Nutrients for Mental Health
It’s quite obvious that the cells of our body build the body/mind out of the nutrients that we give it, and put into it. Why else would we need to eat food? If the cells, body, and mind didn’t need energy and nutrients, we wouldn’t ever need to consume food.
Because the body is made of cells, and the mind/brain is no different, optimal organic nutrition has a very direct connection to the well-being of one’s mental and emotional health. When the energy, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that the body/cells need are missing from one’s diet, the healthy brain neurochemicals (endorphins, serotonin, etc.) needed for optimal positive functioning can’t be created. A lack of nutrients will promote depression, unhappiness, and all sorts of negative mentalities and emotional disorders. It’s pretty difficult to live a happy, joyful, peaceful, and emotionally balanced life when one’s diet is counteracting those efforts.
The level of our neural functioning is largely determined by the nutrients, or lack thereof, that we provide the brain with. For the brain to function at peak performance, for it to be logical, intelligent, and sane, for it to be able to reason, understand, and comprehend, for it to be aware and conscious of its own activities, for it to be calm, quiet and peaceful in meditation (and in general), and for it to be able to reach continuously higher levels of happiness, you have to eat properly.
Foreign unnatural substances, and highly processed, altered, and modified ingredients, have no place in our foods, or in our bodies. They just aren’t compatible with our cells, and they contribute to cellular stress, dysfunction, and “dis-ease”.
Even things like drug/alcohol addictions, and serious mental disorders like schizophrenia and autism have been successfully treated by removing unnatural foods from a person’s diet, and by incorporating nutrient megadoses. This is the field of science referred to as orthomolecular psychiatry/medicine, which was founded by Dr. Linus Pauling, who is the world’s only 2 time unshared Nobel Prize winner.
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