Nutrition: Feed Your Mental Health & Calm Your Mind with Food-View Presentation

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Dr. Drew Ramsey and Dr. Uma Naidoo discuss nutritional psychiatry, a field that focuses on how nutrition can optimize brain health and help treat and prevent mental health disorders. They emphasize the importance of diet in mental health, citing studies like the SMILES trial, which showed that a Mediterranean-style diet could significantly reduce depression. They both advocate a food-first approach to mental well-being, highlighting the significance of consuming nutrient-dense foods like seafood, greens, nuts, and beans. Dr. Naidoo further mentions the role of gut microbiome and inflammation in mental health, stressing personalized nutrition and lifestyle strategies. Both doctors focus on practical approaches to help patients make dietary changes, such as motivational interviewing techniques and collaboration with dieticians. They discuss the impact of deficiencies, like iron, on mental health, and how certain dietary interventions must be tailored more carefully. Both express optimism about the ongoing developments in nutritional psychiatry, urging continued learning and adaptation to improve patient care. The session concludes with a call to further research and collaboration among professionals to advance this field effectively.

Keywords

nutritional psychiatry

mental health

Mediterranean diet

gut microbiome

nutrient-dense foods

dietary interventions

personalized nutrition

motivational interviewing