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The Food Medic

S9 EP8: How food can support your mental health

Feb 27, 2023
44:33
In this episode we discuss how diet plays a role in our mood - and which foods or food groups have been linked to positive and negative impacts on our mental health.

Our guest today is Felice Jacka - a Professor of Nutritional Psychiatry, Co-Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University, and founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. She has written two books including Brain changer & the very popular children’s book “There’s a Zoo in my Poo”.

This episode covers:*what is nutritional psychiatry?

*The role diet plays in our mental health.
*The SMILE’s trial *foods that support our mental health - & those that don’t
*The gut-brain axis
*The role of supplements

Please note: if you are struggling with your mental health you should seek the advice and support of your GP as a matter of priority

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