The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast

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Re-Release: Eating for Mental Health with Professor Felice Jacka Jul 20, 2022

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Food and Mood is the topic of the podcast this week where we’re talking about ‘Eating for Mental Health’ with Professor Felice Jacka, Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University in Australia.

Her book BRAIN CHANGER is all about how diet can save your mental health and tells the story of why we need to consider our food as the basis of our brain and mental health throughout our lives.

Prof Jacka first came on my radar when I heard of the SMILES trials - which we’ll talk about a in the Podcast. She is also founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) and pioneered a highly innovative program of research that examines how individual’s diets, and other lifestyle behaviours, interact with the risk for mental health problems.

Today we talk about:

Where mental health begins
Junk food and its impact on the adolescent brain
Stress and its impact on the immune system
The SMILES trials
Including quality fats in your diet
Making sure that you're getting fibre into your diet
Flavonoids, colours and getting more plants onto people's plates

You’ll find the recipe video that I made with Professor Jacka, and our super interesting conversation - on my youtube channel go check it out online and there’s a link below too!

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Re-release (2020) Food as Medicine with Dr William Li Jul 13, 2022

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Whilst we’re taking a short break from the pod we’re re-releasing one of my favourite episodes from 2020 with the truly inspirational Dr William W. Li.

I had the pleasure of finally meeting William a few weeks ago and if you don’t know him, Dr Li is. An internationally renowned physician, scientist, and author of the New York Times Bestseller ‘Eat to Beat Disease - The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself’

His groundbreaking work has led to the development of more than 30 new medical treatments, has impacted more than 50 million people worldwide, and covers more than 70 diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views. Dr. Li has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, CNN, and CNBC and has been featured in USA Today, TIME, The Atlantic, and O Magazine. Dr. Li is President and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation.

We talk about a range of topics from his latest book including the 5 defence systems of the body: Your Microbes, stems cells, immune system , angiogenesis, your genes and how nutrition and lifestyle can positively influence them. As a food as medicine pioneer who started these conversations way before I even thought of The Doctor’s Kitchen, Dr Li has been a true inspiration of mine.

On this episode we talk about

The microbiota, how certain foods can improve your body’s ability to regulate sugar
What stem cells are and the different types of foods that can help promote regeneration
The benefits of food for the immune system support
The future of food prescriptions and how medicine could look in 10-15 years time
The impact of food to positively impact the efficacy of medicine in the field of cancer, cardiology and neurology.

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#156 The Power of Food with Sheila Dillon Jun 29, 2022

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Today I’m speaking to Sheila Dillon. A multi award winning food journalist, reporter, and presenter for BBC Radio 4’s “The Food Programme” where she has worked for over 20 years.

Sheila and her colleagues have truly changed the way in which we think about food in the UK and beyond. Her work has covered the breaking scandal of BSE, the rise of GM foods, the growth of the organic movement from muck and magic to a multi-million pound industry, the birth of the World Trade Organisation and irradiation at a time when those subjects were not even a gleam in a newshound´s eye.

Sheila has a really special place in my heart as well. A few years ago I was invited to her house to cook a meal and share stories about my mission to help people eat better everyday. Sheila has really championed for nutrition in medicine and bravely shared her personal story of her own cancer and how she uses food to help support her treatment which has thus far prevented the need for a stem cell transplant.

I think you’re really going to enjoy today’s stories of investigative journalism and why finding the courage to share your truth is so important.

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#155 Pleasure, Food, Interoception and Mental Health with Dr Rupy Jun 22, 2022

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Today’s episode is a part 2 to the episode where I discussed the studies used to create the Mental Health goal on the app. I specifically spoke about dietary patterns and nutrients related to supporting mental health as well as how we used this information to create recipes.

On this episode I want to discuss our ability to listen to our internal organs through the cues and signals they send and look at food through a more integrative lens, giving consideration to the pleasure associated with eating and sharing meals. We also asked our lovely newsletter subscribers who get my “eat, read, listen” every week, to talk about their experiences looking after their mental health, the barriers they face and some practical tips to integrate this knowledge into everyday life.

Today you’ll learn about:

Interoception

The beauty and pleasure of food

The main take-aways from the nutrition research

Tips and hacks from the community about how to instil these values in your day to day

If you enjoy this episode let us know and maybe we’ll do another one on a different topic!

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#154 Sleep Better and train your Clock with Professor Russell Foster BSc PhD FRS Jun 15, 2022

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Why do we sleep? It seems like such a luxury, an evolutionary oversight, a privilege some might say? But on today’s episode with Professor Russel Foster you’ll learn about why sleep is having a renaissance in both the way we think about it as a means to health as well as how the workforce should embrace it for enhanced creativity and productivity .

Russell Foster is Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) and Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford. His latest book “Life Time” is a fantastic dive into everything circadian clock related and I absolutely loved it.

Today we talk about:

What Circadian rhythms are

Sleep pressure

Why we sleep and what happens when we sleep

The concept of circadian ‘entrainment’

How the visual system interacts with the brain

The suprachiasmatic nuclei (SNC) as the master clock

How to figure our your chronotype

Sleep, shift work and mental health

Chronotherapeutics

Professors Russels top 10 tips for ‘entraining’ your clock

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#153 Time Restricted Eating (TRE) with Professor Satchin Panda PhD Jun 08, 2022

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Can when you eat be as important as what you eat? My next guest thinks so, and has spent his academic career studying the effects of circadian rhythm on everything from heart disease, exercise capacity, cognitive health and diabetes.

Satchin Panda, PhD is a professor at The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. His lab studies how circadian rhythm in metabolism is an integral part of metabolic health and longevity. In preclinical animal models he discovered that consuming all calories within a consistent 8-12 hours also known as Time-restricted feeding can sustain daily rhythms.

One of the commonest topics I’m asked about is whether TRE or eating within rigid windows is advisable, and so I was fortunate to spend some time with Dr Panda himself whose research I’ve been privy to for many years. Studies have shown that this practical tool can prevent or even reverse chronic diseases and increase lifespan and today you’ll learn about:

What circadian rhythms are
The biggest drivers to rhythm - eating, light, exercise
Eating strategies for shift workers
When is the best time of day for Exercise
Whether grazing on food within a TRE window is advisable
How we separate the effect of TRE from a calorie deficit
The history of circadian science
How we use mice to research circadian rhythms
How disrupting rhythm causes diabetes - effects of time-restricted eating on glucose metabolism.
Why giving your gut a rest is important
The benefits of intermittent fasting to insulin, your gut, inflammation and fat breakdown

You can find my guests book “The Circadian Diabetes Code” in all good book stores and the links to Satchin’s website and app are on www.thedoctorskitchen.com too.

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#152 A World Without Email with Cal Newport Jun 01, 2022

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Modern work is defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations. What this creates is a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect.

In addition to this inability to unplug, is a squeezing of our cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. The type of work that really matters. We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it’s hard to imagine alternatives.

And that’s why I’m speaking with computer science professor Cal Newport today who makes the case that our current approach to work is broken and why digital minimalism is so important.

Cal is a NY Times bestselling author of several books, including, most recently, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. Many of his articles from his column in the New Yorker and his weekly newsletter have inspired me to create a better working environment for me, my staff with the goal of promoting mental wellbeing and happiness which is why it was such a pleasure to have him on the show today.

His latest book, A World Without Email provides a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox, and unleashing a new era of productivity.

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#151 Every Family Has a Story with Julia Samuel MBE May 25, 2022

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**Explicit Language warning**

Why do families drive us mad? And can we ever aspire to create a family environment that is functional or ‘ideal’?

To help explore these questions I have Julia Samuel MBE on the podcast today to help explain why there is no such thing as ‘the perfect’ family. And actually it’s through pain and even productive fighting that we can have rich, joyful and fulfilling family experiences that emotionally develop us.

Julia Samuel, MBE, is a leading British psychotherapist and the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers 'This Too Shall Pass' and 'Grief Works'. During the last thirty years, she has worked first for the NHS and then in private practice, and she is Founder Patron of Child Bereavement UK and a Vice President of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She features regularly in the national media and has presented the podcasts A Living Loss and Grief Works.

Today we discuss:

The concepts of love as medicine
Why our food is particularly hardwired in our memories
The universality of our experiences show that we are not alone.
How we can examine “Inherited family patterns” and prevent trauma
Why “Emotional connection is a basic human need”
The importance of self compassion
How family is the single most important influence on a child’s life and outcomes

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#150 Precision Medicine with Dr Marvin Singh, MD May 18, 2022

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Precision Medicine is a hot topic. So to talk about this in a bit more detail with some one who is putting these new technologies into practice I decided to speak with one of the few integrative gastroenterologists in the world.

Marvin Singh, MD, is the Founder of Precisione Clinic and one of only a few Integrative Gastroenterologists in the United States. He is currently a Diplomate and Member of the Board of the American Board of Integrative Medicine and the first Director of Integrative Gastroenterology at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute at the University of California Irvine, previously having served as a faculty member at UCLA and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the brand-new book, Rescue Your Health, and he has co-edited the textbook of Integrative Gastroenterology.

Today we talk about how Marvin had some of the best training in the world but struggled to take care of patients and himself.

We talk about:

The approach to taking care of a patient if you had 60 minutes with them
Marvin’s approach to testing with specific regard to
Stool testing
Metabolomic testing
Mitochondrial assessments
CT Calcium scores
Visceral adipose Tissue scans

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Instagram: @DrMarvinSingh

Twitter: @DrMarvinSingh

Websites:

www.rescueyourhealth.com

www.precisioneclinic.com

www.drmarvinsingh.com

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#149 The Truth about Pain with Dr Monty Lyman May 11, 2022

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We need to revolutionise our understanding of pain. Most of us hold on to the false belief that pain is a measure of tissue damage, a ‘detector’ of physical injury. But I’m speaking to Dr Monty Lyman who argues that pain is a ‘protector’ rather than a ‘detector’.

Dr Monty Lyman is a medical doctor and research fellow at the University of Oxford and his first book, The Remarkable Life of the Skin, was shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, was a Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’ and a Sunday Times ‘Book of the Year’.

Today, Monty and I discuss:

What is pain really?

His personal journey of dealing with pain from IBS

How hypnotherapy and homoeopathy might work to reduce pain

Why loneliness and lack of community can lead to pain

The concept of neuroplasticity

How movement, visualisation and education can help reduce and rewire our relationship with pain

In his new piece of work “The Painful Truth”, he beautifully presents a collection of patient stories, personal experiences and evidence base for a more nuanced understanding of pain and I highly recommend it as a read.

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On his website: https://www.montylyman.com/books

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