In her new book “Unprocessed,” Kimberley Wilson, a clinical psychologist with a degree in nutrition, argues that your diet can play a huge role in your mental health.

Whenever I ask a client on anti-anxiety medication if their doctor has addressed their diet, the answer is always no.

By now, we know the answer to this… there is no monetary gain in asking people to stop eating processed food when there are huge profits to make in having a patient develop a lifelong dependency on a synthetic chemical.

For those of you who are paying attention, medicine is fragmenting into different camps. 

We have:

1. Nanotechnology hopes to fix all the damage we do to ourselves on a microscopic level.
2. Pharmaceutical-led interventions have co-opted most mainstream media to tell us that our problems are genetic and we can do nothing about them.

 For example, I recently read that obesity is considered a genetic disease just as the new obesity drug #Wegovy is approved by the FDA – no coincidence!

3. Lifestyle medicine, where doctors and patients are empowered to take action over their everyday activities to live healthfully.

Everybody would agree that a healthy lifestyle is the best form of medicine. Still, I can now see that when our evolutionary traits of expending the least amount of energy possible while seeking out high-calorie, high-salt foods. Combining all of this with a bit of marketing spin, most people will opt to sit on the couch, eat processed food and take a shot or a pill to prevent mental health problems or obesity.

There are great leaps forward coming down the medical pipeline. I’m very optimistic about the future, but drugs that allow us not to exercise and eat crap are not part of the healthcare future I want to be part of.

 #stayclean, think for yourself, and try to choose your health over convenience daily. Over time these daily healthy decisions will pay off.

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