Lucinda Miller: Neurodivergence, brain health, and ultraprocessed foods
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
What you eat is having a direct effect on your mood and behaviour. Naturopath and functional medicine practitioner Lucinda Miller wants to help your brain thrive.
In this chat with Fearne, Lucinda talks about her own ADHD diagnosis and how changing her eating habits has changed her ability to cope with day-to-day life.
Learn what it means to have a neurodivergent brain, and how symptoms can be managed with diet and nutrition. A neurodivergent brain may use five times the brain area of a neurotypical brain to do just one simple task, so proper fuelling with nutritious food is essential.
Lucinda talks through the nutrients that best support emotional regulation, memory and mood, regardless of whether you’re neurodivergent or not. Plus, how the antibiotics you took years ago might still be affecting your gut health, and in turn, how your brain functions.
Lucinda’s book, Brain Brilliance, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that helps support your |
| 0:05.9 | mental well-being. Today I'm chatting to Lucinda Miller. I have ADHD, I got |
| 0:11.6 | diagnosed when I was 31 and I love my brain. But at that point I didn't love my brain. I was in chaos and I thought I want to do this through diet so the first thing I did was to eat a really high protein breakfast and it made such a massive difference to my whole day. |
| 0:28.2 | So it's certainly not about curing. It's about looking at the situation, look at that specific person's situation and thinking, |
| 0:35.0 | how am I going to help their brain to work the best they can. |
| 0:37.4 | Lucinda has over 25 years experience as a family naturopath and functional medicine practitioner. |
| 0:45.0 | She runs a UK wide team of nutritional therapists |
| 0:48.1 | specializing in child nutrition and neurodivergence. And she's a mentor for kids with ADHD and autism too. |
| 0:57.0 | Now I was so taken with her new book, Brain Brilliant, that I just absolutely had to ask her to come over to mine and have a |
| 1:05.3 | chat to properly dig into the connection between what we eat and how our brain functions, |
| 1:12.0 | which I think we still seriously |
| 1:15.0 | underestimate. |
| 1:16.4 | And that's why I'm fascinated about this subject. |
| 1:18.7 | We talk a lot about parenting and feeding neurodivergent kids in particular, but to be quite honest, even if you're not a parent and you don't know anyone with neurodivergence, which I do suspect is actually quite unlikely. You'll learn so so much about how your |
| 1:35.6 | dire is impacting your brain health and yeah that basically means your mood and |
| 1:40.9 | your behavior. So I think there's loads that we can all take away from this |
| 1:45.1 | chat. This is a paid advertisement from Better Help. Now I wonder if there's something you'd |
| 1:49.8 | absolutely love to learn to do because as adults I'm not sure we make enough time to learn new things |
| 1:55.3 | that concept of trying something without knowing if we're going to be any good at it is sort of lost in our |
| 2:01.4 | childhoods something I want to learn and I say |
| 2:05.1 | this every year is Spanish. Come on, come on fan, you can do it. I've got to do it. |
| 2:11.1 | This is the year guys. I really do think it's so vital to stay curious and learn and keep growing as adults. |
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