VIDEO: Psychiatrists should ask their patients what they eat
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SAN FRANCISCO — Nutritional psychiatry is a new term that encompasses the bidirectional brain-gut microbiome activity, Bhagwan A. Bahroo, MD, says in this Healio video at the American Psychiatric Association meeting.
“We know that the microbiome affects all organs, all body systems,” Bahroo, a psychiatrist who practices with Columbia Associates in Arlington, Virginia, said. “While we know that medications and therapies are the mainstay of treatment in psychiatry, an addition of nutritional psychiatry considerations to this whole treatment plan should boost the treatment systems to a whole new level.
“Please pay attention to what patients are eating. Healthy foods lead to a healthy mind and healthy body.”