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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