Calm Your Mind with Food with Dr. Uma Naidoo

Healin Podcast

Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard trained board-certified Psychiatrist and professional chef and nutritional specialist who is considered a Nutritional Psychiatry Pioneer and the author of "This Is Your Brain On Food" and of her latest book "Calm Your Mind with Food" . We spoke about her journey into incorporating nutrition as a fundamental foundation of mental health and her psychiatry practice, how many physicians are unaware of the role that nutrition plays and how that is changing with over 20% of medical school having a robust nutritional component in medical education, why what we eat is so important to our mental health, how when you start to improve what you eat it works as a catalyst for healthier habits and better physical and mental health, why sugars and carbs have a negative effect on our anxiety and tips on how we can enjoy small amounts of the carbs that we love, and more tips about what to eat to avoid and treat both anxiety and depression. To learn more about Dr. Uma Naidoo please check our her website at https://umanaidoomd.com, follow her at @drunanaidoo on all social media platforms, if you want to eat foods for your brain and health but don't like to cook please try out her Mood Food Meals with the Daily Dose - delivering freshly prepared meals using her brain food recipes and spices, and please subscribe to Dr Uma’s newsletter on Substack and if you are a physician or a student in training Dr. Uma is an instructor with her own @MasterClass - see her classes on Brain Health and sign up for Dr Uma’s course on Nutritional Psychiatry. Please share this episode with everyone who is facing anxiety or depression and can benefit of this information to healIN to achieve higher levels of satisfaction with there health and relationships.