Nutritional psychiatry

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Nutritional psychiatry is the clinical application of psychiatry to treat nutrition psychology through diet which impacts mental health. [1] [2] [3]

Nutrional psychiatry is an emerging field and conducts interventions through nutraceuticals and psychobiotics. [4]

Nutritional psychiatry is when someone's diet influences their mental health. Some alternatives are potential for nutritional strategies to be able to gain better mental health. [5] The authors talk about the biological mechanisms that connect nutrition and mental disorders and how they link together, some of these can be inflammation, gut-brain axis, and oxidative stress, stating that diet can be like therapy. [5] What you consume and how much, has a big impact on your mental health, if you have a better diet and are consistent you are most likely to achieve a better mental state, without depression and/or anxiety. [5]

There is also a novel method for treating mental health disorders, suggesting that having a specific diet can change the standard part of psychiatric inventions. [6] Nutrition should be looked at as both preventive and therapeutic because different diets impact mental health and are seen to cause depression and anxiety. [6] To be able to acquire better mental health you should plan an ideal diet alongside some medication and maybe therapy. [6]

There is a big relationship between diet quality and the well-being of someones mental health, people who are used to eating more fruits and vegetables are prone to better mental health outcomes and have an increase in better mental health. [7] Although there can be good outcomes there are also bad ones, like people that have a poor diet pattern, such as eating too much processed foods because they can cause depression and anxiety. It is very important to have a better diet for your mental well-being. [7]

It is also known that modern lifestyle changes have caused a diet shift and this affects the increase in mental health disorders. [8] Logan and Jacka tell us about "evolutionary mismatch", stating that the diet we see nowadays is different from the usual traditional diet that humans are supposed to have this concept explains the downhill of mental illness. [8] Nutritional psychiatry can be used to explore the fields of biological and environmental factors that can influence the mental health that we face today. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Umadevi Naidoo, M. D. (17 January 2019). "Nutritional Psychiatry: The Gut-Brain Connection". Psychiatric Times. 36 (1).
  2. ↑ Adan, Roger A.H.; van der Beek, Eline M.; Buitelaar, Jan K.; Cryan, John F.; Hebebrand, Johannes; Higgs, Suzanne; Schellekens, Harriet; Dickson, Suzanne L. (December 2019). "Nutritional psychiatry: Towards improving mental health by what you eat". European Neuropsychopharmacology. 29 (12): 1321–1332. doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.10.011. hdl: 2066/215289 . PMID   31735529.
  3. ↑ Ruland, Lisa (9 June 2021). "What Is Nutritional Psychiatry? For Starters, It's Delicious". Bon Appétit. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  4. ↑ Jacka, Felice N. (March 2017). "Nutritional Psychiatry: Where to Next?". eBioMedicine. 17: 24–29. doi:10.1016/j.ebiom.2017.02.020. hdl: 11343/258291 . PMID   28242200.
  5. 1 2 3 Adan, Roger A.H.; van der Beek, Eline M.; Buitelaar, Jan K.; Cryan, John F.; Hebebrand, Johannes; Higgs, Suzanne; Schellekens, Harriet; Dickson, Suzanne L. (December 2019). "Nutritional psychiatry: Towards improving mental health by what you eat". European Neuropsychopharmacology. 29 (12): 1321–1332. doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.10.011. hdl: 2066/215289 . PMID   31735529.
  6. 1 2 3 Borrego-Ruiz, Alejandro; Borrego, Juan J. (5 March 2025). "Nutritional Psychiatry: A Novel Approach to the Treatment of Mental Health Disorders". Actas Españolas de Psiquiatría. 53 (2): 443–445. doi:10.62641/aep.v53i2.1920. PMC   11898261 . PMID   40071358.
  7. 1 2 Firth, Joseph; Gangwisch, James E; Borsini, Alessandra; Wootton, Robyn E; Mayer, Emeran A (29 June 2020). "Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing?". BMJ: m2382. doi:10.1136/bmj.m2382.
  8. 1 2 3 Logan, Alan C; Jacka, Felice N (December 2014). "Nutritional psychiatry research: an emerging discipline and its intersection with global urbanization, environmental challenges and the evolutionary mismatch". Journal of Physiological Anthropology. 33 (1). doi: 10.1186/1880-6805-33-22 . hdl: 10536/DRO/DU:30067241 . PMID   25060574.
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