Nutrition and Mental Health Seminars organized by Marmara University Psychology and Development Club in collaboration with MARPAM (Marmara University Psychological Counseling and Guidance Application and Research Center) was held on 14th May at Goztepe Campus Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Exp. Dr. Canan Sunay and Holistic Health Consultant M. Sezin Arduç participated in the event as speakers.
The first session of the two-session event started with the seminar of Dr. Canan Sunay, which she entitled "Functional Medicine: Our Intestines As Conductor of Our Mental Health". In the second session, M.Sezin Arduç gave a seminar entitled "Meditation Techniques".
Throughout the event, it was emphasized that whatever we eat affected intestines, and that the intestines has a significant impact on our mental health through chemicals which they reach the brain with integrative system.
It was told that we need to take of our mental health with an integrated point of view; social, cultural, physiological, medical and bodily .It was emphasized that we should give the necessary importance to our nutrition for the sake of the soundness of our psychology.