Eat to beat depression and anxiety Nourish your way to better mental health in six weeks

Drew Ramsey

eAudio - 2021

"A revolutionary prescription for healing depression and anxiety and optimizing brain health through the foods we eat, including a six-week plan to help you get started eating for better mental health. Depression and anxiety disorders are rising, affecting more than 58 million people in the United States alone. Many rely on therapy and medications to alleviate symptoms, but often this is not enough. Now, we know there has been a missing factor. With the latest scientific advances in neuroscience, nutrition, and the mind-gut connection, we have discovered that how and what we eat greatly affects how we feel, physically, cognitively, and emotionally. Our brains consume twenty percent of everything we eat. And when the brain is deprived... of essential nutrients, we suffer. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Drew Ramsey helps us forge a path towards greater mental health through food. Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety breaks down the science of Nutritional Psychiatry and explains what you should eat to positively effect brain health and improve mental wellness. Dr. Ramsey distills the latest research ground-breaking research on nutrition and the brain. By focusing on increasing brain cell health (neruoplasticity), reducing inflammation, and cultivating a healthy microbiome, he discusses the twelve essential vitamins and minerals most critical to your brain and body as well as anti-inflammatory foods which feed the gut. Ramsey helps readers to assess barriers to self-nourishment and offers techniques for enhancing motivation. To get us started, he provides a kick-starter Six-Week Depression and Anxiety Mental Health Food Plan to incorporate key food categories, like leafy greens and seafood, along with simple, delicious, brain-nutritious recipes. Following the proven method Dr. Ramsey has used with patients for nearly a decade, you can confidently use food to help lift yourself out of anxiety and depression and control your own journey to full mental health."

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Published
[United States] : HarperAudio 2021.
Language
English
Corporate Author
hoopla digital
Main Author
Drew Ramsey (-)
Corporate Author
hoopla digital (-)
Edition
Unabridged
Online Access
Instantly available on hoopla.
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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 27 min.)) : digital
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9780063031746
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Booklist Review

With the link between brain function and nutrition a hot topic, it makes a great deal of common sense to, at least, review the science and read about successes. Nutritional psychiatrist Ramsey (Fifty Shades of Kale, 2013) goes more than a few steps further. He explains the top 12 beneficial nutrients in detail, from folate to zinc, along with their roles in promoting the brain's neuroplasticity. Much space is devoted to not only the science behind such concepts as the antidepressant food scale, but also how to overcome challenges and other general questions. What if there are food allergies? Won't vitamin supplements suffice? Isn't red meat bad for the heart? Knowing those answers leads to reinforcing how best to embark on this eating program: identifying motivations and goals, setting up the kitchen and pantry, then introducing the six-week plan and almost 30 recipes, separated by five food types: leafy greens, rainbows, seafood, nuts/seeds/legumes, and good microbiome bugs. Dish names intrigue: turkey zucchini skillet lasagna, coconut-ginger lentil soup, kimchi pancake. The apt conclusion? Food is medicine. Includes resources and notes.

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