The war in Ukraine, climate change, the threat of a new wave of Covid… The stressful news of the start of the academic year risks weighing down the morale of the French and deepening anxiety and depressive disorders. What if the antidote to gloom was on our plates? Indeed, we now know that our diet affects our mental health. This has even given rise to a discipline in itself: spiritual nourishment. Thus, diets high in processed, fried foods, refined grains, and sugar have been shown to be associated with increased depressive symptoms. “This Western diet disrupts our microbiota (These billions of bacteria and microorganisms inhabit our intestines Ed) and promotes inflammation. The latter prepares the bed for obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer. But what is less known is that it can also reach the brain and stimulate depression“, explain…
Source: Le Figaro
