Posted by Gary O'Rielly on Mar 19, 2024
Kendra Pinkleman, Chair of our Club's Program Committee spoke to us on Friday, March 15th about "Food for Thought", using food to support mental health. According to Hippocrates, "Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine be thy Food." Kendra stated that diet is as important to psychiatry as it is to cardiology, endocrinology, and gastroenterology. She listed neurotransmitters in her discussion starting with Excitatory to Inhibitory to Modulating with a list in each category. Next she talked about anxiety, depression and ADHD and listed all of the most common causes.