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Is your diet an ally for your mental health?

➕ Add a single nutrient to your diet and observe the effects for a few weeks.

🔄 Improve your diet overall and observe the effects for a few weeks.

🔎 Identify meals often followed by a dip in mood, then modify them.

🚫 Remove a food group, then reintroduce it to compare the effects.

🍵 Replace coffee with tea, without changing the number of drinks, then compare your nervousness.

📉 Gradually reduce your total caffeine consumption, then compare your nervousness.

🍛 Drink coffee only after meals, then compare your nervousness.

🌙 Stop coffee in the afternoon, then evaluate your nervousness in the evening.

Mood improves briefly, then drops within the hour

Alertness increases, but mood generally remains stable

No reliable mood boost appears, and fatigue may increase

The boost appears mainly when you were already tired or hungry

They prevent fluctuations in blood sugar, regardless of the meal composition

They increase dopamine directly as soon as they are consumed

They replace glucose as the brain's main energy source

They provide amino acids that the brain uses to manufacture certain neurotransmitters

🔗 The link is probably direct, since it remains visible after several statistical adjustments

🌫️ The link exists, but its direction and the role of other factors remain uncertain

🧠 The link probably comes from mood, which pushes people to choose foods that are easier to prepare

🍏 The link depends mainly on nutritional quality, and little on the level of processing