ICYMI: This is your brain on food with Dr. Uma Naidoo (Part 1)
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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TW: suicide
Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Nutritional Psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, best-selling author, professional chef, and more. She joins your hosts today to discuss how the gut and brain are connected, the importance of what food you eat, and the link between mental and metabolic health. She shares what drew her to this field of medicine, how our diet is linked to our brain, and offers quick and easy recipes that can make a big difference for shift workers. She touches on foods that support your mental health, foods to support people going through fertility treatments, and discusses her new project: the first CME program in nutritional psychiatry with Mass General.
Be sure to follow Dr. Uma Naidoo @drumanaidoo. To get a copy of her book and sign up for her newsletter visit umanaidoomd.com
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:19.9 | Happy Friday Woman, fam, Jack here. |
| 0:23.1 | Danny is out with a bit of a migraine. |
| 0:25.7 | If you get bygreens, you know it is anything but a bit of a bygrain. |
| 0:30.1 | I get migraines and they are absolutely debilitating. |
| 0:34.3 | There is absolutely nothing I can do about them. |
| 0:39.7 | They're just the worst. So please send Danny your love and make sure she is taken care of herself with this terrible migraine. |
| 0:46.6 | This week, we are re-releasing one of our most downloaded episodes of all time with Dr. Uma Nidu. Because next week, you guessed it, we are having her on |
| 0:57.6 | for an incredible part two to build off today's episode, part one. In case you missed it last time, |
| 1:05.2 | Dr. Uma Nidu is a nutritional psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, a best-selling author, |
| 1:10.3 | professional chef, and so much more. |
| 1:13.4 | We have her on to discuss the gut-brain connection and mostly this connection between food and your |
| 1:21.4 | mental health. We dive into her book, This is Your Brain on Food, which let me tell you was such an incredible |
| 1:29.1 | resource for me. I found it about two years ago and just devoured this book. I've talked about |
| 1:36.5 | this before, but you may know I have struggled on and off with depression for the last few years. |
| 1:43.4 | I'm on an SSRI. I talk to my therapist. I do all the |
| 1:48.3 | things to manage and with lots of success, which is amazing. But it takes a lot of time. |
| 1:57.0 | Anyway, I found Dr. Nidu's book and immediately after reading it and specifically focusing on her chapter on depression and what foods can really help you if you are struggling with depression, but also what foods to avoid if you're struggling with depression or any other mental health illness. |
| 2:19.7 | I knew we had to have her on. So last year we reached out to her team and I was so beyond grateful that she said yes. |
| 2:25.5 | So this first part one again is talking all about her book. This is your brain on food because |
| 2:31.0 | she has released a second book. Calm your mind with food nutritional strategies |
| 2:37.5 | specifically for anxiety. So we're going to dive into anxiety and her second book in our part |
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