Ep. 178: Dr. Uma Naidoo - This is Your Brain on Food
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Uma Naidoo has been called a “triple threat” for her work and knowledge in food and medicine. Not only is she a psychiatrist, but she’s also a trained professional chef and nutritionist. If there was ever anyone more qualified to talk about the impact that foods have on our brain and well-being, it’s Dr. Naidoo.
In addition to her work at Harvard and Mass General, Dr, Naidoo is also the author of the best-selling book, This is Your Brain on Food. where she explains the ways in which food can influence our mental health and how a plant-forward diet can improve our mood and help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues, from ADHD to anxiety, depression, OCD, and others.
We also go through each of her six pillars of nutritional psychiatry:
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Be Whole, Eat Whole - and why sugar is a problem
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Eat the Rainbow
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The Greener the Better
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Tap Into Your Body’s Intelligence
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Avoid Anxiety Triggering Foods
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This Lifestyle is a Marathon and Not a Sprint
In addition, Dr. Naidoo also shares:
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Spices and foods for optimizing brain power
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Tips for treating Seasonal Affective Disorder
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Foods that boost happiness and relaxation
Yes, it’s a marathon, but It’s worth it. In the spirit of “New Year’s Resolutions,” resolve to make your mental and physical health a priority one meal at a time. Every step in the right direction is a step towards a better you.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the new year and just about everybody is trying to convince themselves that it's time for a |
| 0:06.8 | new you and a better you. We're telling ourselves, let's restrict what we're eating here and |
| 0:14.2 | starve ourselves here and muster up the motivation to overhaul everything that we're doing |
| 0:20.5 | each and every day. Well, my plan's strong cousins. I'd like to suggest that we take a different |
| 0:27.7 | approach this year. What if you made 2023 about getting more? What if instead of focusing all |
| 0:35.9 | our energy on taking things off our plates, we concentrated on what we should be getting more of. |
| 0:43.7 | Like fiber that 97% of Americans are deficient in. I'm talking about more fruits and vegetables |
| 0:52.4 | that most Americans aren't eating any of. I'm talking about green leafy cruciferous vegetables, |
| 1:00.3 | more whole grains, more water each day. If we just shifted our thought pattern from one of scarcity |
| 1:10.6 | to one of abundance, I think that we'd find ourselves easily falling into daily habits that we love |
| 1:18.3 | and that love us back. If you're not sure where to begin, come on over to planstrongfoods.com |
| 1:25.7 | and try any number of our spectacular and tasty products and see how good it feels to eat stronger food. |
| 1:36.2 | The reality is that the plant polyphenols in plant plant foods are super helpful for |
| 1:45.3 | and it's not just the colors. It's actually the biodiversity of actual foods that come to our |
| 1:50.9 | gut that make the microbes healthier. It's the different colors of the polyphenols. So carrots have |
| 1:56.7 | correct noides. Blueberries have at the silence. Things like that. So these different colors and |
| 2:04.6 | breakdown products help the microbes thrive. They interact in that environment. They bring |
| 2:10.0 | biodiversity to the gut. They also bring fiber, which is super important to help those microbes thrive. |
| 2:17.8 | I'm Rep. Euston and welcome to the planstrong podcast. The mission at planstrong is to further the |
| 2:24.1 | advancement of all things within the plant-based movement. We advocate for the scientifically proven |
| 2:30.8 | benefits of plant-based living and envision a world that universally understands, promotes, |
| 2:37.2 | and prescribes plants as a solution to empowering your health, enhancing your performance, |
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