SCP Podcast Episode 204: Uma Naidoo, MD - This Is Your Brain On Food
In this episode, join us as we talk with Dr. Uma Naidoo, author of "This Is Your Brain On Food". 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.
She was considered Harvard’s Mood-Food expert and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Highlights of this podcast include:
- Eating to up our mental health
- The gut-brain romance
- Impact of food on emotional health
- Mediterranean eating pattern
- Metabolic health
- Small changes you can apply today
- PTSD
- Sleep and food
- Proteins, oils, dairy, gluten, nuts, etc.,
- And much more
Follow Dr. Naidoo on Instagram @drumanaidoo. Learn more about his book and his work at umanaidoomd.com.