Hello and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host, as always, Dr. Hazel.

This week I have one of my very first guests back on the podcast, Dr. Brendan Stubbs. I think he was

episode two from season one and I will make sure to drop the link in the show notes below if you

want to go back and listen to that episode first. Brendan is a physio and a leading researcher in physical activity, exercise and mental health

and the relationship between the mind and the body.

He has published over 650 international academic papers, which just blows my mind.

And his research has had substantial impact, for instance, informing

several World Health Organization guidelines. Brandon is currently an invited expert advising the

World Health Organization on their global response to mitigate the mental health impact from the

COVID-19 pandemic. So super important work. Since 2019, he's also been recognised by the

Web of Science as being a world highly cited, i.e., one of the world's most influential researchers

from over 8 million in the fields of mental health, psychiatry, psychology. Brendan and I

stayed in touch since season one, and since then he's obviously continued to just do

incredible research and do great work in the field of mental health. Personally, I really

admire him and his dedication to research so I'm super grateful that we could just grab him for an

hour of his time to have this chat today. We've obviously discussed the link between mood and our mental health

and the relationship between exercise before in the podcast. And I want to pick that conversation

back up and expand into other factors that influence our risk of poor mental health.

For those listening who are keen to get into research, Brendan also shares some helpful advice

on how to do this also.

I mean, first of all, I'd just love to start by asking you a little bit more about you.

I know we've done this before, but for people who don't maybe know who you are or what you do,

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