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Change Your Brain Every Day

This Is Your Brain on Food with Dr. Uma Naidoo

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This episode features information, tips, and how to's on food and its effects on the brain. Dr. Uma Naidoo is the director of nutritional and lifestyle psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, writer for the Harvard Health blog, and author of the book "This is Your Brain on Food".

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse.

0:07.1

Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day.

0:17.3

Welcome, everyone, to a very special week and a very special guest talking about a topic that is

0:24.9

critically important. And dear to us. To the Brain Warriors Way, we are here with Dr. Uma

0:32.7

Nidu, who is a boardified psychiatrist from Harvard Medical School,

0:39.3

professional chef, I love that, Cambridge School of Culinary Arts,

0:44.9

and nutrition specialists.

0:47.5

This is the combination of the future.

0:51.2

She is currently the director of nutritional and lifestyle psychiatry at the Massachusetts

0:58.1

General Hospital, where she consults on nutritional interventions for the psychiatrically and medically

1:05.2

ill director of nutrition psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital Academy and has a private practice in Newton, Massachusetts.

1:17.5

She also teaches at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and speaks frequently at conferences at Harvard for Goop audiences.

1:26.7

I got to do that. That was super fun.

1:30.6

Blogs for Harvard Health and Psychology. Thank you for inviting me. Yes, I can't believe this

1:37.2

idea of actually working with people with mental health and using food. And that is actually

1:43.7

your specialty is so amazing.

1:45.7

And I remember when we did many years ago,

1:47.6

tried to,

1:48.5

well,

1:48.7

we did plant food and nutrition into one of the largest chemical addiction

1:54.2

recovery programs in the country.

1:56.5

And what a battle it was.

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