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.