Patrick Holford: Simple Wisdom for a Healthy Life

To what extent is a child’s mental health set in pregnancy? What can women do in pregnancy to ensure optimal mental health for their child? Also, what happens to women’s brains and mental health when their nutrition is sub-optimal in pregnancy? How can we help children and teenagers to achieve their full potential for mental health? In this podcast, I'm speaking to Julia Rucklidge, Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Mental Health and Nutrition Research Group at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Learn more on my website - nutrition for Children's Health [https://www.patrickholford.com/topic/childrens-health/] and Pregnancy [https://www.patrickholford.com/topic/pregnancy/] as well as my books Optimum Nutrition for your Child [https://www.holfordirect.com/product/optimum-nutrition-for-your-child-patrick-holford/] and Optimum Nutrition Before, During and After Pregnancy [https://www.holfordirect.com/product/optimum-nutrition-before-during-and-after-pregnancy-patrick-holford/].

To what extent is your health destiny pre-determined? Is it nature or nurture – what you eat and how you live that determines your health history? My guest in this podcast is a specialist in nutrigenomics. That is the field of rich interactions between your genes and your environment. Emma Beswick is not only a nutrigenomic expert but also a graduate from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition so she knows her stuff about nutrition too and is very much hands on, running one of the best gene testing companies in this field: LifecodeGX. In this podcast she demystifies genes and explains how they work, how we can identify our genetic uniqueness and the direct knock on effect that has on your personal optimum nutrition.  Go to my website [https://www.patrickholford.com/topic/]for more information on nutrition. Sign up to my E-News on the home page of my website at www.patrickholford.com [http://www.patrickholford.com/] to receive news updates. Do follow my podcast channel to be informed of new podcast as they are released. Share with friends and family to help them achieve optimum health.

Dr Christopher Palmer is a Harvard psychiatrist and researcher working at the interface of metabolism and mental health. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Founder and Director of the Metabolic and Mental Health Program and Director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, both at Harvard and at the McLean Hospital. He is author of the best-selling book, Brain Energy [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brain-Energy-Revolutionary-Understanding-Health/dp/1637741588/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20IVWD5IBZOKW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3gR3L_3Sal_iX0_Zp6Fya6aLhFds0hZz6JJHj7n7CImlkT37PRc03odoFN6gS3KkVbbl_OvjmwBecR4JzbJkwYSrDMTKgXTkR4oaminH2OjeNYwhoEc3eodyNXHik4oY8ji9aM9wMJtb2OULTinxmTbgBCIg_tRKeq865F9q5qpX65lwS7nd7IN4ztpA_G57D74XAaFDgh2bUFsgBYNf8tLLCGWtJFtmUPJwzy1727o.V-xmKYtOrjmJj8f02z19Zqm8d2ZAL9NZZlVMOuS7ZHo&dib_tag=se&keywords=brain+energy&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1729241523&sprefix=brain+energy%2Caps%2C1089&sr=8-1], in which he argues that mental disorders are metabolic disorders impacting the brain, and is leading the way to a paradigm shift in psychiatry towards new ways of understanding and treating mental health. Go to my website for more information on nutrition and mental health [https://www.patrickholford.com/topic/mental-health/] as well as the ketogenic diet [https://www.patrickholford.com/topic/hybrid-diet/]. See also my book Upgrade Your Brain [https://www.holfordirect.com/product/uyb-book/]. Sign up to my E-News at www.patrickholford.com [http://www.patrickholford.com/] to receive news updates.

The latest iteration of the highly influential Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, authored by numerous professors from around the world, led by University College London’s psychiatry Professor Gill Livingston has, for the third time, ignored the hardest hitting evidence for homocysteine lowering B vitamins, misrepresented the science on omega-3 and concluded that the evidence for ‘unhealthy diet’ didn’t meet their high bar for inclusion as a modifiable risk factor. Several eminent professors are up in arms and have written to the Lancet. In this podcast I interview three of them – Professor Joshua Miller, Professor of Nutritional Science at Rutgers University; omega-3 expert Professor William Harris from the Fatty Acid Research Institute (FARI) and Professor Richard Johnson from Colorado University’s School of Medicine - to explore how the establishment continue to side-line nutrition. Read more on Alzheimer's, Dementia and brain health [https://www.patrickholford.com/topic/alzheimers-and-dementia/] on my website.  Read the Lancet report [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01296-0/abstract].  More about Food for the Brain [https://foodforthebrain.org/].

I’m talking to Steve Bennett, author of The Fibre First Diet, a book which proposes that simply re-ordering the foods you eat can trim your waistline and prevent diseases. We get under the hood of what’s really going on and how to gain control of your weight and health without feeling deprived. We will explore insulin resistance and how to reverse it, what really drives hunger, quick solutions to cut your cravings and why not all fibres are created equal. Also, the Japanese fibre that doctors prescribe to help reverse diabetes. Find out about his book The Fibre First Diet. [https://www.primalliving.com/en-gb/product/the-fibre-first-diet-by-steve-bennett/aiqc65/]  Find out more on weight-loss and blood sugar balance [https://www.patrickholford.com/topic/weight-loss/] on my website.