Most replayed moment: Reduce anxiety by improving your gut health | Uma Naidoo

0:00Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health.

0:10Today we're looking at a novel way to improve our mental health.

0:13If I've learned anything from hosting this podcast, it's just how interconnected all the systems in our body are.

0:19Nothing works in isolation, which means we often have to step back and look at the bigger picture if we want to improve a particular aspect of our health.

0:27With this in mind, let's shift our focus on mental health.

0:31Can we approach it from a different angle?

0:33Harvard nutritional psychiatrist Dr.

0:35Uma Naidu is here to explain the science behind the gut-brain access and how you can help one to help the other.

0:46Nutritional psychiatry and certainly what I practice nutritional lifestyle and metabolic psychiatry is an evolving science.

0:52It's nascent and there's new evolving evidence every single day.

0:58But what we do know is that the trillions of microbes that live in our microbiome, in our gut, as they're helping with the process of digesting our food, their breakdown products are also in the same environment as 90 to 95% of serotonin receptors.