SNR #117: Prof. Julia Rucklidge - Role of Micronutrients in Mental Health & Psychiatric Disorders

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🗓️ 19 April 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Episode 117: Professer Julia Rucklidge from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand discusses some of her research looking at using micronutrient provision in the treatment of mental health disorders, ADHD, depression and PTSD.

Clinical psychologist Professor Julia Rucklidge explores a range of scientific research, including her own, showing the significant role played by nutrition in mental health or illness.

Julia J Rucklidge, PhD is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Originally from Toronto, she did her training in neurobiology (McGill) and Clinical Psychology (University of Calgary).

Her interests in nutrition and mental illness grew out of her own research showing poor outcomes for children with significant psychiatric illness despite receiving conventional treatments for their conditions. For the last 8 years, she has been investigating the role of micronutrients in the expression of mental illness, specifically ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, anxiety and more recently, stress and PTSD associated with the Canterbury earthquakes.

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0:00.0	So we've done studies on ADHD, where we've shown compared to placebo, that the nutrients are an effective way of improvement of attention,
0:13.0	reduction of impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
0:16.0	We've done studies after the Canterbury earthquakes, we've looked at post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
0:21.6	We've seen reductions in that really quite remarkable reductions actually even following
0:27.6	a very acute exposure to nutrients. We just think that the nutrients gets completely used up in the fight-flight response,
0:33.6	that there's nothing left for the rest of the body to function. So we think we're just giving enough nutrients such that you can also dedicate some nutrition
0:42.6	to handling stress and being able to cope with the ongoing stressors associated with those. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am your host, Danny Lennon, and you are listening to episode 117. For those you are perhaps
1:15.2	new to the podcast, then what you can really expect is in-depth discussions every week with some
1:21.5	of the brightest minds involved in nutrition and performance, whether that's from research
1:26.3	or whether they're putting that into
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1:32.3	subscribe on whatever podcast app you're listening on right now. And so you can keep up to
1:38.6	date with the show and get updated as soon as new episodes are out. Today's particular episode is with Dr. Julia Rucledge,
1:47.0	who is a professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology
1:52.0	at the University of Canterbury, which is based in Christchurch in New Zealand.
1:57.0	Her interests in nutrition and mental illness
2:00.0	basically grew from her own research that initially started showing poor outcomes for children with significant psychiatric illness despite receiving conventional treatment for their conditions.
2:11.7	And really over the past eight years, she has been investigating the role of micronutrient specifically in the expression of
2:20.2	mental illness, including things like ADHD, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and then more recently
2:27.9	did some really cool stuff on stress and PTSD. That was kind of centered around the Canterbury earthquakes, which we all saw about in the news.
2:36.8	So some really, really exciting stuff and trying to tackle these broad spectrum of things from something as crucial,
2:45.9	but maybe we don't always link it in terms of micronutrients and how that nutrition can actually maybe play
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