Nutritional psychiatry

You've got things being marketed to you, supplements, drinks, juices, diets.

We've got an actual expert, a legitimate expert in this space, Professor Felice Jacker, who is a Deakin Distinguished Professor in Nutritional Psychiatry and Founder and Director of the Food and Mood Centre at Deakin University.

It's such a long, amazing title.

Yes.

evidence for a lot of them oh yeah okay so you're not taking a probiotic tell us then what does work for gut health.

So if we're trying to support these bugs, if we want all those pathways activated, if we want a healthy hippocampus, can you give us clear practical

things? Look, I'll put it into context first though, Priya, because you know, the area of nutritional psychiatry that I lead has shown now over 15 years that the quality of your daily diet is is linked to the risk of these common mental disorders, depression and anxiety.

And they are very common.

So it's kind of an abstract why, but, um, I think those are the types of interactions that have made the most impact in my life where I find myself revisiting, even if it was a short interaction, where I find myself revisiting those and it has a different meaning over time.

But the theme of education and empowerment and, you know, giving people the tools to have agency and understand, because probably the time you were starting your dissertation was really at an early stage of nutritional psychiatry.

Oh, people were like, what? Yeah.

I was like, but isn't that the point of research? They're like, you just need to graduate.