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doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(14)00051-0. Epub 2015 Feb 25.

Alan C Logan 2, Tasnime N Akbaraly 3, G Paul Amminger 4, Vicent Balanzá-Martínez 5, Marlene P Freeman 6, Joseph Hibbeln 7, Yutaka Matsuoka 8, David Mischoulon 9, Tetsuya Mizoue 10, Akiko Nanri 10, Daisuke Nishi 11, Drew Ramsey 12, Julia J Rucklidge 13, Almudena Sanchez-Villegas 14, Andrew Scholey 15, Kuan-Pin Su 16, Felice N Jacka 17; International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research

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Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry

Jerome Sarris et al. Lancet Psychiatry. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

Psychiatry is at an important juncture, with the current pharmacologically focused model having achieved modest benefits in addressing the burden of poor mental health worldwide. Although the determinants of mental health are complex, the emerging and compelling evidence for nutrition as a crucial factor in the high prevalence and incidence of mental disorders suggests that diet is as important to psychiatry as it is to cardiology, endocrinology, and gastroenterology. Evidence is steadily growing for the relation between dietary quality (and potential nutritional deficiencies) and mental health, and for the select use of nutrient-based supplements to address deficiencies, or as monotherapies or augmentation therapies. We present a viewpoint from an international collaboration of academics (members of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research), in which we provide a context and overview of the current evidence in this emerging field of research, and discuss the future direction. We advocate recognition of diet and nutrition as central determinants of both physical and mental health.

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