The Next, Best, Greatest, Even Better Version of This || Dr. Drew Ramsey

The Ronan Levy Podcast

If the conversation with Scott Galloway was the one with the frat boy turned banker turned entrepreneur going vulnerable, this one is the conversation with the thoughtful, grass-fed farmer-turned-physician. And it's equally as insightful.

Drew Ramsey, MD is a board certified psychiatrist, author, and mental health advocate. His work focuses on clinical excellence, nutritional psychiatry, male mental health and creative media. He is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and founded the Brain Food Clinic, a digital mental health clinical practice.

His work has been featured by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Lancet Psychiatry, The Today Show, BBC, and NPR and he has given three TEDx talks. He is co-author of the Antidepressant Food Scale and created the first e-courses on Nutritional Psychiatry education for the public and clinicians. His books Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety (Harperwave 2021), Eat Complete, 50 Shades of Kale, and The Happiness Diet explore the connections between mental health and nutrition. He is on the Advisory Board at Men’s Health, the Editorial Board at Medscape Psychiatry, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the anti-stigma nonprofit Bring Change To Mind. He lives in Jackson, Wyoming with his wife and two children.

Follow Dr. Drew on Instagram: @DrewRamseyMD

Highlights:

3:30 - how do we define success?

4:23 - a moment to fan boy over Prof G

6:47 - what's worked for Ronan since leaving Field Trip

12:07 - the brilliance of association and intuition

14:67 - the lies that Disney movies tell us

19:30 - a really good diagnosis being a good thing

22:46 - using psychedelics during periods of distress

27:00 - the beauty of not being a doctor

28:50 - what is nutritional psychiatry

38:00 - rethinking vulnerability

42:26 - what's Justin Trudeau got to do with it?

44:57 - Drew's perspectives the Barbie Movie

49:26 - how to be a good mental health clinician

55:22 - a nod to Dr. Barry Waisglass and more integrated approaches to medicine

1:00:38 - back to lentils

1:02:46 - gluten, organic, coconut oil, ketosis and artificial flavours. And GMOs and UFOs.