Life and Parenting Without Ultra-Processed Foods with Michaeleen Doucleff
Release Date: 01/06/2026
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info_outlineThis week on The Hamilton Review Podcast, we are pleased to welcome science journalist, Michaeleen Doucleff.
In this episode, Michaeleen discusses details from her Wall Street Journal article, My Family Went Off Ultra-Processed Foods for a Month. The Results Surprised Us.
Enjoy this raw, real and informative conversation.
Michaeleen is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, Hunt, Gather, Parent. Her second book, Dopamine Kids, comes out March 3, 2026. It explains how screens and ultraprocessed foods work inside our children’s brains, and how parents can use this knowledge to raise confident, healthy kids.
As a science journalist for over a decade, Michaeleen studies and reports on cross-cultural parenting, psychology and neuroscience, primarily for NPR.
Michaeleen began her career as a research chemist, completing her postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.
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