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 […]
Adding a Nutritional Component to Your Addiction Treatment Program for Financial Benefit
How the FINANCIAL BOTTOM LINE of an Addiction Treatment Program Will IMMEDIATELY Benefit From Adding a Robust Nutritional Component to their Approach!
Thoughts from an Addiction Conference on Sugar as a “Bad Food!”
This article was written on the last day of a 4-day addiction conference in Colorado. I was there presenting on a genetic test, GARS, that purports to be able to […]
Happy New Year! And…….Celebration Of Our Community’s 2022 Accomplishments
Happy New Year! As we move into 2023, I am excited about everything people in our community have accomplished this past year, including me and my team. While I was exhibiting […]
How Functional Nutrition May Hold the Key to Successful Addiction Treatment and Recovery
I believe that Functional Nutrition and Functional Nutritionists hold the key to transforming the efficacy and success rate of addiction treatment and recovery efforts. However, addiction is not typically addressed nor taught in nutrition circles, and therefore people with addictive disorders as their primary complaint are a massively underserved population.
