Diet impacts mood, brain function, and neurochemistry, as psychiatric illness is often characterized by neuroinflammation.

“but i do believe that for many with depression anxiety psychotic disorders and eating disorders including anorexia bulimia and binge eating disorder that there is a neuroinflammatory component and that should be addressed with a dietary focus an intentional elimination of foods that may be worsening the gut worsening neural inflammation through leaky gut etc that that needs to be a major bent of the treatment”

“what if that type of diet could improve neural inflammation in the brain and could help these mental health disorders”

“my belief is that most eating disorders are connected with narrow inflammation right in some ways these are psychiatric disorders and i think that a lot of psychiatric disorders are neuroinflammatory what causes neuroinflammation we could generate a pretty good argument that it's the same stuff that generates gastroenterological inflammation right lectins plant toxins could we remove these things yeah absolutely like processed sugar seed oils yeah”

“in a lot of people this is related to neuroinflammation and that neuroinflammation like so many other nidus you know nidi niduses of uh inflammation in the human body so many other you know fosi of of inflammation in the human body is related to the foods that we're eating”