Food and Mood: Providing Integrative Nutrition Care for Depression and Anxiety

Food and Mood: Providing Integrative Nutrition Care for Depression and Anxiety is organized by Dietitian Central. This course has been approved for a maximum number of 1.00 Credits.

Live Event Date: Apr 12, 2022
Expiration Date: May 31, 2024

Description:
Food and mood are closely linked, with thousands of research articles now documenting the importance of nutritional status in mental health. This webinar will review the updated evidence base for nutritional psychiatry, with a focus on summarizing clinically actionable interventions that may positively impact depression and anxiety.

Upon successful completion of this 90-minute course, the participant should be able to:

• Assess the nutritional and metabolic status of clients in relation to mood.
• Select evidence-based dietary patterns for use with clients.
• Identify key nutrients implicated in brain structure and function, including strategies for intake and laboratory assessment.
• Describe how microbiome-centered interventions can impact signaling from the gut-brain axis (GBX).
• Appreciate how certain nutrigenetic traits could inform a nutritional care plan for mood disorders.

1.5 Credits