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Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry

journal contribution
posted on 2015-03-01, 00:00 authored by J Sarris, A C Logan, T N Akbaraly, G P Amminger, V Balanzá-Martínez, M P Freeman, J Hibbeln, Y Matsuoka, D Mischoulon, T Mizoue, A Nanri, D Nishi, D Ramsey, J J Rucklidge, A Sanchez-Villegas, A Scholey, K P Su, Felice JackaFelice Jacka
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.

History

Journal

Lancet. psychiatry

Volume

2

Issue

3

Pagination

271 - 274

Publisher

Lancet Publishing Group

Location

Philadelphia, Pa.

ISSN

2215-0366

eISSN

2215-0374

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article

Copyright notice

2015, Lancet Publishing Group