Meet the Mood Food Doctor
Chef & Nutritional Psychiatrist,
Dr. Uma Naidoo MD
Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo 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.
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Books by Bestselling Author
Dr. Uma Naidoo MD
In Calm Your Mind with Food, you’ll learn:
- How inflammation affects everything from anxiety and depression to Alzheimer’s disease.
- How the trillions of bacteria living in your gut are key to controlling anxiety.
- The six pillars for calming the mind.
- What to eat to balance leptin, a key peptide that links the central nervous system to metabolic processes.
- How to incorporate specific anxiety-busting foods into your diet, from the obscure (Ashwagandha) to the ubiquitous (Vitamin C).
- The best diets for managing symptoms of anxiety and depression
This Is Your Brain on Food is the definitive book on eating for mental health, from the go-to expert on how food impacts the brain. It will help you use your diet to fight depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, ADHD and more by teaching the science behind the gut-brain connection.
A triple threat in the food space, Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard psychiatrist, who has studied nutrition and is a trained professional chef. In This Is Your Brain on Food, she draws on cutting-edge research to explain the many ways in which food contributes to our mental health, and shows how a sound diet can help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues.