on today's episode of the real foodology podcast vitamin d is a neurosteroid so as as such it's it's uh it plays a lot

of roles in the nervous system number one and low levels have been shown to be correlative with

depression and anxiety it's certainly not the only factor.

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast. I am your host Courtney Swan. I am the creator behind Real Foodology, which is, of course, this podcast,

as well as my Instagram and the food blog that I started 10 years ago. I'm not really active on

there anymore. It more just serves as a landing page for everything else that I started 10 years ago. I'm not really active on there anymore.

It more just serves as a landing page for everything else that I do.

But if you are new here, I started Real Foodology as an outlet that I needed to share

all the information that I was learning as I was getting my master's of science in nutrition

and integrative health.

And then it from there just kind of exploded

into this podcast. Let's get into today's episode, which is an integrative approach to depression

and anxiety with Dr. Peter Vanjorno. He's a naturopathic doctor. He graduated from Bastille University.

If you don't know about

Bastille, I actually looked into going to Bastier. It is the leading accredited university for

science-based natural medicine. He completed five years of training in naturopathic medicine,

and he was honored to be his class speaker. Before medical school, he researched as a

pre-doctoral fellow at the National

Institutes of Health in Maryland and at Yale University. He's also written a few books,

like put your anxiety behind you, how come they're happy, and I'm not, and holistic solutions

for anxiety and depression. I've put links in the show notes to all of these books so you guys

can further your studying, which I'm sure after listening to this episode you're going to want to,

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