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Nutrition and mental health: the honest version
Harvard Health on what nutritional psychiatry actually supports, and what it doesn't, despite confident marketing.
Harvard Health Publishing6 min readSelected and edited by Dean ShabanAdded
Nutritional psychiatry is a real and growing field. Harvard Health's overview is a useful corrective to two failure modes in popular coverage: dismissing diet entirely, or selling specific supplements as quasi-pharmacological treatments without the evidence to match.
The strongest signal in the literature is a Mediterranean-pattern diet for depression. Most other claims (specific micronutrients, gut-microbiome interventions, ketogenic protocols for serious mental illness) remain preliminary.
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