How to Use Food to Improve Your Mood, Anxiety & Overall Mental Health with Dr. Uma Naidoo

What do anxiety, brain fog and low libido have in common? It
turns out, the food we eat can impact all of the above. In this
week’s Hormone Happy Hour, we sat down with Harvard Nutritional
Psychiatrist AND trained chef, Dr. Uma Naidoo. We discuss the
connection between our gut and brain + the many levels at which
we are impacted by what’s on our plates.


In this episode you’ll learn:


* How what we eat impacts our mental health


* The TOP foods to eat for better brain function


* How culture impacts the mental health conversation


* One type of food Dr. Uma ALWAYS travels with


* Advice for parents to help kids eat more whole foods


* How NOT to stress yourself out over food


And more…


Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard trained nutritional psychiatrist,
professional chef, and nutritional biologist & author of the
national & international bestseller: “This is Your Brain on
Food.” Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma
Naidoo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and
medicine space as the nexus of her interests have found their
niche in Nutritional Psychiatry.


Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first and only hospital-based
Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the USA. She is the Director of
Nutritional and Metabolic Psychiatry at Massachusetts General
Hospital & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at the MGH
Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.


She serves as a regular media contributor at CNBC and is on the
Harvard Health Publishing Editorial Advisory Board. She is
currently developing the first and only CME based educational
program at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard to educate
other clinicians globally about nutrition for brain health. Dr.
Uma has appeared as a Nutritional Psychiatry expert on Live with
Kelly & Ryan, Today Show, 700 Club, ABC, and been featured in
the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Thrive
Global, Harpers, Shape, Parade, Boston Globe, AARP, and more.


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Follow Dr. Uma: 


* Website: https://umanaidoomd.com/


* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drumanaidoo/





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