296: Nutritional Psychiatry: How Food Impacts Your Mood, Energy & Mind with Drew Ramsey

Dec 28, 2025, 08:00 AM

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Drew Ramsey, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, five time author, and leading voice in Nutritional Psychiatry and integrative mental health. He is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the founder of the Brain Food Clinic and Spruce Mental Health. For twenty years, he served as an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, where he taught and supervised psychotherapy and nutritional psychiatry.

What if mental fitness is about so much more than eating well? In this episode, Drew Ramsey reminds us what we already know in our hearts: connection, movement, sleep, and presence matter just as much as nutrition. We walked through the science of processed foods, discovered the brain foods that actually protect your mood, and learned the tenets of mental fitness that transform our lives.


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TIMESTAMPS

2:22 Drew’s Story
10:49 What Everyone Should Know
16:08 Processed vs. Unprocessed Foods
19:28 Food Contaminants
28:07 Building the Perfect Meal
36:07 Brain Food Hacks
51:30 Daily Habits & Practices
1:01:34 Final Message

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