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The Food Medic

S9 EP8: How food can support your mental health

The Food Medic

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.83K 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome back to the FoodMedic podcast. I'm your host, as always, Dr. Hazel. One of my

0:39.1

favorite topics is how food and diet impacts our mental health and vice versa. So today,

0:45.1

we're taking a deep dive into that topic with one of the world's leading researchers in this

0:50.6

field. For this episode, I'm joined by Professor Felice Jaka, whose work I've been following

0:56.2

for a long time and often share her research in my content on social media and on the Food

1:02.0

Medic Hub, so excuse any fan-girly moments in the episode. By way of introduction, Felice

1:07.5

Jacka is Professor of Nutritional Psychiatry, co-director of the Food and Mood Centre at Deakin University, and founder and president of the International Society of Nutritional Psychiatry Research.

1:19.6

Professor Jaka has been responsible for the development of the highly innovative field in nutritional psychiatry, establishing diet as a risk factor in treatment

1:29.0

target for common mental disorders. She has written two books, including Brain Changer and the

1:34.8

very popular children's book, There's a Zoo in My Pooh. In this episode, we discuss how diet plays

1:40.2

a role in our mood, which foods or food groups have been linked to positive and negative

1:45.1

mental health outcomes. Today's episode is brought to you by Whoop. If you're a weekly listener

1:52.0

to the podcast, you already know what Whoop is because I'm always talking about it. So you

1:56.7

probably already know that Whoop is a digital health and fitness coach that specialises in

2:01.8

breaking down your recovery, sleep and workouts via a non-invasive wearable device and companion app.

2:08.8

But it's probably also worth talking about what Woop doesn't do. It's not going to ding on your

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tell you the time. What it does track is every heartbeat throughout your day and break down all

2:23.5

your data for you so you understand everything you need to know about your body. As a medical doctor,

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PT and nutritionist, this is the kind of data I love to geek out on. And over the years since wearing

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