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Dr. Uma Naidoo is 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. Clean 15 --> https://bit.ly/3Dh8VEV Dirty Dozen --> https://bit.ly/3qo6BYR

Dr. Marya and Raj both have amazing work that they have done and continue to do, this background will not do them justice, but to give you a glimpse of who they are, Dr. Marya is a physician, activist, artist and writer who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the founder and executive director of the Deep Medicine Circle worker-directed nonprofit committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration. Through her work she earned her trust from Indigenous communities where she lives, in Ohlone territory and in places where she has served. In 2016, she was invited to Standing Rock to assist with medical response to increasing state violence towards indigenous people. Dr. Marya advocates for creating a culture of care as the most effective way to manifest impactful change in population health. She believes the interruption of ways of caring through colonial structures disproportionately causes the suffering of Black, Brown and Indigenous people around the world. Rupa is also the composer and front-woman for Rupa and the April Fishes. Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. The second book he authored, The Value of Nothing, was a New York Times and international best-seller. His first film that he co-directed, filmed over the course of a decade in Malawi and the United States, is the award-winning documentary The Ants & The Grasshopper. Together they authored a very important book: Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice Purchase their book here: https://amzn.to/3BvG2Ty

Dr. Michael Goran is Professor of Pediatrics in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is Program Director for Diabetes and Obesity at The Saban Research Institute. Dr. Goran also serves as Co-Director of the USC Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute. Dr. Goran’s research has focused on the causes and consequences of childhood obesity for 30 years. His work is focused on understanding the metabolic factors linking obesity to increased disease risk during growth and development. This information is used to create new clinical, behavioral and community approaches for prevention, treatment and risk reduction. Dr. Goran has published over 350 professional peer-reviewed articles and reviews. He and his co author, Dr. Emily Ventura wrote a book titled Sugarproof. Dr. Emily Ventura is a nutrition educator, public health advocate, writer, and cook. The focus of our conversation today is around their amazing book Sugarproof. https://sugarproofkids.com/

Jake Goodman is a Psychiatry Resident Doctor with an MD/MBA Degree. He is the most followed mental health physician on social media with over 1.4 million followers and uses his platform to advocate for mental health and empower those with mental illness to seek life-saving treatment. ‍He is also the CEO and Founder of Mental Health Movement, a mental health action campaign that has raised over $10,000 for mental health nonprofits and scholarships.

Professor Howard Mielke is a Research Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at TUlane University. His research focuses on environmental signaling and human health. In recognizing the increasing importance of people living in cities, he has been researching and evaluating the status of the urban environment and its chemical impact on human health and disease. For more, visit medicineexplained.org

Dr. Enrique Salmón is a Rarámuri (Tarahumara) and ethnobotanist. He feels indigenous cultural concepts of the natural world are only part of a complex and sophisticated understanding of landscapes and biocultural diversity.  Dr. Salmón's recent studies have led him to seriously consider the connections between Climate Change and Indigenous traditional food ways. Dr. Salmon has written a book focused on small-scale Native farmers of the Greater Southwest and their role in maintaining biocultural diversity.  It is titled, Eating the Landscape. He has also authored Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science. Please leave us a review if you enjoyed this episode. Contact us at MedicineExplained.org Follow us on TikTok @MedicineExplained or on Instagram @Medicine.Explained

Dr. Daphne Miller, MD is a family physician, science writer, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco, and Research Scientist at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. As founder of the Health from the Soil Up Initiative, she studies the connections among health, culture, and agriculture, with the goal of building a healthier and more resilient food system from the soil up. Daphne is a regular health and science contributor to the Washington Post. She has two books about food, agriculture and health: The Jungle Effect, The Science and Wisdom of Traditional Diets (HarperCollins 2008) and Farmacology, Total Health from the Soil Up (HarperCollins 2013). Want daily content? Follow us on TikTok @MedicineExpained and on Instagram @medicine.explained

Kamea Chayne is the host of Green Dreamer Podcast and the author of Thrive. She is an eco creative, writer and author. Her show green dreamer illuminates our paths to ecological regeneration, intersectional sustainability, and true abundance and wellness for all.

Rob Reiner is the Founder and CEO of CropSwap he has been designing mobile and web app startups for the past 11 years. He saw a need to make locally-grown , healthy food readily available to consumers. In 2017, he created an app to cater to this market, and launched CropSwap. Crop swap is a farm to phone marketplace that connects consumers and businesses with local selections from sustainable farmers.

Dr. Sofia Noori is the first Chief Resident of Digital Psychiatry at the Yale Department of Psychiatry. She is a founding member of the Center for Digital Psychiatry at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, which aims to integrate digital health in the care of patients with serious mental illness. She also served as the curriculum lead for Innovation to Impact, a NIDA-funded substance use entrepreneurship program. Aside from her digital health endeavors, Dr. Noori is the co-founder of the Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale, the first academic and trainee-led conference on women’s mental health in the United States.