Dr. Uma Naidoo: Calm Your Mind with Food (Part 2)
The WoMed
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Almost a year later, D and Jac are reunited with their fav Harvard Nutritional Psychiatrist (NBD), Dr. Uma Naidoo, to discuss her new book, "Calm Your Mind With Food," which focuses on the link between diet and anxiety, emphasizing the importance of a healthy gut-brain connection. She shares insights from her own personal experiences with anxiety and highlights simple dietary changes that can help you manage it. Dr. Uma also offers tips for incorporating nutritious meals into a busy schedule, stressing the importance of avoiding foods that can trigger anxiety and which ones to avoid in particular. The gals also touch on the role of medications like Ozempic on hormones like leptin, the effect they might be having on people’s mental health, and so much more. Thank you again for sharing all of your incredible wisdom with us, Dr. Uma!
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:17.8 | You know what? Let's just, let's just get it out there, Jack. |
| 0:21.2 | I really fucked up. |
| 0:26.3 | Not really. |
| 0:26.9 | I forgot to hit record. |
| 0:28.5 | I forgot to hit record on Zoom. |
| 0:30.4 | You know what happens. |
| 0:31.5 | This week, there won't be any visual to go along with it. |
| 0:36.6 | But thank God, like Jack was not wearing headphones and recorded two different tracks |
| 0:44.0 | that you can hear Dr. Uma's voice on, who is just the dearest, most wonderful human. |
| 0:50.1 | And I was going to cry because this episode is phenomenal. |
| 0:54.1 | It's so good. And out of all of our |
| 0:57.8 | guests, we just can't recreate magic. Like we have guests where, you know, sometimes we can be |
| 1:01.3 | silly with, sometimes, you know, we're personal friends with. Dr. Uma is a guest that Danielle and I |
| 1:06.7 | just highly look up to for her achievements in academia and in medicine. |
| 1:14.0 | So that is just so funny. |
| 1:15.4 | I'm so grateful that we figured this out. |
| 1:17.6 | But we are so happy that you are here with us today. |
| 1:22.0 | Happy Friday, Womed fam. |
| 1:24.0 | This is part two with Dr. Uma Nidu. |
| 1:31.6 | Dr. Uma is a nutritional psychiatrist at harvard medical school she's a professional chef a best-selling author she founded and directs the first hospital-based |
| 1:37.6 | nutritional psychiatry service in the u.s at mass gen she is truly just an expert in this field, and we are so grateful to have her on. |
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