My first line of defense against mental health issues like anxiety and depression is switching to real food — which means cooking food at home. This one switch often helps my patients avoid the need to take pharmaceutical drugs. And while that may seem like a rebellious idea today, what we eat does affect our mental health. Hopefully ten years from now it will seem like the most obvious thing in the world.
Ellen Vora, M.D., is a holistic psychiatrist practicing with Frank Lipman, M.D., at the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in NYC. "I take a functional medicine approach to mental health, which is a root-cause approach to understanding and treating illness."
