Your gut is literally swarming with microbes. Bugs that impact the way you think and feel. Did you realise that within 24 hours of eating a meal you can change the makeup or your micro-biome? You literally are what you eat. And, what you eat can change how you feel…
Join us in conversation with Felice Jacka from Deakin's Food and Mood Centre and Jason Wu from the George Institute for Global Health as we explore the link between Food and our Mood and what we're doing at UNSW to make the healthy choice the easy choice with the Good Food Project.
Felice Jacka is Professor of Nutritional Psychiatry and Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University. She is founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) and immediate past president of the Australian Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders (APMD). Professor Jacka has pioneered and led a highly innovative program of research that examines how individuals’ diets interact with the risk for mental health problems. Her current work focuses closely on the links between diet, gut health and mental and brain health. This research is being carried out with the ultimate goal of developing new, evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies for mental disorders. She has recently published a book for the general public called ‘Brain Changer’ through Pan Macmillan Australia and Yellow Kite in the UK and EU. Her children’s book – There’s a Zoo in my Poo – was published in July 2020.
Professor Jason Wu is a professor in the UNSW Faculty of Medicine & Health in the School of Population Health and the Head of the Nutrition Science Program at the George Institute for Global Health.
His research focuses on improving health and wellbeing through developing innovative ‘Food is Medicine’ programs, evaluation of population food policies, and figuring out how dietary factors drive or prevent diseases. Jason's research has shaped nutrition guidelines and policies in Australia and globally, featuring in the likes of British Medical Journal and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. He lives in Redfern, Sydney and is a happy husband and dad.
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