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Name: Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety
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Author: Drew Ramsey

Drew Ramsey

Nourish Your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks

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Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety by Drew Ramsey offers a holistic approach to mental health through nutrition. Drawing on scientific research, it provides practical advice on how to use food to support brain function and improve mood.

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What’s in it for me? Beat the blues by changing up your diet.

These days, it doesn’t take an expert to see that a mental health crisis is upon us. Most people are overworked and stressed out – and even before the global pandemic, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicide were all on the rise.

Luckily, one of the easiest places to find comfort is at the dinner table. Just like physical health, your mental health relies on getting the proper nutrients – and lately, countless studies have shown a direct link between diet and mental well-being.

Unfortunately, finding the right foods for you can be a confusing journey of culling through the latest fad diets and recommended superfoods. These blinks aim to cut through the chatter and show how you can make small changes to your diet to support your mental health.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how to help foster a healthy microbiome;
how to grow new brain cells; and
why a Mediterranean diet is so good for you.

Food can help you cope with depression and anxiety.

For a long time, it was thought that the brain stopped growing once you reached adulthood. However, recent scientific research has shown that your brain’s neuroplasticity – that is, its ability to make new connections – can continue to increase throughout your life. According to the emerging field of Nutritional Psychiatry, a healthy diet is an easy way to promote neuroplasticity and, in turn, relieve mental health issues.

Over the past decade, it has become widely recognized that food is medicine. And because the brain consumes 20 percent of your daily caloric intake, it’s only logical that the minerals, vitamins, fats, and proteins you eat affect how it functions. Eating is the most basic way you can take care of your body every day, so it makes sense you’d take care of your mental health the same way.

The key message here is: Food can help you cope with depression and anxiety.

It’s important to be clear about what exactly depression and anxiety are. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, depression is typically characterized by low mood, lack of energy, and trouble concentrating. In turn, anxiety manifests as extreme worry, along with irritability and sleep disruption.

Medicines to treat these symptoms do exist. But a study by the National Institute for Mental Health found that two-thirds of participants felt no relief from antidepressants. Similar results have been seen with anti-anxiety meds. So, to really beat depression and anxiety, a different approach is needed – one that helps manage symptoms through a combination of talk therapy and tweaks to your diet and exercise habits.

For starters, the author suggests taking a look at the benefits of a Mediterranean-style diet. Consisting mostly of fruits, vegetables, fish, whole grains, and healthy fats, this diet helps reduce cholesterol and promote heart health. But there’s more! It also supports neuroplasticity, fights inflammation, and helps foster a healthy microbiome in your gut.

Over the course of the following blinks, we’ll go deeper into which particular nutrient-dense foods are best for the brain. As will soon become apparent, a lot of these essential nutrients tend to come as a package, so making small changes won’t be that hard. And if you’re one of those people who hates kale, don’t worry – there’s plenty of other healthy options to choose from.

Positive lifestyle changes help your brain grow.

Depression and anxiety make change difficult, don’t they? The author recounts how one of his patients, a young man named Pete, felt like he was “stuck in place.” Not only had Pete been on medication since his teenage years, but he also came from a family with a history of depression. And because his depression seemed genetic, Pete felt hopeless.

Recent studies have found that certain genes may increase your chances of depression or anxiety. But they’re far from the only factor at play. In fact, the field of epigenetics shows that while you’re born with a certain set of genes, your experiences and lifestyle choices – things like diet and exercise – all work to change your genome in response to your environment.

A healthy gut is crucial to having a healthy mind.

Have you ever felt a wave of disappointment? If so, chances are you felt it deep down in your gut. And there’s a reason for that. “Gut reaction” is more than just a neat turn of phrase. In fact, your gut is incredibly important in your day-to-day functioning.

That’s because the many neurons in your gut are constantly sending messages to your brain – for instance, letting it know that you’ve eaten enough. However, when the gastrointestinal, or GI, tract isn’t functioning well, gut-to-brain communication also suffers. And animal studies have shown that limited GI tract function leads to higher levels of stress and fear, as well as cognitive problems. These symptoms are familiar to anyone who’s suffered from anxiety or depression.

To get healthy, find the foods that you enjoy eating.

Eating to beat depression doesn’t mean relying on some miracle “superfood” or strictly following a restrictive diet. Instead, the author groups brain-healthy, nutrient-dense foods into categories – making it easy to add them into your diet.

The categories are flexible, too; whether you’re vegan, on a ketogenic diet, or even just a picky eater, you can use them as a guide. And there’s no need to obsess over which foods are optimally nutritious. Just pick those you enjoy eating, and you’ll get all the nutrients you need.

The only “right way” of doing things is the way that’s right for you.

It’s time to acknowledge the obvious: changing your diet is really hard. For starters, online sources give out a ton of conflicting information, and sifting through it all can be a nightmare. What’s more, the message all these diets seem to convey is that you’re eating wrong. If you suffer from depression or anxiety, that kind of message doesn’t exactly inspire.

There are a lot of outdated ideas out there, too. For instance, one of the author’s patients ate a lot of iceberg lettuce, which has basically no nutrients, because she saw her skinny waistline as a sign of being healthy. The patient had picked up this wisdom from her mother – but, clearly, it was no longer serving her.

Set yourself up for success by setting up your kitchen.

Now that you’ve mentally prepared yourself to eat healthier, it’s time to start cooking.

But wait! Do you have all the ingredients you need? Is your kitchen a fully stocked workstation, or is it just the room that holds your microwave? And, importantly, do you even know how to cook? If you answered no to any of these questions, don’t worry. Remember, this is a slow, gentle process. There’s no need to feel intimidated – and you’re definitely not alone.

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Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety (2021) is a groundbreaking look at how nutrition can influence mental health. Based on the latest scientific information, it gives the lowdown on the mind-gut connection, inflammation, and keeping your microbiome healthy.

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Über den Autor

Drew Ramsey, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, a practicing psychiatrist, and a farmer. His work focuses on how depression and anxiety can be treated with a mix of talk therapy, medication, and dietary changes. He is also the author of The Happiness Diet, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Men’s Journal.

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