Calm Your Mind with Food

Reduce anxiety. Improve your mood. Support your mental health - through food.
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'The antidote to stress. Essential reading.'
Tim Spector, author of Food for Life
What if the key to calming your mind is on your plate?
Anxiety is at an all-time high, but according to nutritional psychiatrist Dr Uma Naidoo, what you eat can have a powerful impact on how you feel.
In Calm Your Mind With Food, Dr Naidoo combines cutting-edge science with practical advice to show how nutrition, the gut microbiome and brain health work together to influence anxiety, mood and mental wellbeing.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
- Use food and nutrition to reduce anxiety and stress naturally
- Support your brain through the gut-brain connection
- Build a diet that improves mood, focus and resilience
- Identify foods that help-or worsen-anxiety and depression
- Create simple, effective anti-anxiety meal plans
With Dr Uma's six key pillars, expert guidance and easy, nutrient-rich recipes, this is a practical, science-backed guide to mental health through diet. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, low mood or stress, this book gives you the tools to take back control: one meal at a time.

Uma Naidoo is a board-certified psychiatrist (Harvard Medical School), professional chef (Cambridge School of Culinary Arts) and nutrition specialist (Cornell University). She is currently the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she consults on nutritional interventions for the psychiatrically and medically ill; Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy; and has a private practice in Newton, MA. She also teaches at The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.
Dr. Naidoo speaks frequently at conferences at Harvard, for Goop audiences, the New York City Jewish Community Center, and Ivy Boston. A published author, she blogs for Harvard Health and Psychology Today and has just completed a unique video cooking series for the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy which teaches Nutritional Psychiatry using culinary techniques in the kitchen.
Calm Your Mind with Food is her second book.
@drumanaidoo / umanaidoomd.com