By Dr. Jerry Bailey
Few entrepreneurs are aware of how their diet affects their mental health along with how the foods they eat mitigate their ability to handle stress. Over the last few years, our collective mental state has declined immensely from isolation in quarantine and the poor choices in foods we have been making. Being in business for ourselves has created a unique response to understand just how food can affect our mental state. Foods also influence our ability to perform at the levels needed as business owners to keep in a peak state of performance.There is more and more research being published every year demonstrating how the foods we eat affect our ability to cope with the everyday stress of owning a business. Along with how eating the wrong foods greatly increases our anxiety, depression, and general un-well being. Mental disorders of all types affect a growing number of people every year. Current research estimates that over 26 percent of adults have some form of mental disorder: anxiety, depression, Alzheimer’s and dementia to name a few. This number is growing each year, especially among those in business for themselves.
