Gut Feelings: Understanding How Food Affects Your Mood

There’s an intimate relationship between your health and the microbes that live in your body. Healthy gut microbes influence brain function.

Knowing that the gut influences mood may lead you to make some dietary changes. Support your gut bacteria with the foods you eat, which in turn aids your neurotransmitters.

Consume:
Jicama
Jerusalem artichoke
Fermented foods

Avoid:
Refined carbohydrates
Packaged, processed foods

Listen as Dr. Raphael Kellman joins Dr. Susanne Bennett to discuss how what you eat affects your mood.