I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Uma Naidoo on The Doctor’s Farmacy to discuss the correlation between anxiety and consuming gluten, and why she recommends diet and lifestyle changes along with her psychiatric prescriptions for optimal results.
Dr. Naidoo also discusses improvements she noticed in her own anxiety after using functional ingredients like turmeric and black pepper.
Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food as medicine space. She is a Harvard trained psychiatrist, professional chef, and Nutrition Specialist. Her niche work is in nutritional psychiatry and she is regarded both nationally and internationally as a medical pioneer in this more newly recognized field.
In her role as a Clinical Scientist, Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based clinical service in Nutritional Psychiatry in the US. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Naidoo is the author of the recently released book, 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.
Not just black pepper, white pepper has, in fact, more piperine than black pepper. This is a little known fact that even most so called experts are unaware of
That’s good to know. Thanks for sharing!
I am so interested in this approach to overcoming anxiety with a nutrition approach!! Please offer more
Read “The Ultra Mind Solution” for starters. That is his book and the book that got me on to this channel!!
Carnivore diet
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