I study nutrition and I'm |
| 0:25.6 | a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine join me and my |
| 0:32.8 | expert guests will we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to |
| 0:38.0 | lead your best life should we be reaching for the dinner plate before the pill |
| 0:48.1 | bottle when treating mental illness well by next guests certainly think so |
| 0:54.0 | Michael Dixon and Uma Nidu are back on the podcast talking about the food for mood |
| 0:59.2 | campaign a really exciting idea that literally started around the kings dining table last year |
| 1:07.7 | this idea of food as medicine is truly taking shape in the UK but without strategies to ensure |
| 1:14.2 | people can actually attain a level of nutrition to unlock these potential benefits we're simply |
| 1:20.8 | reverberating ideas in an ineffective echo chamber Michael and Uma are taking up the challenge and |
| 1:27.5 | launching the food for mood campaign that engages multiple stakeholders including government |
| 1:33.6 | supermarkets and of course medical practitioners to promote the idea as well as practical strategies |
| 1:41.5 | to introduce nutritional psychiatry at scale this is a great open discussion about the challenges |
| 1:49.2 | of bringing things like fresh nutrient rich ingredients to the masses changing our supermarket |
| 1:54.8 | landscape and the way in which we practice preventative medicine as a reminder doctor Uma Nidu |
| 2:02.5 | who's been on the podcast before is a Harvard trained psychiatrist she's also a professional chef |
| 2:08.4 | and trained nutrition specialist and her nexus of interests have found their niche in nutritional |
| 2:14.1 | psychiatry she's also the national bestseller of this is your brain on food a fantastic book |
| 2:21.2 | for all things to do with mental well-being and food and Dr Michael Dixon again who's been on |
| 2:27.1 | the podcast as chairman of the College of Medicine he's been a general practitioner at college |
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