S9 EP8: How food can support your mental health

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we discuss how diet plays a role in our mood - and which foods or food groups have been linked to positive and negative impacts on our mental health.

Our guest today is Felice Jacka - a Professor of Nutritional Psychiatry, Co-Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University, and founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. She has written two books including Brain changer & the very popular children’s book “There’s a Zoo in my Poo”.

This episode covers:*what is nutritional psychiatry?

*The role diet plays in our mental health.
*The SMILE’s trial *foods that support our mental health - & those that don’t
*The gut-brain axis
*The role of supplements

Please note: if you are struggling with your mental health you should seek the advice and support of your GP as a matter of priority

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Food Medic Podcast. I'm your host as always, Dr. Hazel.
0:08.7	One of my favourite topics is how food and diet impacts our mental health and vice-versa.
0:14.6	So today we're taking a deep dive into that topic with one of the world's leading researchers
0:20.2	in this field. For this episode I'm joined by Professor Felice Jaca, whose work I've
0:25.6	been following for a long time and often share her research in my content on social media
0:31.2	and on the Food Medic Hub, so excuse any fan-girly moments in the episode.
0:35.9	By way of introduction Felice Jaca is Professor of Nutritional Psychiatry, co-director of the
0:41.8	Food and Mood Centre at Deacon University and founder and president of the International
0:47.2	Society of Nutritional Psychiatry Research. Professor Jaca has been responsible for the
0:52.3	development of the highly innovative field nutritional psychiatry, establishing diet as a
0:57.5	risk factor in treatment target for common mental disorders. She has written two books including
1:03.6	Brain Changer and the very popular children's book, There's a Zoo in my Pooh. In this episode
1:08.9	we discuss how diet plays a role in our mood, which foods or food groups have been linked to positive
1:14.1	and negative mental health outcomes. Today's episode is brought to you by Woop. If you're weekly
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