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Introducing 8 foods that soothe anxiety | Dr. Uma Naidoo from ZOE Science & Nutrition.

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1 in 3 people have anxiety. It’s the most common mental health disorder in the world. And many of us know what anxiety feels like: palms sweating before a job interview, losing your appetite before a looming deadline, a pit in your stomach when you get bad news. It’s not just in your head, it’s in your gut.

Today, we’ll learn how food could help us cope. Our guest explains the rising global trend toward increased anxiety: its rise through the pandemic, and explosion among young people. 

Dr. Uma Naidoo is on the forefront of nutritional psychiatry. She directs the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the US, at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaches at Harvard Medical School.

Uma will help you understand the symptoms and biology of anxiety, painting a picture of the risks it poses for long-term health. And her diet tips will help you fuel your gut for a healthy mind.

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Timecodes:

00:00 Change your diet to beat anxiety

01:23 Quickfire questions

02:52 What is anxiety?

05:58 Are humans more anxious now than in the past?

08:50 This is where anxiety occurs in the brain

11:29 The gut-brain connection

12:45 Serotonin: the happiness hormone

20:05 How gut bacteria impact the brain

21:20 What happens 2 hours after stress?

23:10 Foods that disrupt dopamine pathways

24:50 Is food addiction real?

30:35 How chronic stress affects hunger

34:00 The importance of feeding good gut microbes

41:00 Eat more of these vegetables

45:02 How to overcome diet anxiety

49:20 How to use Uma’s ‘Calm’ approach

53:13 The anti-anxiety plate

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The Food For Life Cookbook

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Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector

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Gut Guide - For a Healthier Microbiome in Weeks 

Mentioned in today's episode

Eat to Beat Stress (2020), published in American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

Effect of fecal microbiota transplant on symptoms of psychiatric disorders: a systematic review (2020), published in BMC Psychiatry

A review of dietary and microbial connections to depression, anxiety, and stress (2018), published in Nutritional Neuroscience 

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