Introduction: Food is known to affect our mood and how we feel; which is probably why “The way to man’s heart is through his stomach” thus interconnects food and mood by stomach. Food is the source of both life and disease, healthy diet decides the gut and mental health.How we eat and what we eat can significantly influence our mental wellbeing, affecting mood, cognition and even the risk of developing mental health conditions. Our gut is home to trillion of bacteria that produce neurotransmitters like serotonin, which plays a crucial role in regulating mood and happiness, however, when the gut is out of balance, it can lead to issue like anxiety, depression and stress. Ayurveda emphasizes Healthy dietary habits such as madhura snigdha ahara causes sukha(happiness) and thus is essential for physical and mental health, while unhealthy diet such as viruddhahara, dushtahara, ashuchi ahara causes dukkha, shokha, nischesta and thus causes mental illness. Ayurveda classical text have clearly mentioned unhealthy diet is cause of both shaareerika and mansika vyadhi. Concept of triguna and trividha ahara siddhanta unravels the gut brain connection. The shift from traditional to western dietary pattern has become a leading cause of mental illness. Hence Maintaining gut health through Ayurvedic Diet is essential for maintaining proper mental health.Method: Matter was collected from Brihatrayee Granthas, PubMed, Review articles, Evidence-based articles published online, Authentic websites. Results: The importance of Diet is studied in all contemporary medical system; food influences the mind is comparatively new in modern medicine and the same is elaborated in Ayurveda eons before in the concept of healthy and unhealthy dietary pattern. Conclusion: Thus, proper use of Dietary guidelines as said by ayurveda is the key to mental health and gut health and vice versa.
Diet, Triguna, Trividha ahara, Gut Brain connection.
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