Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition.

To start today's show, let's take a moment to check in and ask how you're feeling now,

now that we're well into January.

Do you feel energized and ready to work on your goals for the new year? Or are you stuck in that post-holiday blues season? Are you feeling

the effects of overindulgence during the holiday season? You know, there is a biochemical reason why you might be

feeling down. And we're going to be talking about this today and why that is and how to get back

to feeling good. So our topic today is a very timely one. Can sugar addiction cause depression?

We're going to be covering sugar's addictive properties and how it can relate to mood disorders

like depression.

But first, I'm going to take a moment.

We're going to introduce ourselves.

I am Leah Kleintrot and I'm a registered and licensed dietitian.

And today I am joined by my colleague Brandy Burrow, who is also a registered and licensed dietitian. And today I am joined by my colleague Brandy Burrow, who is also a registered

and licensed dietitian. And Brandy, I bet you can relate to working with clients who are often

surprised to learn how much sugar actually impacts their moods. This is kind of the time of year

where it starts to come out. Yeah, definitely. And this is something that

comes up with so many of the clients that I work with, especially this time of year when I think

people are sort of struggling with that post-holiday routine or lack of routine and the different

foods that enter their scene and just trying to sort things out afterwards, pick up the pieces. Yep. And once, you know, we take

the time to really educate somebody about how their moods, how depression and anxiety could be

influenced by their sugar intake, it really helps them reexamine what their relationship is like with sugar.

And this, I think, is a good time to do that because they've just come from a season where they're on sugar overload.

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