Nutrition Is Medicine For Mental Health

— "What if instead of treating mental illness with prescriptions and medication, we changed what we eat and how we feed our brains?"

Valeria Teles interviews Bonnie J. Kaplan — the author of "The Better Brain: Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition."

Currently Professor Emerita in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Originally from Ohio, she did all her training in the U.S. and then moved to Canada and the University of Calgary. She has published widely on the biological basis of developmental disorders and mental health – particularly, the contribution of nutrition to brain development and brain function.

Her efforts to include nutrition knowledge in the care of people with mental health challenges has earned her a variety of awards, including the Dr. Rogers Prize www.drrogersprize.org) in September 2019; Citation of Honour, having been nominated for Calgary 7 over 70 Award September 2019; and in 2017 she was selected as one of 150 Canadian Difference Makers in Mental Health, in honour of Canada's 150th birthday.

Her book The Better Brain, written with her former student Prof Julia Rucklidge (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand) is being released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2021.

To learn more about Bonnie J. Kaplan and her work please visit: https://www.bonniejkaplan.com/

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