Men Talking Mindfulness
Men Talking Mindfulness
Jon Macaskill & Will Schneider
This is Your Brain on Food with Author and Nutritional Psychiatrist, Dr. Uma Naidoo
59 minutes Posted Feb 8, 2022 at 10:00 am.
This is Your Brain on Food with Guest Dr. Uma Naidoo 
Introducing Dr. Uma Naidoo 
Will leads Opening Grounding Practice (~3 minutes) 
Dr. Naidoo’s journey to Nutritional Psychology 
The Neuroscience of the Mind/Gut Connection 
The Western Diet is S.A.D. 
What is a microbiome and why you should care 
Diet as a solution to illness and disease 
Caffeine Friend or Foe? 
Calculating Alcohol Consumption, or why you needed math class 
Hang-xiety = Hangover + Anxiety 
Proactive vs Reactive ways to deal with Anxiety 
When sugar isn’t sugar 
Processed foods are depressing in so many ways 
Food Fog is Real 
Micronutrients as medicine 
Omega-3s are super brain fuel 
One thing you can do today 
Add a little spice to your life 
Jon leads Closing Grounding Practice (~2 minutes)  
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Dr. Uma Naidoo has been described as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space: 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.  Dr. Naidoo is also the national best selling author of This Is Your Brain On Food.  
In her book, she shows the cutting-edge science explaining the ways in which food contributes to our mental health and how a sound diet can help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues, from ADHD to anxiety, depression, OCD, and others.  
Follow Dr. Naidoo on Instagram here: @drumanaidoo
Learn more about her, her book, and her online class here:  https://umanaidoomd.com
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