Hello and welcome to the wellness mama podcast. I'm Katie from wellness mama.com and this

episode is about your brain on food and how our diets affect our mental health.

And I'm here with someone who Michelin Star Chef David Boulia described as the world's

first triple threat in the food of medicine space.

Dr Uma and I do is a Harvard trained psychiatrist, a professional chef, and a

trained nutritional specialist. So she unites three worlds in her work. And the combination

of her interest have led to the niche of nutritional psychiatry.

She's also the best-selling author of This is Your Brain on Food and her new book,

Calm Your Mind with Food. And in this particular episode we go deep on how just how much food affects

mental health. We all know that food affects our bodies, but she explains the science of how it really impacts

our mental health as well, including things like how the vast majority of our

serotonin is produced and lives in our gut. And so changing our focus to improving our mental health

through food can be highly effective and

especially important for our kids developing brains. So without any further

weight, let's jump in and join Dr Uma and I do. Dr. Uma, welcome.

Thank you so much for being here.

Katie, thank you so much for having me.

I've been so excited to be a new good podcast.

Well, I'm very excited to chat with you as well.

It's not every day I get to talk to you. I believe you were called a triple threat of being a psychiatrist, a chef, and a nutritional therapist as well. So you have quite the wide-ranging expertise and I think especially relevant to a lot of our moms who are listening because moms are the ones making a lot of the nutritional choices for families.

And I think that's a perfect diving endpoint actually. You have a very popular book and I want to make sure we get into some of the things you talk about the idea of your brain on food because I think you know it's well talked about of course how our food impacts our bodies but I feel like it's not as well

talked about how the foods that we put in our body impact our mental health and our brain and so many

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