Coming up on this week's episode of the Doctors Pharmacy.

This is fascinating.

So the diet that prevents cancer, heart disease dementia, depression, and fixes most chronic illness is the same diet.

Hi, I'm Kaya Perot, one of the producers of the Doctors Pharmacy podcast.

We all know that eating well is essential to optimizing our physical health.

Now we are learning that what we eat can also have a major effect on our mental health and the quality of our sleep.

Dr. Hyman recently sat down with Dr. Drew Ramsey, a writer, farmer, and psychiatrist who practices nutritional psychiatry to talk about what foods increase your risk of depression and what foods can be used to prevent depression.

Let's listen in.

What does the data say if you eat highly processed foods you have, you know, 50 to 100% increased risk of clinical depression?

The food that we've created in the last 100 years leads to an increased risk or increased risk in that population of depression, same data for ADHD.

Not as much data for anxiety disorders, which is interesting, but certainly feels true to me clinically.

So Drew, you wrote this paper was published September 2018 in the psychiatric journal.

And it was really quite detailed in terms of its analysis of the types of foods and nutrients.

So help us take this home. What are the things that you learn from there that are the most important nutrients we need and what are the most important foods to help us get those nutrients in just in general to help us?

The food categories that people should be looking for are things like leafy greens, the rainbow vegetables, more seafood, and if you're eating meat and read meat, look more towards wild red meats or grass fed red meats.

So this is fascinating.

So the diet that prevents cancer, heart disease, dementia, depression, and fixes most chronic illness is the same diet.

This isn't rocket science. This is like get rid of refined processed foods, get rid of garbage.

I quote you all the time with that eat the food that God made, not the food that man made.

And with your psychiatric license or psychology license or wherever you are in the mental health care system, to just encourage patients as we do so many other lifestyle factors, give them that nudge.

I prescribe a lot of zooloft and I find it to be helpful medicine for some people for the right people.

But the thing that we don't do is we don't say, look, I'm also prescribing you exercise. I want to report next week.

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