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🧠✨ Fuel Your Mind, Feed Your Mood! ✨🧠

Join us this Friday for a Virtual Symposium on Fueling Mental Wellness — hosted by the American Nutrition Association (ANA). 🙌 This is a great opportunity to find out how the way you eat affects your mood and mental wellness 🪷

💡 Discover how nutrition powers the brain, boosts mood, and supports mental resilience 🧠 🍽️ 💪
🎤 Hear from expert nutrition science and mental health clinicians 🧬
👉 Register now: https://lms.theana.org/courses/105273

Live - Friday, May 16, 2025 from 11am to 5pm EST
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ANA Content Members - $25
Non-Members - $40

Schedule & Speakers
11 am - Noon EST - Session I - Dr. Jennifer Champion, DCN, CNS, CN, LDN - Nutritional Psychology: Bridging the Gap Between Food, Mood, and Mental Health
Noon - 1 pm EST - Session II - Taylor Groff, MS, CNS - The Forgotten Pillar of Wellness: How Loneliness Impacts Nutrition and Health
1 pm - 2 pm EST - Lunch Break
2 pm - 3 pm EST - Session III (Non-CME) - Dr. Brooke Scheller, DCN, MS, CNS - Alcohol-Reduction or Elimination for Nutrition and Longevity
3 pm - 3:30 pm EST - Break
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST - Session IV - Lisa Ackerman, CNS - Reducing Health Anxiety: Integrating Functional Nutrition Strategies in a Safe, Sustainable Way for Client's Mental Health
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST - Fireside Chat

Registrants will have access to recorded materials through June 20, 2025. https://lms.theana.org/courses/105273

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People are tired of accepting anxiety and mood challenges as status quo. Metabolic dysfunction can play a significant role in psychiatric imbalances and even disease. Diet changes can create a strong foundation for how we feel mentally. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Dr. Georgia Ede published her book last week which boldly outlines how diet can change mood. Her research using ketones as an alternative fuel to help quiet negative psychiatric symptoms is groundbreaking. I was lucky to participate in a group that studied keto for mental health under Dr Ede and I've seen how the ketogenic approach has impacted so many with a range of conditions from generalized anxiety to epilepsy. The American Nutrition Association also recognizes the benefits of science-backed ketogenic nutrition to improve clinical outcomes in a broad range of chronic metabolic conditions.

If you are interested in how diet can improve attention problems, mood swings, food obsession, depression and even chronic conditions, then pick up a copy of Dr Ede's book. Its a fascinating read!

https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/change-your-diet-change-your-mind

Metabolic syndrome is clinically defined as a group of 4 risk factor conditions that occur together. They are health risks all on their own, but when combined, they inordinately increase risk for heart disease, stroke and T2 diabetes. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What often is not discussed is how ANXIETY contributes to, and/or is the result of, the above 4 conditions. What are some of the effects of long-term or sustained anxiety on our body?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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There are many, but a recent report out this year highlights the positive effects of diet and nutrition on the following anxiety-related conditions: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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1) Oxidative stress (brain fog, nervous system impairment)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
2) Insulin resistance (slow/no metabolism, high blood sugar, cravings, fatigue, tingling in hands/feet, skin tags...)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
3) Inflammation (brain fog, fatigue, lack of focus, arthritis...)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
4) Gut/microbiome dysbiosis (leaky gut, heartburn, COPD, constipation, colitis, to name a few)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Diet and nutrition can reduce/restore optimal metabolic function. Anxiety is as much a function of metabolic disease as it is a physical/psychiatric condition. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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and food can help. 💚🥬🥑🧄🧠🌿🍄🫐🍓🥥🥝🍆🥦🥒🌶🫑🧅🍠🥗🍏🌱⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Check the link in bio to find out what researchers list as the TOP 6 NUTRITIONAL STRATEGIES for protecting against anxiety disorders. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Reference: Norwitz NG, Naidoo U. Nutrition as Metabolic Treatment for Anxiety. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2021;12:105. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.598119

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People don't want to be happy.

Did that catch your attention? Good. Inherently we all know people want to be happy, but the way they achieve that is by reducing what makes them feel miserable and irritable.

What is the #1 THING you struggle with when it comes to your health? pop it in the comments 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

I'm building a course and want to get a pulse on what you really want right now, post-pandemic, when it comes to addressing thee #1 health-related thing you could fix if you had the right information. Thx! 🙏