The Brain Gut Connection

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Why does food do our heads in?

This episode is a panel recording from 2024 Abergavenny Food Festival with a live audience.

Sheila Dillon is joined by Chef Heston Blumenthal, who recently went public about his diagnosis of bi-polar, and having ADHD (Attention Deficit hyperactivity disorder); chartered psychologist Kimberley Wilson, the author of "Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis"; Natalie Hackett the Headteacher of New Lubbesthorpe Primary School in Leicestershire who was crowned School Leader Food Hero of 2024, at the Jamie Oliver School Food Awards; and Dr Ally Jaffee, co-founder of Nutritank, an organisation set up to make sure that future doctors learned that food, along with exercise, is central to health. Dr Jaffee is now a resident doctor specialising in psychiatry.

The discussion focussed on the known connections between food and mental health, from childhood through to old age.

Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast I'd like to tell you why I love
0:03.7	podcasting. I'm Natasha Aronson I'm an assistant commissioner for the BBC and I work on
0:09.4	making podcasts my real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest
0:16.9	stars who can really bring those stories to life.
0:20.1	I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final edit.
0:26.4	There's nothing like it. What makes BBC Podcast special is that we're working for you.
0:31.0	So whatever we commission has to reflect the things that you care about and love wherever you are in the
0:36.0	UK. So if you like this BBC podcast, there's so much more to discover. Have a listen on BBC Sounds.
0:47.0	BBC Sounds. B. C Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. Hello and welcome to the Abig of any Food Festival and I'm Sheila Dillon,
0:52.0	presenter of the Food Program on BBC Radio 4.
0:55.4	And for people at home or inside a vast tent decorated amazingly with lots of embroidered stuffed
1:02.1	vegetables, this is the dome. with lots of embroidered stuffed vegetables.
1:03.0	This is the dome inside the walls of Abigavini castle.
1:07.0	It's been here since the 11th century,
1:09.0	and now where the discussions at this remarkable festival usually happen. What we're
1:15.1	discussing today is what the industrial food that's taken over our country, the
1:19.7	world, the food that this festival stands against is doing to our brains, our moods, and our
1:26.2	ability to think?
1:27.7	It's a serious question.
1:29.5	So we're going to get serious with four people who know the subject from different angles and who both
1:35.8	have experience and knowledge. First of all, Chef Heston Blumenthal, who recently went public about his diagnosis of bipolar and having ADHD,
1:47.9	attention deficit hyperactive disorder.
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