Mental Health
Natura’s fundamental approach to balanced mental health starts with the use of adaptogens that support the body’s stress response and harmonize the neuroendocrine network. To more specifically address mental wellness, combining key nutrients with supportive botanical agents generates synergistic effects for enhancing cognition function and improving mood. Key targets include calming the central nervous system, promoting healthy cerebral blood flow and oxygenation, and appropriately applying mood-enhancing or calming therapies based on presentation.
Botanical formulas for mental health
Vital Adapt
Daily dose: 3 droppers, twice per day
Active dose: 4 droppers, three times per day
A nourishing broad-spectrum herbal tonic designed to optimize the body’s natural resistance and adaptation to stressful influences
Up-Lift
Daily dose: 2 capsules, twice per day
Active dose: 3 capsules, twice per day
Significantly improves mood, cognition, and mental productivity by supporting the clear functioning of the neurological system.
Tranquility
Daily dose: 2 capsules, twice per day
Active dose: 3 capsules, twice per day
Calms and nourishes the nervous system to promote mental and physical relaxation
Up-Lift and Tranquility can be alternated during the day to balance fluctuations in mood that range from low energy, depressive states to more high energy, anxious states.
Vibrant Mind
Daily dose: 2 capsules, twice per day
Active dose: 3 capsules, three times per day
Improves cerebral blood flow and enhances cognitive function
Nutrients formulas for mental health
Zinc
Daily dose: 1 capsule, once per day
Active dose: 2 capsules, once per day
Vitamin ADK
Daily dose: 1 capsule, every other day
Active dose: 1 capsule, once per day
Complete Omega Essentials
Daily dose: 2 capsules, twice per day
Active dose: 4 capsules, twice per day
Additional therapeutics to improve mental health
Meditative practice benefits include:
- Has no side effects
- Improves memory, attention, and executive function
- Is free to do
- May increase cerebral blood flow
- May offset age-related cognitive decline
Strategies for reducing stress and creating wellness:
- Avoid alternating shifts – maintain consistent waking/sleeping patterns
- Avoid refined sugar, refined carbohydrates and refined fats.
- Eat seven to ten half-cup servings of organic vegetables and four to five fruits every day.
- Don’t skip meals and make sure all meals are balanced (protein, fats, carbohydrates).
- Be positive and believe in yourself
- Break or reduce bad habits such as smoking, drinking alcohol, staying up to late at night, etc.
- Breathe consciously and spend time outdoors
- Do a variety of moderate regular exercises
- Express gratitude
- Laugh a lot
- Reduce frequency of access to the news
- Reduce noise pollution
- Take your time and slow down
- Take relaxing baths – hydrotherapy
- Try to get 7-8 hours of sleep each night
- Try to make your work what you love to do
Disclaimer
The Fullscript Integrative Medical Advisory team has developed or collected these protocols from practitioners and supplier partners to help health care practitioners make decisions when building treatment plans. By adding this protocol to your Fullscript template library, you understand and accept that the recommendations in the protocol are for initial guidance and may not be appropriate for every patient.