The Top Foods in Our Diet That Contribute to Increased Anxiety with Dr. Uma Naidoo

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Whoop, and JOOV. Anxiety diagnoses have been on the rise, especially in a post-pandemic world. With more and more people suffering from anxiety in our stressful lifestyles, it can be challenging to find a path forward and calm our minds. But we know that anxiety can be a powerful signal from our body that change needs to occur. One change we can implement immediately is changing what we eat daily. Our food has the power to lower inflammation in our body, enhance gut bacteria, and ultimately change how we feel. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Dr. Uma Naidoo, a Harvard trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef, and Nutrition Specialist. Dr. Naidoo shares the research that shows the connection between the foods we eat and how we feel. She also shares the common myths about anxiety and lifestyle factors that can increase our anxiety, including ultra-processed foods, lack of fiber, and a sedentary lifestyle. Dr. Naidoo shows us how to fill our plates with foods and incorporate anxiety-busting foods into our diet. Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based clinical service in Nutritional Psychiatry in the US. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of This is Your Brain on Food, and her new book, Calm Your Mind with Food, focuses on anxiety, the gut brain connection, and practical tools to calm our minds. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Naidoo dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): The common misconceptions about anxiety (1:44 / 1:44) The foods in our diet and lifestyle factors that have increased anxiety (5:53 / 5:53) The interlink between the brain and the body in relationship to anxiety (10:12 / 7:48) Fried foods and what they cause in your body (12:00 / 9:30) How to know if you have a healthy metabolism (17:09 / 14:46) Dr. Naidoo’s journey with anxiety (23:32 / 21:10) The truth about foods that are marketed as “healthy” (33:14 / 29:04) The importance of dietary fiber in our diets (38:12 / 34:00) Leptin resistance (40:37 / 36:16) The impact of a sedentary lifestyle on anxiety (42:50 / 38:38) Dr. Naidoo’s patient testimonials (48:41 / 44:30) Protein for satiety (51:40 / 47:17) Foods and recipes Dr. Naidoo loves (58:00 / 53:50) Dr. Naidoo’s cancer diagnosis journey (1:01:44 / 57:25) Also mentioned in this episode Preorder Book Bonuses from Dr. Naidoo Access more than 3,000 specialty lab tests with Rupa Health. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com today. WHOOP is a personalized digital fitness tracker. To get yours, go to join.whoop.com/dhru and get your first month free. Right now, Joovv is offering an exclusive offer on your first order. Head over to Joovv.com/dhru and apply my code DHRU. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Restaur, which is most times that we are consuming fried foods, they are using oils that are highly processed and an
0:08.0	inflammation driving oils. They are driving inflammation inside of our bodies. Once you start to drive
0:13.1	inflammation in the gut you are starting to drive inflammation in the brain which we've
0:17.6	covered in the past, gut and brain are connected and therefore the inflammation in
0:21.9	the gut leads to inflammation in the brain.
0:23.6	So an anxious gut is an anxious brain.
0:27.6	Hi one, welcome to the Droop Road show.
0:31.4	This week's guest is Dr Uma Naidu.
0:33.9	Dr. Naidu is a Harvard trained psychiatrist,
0:36.4	professional chef and nutrition specialist.
0:38.4	Her niche work is at the intersection of nutrition and psychiatry.
0:42.3	It's called nutritional
0:43.2	psychiatry and she is regarded as both nationally and internationally as a
0:47.4	medical pioneer in this field Dr Naidu founded and directed the first hospital
0:52.2	based clinical service in
0:53.6	nutritional psychiatry in the United States. She's the director of
0:56.6	nutritional lifestyle psychiatry at Mass General Hospital while serving on the
1:01.2	faculty at Harvard Medical School.
1:02.8	She is the author of This is Your Brain on Food.
1:05.0	That was her first book,
1:06.0	as well as her new book, which is out now,
1:08.0	which is about calming your mind with food.
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