2. Brainy Food: How Nutrition Impacts Brain and Mental Health

The second episode of the NeuroCentury podcast is devoted to how important food is for brain and mental health.  In this episode, Paweł Świeboda talks to Professor Felice Jacka, professor of nutritional psychiatry and Director of the Food and Mood Centre at Deakin University in Australia.  Felice is a founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. She pioneered work in the field and led some of the first randomized control trials, including the SMILES trial. She is also author of the book called “Brain Changer” on how food should be considered as the basis of our mental and brain health throughout our lives.  The conversation covers dietary approaches to treatment of clinical depression, how healthy food should be defined, links between our immune system and mental health, dialogue between the gut microbiota and the brain, prospects for personalized diets as treatment options, integration of diet in clinical practice guidelines, impact of heavily marketed, ultra-processed foods and ways of giving people more concrete information to improve their health.  This is a conversation that will make you look at your next meal differently.  #neurocentury #brainyfood #brainchanger #brainhealth #mentalhealth ________________ neurocentury.com Music for the NeuroCentury podcast is composed by Rafał Kulczycki