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 […]

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 predict with a fair degree of accuracy people’s predisposition to a variety of behavioral and addictive disorders, including to sugar. My Academy also had a […]

Feeding the Recovering Brain for Holiday Serenity

It is our brain’s job to allow us to cope with stress gracefully, but to do that, it needs to be fed optimally! How can we optimally feed our brains this holiday season so that we can find and maintain joy, serenity, and sobriety success?