Dr. Drew Ramsey: ...how to eat to beat depression and anxiety
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Nobody Told Me!
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🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Did you know your brain consumes about 20% of the calories you eat each day? On this episode, we find out how the foods you eat impact your mental health. Joining us is Dr. Drew Ramsey, who is a nutritional psychiatrist and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University.  Dr. Ramsey is the founder of the Brain Food Clinic in New York City and the author of several books, the latest of which is called, "Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish Your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks". His website is drewramseymd.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm Laura Owens. |
| 0:14.2 | And I'm Jan Black. |
| 0:15.4 | Did you know your brain consumes about 20% of the calories you eat each day? |
| 0:20.3 | On this episode, we're going to find out how |
| 0:22.3 | the foods you eat impact your mental health. And joining us is Dr. Drew Ramsey, a nutritional |
| 0:27.8 | psychiatrist and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. |
| 0:33.1 | Dr. Ramsey is the founder of the Brain Food Clinic in New York City and the author of several |
| 0:38.5 | books, the latest of which is called Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety, Nourish Your Way to Better |
| 0:45.1 | Mental Health in six weeks. Dr. Ramsey, thank you so very much for joining us. |
| 0:50.1 | Thank you. It's great to be here with you both. There are so many questions we have for you. |
| 0:55.1 | I almost don't know where to start. But I think a good place is if you could tell us what |
| 0:59.8 | nutritional psychiatry is. Nutritional psychiatry is a new field in mental health that looks at |
| 1:06.9 | the relationship between what we eat and our overall brain health and mental health. |
| 1:12.1 | And the goal of nutritional psychiatry is to use food and nutrition to help everyone optimize |
| 1:17.5 | their brain function and also to treat and prevent mental health conditions like depression |
| 1:23.4 | and anxiety. I'm guessing that most people don't come to you as a first resource because I have |
| 1:29.2 | been seen by a psychiatrist for years for depression and I hadn't heard of nutritional |
| 1:33.0 | psychiatry. So what typically brings them is it that they've tried pills and they feel like they |
| 1:38.2 | want to try something else because they're not working? Well, and thank you for being open about |
| 1:43.0 | your own mental health. For one, I'm a general psychiatrist. |
| 1:47.0 | That's how I got into this. |
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