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Food & Mood
Vital Habits incorporates a holistic approach to mental well-being. Depression is the leading cause for disability worldwide, and despite modern approaches (anti-depressants) – rates of depression are still on the rise. The poor treatment outcome of depression has led scientists to embark on a more holistic and detailed approach to better understand the roots of depression and how it may be affecting the human mind.
The relationship between a healthy diet and reduced risk for depression has been known for centuries, but recent studies such as the SMILES Trial (2017) further investigated this correlation. This trial was the first to use a dietary improvement approach to treat depression and the results were fascinating, 30% of the participants that were diagnosed with depression prior to the trial had gone into remission after the implementation of a healthy diet. Many other trials have shown this effect; American Journal of Psychiatry showed the link between diet and mental health disorders and showed that western style diet was associated with lower of depressive disorders.
A study in Spain on 10.000 university students showed that those following a Mediterranean diet were half as likely to develop depression as those who scored low on the Mediterranean diet. The largest study in Japan from 90.000 people showed that those who ate the traditional Japanese diet rather than Western were ½ as likely to commit suicide over 10 year follow up.
It should not be surprising, then, that poor dietary habits are linked to higher rates of depression, anxiety, psychosis, schizophrenia, post traumatic stress disorder, and dementia.
Most people are surprised when they read about this relationship, and although the mechanisms behind this are complex – ranging from level of consumption of macronutrients leading to specific neurotransmitter secretions, the microbiota and gut brain axis – one very simple reason stands out. The brain, just like your heart, is an organ.
Just as your heart requires a balance of healthy nutrients to function properly, so does your brain. Your brain is the most important organ in your body and it makes up 20-25% of your daily energy requirements – It shouldn't be surprising then that the brain, just like your heart, requires adequate fuel to be in optimum health.
