My guest today has spent more than 25 years in the mental health space in a number of different capacities, including suicide prevention and addiction recovery. She has a harrowing story of how she ended up in mental health, and a deep personal connection to nutrition, sugar consumption, depression and cancer.
After years of battling different types of depression and a subsequent cancer diagnosis, Mark Kay was introduced to a book that challenged everything she believed to be true about food, health and nutrition, including being told as a child that she was hypoglycemic. This book, and the paradigm shift it created, initiated her journey into holistic health and the world of functional medicine. After purging her cupboards and changing her diet she experienced a remarkable and rapid improvement in her clinical depression symptoms. This led to her diving deeper into the literature to explore the connections between food and mood. Eventually Mary Kay obtained additional training in mental health nutrition, so she could continue to help both herself and her clients in the best way possible.
Mary Kay and I also discuss the theory of chemical imbalance, the role MTHFR plays in depression as well as the differences between folate and folic acid. It’s a wonderful and enlightening conversation that I hope will inspire you to look closer at your own nutrition, its’ links to low moods, anxiety and depression, and how you can start making changes today to improve your mental health through the healing power of food!
Mary Kay Irving can be reached at support@marykayirving.com
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