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For World Digestive Health Day, am delighted to be welcoming Jayne Leonard back to discuss a super simple way (even I’m enjoying experimenting with it) to improve our gut health, ADHD symptoms and mental health.

And Sole to Soul Circle members can join us tomorrow for a deeper dive into getting our inner (and actual) toddlers on board.

le grá (with love),

Evei

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… and found that those people who ate 30 or more plant foods a week had a far more diverse gut microbiome.

So that's fruit and veg?

It's actually fruit, veg, grains, nuts, seeds, so just 30 different types a week. So it actually isn't completely out of reach, you know, if you had your porridge with berries and seeds and nuts that's already like four different, four out of your 30 in one meal. It was just very little things, just like a different seed every morning, a different…

Hi, you're listening to the Feel Better Every Day Podcast. I'm Eve Menezes Cunningham and I'm here to help you create a life you don't have to retreat from.

I'm doing this by helping you take better care of yourself. That's the lower case self-care and also that upper case Self: that highest, wisest, truest, most brilliant, joyful and miraculous part of yourself. I do this by sharing trauma-informed and VAST / ADHD-friendly self-care ideas and I would love to hear how you're getting on and what questions you might have.

Today we're working with our digestive health for World Digestive Health Day and I'm delighted to welcome back Jayne Leonard. She specialises in food and mental health.

I hope you find this helpful. And if you want to join the Sole to Soul Circle or if you're already a member, your bonus content this week will be a deeper dive into working with your inner child around pathological demand avoidance when you want to eat healthier but your inner toddler is like, No! And there's also plenty of helpful information for people dealing with actual toddlers. I've just made it all about my own inner toddler.

I hope you enjoy the episode and thank you for listening.

Welcome Jayne, thank you for coming back to the Feel Better Every Day Podcast and this is actually around your specialism because we're celebrating World Digestive Health Day.

Do you want to say a little bit about your background for people who haven't listened to the earlier episodes and where people can find you?

Yeah, so I'm a psychotherapist and nutritional therapist. My interest is in the intersection of the two. Food and mood.

I am currently doing a PhD in how mental health professionals use food and mood research in their whole field called nutritional psychiatry which studies the relationship between what we eat and how we feel. You can find me on my website vivecounselling.com or on LinkedIn or Instagram @vivecounselling.

And that's v-i-v-e? That's v-i-v-e, yeah. Thank you.

If you were to think about your ideal self-care around your own eating and your actual, what would you like to say about that?

Ideally, based on the research, we should be eating 30 different plant foods a week and that's for our gut health, for our digestive health, mental health.

There's been a huge American, the American Gut Project found that those people who ate 30 or more plant foods a week had a far more diverse gut microbiome.

That's fruit and veg?

It's actually fruit, veg, grains, nuts, seeds, so just 30 different types a week. So it actually isn't completely out of reach, you know, if you had your porridge with berries and seeds and nuts that's already like four different, four