How can food and lifestyle support body and mind wellbeing?

Articles and videos on holistic/natural view on and treatment suggestions of various imbalances in the body-mind system. This list is continuously added to.

Food and Mood - Nutritional Psychiatry

Food and Mood: What is Nutritional Psychiatry?

https://nutrition.org/food-and-mood-what-is-nutritional-psychiatry/

Using food for mental health.

Why Nutritional Psychiatry is the Future of Mental Health Treatment

https://theconversation.com/why-nutritional-psychiatry-is-the-future-of-mental-health-treatment-92545

"A lack of essential nutrients is known to contribute to the onset of poor mental health in people suffering from anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and ADHD. Nutritional psychiatry is a growing discipline that focuses on the use of food and supplements to provide these essential nutrients as part of an integrated or alternative treatment for mental health disorders."

"Let Food be Thy Medicine and Medicine be Thy Food."

Hippocrates

ADHD

Why ADHD Is Not A Psychiatric Disorder Or Brain Disease, Dr. Mark Hyman and George Papaicolaou

"ADHD is a body dis-ease that affects the brain."

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/11/02/podcast-hc29/

Brain Energy: The Metabolic Theory of Mental Illness, by Harvard psychiatrist Chris Palmer

"By better understanding the science of metabolism and mitochondria, we can finally connect the dots of mental illness." "...it opens the door to new treatments. Interventions such as diet, exercise, stress-reduction, sleep-management, and reducing substance use can effectively treat mental disorders in many people."

https://drfranklipman.com/2023/01/27/brain-energy-the-metabolic-theory-of-mental-illness/

Example of functional medicine treatment of a boy's ADHD and other imbalances, minute 13-15.42, Dr. Hyman TedMed talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhkLcpJTV9M

Top 5 Natural Remedies for ADHD (Plus, Key Lifestyle Changes), Dr. Axe:

https://draxe.com/health/natural-remedies-adhd/

Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural Treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, A.D.D., Dyslexia, A.D.H.D., Depression, Schizophrenia, book by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride

"All diseases begin in the gut."Hippocrates, 460-370 BC

Book presentation: "Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride set up The Cambridge Nutrition Clinic in 1998. As a parent of a child diagnosed with learning disabilities, she is acutely aware of the difficulties facing other parents like her, and she has devoted much of her time to helping these families. She realized that nutrition played a critical role in helping children and adults to overcome their disabilities, and has pioneered the use of probiotics in this field. Her willingness to share her knowledge has resulted in her contributing to many publications, as well as presenting at numerous seminars and conferences on the subjects of learning disabilities and digestive disorders. Her book Gut and Psychology Syndrome captures her experience and knowledge, incorporating her most recent work. She believes that the link between learning disabilities, the food and drink that we take, and the condition of our digestive system is absolute, and the results of her work have supported her position on this subject. In her clinic, parents discuss all aspects of their child's condition, confident in the knowledge that they are not only talking to a professional but to a parent who has lived their experience. Her deep understanding of the challenges they face puts her advice in a class of its own."

Interview with Dr. Campbell-McBride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HOSLQ7G3L0

Dr. Campbell-McBride's website: https://www.gaps.me

Digestion/microbiome - effect on body and mind (ADHD etc.), Anette Harbeck Olesen, nutrition and functional medicine expert:

"Your digestion is inextricably and intimately connected to the brain, and your intestinal health determines your health and your possible risk of developing a wide range of diseases such as diabetes and obesity, but also depression, migraines, anxiety and ADHD."

https://www.madforlivet.com/viden-og-forskning/fordoejelsen-din-3-hjerne/ - NB: In Danish (which you can of course translate via an online service).

5-minute breathing exercises can improve your mood and reduce anxiety

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/03/16/breathing-exercises-mood-anxiety-brain/

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