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INTERVIEW: Psychiatrist on why the wrong food and environment leads to poor mental health and performance

Today I get together with Theresa who is a Psychiatrist and mental health practitioner to talk at length on diet and nutrition and how to increase performance.

Also covered are the problems with priorities, why we feed pilots poor food, alcohol (good and bad), clinical depression, the power of small changes, the detrimental effect of mass media, why a lack of mentors is creating a depressed workforce, suicide, PTSD and much more...

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