#93 - What If Mental Illness Is a Nutrient Problem?

What if mental health isn’t just about brain chemistry?

In this episode, Dallin Hardy, biochemist at Hardy Nutritionals, breaks down a perspective that challenges the foundation of how we approach mental illness.

Drawing from both personal experience and decades of research, Dallin explains why the brain’s ability to function depends heavily on having the full spectrum of essential nutrients—and what happens when those are missing.

This conversation explores why focusing on single nutrients or isolated treatments may fall short, and why a broader, systems-based approach could be the missing piece.

We also discuss:

•  The connection between nutrition and brain function 
•  Why imbalance, not just deficiency, matters 
•  How modern healthcare approaches differ from animal nutrition 
•  The limitations of treating symptoms without addressing underlying inputs 
•  What a “broad-spectrum” approach actually means 

This episode offers a fundamentally different way to think about mental health—and what it takes to support it.

Connect with Dallin:

Website- https://www.hardynutritionals.com

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/hardy_nutritionals

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