So, that was an interesting exploration of mind-stomach connection. I believe there is valid argument for this being more highlighted in mental and physical healthcare. However since the focus of this one is in part to make the statement and back it up, AND to go into individual mental health diagnosis and give examples, there is often a missing element to her studies. She uses surveys a little liberally without giving full context to many of them and unfortunately for audio listeners, her sources are NOT included in the accompanying PDF document.

If you take this as a sort of survey on the subject, you'll do better as a listener. I started getting into a pattern of taking everything she said and thinking, okay, this may be relevant, let me take what she said and go do my own follow up research.

Some things that struck me as just kind of tone deaf was mentioning spices and herbs not readily available or in economically sourcable ingredient. For instance, Saffron is mentioned over and over and that is super expensive for a very small amount. There's not a lot about alternatives to what she suggests which is why I say read this with a healthy dose of skepticism and if something sounds like she's taken a bit of liberty with facts or made assumptions without backing it up, than she may just have.

She makes a lot of interesting points beyond these issues and given me and my wife some potential ideas for adjusting our own diets, AFTER we consider the medications we're taking and what's going on in our day to day.

That's the thing with all of this, there is not a lot of cross reference between other fields and each chapter deserves it's own tome or set of tomes to explore the biological, microbiological, neurological, physical, mental, etc.'s of medicine and science and psychology. She's made several excellent points about how your diet can help or hinder if you aren't careful, and she's also made it clear to me that we shouldn't treat food any different than chemistry or biology given how it becomes part of us or how much we don't want it to become part of us.

All that to say, interesting survey, interesting book for starting into the topic and thinking about learning more, but if you get this book, buy a print copy and check her resources.

Also she has some delicious recipes in the back.

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