Depression Nutrition

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Dietitian and Nutritionist For Depression

Seek the counsel of a registered dietitian and nutritionist for depression to assess your current diet and provide a number of nutritional interventions and a personalized meal plan to help manage the condition.

Can a dietitian help with depression?

Yes, a dietitian can help by demonstrating the connection between diet and depression, but also outlining limitations that diet can play in this regard. In addition, a dietitian can help ensure you follow a nutritionally-balanced diet and provide strategies to correct eating behaviours that make symptoms worse.

How Can A Dietitian and Nutritionist For Depression Help

A registered dietitian and nutritionist can help manage depression via the following nutritional interventions:

Have your current diet assessed by a nutritionist and dietitian who specializes in working with clients for depression.
Provide a dietary assessment for missing key nutrients that support mood and mental health.
Discuss the essential role, but also limitations, diet can play in depression (depression nutrition 101).
Review and discuss the importance of adequate overall intake of food energy.
Provide healthful meal and snack combinations requiring minimal effort and preparation for low mood days.
Work to add nutrient-dense foods to the diet such as vegetables, fruit, whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, lean proteins.
Explore potential for choosing a dietary pattern that is anti-inflammatory, such as the Mediterranean diet.
Build appropriate supplement protocol to meet nutritional deficiencies based on past and present eating (ideally complete nutrient profile blood work is provided–optional, and as needed only).
Assess and correct eating behaviours that can contribute to worsening of symptoms (including, but not limited to, eating out, cravings, stress eating).
Lead a discussion around additional herbal supplements that have strong clinical evidence.
Support nutritional intervention with lifestyle factors, like exercise, stress management and seeking adequate supports.
Learn how to regulate blood sugar levels to prevent common mental health concerns, such as irritability, brain fog, “hanger”, anxiety and excessive worrying.
Promote the health of your digestive system (also referred to as the “second brain”) through optimal fibre intake and essential nutrients such as B vitamins, probiotics, fluids, and omega-3 fatty acids.
Increase your intake of plant compounds, such as polyphenols and antioxidants, as needed to enhance brain function.
Have a personalized meal plan for depression created.
Work with an eating disorder dietitian and nutritionist to help manage disordered eating patterns, if needed.
In addition to working with a dietitian and nutritionist for depression, conduct sessions with a gastrointestinal health dietitian and learn about the connection between the gut and the brain (and microbiota).
Take advantage of our weight loss dietitians to help you achieve a healthy weight, if desired.
Work with a sports nutrition dietitian to help ensure you are fuelled for physical activity, which can help alleviate depression symptoms.
Enlist the help of our practitioners for women’s health such as PCOS dietitian.
Address other co-existing conditions.