The MoodFood Strategy is a bio-individual mental health tune-up that involves 5 basic components.
1: A healthy food plan designed to benefit your brain and digestive system.
2: Basic supplements to provide a balanced brain chemistry and gut microbiome.
3: Lifestyle enhancements including exercise, meditation, breath work, journaling and sleep to balance your nervous system and promote neuroplasticity.
4: Nontoxic living by reducing your exposure to environmental toxins, off-gassing from plastics, molds and toxins found in food, beauty products and your teeth.
5: Sound modulation of brain wave patterns to balance the nervous system, synchronize the hemispheres of the brain and stimulate neural activity.
Bio-individuality is the idea that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to health and nutrition. Instead, we’re all unique in our biological makeup and requirements. Each person has their own specific nutrition and health needs, as well as routines, practices, and preferences that work for them.
Our services are offered via remote Zoom video calls
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The MoodFood Strategy
This is a 6-month plan to optimize nutrition with regard to fatty acids, amino acids, hormone balance, inflammation, digestion and elimination, detoxification, energy metabolism, adrenal gland function and stress.
The gut microbiome is the foundation of health. Digestion has to be completely in balance for your brain to be in balance.
Depending on your unique biochemical needs, it could take from 6 months to a year to complete your brain repair process. The process involves food elimination and food introduction and, if needed, vitamins and amino acids. Keeping a food diary will help identify problem foods. Blood, urine and saliva tests and stool samples may be employed to find out more about your brain chemistry.
Shopping lists and recipes are provided to help you integrate the strategy into your routine.
We meet once every 2 weeks for 6 months.
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Single Session Health Coaching
Health coaching is the use of evidence-based skillful conversation, clinical interventions and nutrient strategies to actively and safely engage clients in health behavior change.
Individual sessions when you need them.
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Sound Therapy
Sound impacts the nervous system, both psychologically and physiologically. Binaural beat therapy is an advanced form of sound wave therapy that affects the brain through electromagnetic energy, in the form of sound, to activate specific regions of the brain. Recent studies show that brain entrainment through sound is effective for mood disorders, addiction recovery and PTSD.
Binaural beats occur when two tones of slightly different frequencies are played in separate ears simultaneously through headphones. The human brain perceives the creation of a new, third tone, whose frequency is equivalent to the difference between the two tones being played. This auditory illusion is called a difference tone, or binaural beat. EEG monitoring shows the difference tone as a change in electrical pattern produced by the brain.
By introducing frequencies into the brain through sound, it is possible to induce brain wave patterns that are linked to the production of various neurochemicals: beta-endorphins (acts on opioid receptors for pain management), growth factors (stimulates cell proliferation and wound healing), gut peptides (controls food intake), acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter that sends signals between neurons), vasopressin (an anti-diuretic hormone) and serotonin (a neurotransmitter that modulates mood, cognition, learning and much more).
Based on tone evaluations and personal data, I formulate a series of binaural beat therapies, unique to each client, to be listened to daily for 25 minutes. It takes 3 months to complete.
We meet weekly and I formulate new binaural beats each week. The 3-month plan includes 12 different binaural beat sound therapies.
Sliding scale options are available to match your income.
MoodFood.net wants everyone to have access to their greatest health potential, regardless of financial, social or physical challenges. This includes people in disadvantaged communities, at-risk youth and those in developing countries.