561: How to Build a Healthy Brain with Kimberley Wilson
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
When you’re struggling with poor mental health, depression, anxiety, or low self esteem
and you want to actively change your mindset, it’s difficult to know where to start. Should you consider therapy? Medication? What about starting in your kitchen? On this week’s podcast, we’ll explore taking a food-based approach to improving mental health.
Listen and learn:
- The importance of Omega-3s, fiber, and whole food nutrition for your brain
- Why performance and behavioral problems at school might be directly linked to poor nutrition
- How dietary interventions were linked to a 30 percent reduction in self-harm in prisons
- Why ultra processed foods (UPFs) pose a huge risk to your health and brain
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Kimberley Wilson is a psychologist and the founder of Monumental Health, a service combining evidence-based psychological therapy, with nutritional neuroscience and nutritional psychiatry. She specializes in whole body mental health, treating issues such as depression, low confidence, low self-esteem and self-doubt, disordered eating, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and procrastination. She is also the author of two books, Unprocessed, and How to Build a Healthy Brain.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're struggling with mental health, anxiety or depression, |
| 0:05.7 | rumination, overwhelm, and you'd like to address the problem, |
| 0:09.4 | it's difficult to know where to start. Do you look at pharmaceutical |
| 0:13.6 | interventions? Do you look at talk therapy? Do you look at something like |
| 0:17.2 | cognitive behavioral therapy? Or do you go to your kitchen and see if the food that you're |
| 0:21.7 | eating, the nutritional supplements and micronutrients you're putting into your body, |
| 0:26.0 | might at least help you on a path back to balance? On this week's podcast, |
| 0:30.8 | you will meet a psychologist and a nutritional coach who focuses |
| 0:35.9 | specifically on the effects of food and our brain, among other things. |
| 0:40.3 | If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. I'm a yoga teacher and a trainer. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm a serial entrepreneur. I'm the father of three kids. Firstly, |
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