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Hey, welcome to the Blond Files podcast.

I'm your host, Aria Laurie, and I'm here to talk all things wellness.

From how to achieve optimal health and wellbeing to the best beauty tips and everything in between,

no topic is off limits.

I know there is so much information out there, so I'm here to help you navigate it all and live your best life.

Thanks for listening. Let's get into it.

Hello everybody. Happy New Year. I hope everybody is feeling good, feeling positive and hopeful

coming into 2021. I personally am feeling pretty good. I had the most boring New Year's Eve.

I think I was asleep by like 930 or 10, but you know, very on brand for 2020, but yeah,

feeling pretty good, cautiously optimistic at this point. Three days as I record this in two

of the year. And yeah, at least we're all safe and healthy and we've made it this far, right?

So I have a fascinating episode today. I'm talking to Dr. Uma Naiju. She is a Harvard trained

psychiatrist and she founded and directs the first hospital-based nutritional psychiatry service

in the United States. She is the director of nutritional and lifestyle psychiatry at mass

general hospital, Massachusetts general hospital, MGH. It's a big hospital out there in the East Coast.

And she is also the director of nutritional psychiatry at Mass General Hospital Academy,

while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She has a new book called This Is Your

Brain on Food. That is amazing. It combines her knowledge of psychiatry with her knowledge about

food and she draws from over 500 different studies to explain how different nutrients affect

our moods, our bodies and various issues like depression, anxiety, fatigue, low sex drive,

OCD, PTSD and more. She also talks a lot about the gut brain connection or as she calls it,

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