Drew Ramsey: How to Use Nutritional Psychiatry to Boost Your Mental Health

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Can the dietary choices we make right now affect how we feel later in the day? What’s the difference between “doing” health and creating health? In this episode of the Align Podcast, Drew and I discuss how the food that we consume can impact our mental health both in a positive or negative way. For example, incorporating brain food such as omega-3 fatty acids and leafy greens are proven to help promote healthy brain functions and keep your mood stable. Plus, we talk about how individuality is not something that is taken into consideration on social media when advice is shared in regards to health and diets. We all have different genetics and needs in terms of nutrition and following a cookie-cutter rule for nutrition can lead to unintentional malnutrition. Drew Ramsey, M.D. is a psychiatrist, author, and farmer. He is a clear voice in the mental health conversation and one of psychiatry's leading proponents of using nutritional interventions. He is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. What we discuss: 03:26: The 6-week anti-depressive timeframe 04:21: Why Drew decided to focus on anxiety and depression 07:43: The impact on the health care system when the health care providers' mental health is not taken care of 11:28: Being in the cycle of nature 15:24: Bacterial exposure in nature and how it relates to mental health 20:29: How are bugs controlling us? 24:24: A prediction on the effect on young people being hindered from facial expressions due to the current mask usage 28:47: What is nutritional psychiatry? 34:06: How does social media influence our choices and the dangers of not considering our individuality 37:53: Why some patients might feel worse in their first psychiatry appointment 40:51: Are we at an inflexible point in the masculinity shift? 50:53: How will the world be after COVID in regards to social and sanitization matters 55:24: Discussion on labeling people with a certain pathology 57:23: What can awareness actually do? 1:01:22: Drew's Ramsey book 1:07:55: What’s next in medical research? 1:18:26: Olive oil; why it should be the main fat we consume 1:19:26: Top foods that might cause depression from a nutritional standpoint More about Drew: Website: drewramseymd.com Instagram: @drewramseymd Book: Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lyme Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts on all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement.
0:12.2	Today's conversation was with my new friend, Dr. Drew Ramsey, is a bad
0:17.4	mofo, he is a medical doctor, he's the clinical professor of psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and is an active clinical practice in New York City.
0:28.5	Presently he moved to Indiana and I was headed off to Jacksonville, Wyoming to ride horses bareback is my vision of what he's going to do.
0:37.0	He's also featured all over the place.
0:39.0	New York Times Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, NPR, BBC, he's got multiple books, he's got TED Talks, he's one of the primary
0:48.2	pioneers in the conversation around food psychiatry.
0:51.6	He is a bad mother trucker and it was very fascinating
0:57.0	discussion of the way that food impacts and forms our thoughts, our feelings, our emotions, decision-making.
1:05.0	We get into neuroparacetology, which is essentially the study of when one critter hacks the nervous system of another critter in order to impose their will
1:16.2	upon them, typically for some form of reproduction or something of the sort.
1:20.0	There's examples of this and nature with fungus such as the cortiseps mushroom which we discuss a little bit in this conversation.
1:26.5	Toxoplasmosis is another example of it that we've discussed previously.
1:30.4	The jewel wasp is another interesting example so if you guys are curious about this
1:36.3	phenomenon that happens in nature look up any of those or just listen to this
1:40.0	conversation our body is absolutely infested inside and out with a whole
1:46.1	plethora of different bugs and so my mind of course goes to what level of free will do we have who's running the show in this
1:56.5	human organism is it the trillions of bugs that our bodies act as a little mini mobile hotel for?
2:05.0	Is it maybe social media?
2:07.5	Is it the food that we put into our face?
2:10.0	The way it affects our blood sugar or hormone levels,
2:12.0	our circadian rhythms.
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