Is ultra-processed food changing your brain? - with Lucinda Miller
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Are ultra-processed foods affecting our brain health? Family naturopath and functional medicine practitioner Lucinda Miller joins Liz on this podcast to reveal how what we put into our mouths influences what happens in our brains.
Lucinda talks Liz through the links between ultra-processed foods and how they may affect our character, attention and behaviour. Plus, they discuss the emerging science surrounding the genetic components of conditions such as ADHD.
And Lucinda also reveals the key foods for brain health and overall wellbeing for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren. This episode also explores the potential benefits of botanicals such as saffron and lion's mane for neurodivergent brains.
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- Visit the Nature Doc website
- Purchase Brain Brilliance by Lucinda Miller
- Purchase A Better Second Half by Liz Earle
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| 0:00.0 | I think everyone can relate to those moments where they feel completely hyper, |
| 0:05.6 | their brain goes incredibly wizzy when they've had a very, very highly sugary food. |
| 0:10.8 | And if that's happening all day, every day, it's going to really, really derail someone. |
| 0:17.0 | It's going to really disrupt their ability to focus and concentrate and to learn, and it can really really throw up their mood so they become snappy and anger and irritable. |
| 0:30.0 | Well that is Lucinda Miller she wants us to understand just how significantly the food we eat |
| 0:36.0 | can affect how we think feel and function. Welcome to the Lizzo Well-being show, |
| 0:41.5 | the podcast helping us all have a better second half. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm Liz Earl and as I think you know I am on a bit of a mission to find ways for all of us to |
| 0:50.9 | thrive now and in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, you would have been hard-pressed to miss the recent tabloid Ferrari around whether there is a connection between ultra-processed food and ADHD. |
| 1:07.0 | More on that story shortly, but it's highlighted a bigger conversation we all need to be having about how what we put into our mouths |
| 1:14.9 | influences what happens in our brains and by extension our ability to cope with everyday life. |
| 1:21.2 | Lucinda Miller has over 25 years experience as a family naturopath and functional medicine |
| 1:27.8 | practitioner. |
| 1:28.8 | She's the founder of Nature Dock, a UK wide team of naturopaths and nutritional therapists, |
| 1:35.0 | specialising in child nutrition and neurodivergence. |
| 1:39.0 | Her latest book, Brain Brilliant, is truly brilliant, and it helps you or your children or |
| 1:45.5 | grandchildren make the most important connections between what you eat and |
| 1:49.6 | your mood, behavior and learning. So are ultra processed foods affecting our character, |
| 1:57.0 | attention and behavior and on the flip side are there foods that can really support our mental well-being? A Family Day Out with a Difference. |
| 2:15.0 | Join the race to help build the new Children's Cancer Center at Great Orman Street Hospital. |
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