This is your brain on food with Dr. Uma Naidoo
The WoMed
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
TW: suicide
Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Nutritional Psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, best-selling author, professional chef, and more. She joins your hosts today to discuss how the gut and brain are connected, the importance of what food you eat, and the link between mental and metabolic health. She shares what drew her to this field of medicine, how our diet is linked to our brain, and offers quick and easy recipes that can make a big difference for shift workers. She touches on foods that support your mental health, foods to support people going through fertility treatments, and discusses her new project: the first CME program in nutritional psychiatry with Mass General.
Be sure to follow Dr. Uma Naidoo @drumanaidoo. To get a copy of her book and sign up for her newsletter visit umanaidoomd.com
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:17.6 | Deep breath, Jack. |
| 0:19.8 | Do you know it just got delivered to me? |
| 0:22.3 | Like 15 minutes before we sat down to record. |
| 0:26.7 | You're newly? |
| 0:27.7 | No, not newly, but I did get like a really good order from them. |
| 0:31.0 | No. |
| 0:31.6 | What? |
| 0:32.4 | My meds for egg freezing. |
| 0:35.3 | There's so many. |
| 0:37.0 | There's so many, Jack. It was a very surreal moment. I'm |
| 0:42.1 | looking at all these, like, injectable pens and these things to, like, mix and solutions and, like, |
| 0:48.5 | have you had your initial meeting with Dr. Ulch yet? Yes, I have met with Dr. Ulcha. I'm getting my initial lab work done on Monday. And then the medications are in route. Yes. Yes, the meds are in route. So wait, so are these meds in your fridge? Yeah, they're in my fridge. I put them in the fridge right away. I wish you guys could see my face right now. I'm like... |
| 1:11.1 | I know. You're like those. |
| 1:16.2 | It's happening. Danielle, we're... |
| 1:17.8 | It's happening. |
| 1:19.0 | This is not something we're just talking about anymore. |
| 1:21.3 | No. Like, there are... |
| 1:23.4 | There are thousands of dollars worth of medication in my fridge right now. |
| 1:30.7 | Please, no one break in. |
| 1:32.3 | I know. |
| 1:33.4 | Just a quick update. |
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