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Although it isn’t quite yet accepted by mainstream medicine, nutritional psychiatry – which focuses on using food and supplements to help treat mental health disorders – is on the rise.
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.
But nutritional approaches for these debilitating conditions are not widely accepted by mainstream medicine. Treatment options tend to be limited to official National Institute for Care Excellence guidelines which recommend talking therapies and antidepressants.
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I am not against nutritional management of health, either physical or mental, but I have found that the foodstuffs and supplements suggested are, in many cases, way outside of my budget.
