Heal Your Brain: How Your Gut Secretly Controls Your Brain Health - Dietitian Sophie Medlin

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

March 16, 2023

Duration

2h 22m

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Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Make money with the skills you already have: https://go.aliabdaal.com/lbapoddesc Sponsored by Huel - go to https://www.huel.com/deepdive and with your first order you’ll get a free t-shirt and shaker. Sponsored by Trading 212 - To get free fractional shares worth up to 100 EUR/GBP, you can open an account with Trading 212 through this link https://trading212.com/promocodes/ALI. Terms apply. This is not financial advice. Investments can fall and rise. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Other fees may apply*. Capital is at risk. When investing, your capital is at risk and you may get back less than invested. Past performance doesn’t guarantee future results. Sponsored by Brilliant - visit https://brilliant.org/DeepDive/ and the first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant's annual premium subscription. Sponsored by WeWork - visit https://www.we.co/ali and use the code ‘ALI’ at checkout to redeem 50% off your first booking. 📚 Check Out My New York Times Bestselling Book Feel-Good Productivity! 👉 https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/podcast 📧 Sign up for LifeNotes - my weekly newsletter 👉https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes/podcast 💌 Join my telegram community (it's free!) - https://t.me/+bH5gLHty5kBiOGZk In this episode I sit down for a conversation with Sophie Medlin, one of the UK's leading experts on gut health. Sophie is a dietitian, chair of the British Dietetic Association and a lecturer at King's College London. In the conversation we discuss how the connection between gut health and mental health has become an emerging area of research, how to feed your body with the right foods to optimise your cognitive performance and we also discuss weird and wonderful nutrition myths that have been circulating on social media over the past few years. Enjoy! Season 5 Episode 8 00:00 Intro 01:46 How you became a dietician and gut expert 06:36 What is a dietician? 09:19 The importance of gut health 13:11 Transformative experiences in clinic 15:12 Signs and symptoms of when to see a doctor 18:38 The brain-gut connection 23:54 Research on microbiome and mental performance 26:26 You should eat 30 different plants per week 30:19 Terrible advice from personal trainers 32:39 Intermittent fasting 38:05 The importance of fish for brain health 39:42 How do supplements work? 41:30 Processed food, stress management and hydration 48:09 Does organic matter?49:14 Artificial sweeteners 51:39 Nutrition and dieting myths 01:04:39 How has diet culture evolved? 01:14:43 TOFI vs TOFI people 01:21:57 Research on probiotics and mental health 01:24:41 IBS 01:26:15 What can we learn about the gut through testing? 01:32:36 What’s the deal with protein shakes? 01:35:01 The danger of juice cleanses 01:38:30 Gluten free diets 01:41:31 The impacts of cutting out dairy 01:45:56 Why are people saying seed oils are evil? 01:52:12 Is mindful eating helpful? 01:58:45 Food and mood recommendations 02:02:58 Developing the smart supplement for Heights 02:19:30 Your TV show: Know Your Sh!t 🔗 CONNECT WITH SOPHIE 💻 Website - https://www.citydietitians.co.uk/team/sophie-medlin 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sophiedietitian/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/sophiedietitian 🧠 Heights Smart Probiotic - https://www.yourheights.com/products/smart-probiotic/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED City Dieticians - https://www.citydietitians.co.uk/ The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection by Scott Anderson - https://geni.us/0C8D The Gut Stuff Website - https://thegutstuff.com/gut-tips/ The Gut-Brain Axis White Paper - https://bit.ly/3ZVwX3A The Microbiome-Autism Link: Does Gut Bacteria Play A Role In Autism Spectrum Disorder? - https://atlasbiomed.com/blog/the-microbiome-autism-link/ Human Gut Microbiota from Autism Spectrum Disorder Promote Behavioral Symptoms in Mice - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31150625/ Dr Rachel Kent (Health Tech) - https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-rachael-kent 📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/ 🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST Deep Dive is the podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover the philosophies, strategies and tools that help us live happier, healthier and more productive lives. Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistor 👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH You can also Tweet @aliabdaal with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Sophie Medlin

  guest

  Dietitian and gut-health specialist, founder of City Dietitians and consultant on nutrition products including probiotics.

• Ali Abdaal

  host

  Doctor-turned creator and host of Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, interviewing experts on health, productivity, and related topics.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, featuring Sophie Medlin and Ali Abdaal, Heal Your Brain: How Your Gut Secretly Controls Your Brain Health - Dietitian Sophie Medlin explores Gut-brain axis basics, diet myths, and practical gut-health priorities Sophie Medlin explains how gut function and the gut microbiome can influence mental health and performance through the gut-brain axis, including hormonal, chemical, and neural connections.

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