Nutritional Psychiatry

Nutrition has a profound impact on your cognition, physical health, and mental health. At Foveo Healthcare A Professional Medical Corporation in Burbank, California, the team of mental health specialists uses nutritional psychiatry to optimize your emotional well-being using foods and dietary supplements. Schedule an evaluation with Foveo Healthcare by phone or online today.

What is nutritional psychiatry?

The foods you eat can dramatically affect your mood, thoughts, emotions, and cognition. Nutritional psychiatry involves nutrition education and diet plans that improve your mental health naturally. A mental health provider may combine nutrition education with dietary supplements, psychotherapy, or other mental health treatments to optimize your results.

What are the benefits of nutritional psychiatry?

The advantages you can expect when choosing nutritional psychiatry at Foveo Healthcare include:

• Improved nutritional status
• Reduced nutritional deficiencies
• Healthier body weight
• More energy
• Fewer symptoms of mental health conditions
• Better physical health
• Self-confidence
• Improved quality of life

Nutrition psychiatry is an exceptional complement to other psychiatric treatments. It’s a holistic way to enhance your mood and may reduce the need to take medications.

Who is a candidate for nutritional psychiatry?

Nutritional psychiatry benefits everyone, especially those suffering from the following mental health conditions:

• Substance use disorder
• Eating disorders
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Testing reccomended prior to appointment)
• Autism spectrum disorders (Testing reccomended prior to appointment) 
• Low self-esteem
• Bipolar disorder
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Insomnia
• Schizophrenia
• Dementia

The Foveo Healthcare team tailors each nutritional psychiatry treatment to your personalized needs to ensure success, regardless of your mental health status.

What should I expect during nutritional psychiatry?

During nutritional psychiatry sessions at Foveo Healthcare, you meet with a specialist in person or virtually via telepsychiatry. They review your symptoms, medical history, current dietary intake, lifestyle, and more. 

Your mental health provider also completes a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation to assess your mood, thoughts, emotions, and behavior patterns before tailoring your treatment. They may order blood tests to evaluate your current nutritional status and check for deficiencies. 

Pharmacogenomic testing helps your specialist determine which medicines are most appropriate based on your genetic makeup.

Your mental health provider then counsels you about nutrition and dietary supplements, customizing a plan that’s best for your cognitive, physical, and mental health. They may combine nutritional psychiatry with medications, psychotherapy, or other treatments to optimize your results.

The Foveo Healthcare team follows up with you in person or virtually to ensure long-term success.

Schedule an in-person or virtual evaluation at Foveo Healthcare by phone or online today to take advantage of nutritional psychiatry.