Re-Release: Eating for Mental Health with Professor Felice Jacka
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Food and Mood is the topic of the podcast this week where we’re talking about ‘Eating for Mental Health’ with Professor Felice Jacka, Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University in Australia.
Her book BRAIN CHANGER is all about how diet can save your mental health and tells the story of why we need to consider our food as the basis of our brain and mental health throughout our lives.
Prof Jacka first came on my radar when I heard of the SMILES trials - which we’ll talk about a in the Podcast. She is also founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) and pioneered a highly innovative program of research that examines how individual’s diets, and other lifestyle behaviours, interact with the risk for mental health problems.
Today we talk about:
- Where mental health begins
- Junk food and its impact on the adolescent brain
- Stress and its impact on the immune system
- The SMILES trials
- Including quality fats in your diet
- Making sure that you're getting fibre into your diet
- Flavonoids, colours and getting more plants onto people's plates
You’ll find the recipe video that I made with Professor Jacka, and our super interesting conversation - on my youtube channel go check it out online and there’s a link below too!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett's The Wellness Edit Podcast. The fifth series of |
| 0:05.6 | The Wellness Edit is out now. The prior four series are obviously still available to stream, |
| 0:10.8 | and this season I am a guest on the podcast. You can hear me chat to host Dr. Gemma Newman |
| 0:17.1 | about the connection between our diet, our mind, the importance of gratitude, and what wellness |
| 0:23.2 | means to me. You can also go back and listen to a whole back catalogue of interviews with guests |
| 0:28.9 | including Ella Mills, Dr. Rungan Chatterjee and Emma Gunns. Listen to the podcast on the Holland |
| 0:34.8 | and Barrett website, HollandandBarrett.com for a slash podcast, or search The Wellness Edit to |
| 0:40.8 | listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dr's Kitchen. Recipes Health Lifestyle. |
| 0:49.6 | Poor diet is now the leading cause of early death in men, and number two in women across the globe. |
| 0:55.4 | So the way our diets have changed is just so terrible and it's having such an impact on people's health. |
| 1:00.8 | And at the same time, mental disorders account for the leading global burden of disability. |
| 1:07.3 | Welcome to The Doctors Kitchen podcast. |
| 1:12.5 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine, and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor. I study nutrition. And I'm a firm believer |
| 1:25.3 | in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 1:31.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to |
| 1:37.0 | lead your best life. |
| 1:44.6 | Food and mood is the topic of the podcast this week where we're going to be talking about eating |
| 1:49.9 | for mental health with Professor Felice Jaka, Director of the Food and Moved Centre at Deakin |
| 1:54.4 | University in Australia. This is a re-release of the episode from a couple of years ago, |
| 1:59.8 | but just as relevant, me and the team are still putting together a collection of podcasts from |
| 2:06.3 | the recent conference on personalized and integrated medicine that you are going to absolutely |
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