The Relationship Between Nutrition and Mental Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2025 | Viewed by 63
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleges,
Over the past decade, a growing body of evidence has uncovered the central role of nutrition in brain physiology and mental health. Both epidemiological and intervention studies have convergently shown that health dietary patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, may impart preventive and therapeutic effects on mood, cognition, sleep, and even suicidal behaviors. Our diet influences the nervous system and mental health, including the stress response, throught different mechanisms, incluing by modulating the gut microbiota and the gut–brain axis, which are critical for systemic and brain inflammation. Also, clinical trials have reported promising results from novel dietary approaches (intermittent fasting and fasting mimicking diet, for instance) and supplementation with different nutrients and nutraceuticals (methylation factors, omega-3 fatty acids, bioactive compounds, probiotics, and prebiotics, among others) on improving mental symptoms.
We invite you to submit original research (both experimental and observational research) papers, reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses to this Special Issue to broaden our knowledge and open new research directions.
Prof. Dr. Marcus Zanetti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutritional interventions
- intermittent fasting
- probiotic
- prebiotic
- omega-3 fatty acids
- bioactive compounds
- gut microbiota
- inflammation
- methylation
- mood
- cognition
- depression
- anxiety
- bipolar disorder
- schizophrenia
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