50. Dr. Uma Naidoo on Nutritional Psychiatry: Using Nutrients to Improve Your Mental Health feat. Uma Naidoo MD

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This week I am joined by Dr. Uma Naidoo. Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo 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. (bio via umanaidoomd.com)

You can find Dr. Uma on Instagram at @drumanaidoo, on her website at umanaidoomd.com, and order her book—Your Brain on Food—here!

🗣Dr. Uma and I dive into the following topics...

+ Dr. Uma's background and what led her down the path of nutritional psychiatry

+ How nutrition can truly impact our mental health

+ The gut-brain connection and their development

+ Foods to eat to improve depression, anxiety, chronic stress, and immunity

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