Juna Bobby MD, EdMFounder, MindBodySpace LLC · RELAX TO SOAR™️ Method Workshops • Mindbodyspace Podcast • NYU SOM M.D. • Harvard Ed.M. • Juilliard Resilience Faculty

How dietary habits can contribute to anxiety

8 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this video, Dr. Juna Bobby discusses the alarming rise of anxiety and depression among teens, young adults, and adults, emphasizing that nutrition plays a significant role in mental health. She connects dietary habits to gastrointestinal issues such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), describing how stress and poor eating patterns lead to symptoms like bloating and cramping. Drawing on her experience working with college students, she notes that many young women develop IBS after encountering new stressors and dietary changes when they go to college, illustrating a direct link between life‑stage stress, nutrition, and mental‑health outcomes.

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We now live in a society where teens and young adults are suffering from anxiety and depression at an alarming rate. Mm-hmm. And we're seeing that over the course of the life cycle, more adults too suffering from anxiety, depression. So that's tied to their nutrition too, of course. Mm-hmm. And then you mentioned IBS, irritable bowel syndrome, and that's directly related to what they eat and then how they feel. Mm-hmm. The bloating, the cramping. I work with, uh, several college students, young women who go off to college and guess what? Next thing you know, they are diagnosed with IBS because they have so many stressors on them.