According to the CDC, “About one in 10 Americans aged 12 and over takes antidepressant medication.” With over 300 million Americans making up the population, that means at least 30,000,000 people are on antidepressants nationwide. And yet, more and more holistic practitioners and spiritual gurus are claiming anxiety, ADHD, depression and other mental health conditions can be solved through supplements, meditation and diet. Gut health has been one of the most recent ties to mental health from both western and eastern medicine practitioners, but while traditional doctors recommend a probiotic for a balanced gut biome, eastern practitioners claim that + vitamin deficiencies can be to blame for some mental health issues.

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