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Podcast: Food Junkies Podcast
Episode: Episode 263: Dr. Ignacio Cuaranta - Sleep, Light, and Ultra-Processed Foods in Mental Health
Description: What if the biggest breakthroughs in mental health didn't start with more effort—but with better timing? In this deeply grounding and wide-ranging conversation, we're joined by Ignacio Cuaranta, a board-certified psychiatrist whose work sits at the intersection of psychiatry, chronobiology, metabolic health, and lifestyle medicine. Trained in Argentina and working internationally, Dr. Cuaranta brings a refreshingly non-dogmatic, biology-forward lens to mental health—one that prioritizes rhythm, regulation, and compassion over blame or biohacking extremes. Together, we explore why sleep and light exposure may be the most powerful psychiatric interventions we have, how ultra-processed foods disr...