The Pegan Diet: Eat To Boost Mood
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Believe it or not, food can be a powerful tool to improve our mood and brain health; it can actually make us happier. Every single brain disorder—depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, dementia, behavior problems, violence, and just plain old brain fog—is linked to diet, and often to the impact of our diet on our gut microbiome. Yet most people don’t realize the profound connection between what we eat and our brain function. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman discusses how to eat to boost your mood, the seventeenth principle in his new book, “The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World” available now at pegandiet.com
The Pegan Diet is Dr. Hyman’s definitive guide to using food as medicine and understanding how food impacts every system of our body. It has 21 easy-to-follow principles for anyone, regardless of where they are on their health journey. It also contains 30 delicious Pegan-approved recipes. Get your copy today!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy. |
| 0:02.8 | If you are having swings and blood sugar, your mood's going to be all over the place. |
| 0:06.2 | You're going to be depressed, anxious, scattered, and at worst. |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman and that's pharmacy with an FFARM |
| 0:17.8 | MACY place for conversations that matter. And if you want to know about how food affects your mood, |
| 0:22.4 | listen up because this is a special mini episode of the doctor's pharmacy about my new book, |
| 0:27.5 | The Pagan Diet, 21 Practical Principles for reclaiming your health in a nutritionally |
| 0:33.4 | confusing world. You can go to pegan diet.com and order a copy right now. Please do. I'd love |
| 0:38.1 | you to have one. It's pretty awesome. One of my paper books ever I've written. |
| 0:41.8 | And it's a way to simplify nutrition thinking and nutrition science in two practical principles. |
| 0:48.0 | It apply to everyone that are inclusive and that break down all the diet wars, paleo vegan. |
| 0:53.2 | That's kind of a joke, right, pegan sort of a cross between paleo vegan, which doesn't make any |
| 0:57.3 | sense, which is exactly why all the nutrition and diet wars don't make sense. And today, |
| 1:02.3 | we're going to cover one of the key principles in the book, Principle 17, Eat, Deboost, |
| 1:07.2 | Moode. Now, most of us know the food mooder connected. I mean, if we overeat, we feel like we have |
| 1:13.8 | a food coma, we get it. And we have a pretty tough time right now. We humans have faced a lot |
| 1:20.8 | of depressing stuff and a lot of obstacles, a pandemic, a flawed healthcare system, |
| 1:27.8 | economic, social and racial disparities. So many people lost their jobs and their businesses |
| 1:32.8 | closed. People died. I mean, a lot of people died. Depression is now the fourth most common |
| 1:39.9 | disease in the world. And the number one cause of disability. I mean, we've been through a lot. |
| 1:45.4 | We need support. We need to help ourselves. And food isn't the all the things that relate to |
| 1:51.1 | mood, obviously, but it is huge. It is a powerful tool to improve our mood and brain health. And it |
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