Transform Your Practice with Amino Acid Therapy

Reflecting on her journey, Jayne attributes much of her success to the education and insights from the Academy’s training. She highly recommends this course to nutrition, mental health, or addiction practitioners to commit to this program, recognizing its power to break down stigmas and a deeper understanding of mental health biochemistry.
Dylan Lundgren’s Journey with the Academy of Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition

In the world of addiction recovery, nutrition often takes a backseat. However, within the Academy of Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition, individuals like Dylan Lundgren, a TEDx Speaker, and Addiction Recovery Advocate, are discovering its transformative power under the guidance of Christina Veselak.
Calm Your Mind with Food: A Revolutionary Guide to Controlling Your Anxiety

Are you ready to transform the way you think about anxiety? Bestselling author and nutritional psychiatrist Dr. Uma Naidoo, MD, brings you a groundbreaking guide beyond traditional mental health approaches. “Calm Your Mind with Food: A Revolutionary Guide to Controlling Your Anxiety” unveils a full-body strategy to relieve anxiety, backed by cutting-edge research and presented […]
Addiction Smashers Launches 3 New Courses

Addiction Smashers has burst onto the scene, driven by a mission to educate, motivate, and inspire families, addiction professionals, and treatment providers towards faster, more rewarding, and longer-lasting lives beyond addiction.
Food and Mood: The Importance of Nutritional Psychiatry

In this article, we will explore the importance of mental health nutrition and nutritional psychiatry, and how our food can impact our mood and overall well-being, as well as our ability to successfully recover from addiction.
Amino Acid and Nutrient Support for Pain Relief

This article will focus on the biochemical/nutritional tools we have available to us. We will explore ways to reduce inflammation, decrease pain awareness, improve pain tolerance or resilience, speed up tissue healing, and even positively impact impaired neural pathways.
Treatment Programs are Starving Their Client’s Brains

As I delve deeper into the question of how to help people in recovery effectively provide themselves with the core nutrients their brains need both to heal from addiction and to support a robust Recovery Journey, I am appalled by the general lack of attention being paid to this key aspect of treatment and recovery.
The Impact of Food and Environmental Allergies on Mental Health

he impact of allergies and intolerances on mental health can be as simple as brain fog and spaciness, but can often be implicated in the experience of more severe mental illness, such as depression, anxiety, and even psychosis.
What is Amino Acid Therapy?

Amino acid therapy is a promising approach to addiction and mental health recovery that focuses on repairing the neurotransmitter system in the brain. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which are essential for the growth and repair of tissues in the body.
Amino Acid Therapy for Stress Relief

By Christina Veselak MS, LMFT, CN. Director, The Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition In honor of Stress Awareness Month, I would like to explore the roles our four mood-mediating neurotransmitters play in helping us cope with stress, and how to support their function using amino acid therapy. They all actually work together to […]