How gut microbes regulate your mood | Prof. Felice Jacka

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Serotonin is known as the 'happy chemical' - 90% of it is made in the gut. So how can we feed our gut microbes to sustain our mood?

Jonathan talks with Professor Felice Jacka to try and find out.

Felice is Alfred Deakin Professor of Nutritional Psychiatry and the Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University in Australia. She is also the founder of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research and the world’s leading researcher on the impact of food on the brain and mental health. And she is back on the show to delve deeper into the links between UPF and brain health, specifically the hippocampus which is responsible for cognition (learning and memory) and mental health.

Useful studies:
The SMILES trial, published in BMC Medicine
Link: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12…

Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Mental Health from The Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University
Link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35807749/

Western diet is associated with a smaller hippocampus, from BMC Medicine
Link: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4563885/

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Books:
Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati: amzn.to/4blJsLg
Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector: amzn.to/4amZinu