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This is the place where you’ll find all the practical tools, assessments, guides, and scientific resources mentioned in the book. These resources are here to support you as you put what you’ve learned into action—step by step, in your own time.

Here’s to a well-fed brain, a balanced body, and a thriving life. You’ve got this!

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Resources​

Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition

The Academy is here to support you with practical, in-depth training—both online and in-person—that helps make sense of the biochemical aspects of mental health and addiction. Whether you’re a professional or a volunteer, we’ll help you build the skills to recognize what’s truly happening beneath the surface and utilize nutrient-based tools to support genuine healing.

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Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition
Eating Protein Saves Lives, Inc.

A non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational resources to people in the Recovery Community on the importance of proper nutrition in addiction recovery. These tools emphasize the importance of protein intake in nourishing the brain, reducing cravings, and supporting long-term wellness.

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  • Feeding Recovery Network Meetings: Offers a safe space to explore the connection between nutrition and recovery, focusing on nourishing the brain to restore balance and support long-term healing. Everyone is welcome — whether you’re seeking support or have insights to share.
  • Nourish and Thrive Kit: This kit includes essential resources for individuals and programs for integrating protein into daily nutrition, to help to stabilize mood and manage cravings
  • Feeding Recovery Videos: Understand how nutrient deficiencies impact cravings and relapse, and learn practical strategies for supporting recovery through nutrition.
  • Healthy Eating on a SNAP Budget Video: Tips on making nutritious choices while using SNAP benefits, with smart shopping and meal-planning strategies.
  • High Protein Recipe Pack: 52 protein-rich recipes that support energy and reduce cravings, complete with MyFitnessPal barcode links for easy tracking.
Eating Protein Saves Lives, Inc.

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Functional Medical Labs

Addiction DNA

Addiction DNA provides genetic testing to help personalize treatment plans for addiction and mental health recovery, giving insight into how your unique genetic makeup influences your health.

Function Health Lab

Dr. Hyman’s Laboratory Function Health focuses on personalized health assessments through functional medicine testing, helping to uncover root causes of addiction, mental health issues, and other chronic conditions.

DHA Lab

DHA Lab offers comprehensive lab testing services, providing detailed reports on biomarkers that impact brain health, addiction, and mental wellness, to help guide personalized treatment plans.

Mosaic Lab

Mosaic Lab provides specialized testing to offer insights into nutritional deficiencies, neurotransmitter imbalances, and other factors that affect mental health and addiction recovery.

Nutritionally-Oriented Treatment Centers

  • Alternative to Meds Center: The Alternative to Meds Center combines medical, psychotherapeutic, and holistic approaches to offer a comprehensive, integrative program for addiction and mental health recovery.

  • Bridging the Gaps: Bridging the Gaps offers a holistic, evidence-based addiction treatment program that integrates nutrition and mental health support, focusing on treating the whole person.

  • Nosis: Nosis is about transforming the way people experience recovery—treating the whole person, not just the addiction.

  • Inner Balance Health Center: Inner Balance Health Center specializes in healing the mind and body through nutrition-focused addiction recovery programs, helping clients rebuild health and stability.

  • Julia Ross Cures Virtual Clinic

  • The Benzo Taper Doctor – Dr. Valsa Madhava 

Book Recommendations

Author A-L
  • Allott, Kristen, ND, MS, and Duarte, Natasha, MS: Fuel Your Brain, Not Your Anxiety: Stop the Cycle of Worry, Fatigue, and Sugar Cravings with Simple Protein-Rich Foods. 2021. New Harbinger Publications.
  • Allott, Kristen, ND, MS: Cure Your Brain, Not Your Pain. 2021. Paradigm Press.
  • Balaster, Cavin: How to Feed a Brain: Nutrition for Optimal Brain Function and Repair. 2018
  • Chavalier-Batik, Sandra & Botha, Leslie: Understanding Your Mind, Mood and Hormone Cycle, April 2013, Pleiades Publishing Services.
  • Gant, Charles, MD, PhD, and Lewis, Greg: End Your Addiction Now: The Proven Nutritional Supplement Program That Can Set You Free. 2010. Square One Publishers.
  • Hoffer, Abraham, The Vitamin Cure for Alcoholism: Orthomolecular Treatment of Addictions. 2009. Basic Health Publications, Inc.
  • Hoffer, Abraham, Vitamin B-3 and Schizophrenia. 1999. Quarry Pr
  • Hyman, Mark, MD: The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First. 2008. Scribner.
  • Katherine, Anne: Anatomy of Food Addiction: The Brain Chemistry of Overeating. 1991. Hazelden Publishing.
  • Kenney, Dave, and Kenney, Susan: Actualized Recovery®: It’s Not About 12-Steps Recovery is a Brain Thing. 2024. Dave Kenney & Susan Kenney.
  • Ketcham, Katherine, Milam, L. Ann, and Marlatt, G. Alan: Eating Right to Live Sober. 1983. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
  • Korn, Leslie: Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health: A Complete Guide to the Food Mood Connection. 2016 WW Norton & Co.
  • Larson, Joan Mathews: Seven Weeks to Sobriety, Random House Publishing Group, 1997
  • Larson, Joan Mathews: Depression-Free, Naturally: 7 Weeks to Eliminating Anxiety, Despair, Fatigue, and Anger from Your Life. 1999. Ballantine Books.
  • Lewis, Michael D., MD: When Brains Collide: What Every Athlete and Parent Should Know About the Prevention and Treatment of Concussions and Head Injuries. 2016. Lioncrest Publishing.
  • Lynne, Shelly: How to Cook for Beginners: An Easy Cookbook for Learning the Basics. 2019. Rockridge Press.
Author M-Z
  • Naidoo, Uma, MD: This Is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More. 2020. Little, Brown Spark.
  • Pfeiffer, Carl: Mental and Elemental Nutrients. New Canaan, CT, Keats 1975.
  • Raine, Adrian: The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime. 2014. Vintage.
  • Ross, Julia: The Craving Cure: Identify Your Craving Type to Activate Your Natural Appetite Control. 2017. Flatiron Books.
  • Ross, Julia: The Diet Cure: The 8-Step Program to Rebalance Your Body Chemistry and End Food Cravings, Weight Gain, and Mood Swings—Naturally. 2012. Penguin Publishing Group.
  • Ross, Julia: The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Take Charge of Your Emotions—Today. 2002. Penguin.
  • Schauss, Alexander G.: Diet, Crime, and Delinquency. 1980. Parker House.
  • Scheller, Brooke: How to Eat to Change How You Drink: Balance. 2023. Hachette Book Group.
  • Slagle, Priscilla, MD: The Way Up from Down. 1987. Random House.
  • Stitt, Barbara Reed: Food and Behavior: A Natural Connection. 1983. Natural Press.
  • Wahlstrom, Shelly Jo: Feed Your Brain, Change Your Life: Take Control of Your Brain, Body, and Emotions with Amino Acid Therapy. 2019. Shelly Jo Hypno Amino LLC.
  • Weatherby, Dicken: Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective. 2004

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