Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition
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Explore the powerful connection between nutrition, mental health, and addiction recovery with Christina Veselak, a trailblazer in nutritional mental health and founder of the Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition. This interview-based podcast, "Power Up Recovery with Nutrition," dives deep into how amino acids and targeted nutritional strategies can transform brain chemistry, build resilience, and support sustainable recovery. Christina's expertise is showcased through engaging interviews with leading experts, practitioners, and inspiring voices from the recovery community, as well as solo episodes addressing key topics in the field. Whether you're on a personal recovery journey,…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Christina Veselak connects biochemical detail with practical recovery questions, giving nutrition a sustained role in discussions of cravings, mood, and relapse.
Power Up Recovery with Nutrition keeps returning to a practical question: how might food and nutrients affect mood, cravings, and relapse? Christina Veselak leads guest interviews from that premise, moving between brain chemistry and choices people can make around food.
Christina Veselak puts the pantry beside brain chemistry; suddenly your grocery list has questions.
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A practical case for treating nutrition as part of recovery, not an afterthought.
Power Up Recovery with Nutrition treats recovery as something that can be shaped by whether the body and brain are adequately fed. It works best when it links cravings and relapse to the simple problem of going too long without eating, then shows how blood sugar drops can set…
Protein, stress, and recovery are linked in a clearly advocacy-minded case for food as part of participation.
Protein and recovery sit at the center of Christina Veselak's case that the brain has to be fed well to handle stress. She raises amino acids, protein every four hours, and the right food as possible supports for mood and brain chemistry without medication, and the most grounded…
Minerals and nutrients frame the episode's recovery case.
Christina Veselak treats nutrition as part of recovery rather than a wellness side note. The conversation stays grounded in mental health, relapse, and repair while moving through magnesium, D3, K2, omega-3s, and trace minerals in plain language that stays practical.
A recovery conversation that links sugar cravings, nutrition, and relapse prevention.
Christina Veselak and Patrick Zerwas frame nutrition as part of recovery, tying mental health, relapse, and the idea that the brain needs to be fed well.
Brain health, prevention, and the lab markers that make the case concrete.
The episode presents Alzheimer's prevention as something that may be partly modifiable, tying risk to genetic vulnerability such as ApoE4 and to other factors that can be addressed through lifestyle and a more comprehensive risk review.
A recovery talk that links DHA, food choices, and brain chemistry.
The episode centers on a recovery claim: brain DHA uptake appears to rise in people recovering from alcoholism, and that idea broadens into a case for treating nutrition as part of sobriety and mental health.
Ibogaine is presented as an addiction interrupter within a broader nutrition-centered recovery approach.
The discussion treats recovery as a system rather than a single intervention. Nutrition is given real weight, with amino acids, protein, magnesium, and other nutrients linked to mood, repair, and relapse prevention.
A recovery-centered nutrition discussion on brain chemistry, cravings, and relapse prevention.
Power Up Recovery with Nutrition treats recovery as a practical conversation about food, mood, and brain chemistry. Christina Veselak returns to familiar ground: cravings, relapse, and why someone on psychotropic medication can still feel off, then ties those questions to…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Christina Veselak introduces Dr.
Christina Veselak opens by linking recovery to what the brain is being fed.
Christina Veselak frames nutrition as part of recovery and nervous-system support.
Christina Veselak interviews Cynthia Libert, MD, on Power Up Recovery with Nutrition about functional psychiatry, brain health, and the role of nutrition in mental health and addiction recovery.
Christina Veselak and psychiatrist Dr.
Christina Veselak introduces Power Up Recovery with Nutrition and talks with David Stephan, a long-time educator for True Hope, about Empower Plus and its history.
Christina Veselak and psychiatrist Dr.
Christina Veselak interviews John Giordano about nutrition, addiction recovery, and integrative treatment, and Giordano says addicts often arrive “nutrient deficient and volume depleted.” He names Dr.
Christina Veselak hosts Dr.
Christina Veselak interviews Diane Greco-Allen, a nurse, functional nutritionist, and coach, about how food, family history, and mental health intersect in recovery.
Patrick Zerwas says he has been in long-term recovery for 26 years and now works as a telehealth counselor in a methadone clinic while Christina Veselak frames the show around nutrition, amino acids, and relapse prevention.
Christina Veselak hosts Suzanne Roth-Paul on Power Up Recovery with Nutrition, and Suzanne says she is a 62-year-old health coach who began this work after years of illness, brain fog, and stress.
Christina Veselak interviews Dr.
Power Up Recovery with Nutrition host Christina Veselak interviews Dr.
Host Christina Veselak interviews Dr.