by Dr. Josh Friedman | Mar 4, 2019 | Anxiety, Depression, Diet, Functional Medicine, Yoga |
If someone asked you to name the most significant development in mental health in the last decade what would you say? It would have to be big. It would have to have the potential to challenge much of what we understand about how mental health symptoms develop, and...
by Dr. Josh Friedman | Jan 4, 2018 | Amino Acids, Anxiety, Depression, Diet, Functional Medicine |
I’d been studying for a doctorate in psychology for four years before I had any idea that nutritional deficiencies could cause mental health symptoms. I wasn’t enlightened by a lecture or a clinical supervisor but from casually flipping through my cousin’s...
by Dr. Josh Friedman | Dec 22, 2017 | Amino Acids, Anxiety, Depression, Diet, Functional Medicine, Yoga |
One of the hardest things about having mental health symptoms is that you feel lost…and stuck. When I was depressed and anxious, I had no idea what to do or where to turn to for help. It was as if I were frozen. What people with mental health symptoms usually do...
by Dr. Josh Friedman | Mar 2, 2017 | Depression, Diet, Functional Medicine |
Every once in awhile, a research study comes along that boosts integrative medicine’s credibility as a real treatment modality for mental health. By real, I mean one that can’t be ignored by conventional medicine. The study I am talking about is the first to show that...
by Dr. Josh Friedman | Dec 8, 2016 | Anxiety, Depression, Diet, Functional Medicine |
If you have been following the field of integrative mental health for a while, you know that changing your diet is one of the most important steps in recovery. You might also be aware that there is a pretty solid consensus on what you should be eating (and avoiding)...
