Hello and welcome to the Food Medic podcast. I'm Dr. Hazel Wallace, founder of the Food Medic. I'm a qualified doctor,

personal trainer, blogger and bestselling author of the books of Food Medic and the Food Medic for life.

I'm passionate about maximising our health through how we live our lives, including the food that we eat,

physical activity and stress management.

We will hear from leading experts in their field who will be sharing evidence-based advice

on how we can live healthier lives, and we will cut through the confusing information that we find online.

I like to think of myself as one of the first of a new generation of doctors.

Thank you. I like to think of myself as one of the first of a new generation of doctors.

Hello and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm Dr. Hazel Wallace and today I'm going to be discussing mental health, exercise and diet with today's guest, Brendan Stubbs. Welcome, Brendan.

Brendan is head of physiotherapy at a large mental health trust and is a clinical lecturer at the Institute of

Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. His research focuses on how

physical activity can improve mental health and how keeping a healthy body keeps the mind healthy

and vice versa and how lifestyle contributes to healthy aging. Brendan has published over

350 academic papers and has recently co-authored a book detailing the evidence for the use

of physical activity to improve mental health and many mental illnesses. Wow, that's so

impressive. Welcome to the podcast, Brendan. Thank you so much for inviting me, Hazel.

I'm so excited to speak to you today because on a personal and professional level, I'm so interested on the benefits of physical activity on not just our physical health, but our mental health.

And I feel like we're only touching the surface on what we know already.

Absolutely. It's a really exciting time to be in a particular field because, you know, like,

you know, yourself and probably many of the listeners is when I engage in exercise, I feel pretty good

about myself. And we've known that anecdotal sort of personal feelings for quite some time,

but we're really starting to get the evidence together now to really put some robust science

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