Explore: Mental Health x The Gut
What we eat can shape how we feel, and how we feel can shape what we want to eat.
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, Andrew Huberman explores the relationship between food, the brain, and our emotional experience, including how dopamine and serotonin influence eating behavior, why we crave certain foods, and how our psychological experience can even shape sensations like hunger.
He also looks at the role of nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids and the gut microbiome in supporting mood and overall health. I like this episode as an accessible entry point into understanding nutrition as one piece of the mind-body relationship,
