Prof Felice Jacka

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Health Report · Kate has a history of anorexia. Why was she prescribed weight loss jabs? · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

Thank you for the apology and thank you for the recognition now, Norman.

I was saying earlier to someone that if I'd been a sports person, I probably would have been all over the news.

But, you know, Australia doesn't always value science as much as it does sport.

Well, that's right.

So the award recognised my work establishing the field of nutritional psychiatry and all of that, the work that went into that.

So the observational research, the trials, setting up the International Society for

establishing the Food and Mood Centre, you know, all of that sort of work that develops a whole platform and a whole field for further research and supports early career researchers to come into the area and to do their PhDs and to become scientists.

So it was an incredible honour and I still to this day can't quite believe it.

I keep pinching myself.

Well, it's really interesting because our Food and Mood Centre, of course, we've got about 50 really amazing people in the centre and we're doing all sorts of work from trials in poo transplants, believe it or not, through to working with the Global Burden of Disease Study to get the diet and depression link into that global burden of disease so that policymakers can work out how much of that burden in their area they could potentially avert if they improved their

population eating habits.

The work that I'm really focused on now personally is looking at how the planetary microbiome and the human microbiome interact because our global food system, of course, is destroying soil, arable soil that's full of microbes.

That's the main

source of biodiversity on the planet.

And all of our pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, et cetera, are destroying that microbiome.

And we believe, based on the emerging evidence, that that's going to have huge implications for our health, and it's already doing so.

So when we lose planetary microbiome, we lose human microbiome.

And we believe that the two are very closely linked.

So looking after the planet becomes good for our own personal health.

Thank you so much, Norman.

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