What frustrates me regarding mental health and wellness is that most therapists, counselors and psychiatrists neglect to talk about the importance of what we are putting into and onto our bodies and how these things can greatly impact our mental health. The majority of our serotonin is made in our gut. Therefore, if your gut health isn’t up to par, you will be sad or unhappy, no matter how much counseling you have or how many affirmations you say. This is why I focus my mental health care on one’s holistic health, and I feel like good, effective therapists, counselors, and psychiatrists should focus on their clients’ holistic health; because everything is connected. You cannot fix one part of our body without fixing all of our body. So consider this…
Some toxins that hurt your brain and body thus hurting your mind and mood and physical health are: tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, pesticides, antibiotics, anesthesia, modified organisms that they put in our food, chemicals that they put in our food, bad fats and proteins, and vaping which is simply putting harmful toxins into your lungs. Antibiotics are terrible for your body as they shut down your immune system and take over for your immune system which is terrible for your body because you have an immune system because it’s supposed to protect you from disease. However, if you eat poorly and put toxins into your body it will lower your immune system that’s making it difficult or impossible for your immune system to fight infection. Antibiotics break down micro biomes which is a necessary part of your immune system and body for peak physical and mental health. Anesthesia has been studied and is found to be one of the leading causes to dementia and children who have anesthesia have been found to have higher instances of learning disabilities and an increased chance of having anxiety and depression symptoms.
Being overweight causes there to be an increase in sugar in your blood which travels throughout your body which has a negative impact for your entire body, and fat takes healthy testosterone and turns it into cancer causing estrogen, so it is extremely important to make sure that you are not overweight with too much excess fat on your body. Fat also stores harmful toxins throughout your body. Having too much fat in your body increases inflammation and decreases the blood flow to the brain that is causing your brain to shrink in size.
Some things that help your mind and brain are spending time in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, eating a healthy plant-based diet, getting the appropriate amount of sleep, being socially active with friends and family.