Food Is Brain Medicine
Our clients and patients deserve more options for their mental health. Many argue that we live in an over-prescribed and misprescribed society. With the potential for so many negative side effects like weight gain, nausea, fatigue, and trouble sleeping, your clients probably don’t want to be prescribed more medications if they can help it.
That’s why Nutritional Psychiatry is such an incredibly important tool to begin using right now. Prescribing food is one of the most impactful things you can do for your clients and patients. With a few thoughtful, evidence based tweaks to their diet, they can start seeing incredible results in a matter of weeks.
Nutritional Psychiatry is an evidence-based augmentation strategy that will radically change the mental health trajectory of your clients and patients.
Transform Your Practice
With Nutritional Psychiatry
Gain a Tool with ZERO Negative Side Effects
Many patients hate taking meds because they come with so many side effects and so much stigma. Nutritional Psychiatry and diet modification has ZERO negative side effects in most cases, empowering you with a risk-free tool you can use to help your patients feel better.
Connect With Your Patients Over Something Positive
How many of your interactions with patients are primarily “negative,” discussing things they may have little or no control over? Adding Nutritional Psychiatry to your repertoire allows you to take a break from the negative and connect with them in a more positive way. We all know that forming a meaningful alliance with clients and patients is critical to their success.
Prescribe Food with Confidence
Are your patients bouncing from diet to diet, confused about what they should or shouldn’t be eating? With Nutritional Psychiatry, you’ll know how to harness the most cutting-edge science to help your patients eat to support their mental health.
Increase the Effectiveness of the Therapy You’re Already Doing
Studies show that the right foods can be incredibly effective tools for improving mental health, and when added onto conventional treatment methods they can actually double the efficacy of treatment. Nutritional Psychiatry will augment what you’re already doing and give your patients radical results!
Generate a Reliable Stream of High Quality Referrals
Nutritional Psychiatry will help differentiate your practice and can help position you as the “go-to” practitioner in your community. Prospective patients will begin to seek you out directly and be excited to work with you because you offer something no one else does.
Empower Your Patients With Actionable Advice They Can Utilize Immediately
Nutritional Psychiatry provides a tangible tool that your patients can act on immediately. Diet is something they can take control over the moment they step out of your office allowing them to begin making meaningful progress right away.
Why This Course Is For You
Help your patients get healthy and stay healthy while generating a predictable stream of high quality referrals.
Have you ever had patients ask you about nutrition… and you weren’t sure how to advise them…?
Have you found that your clients and patients are increasingly concerned and even reluctant to taking meds…?
Do you wish you had more referrals coming to your practice each month?
If you’ve ever found yourself in these positions, Nutritional Psychiatry is for you. Adding this cutting edge, evidence based tool to your practice will empower you to:
Help your patients get health and stay healthy…
Harness the power of food as medicine to improve mental health
Grow your practice with a steady stream of eager referrals
Take advantage of one of the most promising and fastest growing movements in mental health
Engage with patients on a deeper level
Offer an additional service that patients are actively seeking, and differentiate yourself from other mental health practitioners in your community.
This course is specifically designed to equip psychiatrists, therapists, clinicians, nurses, and health coaches with the expertise and knowledge they need to expand their practice and serve their patients on a deeper level by offering Nutritional Psychiatry as a service.
Your Instructor
Drew Ramsey, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author. His work focuses on evidence-based integrative psychiatry, Nutritional Psychiatry and male mental health. He founded the Brain Food Clinic, a digital mental health practice, and Spruce Mental Health in Jackson, Wyoming. Using the latest research along with decades of clinical experience, he hopes to help people improve their mental health and build resilient mental fitness.
He and his team have created three e-courses: Healing the Modern Brain, Eat To Beat Depression, and Nutritional Psychiatry for Clinicians; along with free downloads, the free nutritional psychiatry cooking class the Mental Fitness Kitchen, a weekly mental health update newsletter Friday Feels, and a mental health and mental fitness focused podcast.
His latest book Healing the Modern Brain: Nine Tenets To Build Mental Fitness and Revitalize Your Mind, was published in March 2025. His previous books helped establish Nutritional Psychiatry and explore the connection between food and mental health: the international best-seller Eat To Beat Depression and Anxiety (HarperWave 2021) now translated into 9 languages; the award-winning cookbook Eat Complete: The 21 Nutrients that Fuel Brain Power, Boost Weight Loss and Transform Your Health (HarperWave 2016); the bestseller 50 Shades of Kale (HarperWave 2013) and The Happiness Diet: A Nutritional Prescription for a Sharp Brain, Balanced Mood and Lean, Energized Body (Rodale 2011).
Dr. Ramsey is a mental health advocate/influencer, compelling keynote speaker and conducts workshops nationally. He co-hosts the Men’s Health Magazine series Friday Sessions with Gregory Scott Brown, MD and has delivered three TEDx talks, a video series with Big Think, and the BBC documentary Food on the Brain. His work and writing have been featured by The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Lancet Psychiatry, TIME and NPR.
He served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeon for twenty years where he taught and supervised Psychiatric Evaluation, Supportive Psychotherapy, Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy, Nutritional Psychiatry as well as helping the department’s media and social media initiatives. He is a Medical Advisor to Men’s Health Magazine, on the editorial board of Medscape Psychiatry and the Scientific Advisory Board of the anti-stigma non-profit Bring Change To Mind. He joined the board of Teton County Youth and Family Services in 2024.
Dr. Ramsey is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He completed his specialty training in adult psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, received an M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Earlham College. He lives in Jackson, Wyoming with his wife and children.
Learn more at DrewRamseyMD.com
Course Curriculum
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StartRelevant Mental Health Conditions (2:28)
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StartDepression (24:28)
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StartAnxiety (17:35)
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StartCognitive Impairment and Dementia (13:31)
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StartBipolar Disorder (7:17)
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StartSchizophrenia (3:53)
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StartADHD (3:44)
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StartAddiction (1:45)
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StartNutritional Psychiatry Important Studies
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StartResearch in Focus (19:04)