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What is the link between the brain and the gut? Between psychology and the microbiome? How does what we eat influence our emotions? How can our diet be a pleasure but also a real factor in psychological balance?
That’s what we’ll explore with our guest today.
Guest: Guillaume Fond
I discovered Guillaume Fond in a documentary and appreciated his combination of gentleness, lucidity, and scientific rigor. He is a psychiatrist and researcher at the hospitals in Marseille. He teaches at the medical school and is a speaker and trainer.
He is the author of more than a hundred articles published in psychiatric journals, and his work has received numerous awards.
In 2022 he published “Eat Well to Stop Being Depressed” with Éditions Odile Jacob.
My questions
- As a psychiatrist, how did you become interested in nutrition?
- Could you remind us of the definition of the microbiome, and tell us about the latest discoveries concerning the links between the microbiome and the brain?
- As a psychiatrist, do you observe an increase in depression? What are the exact symptoms of depression? Are there other psychiatric disorders linked to diet? (bipolar disorders, autism…)
- What are your nutritional recommendations to stop being depressed?
- More broadly, what good habits should one adopt?
- Are there little-known or even counterintuitive nutritional recommendations?
- Are there any dietary supplements of interest on this topic? (I noticed the emphasis you give to omega-3s in your book…)
- Conversely, which foods or diets should be avoided?
- Is there a difference between men and women due to hormones?
- Do you have specific advice for children? And for seniors?
- Do you have any examples of patients whose recovery was particularly impressive?
Resources for further exploration
- Eat well to stop feeling depressed, Guillaume Fond
- Guillaume’s YouTube channel
- I make my life into a big project, Guillaume Fond
- An interview with Guillaume on psychonutrition, on Cerveau & Psycho
