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The School of Greatness

How Diet Affects Your Mental & Physical Health w/Dr. Uma Naidoo EP 1214

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Inspiration, Greatness, Health, Money, Celebrity Interview, Self Care, Celebrity, Success, Mental Health, Relationships, Mindset, Health & Fitness, Education, Alternative Health, Business, Self-improvement

4.821.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Dr. Uma Naidoo. She’s described as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space as a Harvard trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef, and a trained Nutrition Specialist. Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the United States and is the best-selling author of This Is Your Brain On Food, where she shows the cutting-edge science explaining the ways in which food contributes to our mental health and how a sound diet can help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues, from ADHD to anxiety, depression, OCD, and others. In this episode we discuss the best and worst foods for your health, the benefits and negative effects of different types of foods, how to optimize your brain health, how to develop strong nutritional habits and drop the unhealthy habits and so much more! For more go to: www.lewishowes.com/1214 Get Dr. Naidoo's book: https://book.umanaidoomd.com The Wim Hof Experience: Mindset Training, Power Breathing, and Brotherhood: https://link.chtbl.com/910-pod A Scientific Guide to Living Longer, Feeling Happier & Eating Healthier with Dr. Rhonda Patrick: https://link.chtbl.com/967-pod The Science of Sleep for Ultimate Success with Shawn Stevenson: https://link.chtbl.com/896-pod

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is episode number 1,214 with Dr. Uma Naidu.

0:07.0

Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howes.

0:12.0

A former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur.

0:15.0

In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.

0:23.0

Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

0:30.0

Welcome back my friend today's guest is Dr. Uma Naidu.

0:34.0

And she is described as the world's first triple threat in the food and medicine space as a Harvard trained psychiatrist, professional chef, and trained nutritional specialist.

0:46.0

And Dr. Naidu founded and directs the first hospital based nutritional psychiatric service in the United States.

0:54.0

And is the best selling author of This Is Your Brain on Food, where she shows the cutting edge science explaining the ways in which food contributes to our mental health and how a sound diet can help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues from ADHD to anxiety, depression, OCD and others.

1:15.0

This is fascinating stuff on how our brain is constantly being affected by the foods we eat.

1:22.0

So in this episode we discussed the best and worst foods for your mental health.

1:27.0

The benefits and negative effects of different types of foods, how to optimize your brain health, how to develop strong nutritional habits and drop the unhealthy habits and so much more.

1:38.0

I really love this episode and I know there's so much we can do to prevent the stress and anxiety and worry that could potentially come in our futures and a lot of it comes down to the nutritional optimization of the brain foods that we could eat on a daily basis.

1:54.0

So if you're inspired by this, make sure to share this with someone that you think this would be helpful for as well and spread the message of greatness forward to a friend or post it on social media.

2:03.0

You can use the link LewisHaus.com slash 1 2 1 4 or copy and paste on Apple podcast Spotify or wherever you're listening to this show and I give a big thank you to the fan of the week.

2:14.0

This is from Canupria who said, I love this podcast to the core as it is the most real people with real information and I've been through a very rough phase and this podcast keeps me very positive.

2:27.0

The reason it's the best podcast is that the people, especially those related to the medical field, are eye openers for me and explain every detail wonderfully.

2:36.0

Canupria, I'm so happy that you're getting a lot of value and inspiration from the different medical guests that we have on but also just all the great guests in general.

2:45.0

So thank you for leaving a review over on Apple podcast and being the fan of the week.

2:50.0

Okay, in just a moment, the one and only Dr. Uma Nidu.

2:59.0

This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp Online Therapy.

3:02.0

We talk about BetterHelp a lot in this show and this month we're discussing some of the stigmas around mental health.

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