Psychiatry is an important juncture, with the current drug-focused model having only achieved

modest benefits.

So what about nutritional interventions?

Diet may be as important as psychiatry as it is to cardiology.

That's quite the bar.

You don't know if diet can help, though, until you put it to the test.

For example, the famous Geico study, a multi-centre, randomized control trial of a nutrition

intervention program in a multi-ethnic adult population and corporate setting,

looked at reducing depression

and anxiety and improving quality of life.

Researchers found that advice to eat a strictly plant-based diet improved indicators

of depression, anxiety and work, productivity, specifically significant improvements in depression,

anxiety, fatigue, emotional well-being, daily functioning because

of emotional health, improvements and impairments while working because of health, overall work

impairments because of health, and non-work-related activity impairment because of health,

compared to the control group, at 18 weeks. Even just cutting out meat can improve mood.

Omnivores were randomly assigned to a control group to consume

meat and clean fish and poultry daily, or just the fish or no meat at all.

And compared to the control group, some mood improvements were found in the total meat

elimination group within just two weeks.

However, just replacing three servings of meat a week with plant-based meat alternatives

was not

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