Happy to Health with Dr Preeya
Sep 20, 2026 · 44 min · 12 segments
Professor Felice Jacka is a Deakin Distinguished Professor in Nutritional Psychiatry and founder and director of the Food and Mood Centre at Deakin University. You can’t imagine how excited…
Felice JackaGuestPreeya AlexanderHost
Apart from anything else, I think the actual process of looking after yourself is very powerful...
What we need to do now, and these are underway as we speak, is to do studies where the diets are kind of blinded, which is very difficult
Can I say, though, thanks to the SMILES trial and other trials, like when I do do a mental health plan or I'm making a plan for a patient with a diagnosis like depression, anxiety, any mood disorder, You know, that plan can look very different for different people.
say any type of fruit, veggie, canned bean, limiting, you know, if we can, the discretionary
It's really the ultra-processed that I think are the issue because of... not only the complete lack of any sort of real nutrition or the food matrix or phytochemicals or anything like that, I think we'll probably end up finding, although we don't know for sure, it's just a guess at this point, that the things like emulsifiers are really problematic.
they strip the gut lining, based on what we know so far anyway, from the animal studies and some of the emerging human literature too supports that.
Apart from anything else, I think the actual process of looking after yourself is very powerful...
What we need to do now, and these are underway as we speak, is to do studies where the diets are kind of blinded, which is very difficult
Can I say, though, thanks to the SMILES trial and other trials, like when I do do a mental health plan or I'm making a plan for a patient with a diagnosis like depression, anxiety, any mood disorder, You know, that plan can look very different for different people.
say any type of fruit, veggie, canned bean, limiting, you know, if we can, the discretionary
It's really the ultra-processed that I think are the issue because of... not only the complete lack of any sort of real nutrition or the food matrix or phytochemicals or anything like that, I think we'll probably end up finding, although we don't know for sure, it's just a guess at this point, that the things like emulsifiers are really problematic.
they strip the gut lining, based on what we know so far anyway, from the animal studies and some of the emerging human literature too supports that.
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