Certain intervention trials studying nutrition and depression have intentionally included recommendations to include animal protein. In turn, this leads to the question about the particular role of animal protein on mood. In particular, if there is an association between diets that exclude animal protein and depressive symptoms? In this podcast, I dive into a large cohort study that was looking at this question and discuss the interesting findings they (didn’t) find around the vegan diet and what they did find around food exclusion as a variable. 

 

Matta, J., Czernichow, S., Kesse-Guyot, E., Hoertel, N., Limosin, F., Goldberg, M., … Lemogne, C. (2018). Depressive Symptoms and Vegetarian Diets: Results from the Constances Cohort. Nutrients, 10(11), 1695. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu10111695

 

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