Eat To Beat Depression

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