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Is The Food You're Eating Making You Depressed?

Food, We Need To Talk

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The Importance of Lifestyle Medicine

I spent 18 years working at McLean, which is actually a psychiatric hospital. That seemed like the best place to work to understand kind of the tenets of lifestyle medicine. I've spent so many years working to get lifestyle medicine taught in medical schools and all health providers. This is why it's so important that psychiatrists and doctors, clinicians really prescribe exercise and prescribe vegetables and legumes. They don't just say it as an aside. If they put the emphasis on it and go, actually, this should be the first thing you do. Put it on a prescription pad. Take it seriously because if the clinician takes it seriously, the patients will. The mind and the body work together.

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