#256 The link between inflammation mood, dementia and how to calm your mind with food, with Dr Uma Naidoo
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Uma Naidoo has spent her life exploring the unique connection between food and brain health. Her first book, 2020’s groundbreaking This Is Your Brain on Food, offered readers around the world a better understanding of the many ways our diets impact our mental, emotional, and cognitive wellbeing, and provided a useful blueprint for working through conditions like depression, OCD, PTSD, dementia, and more.
Her next book “Calm your mind with food” is a deeper exploration of this. Today we talk about:
• How inflammation affects everything from anxiety and depression to Alzheimer’s disease
• How the trillions of bacteria living in your gut are key to controlling anxiety
• The six pillars for calming the mind
• What to eat to balance the appetite hormone leptin, a key link between the central nervous system and metabolic processes
• How to incorporate anxiety-busting foods into your diet, from ashwagandha to vitamin C
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes, Health, Lifestyle. |
| 0:05.0 | The advertising and the food marketing and the food companies are pushing the foods that are cheapest, |
| 0:11.0 | that are the least healthy and that people want to eat. But they want to eat it because they don't |
| 0:16.8 | know or don't realize that healthy food can be delicious. |
| 0:20.3 | Yeah. Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, |
| 0:28.0 | the show about food, lifestyle, medicine, |
| 0:31.0 | and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi your host. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, |
| 0:39.0 | and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:43.4 | Join me and my expert guests will we discuss the multiple determinants of |
| 0:50.9 | what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 0:54.0 | Dr Uminedu has spent her life |
| 1:01.0 | exploring the unique connection between food and brain health. spent her |
| 1:05.0 | first book, This is Your Brain on Food on Food, |
| 1:08.0 | offered us around the world a better understanding of the many ways |
| 1:12.0 | our diets improve our mental, emotional and cognitive well-being. |
| 1:16.3 | It also provided a useful blueprint for working through conditions like depression, |
| 1:22.1 | OCD, PTSD, dementia and more. |
| 1:24.8 | Her next book, Calm Your Mind with Food, is a deeper exploration of this and today |
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