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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 read
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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