Most replayed moment: Reduce anxiety by improving your gut health | Uma Naidoo
3/24/202613 min
Today we’re looking at a novel way to improve our mental health. If I’ve learnt anything from hosting this podcast, it’s just how interconnected all the systems in our body are. Nothing works in isolation, which means we often have to step back and look at the bigger picture if we want to improve a particular aspect of our health. With this in mind, let’s shift our focus on mental health. Can we approach it from a different angle? Harvard nutritional psychiatrist Dr. Uma Naidoo is here to explain the science behind the gut-brain axis, and how you can help one to help the other. 🌱 Try our new plant based wholefood supplement - Daily30+ *Naturally high in copper which contributes to normal energy yielding metabolism and the normal function of the immune system 📚Books by our ZOE Scientists The Food For Life Cookbook Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector Ferment by Prof. Tim Spector Free resources from ZOE Live Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & Nutrition Gut Guide - For a Healthier Microbiome in Weeks Better Breakfast Guide Have feedback or a topic you'd like us to cover? Let us know hereListen to the full episode here
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First 90 secondsJonathan Wolf· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to ZOE Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health. Today, we're looking at a novel way to improve our mental health. If I've learned anything from hosting this podcast, it's just how interconnected all the systems in our body are. Nothing works in isolation, which means we often have to step back and look at the bigger picture if we want to improve a particular aspect of our health. With this in mind, let's shift our focus on mental health. Can we approach it from a different angle? Harvard nutritional psychiatrist Dr. Uma Naidoo is here to explain the science behind the gut-brain axis and how you can help one to help the other.
Uma Naidoo· Guest0:42
[upbeat music] Nutritional psychiatry and certainly when I practice nutritional lifestyle and metabolic psychiatry is an evolving science. It's nascent, and there's new evolving evidence every single day. But what we do know is that the trillions of microbes that live in our microbiome, in our gut, as they're helping with the process of digesting our food, their breakdown products are also in the same environment as 90 to 95% of serotonin receptors. Now, serotonin is often called the happiness hormone. Um, there is serotonin in the brain and other parts, but there's 90 to 95% of the receptors and serotonin production happens in the gut. So the linkage that I make that's