Hyla Cass, MD: ‘Nutritional Approaches to Mental Health’
ailsa wrote an interesting post today on
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Hyla Cass, MD, Psychiatrist outlines key components to achieving and maintaining mental wellness.
From [Global Health Center]:
Nutritional Approaches to Mental Health
© Hyla Cass M.D.
(Excerpted from St. John’s Wort: Nature’s Blues Buster)
Let food be thy medicine. - Hippocrates
Besides the oxygen we breathe, all that we need to survive comes from what we eat. Food nourishes both the body and the brain. In fact, the brain has first call on the available supply of nutrients. Therefore, the first effects of nutritional deficiencies are often mental symptoms.
When orthomolecular psychiatrists refer to a nutritional deficiency, they are not necessarily talking about the prevention of a traditional deficiency disease, such as beriberi, a once-common illness that is fortunately now rare due to vitamin B1 food supplementation. However, lesser subclinical deficiencies are quite common. While not enough to bring on overt physical symptoms, they are often sufficient to stimulate changes in brain chemistry, and affect mood. […]
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