Professor Sarah Berry

It's found in high amounts in oily fish.

And that's really important because we know it has a really important functional role in our brain as well.

And avoiding certain foods.

I know that we want to think about what we should encourage, but I do think we need to acknowledge, particularly when it comes to mental health and depression, that actually having these very high refined carbohydrates, high sugar foods, high heavily processed foods like your, you know, salamis, your heavily processed red meats, for example,

we know that that increases the chances of having mental health issues, of having depression, of having low mood.

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Sanjay, thank you for joining me today.

Thank you for having me.

And Sarah, thank you for being here.