This book is based on interviews with 25 distinguished medical doctors who use nutrition-based approaches to treat a wide range of mental disorders, as well as a variety of organic conditions commonly misdiagnosed as mental disease.Here are explanations of the origins of, and best treatments for, everything from alcoholism to depression, and from yeast overgrowth (candidiasis) to thyroid disorders, with a special section on disorders in children, such as hyperactivity. In case after case, these doctors found, the mental and physical conditions were associated with specific nutritional deficiencies, an inability of the body to absorb certain nutrients from food, food allergies, or environmental toxins. When nutrition-based treatments were used, sometimes together with lifestyle adjustments, very often problems which had resisted all other forms of treatment responded to the new approach.Other features of Nutrition and the Mind include numerous personal accounts of patients, chapters on the nutritional and environmental factors influencing our mental health, and an extensive listing of recent scientific articles associating nutritional factors and a variety of illnesses. Read Less