The Brain Gut Connection
Heston Blumenthal, Kimberley Wilson, Natalie Hackett and Dr Ally Jaffee join Sheila Dillon with a live audience at Abergavenny Food Festival.
Why does food do our heads in?
This episode is a panel recording from 2024 Abergavenny Food Festival with a live audience.
Sheila Dillon is joined by Chef Heston Blumenthal, who recently went public about his diagnosis of bi-polar, and having ADHD (Attention Deficit hyperactivity disorder); chartered psychologist Kimberley Wilson, the author of "Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis"; Natalie Hackett the Headteacher of New Lubbesthorpe Primary School in Leicestershire who was crowned School Leader Food Hero of 2024, at the Jamie Oliver School Food Awards; and Dr Ally Jaffee, co-founder of Nutritank, an organisation set up to make sure that future doctors learned that food, along with exercise, is central to health. Dr Jaffee is now a resident doctor specialising in psychiatry.
The discussion focussed on the known connections between food and mental health, from childhood through to old age.
Presented by Sheila Dillon
Produced for ±«Óãtv Audio in Bristol by Natalie Donovan
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