Mediterranean diet: can it help boost your mental health?

Now a new study published in the American journal of clinical nutrition shows that it can help our mental health immensely too. This study showed that a Mediterranean diet can improve

depressive symptoms in young males with clinical depression, and thereby could be beneficial in treating depression. For the study, researchers studied 72 men between 18- and 25-years-old

with moderate to severe depression for 12 weeks where the control group continued with hair regular diet and the rest were put on the Mediterranean diet where eggs, chicken, red meat, and

fast foods were replaced with vegetables, legumes, fish, olive oil, and raw nuts. Whereas none of the participants in the control group reported low or minimal depression after the 12-week

study period. This study makes it clear that while other interventions are on, an actionable, intentional change in the diet can definitely help people battling with depression. Earlier too

studies have shown a positive correlation between diet and mood. This seems clear. Firstly, this diet works because it includes a lot of anti-inflammatory foods and depression is often

caused due to (and also leads to) inflammation of the immune system. Secondly there seems to be a direct connect between our gut health and depression (higher levels of certain gut bacteria

such as morganella have been linked to depression).