Dr. Uma Naidoo MD

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Elle Russ chats with Dr. Uma Naidoo MD - an awarded board-certified psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, professional chef, nutrition specialist and author of the recently released This is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD and More.

Featured in the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Harvard Health Press, goop, and many others, Dr. Uma Naidoo has a special interest on the impact of food on mood and other mental health conditions. In her role as a Clinical Scientist, she founded and directs the first hospital-based clinical service in Nutritional Psychiatry in the United States. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Having been recognized as the first U.S. Nutritional Psychiatrist, Dr. Uma was also commissioned to pen the textbook for the American Psychiatric Association.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome.
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0:21.7	Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. Today we have D.com. Hey, everyone.
0:22.6	Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.
0:24.3	Today we have Dr. Uma Nidu, M.D., a Harvard-trained nutritional psychiatrist, professional
0:30.4	chef, nutrition specialist, and author of This Is Your Brain on Food, an indispensable
0:35.6	guide to the surprising foods that fight depression,
0:38.5	anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and much more.
0:42.7	She's been featured in the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Harvard Health Press, and so much more.
0:47.4	Welcome to the show.
0:49.0	Thanks so much, all.
0:50.1	I'm so excited to be here.
0:52.0	So Harvard is a great feat for so many people.
0:54.7	What an incredible institution that carries such weight with it.
0:58.5	Were you initially interested in nutrition as it related to psychiatry?
1:03.3	Or were you just going down the psychiatry route from the beginning and then sort of came across this connection?
1:09.0	So I started with just studying psychiatry, but food and
1:12.6	nutrition has always been a big part of my life since childhood because I grew up in a
1:16.5	very large South Asian family, lots of cooks in the kitchen, a combination of allopathic medical
1:22.8	doctors as well as Ayverick practitioners. So always the talk of medical science and healing foods and nutrition and also the love and
1:31.6	nurturance of a family.
1:33.4	But what I realized was that I also grew up in a background that sort of connected the mind
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