Ep. 173 How The Food You Eat Boosts Your Mood & Mental Health (and the Connection Your Gut Health Plays) with Dr. Uma Naidoo

Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Health, and Science for Women 35+

Cynthia Thurlow

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

I am delighted to have Dr. Uma Naidoo joining me on the podcast today! Dr. Naidoo is 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. She was featured in the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Harvard Health Press, Goop, and many others. Dr. Naidoo has a special interest in the impact of food on mood and other mental health conditions. There were several strong influences in Dr. Naidoo’s early life. She grew up in a loving, nurturing home with a large extended South Asian family. Rather than going to pre-school, she decided to stay at home with her maternal grandmother, who was a wonderful cook. Dr. Naidoo used to help her grandmother pick fresh vegetables from the garden and prepare meals, and her grandparents taught her meditation and yoga. Her mother was a medical student, and she had many aunts and uncles who were physicians, so there was a lot of talk about science and nutrition in their home. In this episode, Dr. Naidoo talks about food and lifestyle choices that can boost your mood and improve mental and emotional health. Tune in today to hear our fascinating conversation! IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: Dr. Naidoo’s background and her journey from medical school to becoming a chef and a nutrition-focused psychiatrist. What caused Dr. Naidoo to have an “aha” moment. The connection between gut health and mental health. Foods that tend to create the most problems with mental health. Why do you need to read food labels and pay close attention to your food choices? The clinical differences between men and women as our brains and bodies get older. Trauma can happen in many different ways. Foods that can impact libido. Foods that can positively impact brain health. What fiber does in the gut? Some lifestyle changes could positively impact your mental and emotional health. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Connect with Dr. Uma Naidoo Follow on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter Check out Dr. Naidoo’s website Books mentioned: Brain Wash by David Perlmutter

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0:00.0	This is everyday wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.
0:11.0	And now, here is your host, Nurse Pract practitioner, Cynthia Thurlow.
0:18.5	I'm delighted today to have Dr.
0:20.7	Uma Naidu, she's an awarded board certified psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School,
0:26.3	professional chef, nutrition specialist, and author of the recently released,
0:31.3	this is your brain on food, an indispensable guide to the surprising foods that fight
0:35.2	depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and more. She's been featured in the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Harvard Health Press,
0:45.1	Goop and many others. She has a special interest on the impact of food on mood and other
0:50.3	mental health conditions. Welcome, it's such a pleasure to connect with you. It's
0:54.4	wonderful to meet you, Cynthia. Thank you so much inviting me. Absolutely, and I was
0:58.6	mentioning before we started recording that I had so many people request you
1:02.2	specifically because they were so enamored with your work and so I dove down the rabbit hole and had to learn about you and realize that your message would really resonate with my own listeners and you know I think
1:16.1	anyone that knows me already my philosophy is generally it all starts with food and
1:20.9	so having a mental health specialist a psychiatrist who believes in the power and the possibility of food is so nicely aligned.
1:29.0	So I would love for you to share with the listeners because you have very much a renaissance background. How did you go from medical school into becoming
1:39.0	a chef and a nutrition focused on
1:45.0	on psychiatrists because let's fully recognize that traditional kind of allopathic medicine is still very focused on medications that are going to treat symptoms as opposed to looking at a more root cause approach.
1:53.7	Absolutely, so suddenly my background is different.
1:57.1	You know, it goes back to my childhood when I've thought about it.
2:00.3	I realized that there were several very strong influences. I grew up in a very large South Asian family,
2:05.0	surrounded by grandparents and parents and cousins and lots of a very large extended family,
2:11.0	but I decided Cynthia to skip out of preschool and I
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