Is too much nutritional advice making anxiety worse?
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this episode I am joined by GQ Jordan to talk about nutrition. Not just the foods we should ease off when we are anxious, or eat more of to support our mental health and nervous system but the cultural noise around nutrition, all or nothing extreme advice and label-related anxiety. Is our health anxiety worsening because we have too much information? Is the information we are receiving blown out of proportion for clickbait reasons? Are we becoming more worried about our nutrition than we need to be? It's all in this episode and GQ calmly takes us right back to basics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, your host and author |
| 0:04.6 | Caroline Forin. I'm back with my expert guest episodes and my book has been released into the world. |
| 0:11.1 | I've let her go. It's been really well received so far. So thank you from the bottom of my heart. |
| 0:16.1 | If you have ordered a copy, if you've read it or if you're starting to read it, I would love to hear |
| 0:21.4 | what you think. This week, my guest is nutritionist GQ Jordan. She's Irish and she's living in the UK. |
| 0:28.6 | She has an enormous following and she's just a wealth of information when it comes to all |
| 0:33.1 | things nutrition. I didn't just want to talk about what to eat when we feel anxious or what to eat less |
| 0:38.7 | of when we feel anxious. I wanted to go a little bit deeper into more of the cultural, social, |
| 0:43.7 | psychological impact that the trends are having at the moment where we're being told to eat more |
| 0:49.4 | of this and less of this and we're reading labels with a forensic tendency and I am concerned that there is more |
| 0:57.2 | anxiety around food that is probably unnecessary or exaggerated and we have access to too much |
| 1:04.9 | information so there's a lot going on there and I know a lot of my friends personally are their |
| 1:10.6 | health anxiety can be really |
| 1:12.4 | impacted by this so it's a conversation I wanted to tease apart with someone who's in that space |
| 1:17.8 | who's creating content daily and helping people get back to basics about what their body really |
| 1:22.6 | needs and the importance of balance and simplicity and moderation thank you so much for listening and I'll be back |
| 1:30.6 | soon. GQ Jordan, thank you so much for joining me on owning it the Anxiety podcast. It's so |
| 1:37.7 | lovely to have you. Thank you for having me. I'm delighted to be here and really excited to get |
| 1:42.4 | stuck into some of the topics that we'll cover here today. Yeah, I think it's a really interesting one. I suppose when people |
| 1:49.2 | think of you're a nutritionist, they think of nutrition and anxiety. They're probably going to |
| 1:53.7 | think of what foods to eat to help anxiety. But I'd love to come at it from a couple of different |
| 1:59.0 | angles. I think absolutely it's really important to know the foods and things that we can do to our body to help us manage better. |
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