Whether you want to boost your energy levels or simply improve your family's diet. Understanding why food is such an integral part of mental health is the first step on the journey to wholesome nutrition. Whether you have mental health issues or want your brain to function optimally. It doesn't take much to get you started on the path of self-nourishment and positive change. The diet for depression and anxiety discussed in this book does not require you to turn your entire life upside down. Nor barely survive in suffering and deprivation while following some extremely restrictive regimen.

Instead, you get the chance to apply a revolutionary prescription for optimizing brain health and alleviating depression and anxiety through the foods we eat, too.

There is a reason you reached for this book. Perhaps you or a loved one has been diagnosed with depression or anxiety. Maybe you're feeling less motivated or find yourself worrying more than you'd like. Or you experience fatigue, brain fog, mood swings, or constant worry.

When it gets the nutrition it needs, our brain can go into growth mode—easily making strong new neural connections needed to better adapt to the world around us. This one "growth mode" is also a protective state, producing protective molecules that help protect the brain from the atrophy seen so often in mood disorders.

• Eating to beat
• depression and anxiety