How to Feed Your Brain with Harvard-Trained Experts Dr. Srini and Dr. Uma
Abel James Show
Abel James Bascom
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Are your nutritional choices building resilience and longevity, or quietly feeding inflammation, burnout, and creeping disease?
If you’re done with extreme diet dogma and want a science-backed way to eat for your brain and your future—this one’s for you.
In today’s special episode, I'm thrilled to be here with two incredible Harvard-Trained Doctors and dear friends: Dr. Srini Pillay, psychiatrist, brain scientist, and musician, and Dr. Uma Naidoo, a pioneering nutritional psychiatrist, chef, and best-selling author known for her “mood food” creations.
In this episode with a couple of brilliant docs, you'll hear:
- How to enjoy treats like chocolate cake and hot dogs guilt-free without sending yourself into a shame spiral
- The story of a patient who transformed his mental health by changing one daily habit before breakfast
- How art, poetry, and music can rewire your brain and support longevity just as powerfully as diet and exercise
- The shocking truth about women’s health research, and how nutritional psychiatry is finally starting to close the gap
Longevity Retreat on Singer Island, FL (May 29 - 31, 2026)
What: Self-Reinvention & Longevity Retreat with Dr. Srini Pillay, Dr. Uma Naidoo and Abel James
When: May 29 - 31, 2026
Where: Amrit Ocean Resort on Singer Island in Florida (3100 N Ocean Dr, Riviera Beach, FL 33404)
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Find Dr. Srini Pillay and his work at:
- Join us for upcoming events and retreats: https://dspmedia.ai/jointhesociety/
- Join us online: https://dspmedia.ai/thesocietyonline/
- Website: https://drsrinipillay.com/
- Harvard Health Publishing: https://www.health.harvard.edu/authors/srini-pillay-md
- Law of Attraction Course: https://loacourse.drsrinipillay.com/
- Substack: https://drsrinipillay.substack.com/
- Medium: https://drsrinipillay.medium.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SriniPillayMD/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsrinipillay/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsrinipillay
- Join us for an in-person retreat: Longevity Retreat in FL (May 29 - 31, 2026)
- Website: https://umanaidoomd.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drumanaidoo
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrUmaNaidoo/
- X: https://x.com/drumanaidoo
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/uma-naidoo-m-d-93813860/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.umanaidoo
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drumanaidoo
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| 0:00.0 | Hey all, this is Abel James, and thanks so much for joining us on the show. |
| 0:04.9 | Does splurging on late-night takeout quietly rewire your brain like a drug? |
| 0:09.8 | Are your nutritional choices building resilience and longevity, |
| 0:13.2 | or quietly feeding inflammation, burnout, and creeping disease? |
| 0:17.6 | If you're done with extreme dietary dogma and want a science-backed way to eat for |
| 0:22.7 | your brain and for your future, this episode is for you. In today's special episode, I'm thrilled |
| 0:28.5 | to be here with the incredible Harvard-trained doctors and dear friends, Dr. Shreeni Pouet, |
| 0:34.0 | psychiatrist, brain scientist, and musician, and Dr. Uman Nidu, a pioneering nutritional |
| 0:39.7 | psychiatrist, chef, and best-selling author known for her mood food creations. Now, some exciting |
| 0:45.5 | news before we get to the show. I just got back from Nashville laying down tracks for a brand |
| 0:50.4 | new musical album of original tunes with the incredible Denny Hemingson, who's been the band leader of the Tim McGraw band. He's about to go on tour pretty soon, so we're trying to get everything wrapped up real soon, but still laying down tracks. Stay tuned. I'm really happy about how this is coming out. Also, on the musical side, I've been doing a lot of live shows and playing a live show tonight in Austin, then packing up the rig and driving to Vegas to play a show out there and go on tour for a little bit. |
| 1:15.2 | But then we'll be back in Austin playing a lot more live shows than going on tour to some other surprise places this summer. |
| 1:21.3 | So if you'd like to stay up to date about that and some upcoming speaking events, live events where we can meet in person, as well as some |
| 1:29.0 | retreats at Omrit Ocean Resort and more featuring Dr. Umah as well as Dr. Shrini. Please join my |
| 1:35.7 | newsletter at abeljames.com. That's abel james.com. Sign up for the newsletter. We'll send |
| 1:41.6 | you a quick little surprise as a thanks for doing so. And you can stay up to date about all of the cool stuff that's coming down the pike. Also, if you're looking to upgrade your habits and get transformative results without any newfangled peptides, pharmaceuticals, or other ridiculously expensive biohacking equipment, we have a brand new habits app launching very soon, and you can also join our Club Wild |
| 2:03.8 | community and find the new app at wildrx.com. |
| 2:08.3 | That's wildrrx.com. |
| 2:10.1 | All right, in this episode with a couple of brilliant docs from Harvard, you'll hear |
| 2:14.5 | how to enjoy treats like chocolate cake and hot dogs, guilt-free, without |
| 2:19.0 | sending yourself into a spiral of shame. The story of a patient who transformed his mental |
| 2:24.0 | health by changing one daily habit before breakfast. How art, poetry, and music can rewire your |
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