Dr. Wolfgang Marx

Diet is really an interesting example of the mind-body connection.

If we can improve the health of our body, it's also improving the health of our mental well-being and our brain health.

Yeah, I think there's some truth to that.

I mean, it's an old saying.

And I think when you look really at any culture across time, there's this understanding or this sort of intuitive understanding that what we eat is linked somehow to our physical health, but also our well-being, how we feel.

And I think even as individuals, we think,

well, that time where I perhaps hadn't been eating so well, I feel a little bit lethargic, a little bit fatigued.

I'm not quite on as I usually am.

And there's times when I've been eating really well and I've been eating really healthily.

I feel a little bit sharper.

I feel a little bit better in myself.

But I think what's new is that we've added that scientific method to interrogate this intuition, this feeling to determine whether

Well, is that actually true?

And if it's true, what's going on?

Why is that true?

And how true is it?

You know, is it a small effect?

Is it a large effect?

These are all the things that have been happening in the field of nutritional psychiatry probably within the last 10 odd years.

I guess there's sort of three layers or three sort of converging pathways as I sort of see it.