Culinary Medicine: Feeding the Gut for Mental Health

This article, authored by Full Plate Living Program Director, Amy Hanus, emphasizes how clinicians can utilize dietary interventions to improve patient well-being and mental health outcomes.

“Clinicians interested in leveraging culinary medicine possess tools to transform patients’ health, one meal at a time. By emphasizing the simple, actionable culinary prescription of maximizing whole, unprocessed fiber diversity (aiming for 30+ plants per week) and fermented foods, it directly nurtures the gut microbiome. This targeted approach is a powerful intervention for promoting a healthy gut and mind.”