Metabolic Mind | Could Your Diet Be Causing Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression? - with Dr. Uma Naidoo @metabolicmind | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Dr. Uma Naidoo founded and directs the first US hospital-based nutritional psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Naidoo’s work focuses on empowering individuals with dietary strategies that improve overall mental health and conditions like ADHD, anxiety, depression and OCD. She is a leading nutritional psychiatrist on the faculty at Harvard Medical School– she also brings unique flair as a professionally trained chef. She feels hopeful about the burgeoning fields of nutritional & metabolic psychiatry that are building a more robust evidence base for dietary and lifestyle strategies to treat mental health conditions.
Dr. Naidoo’s new book, Calm Your Mind With Food, aims to equip people to eat in a way that may help ease symptoms of anxiety. Anxiety increased by 25% following the pandemic. She shares that the Standard American Diet (SAD) is “called SAD for a reason.” While specific nutritional strategies can vary drastically from patient-to-patient, Dr. Naidoo advises avoiding ultra-processed foods, full of hidden sugars often disguised under deceptive names, and seed oils. The blood sugar swings and crashes caused by the SAD diet can cause mental health symptoms. Dr. Naidoo’s previous book, This is Your Brain on Food, has sections on the efficacy of ketogenic therapy for treating severe mental illness. She also explores emerging research on how the microbiome impacts mental health.
Dr. Uma Naidoo:
umanaidoomd.com
X - @DrUmaNaidoo
Instagram - @drumanaidoo
linkedin.com/in/uma-naidoo-m-d-93813860
Dr. Naidoo's Books:
Calm Your Mind with Food
umanaidoomd.com/pages/calm-your-mind-with-food
This Is Your Brain on Food
umanaidoomd.com/pages/this-is-your-brain-on-food
About us:
Metabolic Mind is a non-profit initiative of Baszucki Group working to transform the study and treatment of mental disorders by exploring the connection between metabolism and brain health. We leverage the science of metabolic psychiatry and personal stories to offer education, community, and hope to people struggling with mental health challenges and those who care for them.
Our channel is for informational purposes only. We are not providing individual or group medical or healthcare advice nor establishing a provider-patient relationship. Many of the interventions we discuss can have dramatic or potentially dangerous effects if done without proper supervision. Consult your healthcare provider before changing your lifestyle or medications.
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:31 How Dr. Uma Naidoo became interested in nutritional psychiatry
4:46 Evidence and practice of nutritional psychiatry
8:32 The growing fields of nutritional and metabolic psychiatry
10:19 Metabolism and mental health
13:23 How nutrition and nutritional psychiatry can be empowering
17:33 Blood sugar levels and anxiety
19:15 Foods that negatively impact mental health
22:01 The negatives of seed oils
23:52 Saturated fats in a diet for better mental health
25:33 Specific foods vs diet for mental health
28:45 Gut health and probiotics
31:16 The role of ketogenic diets for mental health
33:42 Calm Your Mind with Food
36:15 Quick tips to improve the quality of the food you eat
39:40 Conclusion
#MetabolicMind
#KetoForMentalHealth
#MetabolicPsychiatry
#NutritionalPsychiatry
#LifesytleMedicine
#MetabolicNeuroscience
#KetogenicMetabolicTherapy
#NutritionalKetosis
#MentalIllness
#AlternativeTreatment
#FunctionalMedicine
#HolisticHealth
#IntegrativeMedicine
Dr. Uma Naidoo founded and directs the first US hospital-based nutritional psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Naidoo’s work focuses on empowering individuals with dietary strategies that improve overall mental health and conditions like ADHD, anxiety, depression and OCD. She is a leading nutritional psychiatrist on the faculty at Harvard Medical School– she also brings unique flair as a professionally trained chef. She feels hopeful about the burgeoning fields of nutritional & metabolic psychiatry that are building a more robust evidence base for dietary and lifestyle strategies to treat mental health conditions.
Dr. Naidoo’s new book, Calm Your Mind With Food, aims to equip people to eat in a way that may help ease symptoms of anxiety. Anxiety increased by 25% following the pandemic. She shares that the Standard American Diet (SAD) is “called SAD for a reason.” While specific nutritional strategies can vary drastically from patient-to-patient, Dr. Naidoo advises avoiding ultra-processed foods, full of hidden sugars often disguised under deceptive names, and seed oils. The blood sugar swings and crashes caused by the SAD diet can cause mental health symptoms. Dr. Naidoo’s previous book, This is Your Brain on Food, has sections on the efficacy of ketogenic therapy for treating severe mental illness. She also explores emerging research on how the microbiome impacts mental health.
Dr. Uma Naidoo:
umanaidoomd.com
X - @DrUmaNaidoo
Instagram - @drumanaidoo
linkedin.com/in/uma-naidoo-m-d-93813860
Dr. Naidoo's Books:
Calm Your Mind with Food
umanaidoomd.com/pages/calm-your-mind-with-food
This Is Your Brain on Food
umanaidoomd.com/pages/this-is-your-brain-on-food
About us:
Metabolic Mind is a non-profit initiative of Baszucki Group working to transform the study and treatment of mental disorders by exploring the connection between metabolism and brain health. We leverage the science of metabolic psychiatry and personal stories to offer education, community, and hope to people struggling with mental health challenges and those who care for them.
Our channel is for informational purposes only. We are not providing individual or group medical or healthcare advice nor establishing a provider-patient relationship. Many of the interventions we discuss can have dramatic or potentially dangerous effects if done without proper supervision. Consult your healthcare provider before changing your lifestyle or medications.
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:31 How Dr. Uma Naidoo became interested in nutritional psychiatry
4:46 Evidence and practice of nutritional psychiatry
8:32 The growing fields of nutritional and metabolic psychiatry
10:19 Metabolism and mental health
13:23 How nutrition and nutritional psychiatry can be empowering
17:33 Blood sugar levels and anxiety
19:15 Foods that negatively impact mental health
22:01 The negatives of seed oils
23:52 Saturated fats in a diet for better mental health
25:33 Specific foods vs diet for mental health
28:45 Gut health and probiotics
31:16 The role of ketogenic diets for mental health
33:42 Calm Your Mind with Food
36:15 Quick tips to improve the quality of the food you eat
39:40 Conclusion
#MetabolicMind
#KetoForMentalHealth
#MetabolicPsychiatry
#NutritionalPsychiatry
#LifesytleMedicine
#MetabolicNeuroscience
#KetogenicMetabolicTherapy
#NutritionalKetosis
#MentalIllness
#AlternativeTreatment
#FunctionalMedicine
#HolisticHealth
#IntegrativeMedicine
