"Dr Uma Naidoo is a nutritional psychiatrist, professional chef, and author of This is Your Brain on Food and Calm Your Mind With Food. We discuss her ground-breaking work on food and mood, the “Six Pillars” for calming the mind through diet, practical tips for mental health nutrition, and more."
"Mental health has long been viewed as an “above-the-neck” concept, with treatments focusing on talk therapy, medication, and nominal lifestyle changes. However, we are now beginning to understand that mental well-being is intricately connected to the rest of our body, revealing a more holistic picture. This realization compels us to reassess a largely disregarded factor—the influence of our dietary choices on our mental well-being.
Dr Uma Naidoo is a pioneer in the nascent field of nutritional psychiatry. Dr Naidoo is a board-certified nutritional psychiatrist on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, a professional chef, and author. She established the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the US at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her career has focused on understanding the complex links between diet and mental health, revealing how nutrition can influence our cognitive and emotional states.
Dr Naidoo’s research illustrates how the gut and the brain are intricately linked, with trillions of microbes in our digestive tract playing a crucial role in regulating mood, stress response, and cognitive function. By revealing how specific nutrients and dietary patterns can alleviate symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other common mental health disorders, she provides a science-backed roadmap for using food as medicine for the mind. She is the author of the international bestseller This is Your Brain on Food, and her latest book, Calm Your Mind With Food, is a primer on the nexus between diet and anxiety."
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