Healthy Foods To Help Depression | Your Body In Balance
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The foods you are eating play a big role in how you feel both physically and emotionally. We are going to explore the best foods to eat to help depression and learn about the foods that can leave you feeling down in the dumps.
"The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll and Dr. Neal Barnard are joined by Kim Diez who experienced first-hand the connection between food and mood. Kim tried seemingly everything but nothing, including medication, was able to bring her out of the dark place she resided mentally. At one point she even contemplated death.
But when she finally adjusted her diet, the crippling depression that had been controlling her life finally went away.
Dr. Barnard explains the science of how food can affect hormones and mental health. He also reveals the foods that can trigger depression.
Chuck also shares his own experiences with depression and how his mental state improved once he stopped eating a high-fat diet.
Plus, Lindsay Nixon shares a recipe for breakfast tacos that is sure to brighten anyone's day! It's the first dish on the daily menu from Dr. Barnard's book Your Body In Balance.
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About The Book
In Your Body in Balance, Dr. Barnard describes how food and hormones play a powerful role in:
- Fertility and menopause: Learn how foods affect the hormones that play a role in fertility, premenstrual syndrome, endometriosis, menstrual cramps, and polycystic ovarian syndrome. Learn how a plant-based diet can help manage menopause and reduce symptoms, including hot flashes.
- Sex-hormone related cancers: Read the science behind how foods affect estrogen and testosterone levels and the roles they play in breast, prostate, and other forms of cancer.
- Balancing the thyroid: Read about the surprising effects of diet on hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
- Type 2 diabetes: Learn about how a healthy, plant-based diet can restore insulin function and help manage type 2 diabetes.
- Regulating metabolism: Learn how a plant-based diet can boost metabolic rate and affect how body fat is stored and burned.
The book also gives readers practical tips and resources, including answers to frequently asked questions and 65 hormone-balancing recipes developed by Lindsay Nixon.
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Chuck Carroll
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IG: @ChuckCarrollWLC
Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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Dr. Neal Barnard
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Facebook: http://bit.ly/DrBarnardFB
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Physicians Committee
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| 0:00.0 | I remember thinking, okay, wait a minute. |
| 0:03.0 | I have struggled with gastrointestinal issues my entire life. |
| 0:07.0 | If I could heal my gut, could I heal my brain? |
| 0:10.8 | And so that's when I started investigating the power of what I was eating. |
| 0:15.7 | And started eliminating processed foods from my diet and eating more fresh fruits and |
| 0:20.0 | vegetables and was eventually after 19 years on an eye-to-pressant medication able to |
| 0:25.0 | win off of it. |
| 0:32.0 | Well hello there and welcome to another special edition of the Exam Room Podcast brought |
| 0:37.3 | to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:38.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:41.7 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen this week or a view or a download. |
| 0:46.7 | Wherever it is in the world that you are, we appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:53.6 | Welcome to Episode 5 of the Special Your Body and Balance Series. |
| 0:58.8 | And we've covered a lot of nutrition science already, but today we're going to be covering |
| 1:04.1 | the science behind an issue that affects nearly all of us from time to time. |
| 1:09.4 | We're going to be talking about depression. |
| 1:13.6 | Now there's a difference between just feeling blue or having a bad day versus feeling like |
| 1:19.0 | you're never able to climb out of a deep, dark abyss. |
| 1:24.6 | And for millions it seems that no matter how well things are going in life, no matter how |
| 1:29.5 | rightly the sun may be shining, dark clouds are always hanging over their head. |
| 1:36.2 | It's like an unrelenting depression that makes them want to curl up in a ball, pull the |
| 1:41.4 | covers over their head and just shut out the world. |
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