Dr. Uma Naidoo has been described as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space: a Harvard trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef graduating with her culinary schools’ most coveted award, and a trained Nutrition Specialist. Her nexus of interests have found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry.
Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the United States. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at MGH Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She was considered Harvard’s Mood-Food expert and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Naidoo is also the national best selling author of This Is Your Brain On Food.
In her book, she shows the cutting-edge science explaining the ways in which food contributes to our mental health and how a sound diet can help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues, from ADHD to anxiety, depression, OCD, and others.
Follow Dr. Naidoo on Instagram here: @drumanaidoo
Learn more about her, her book, and her online class here: https://umanaidoomd.com
01:00 This is Your Brain on Food with Guest Dr. Uma Naidoo
03:00 Introducing Dr. Uma Naidoo
04:30 Will leads Opening Grounding Practice (~3 minutes)
07:00 Dr. Naidoo’s journey to Nutritional Psychology
11:00 The Neuroscience of the Mind/Gut Connection
15:00 The Western Diet is S.A.D.
17:00 What is a microbiome and why you should care
21:30 Diet as a solution to illness and disease
25:00 Caffeine - Friend or Foe?
26:30 Calculating Alcohol Consumption, or why you needed math class
29:00 Hang-xiety = Hangover + Anxiety
32:00 Proactive vs Reactive ways to deal with Anxiety
35:00 When sugar isn’t sugar
37:00 Processed foods are depressing in so many ways
39:30 Food Fog is Real
42:30 Micronutrients as medicine
45:30 Omega-3s are super brain fuel
50:00 One thing you can do today
52:00 Add a little spice to your life
56:30 Jon leads Closing Grounding Practice (~2 minutes)
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