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Every day, patients show up with depression, fatigue, anxiety, burnout—and walk out with prescriptions, but no conversation about nutrition.
This isn’t negligence. It’s the result of a system that never taught most doctors how to talk about food in the first place.
At Hardy Nutritionals®, we’ve spent over two decades developing clinical-strength micronutrient formulas precisely because of that gap.
Now, a new article in JAMA underscores the same critical truth:
Nutrition is still barely addressed in medical training—even though it may be one of the most powerful therapeutic tools we have.
In 1985, the National Research Council recommended a minimum of 25 hours of nutrition education in medical school.
Today? Most students receive just 19 hours—total.
Even more concerning: the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) doesn’t require nutrition training in most specialties.
That means most physicians graduate without the tools to address the nutritional root of what their patients are experiencing—whether it’s anxiety, depression, or insulin resistance.
Thankfully, a handful of programs are leading change. The JAMA article highlights innovations like:
These programs are doing more than educating—they’re equipping future doctors to apply nutrition in real clinical care.
According to Dr. Stephen Devries (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), poor diet is now the leading risk factor for death.
Yet physicians still receive more training in managing prescriptions than in understanding micronutrient biochemistry—or the role food plays in brain function.
No wonder so many patients are turning elsewhere.
At Hardy Nutritionals®, we work closely with clinicians using Daily Essential Nutrients (DEN) to support patients dealing with:
Where prescriptions plateau, nutrition—especially broad-spectrum micronutrient support—often breaks through.
While most U.S. medical schools continue to treat nutrition as an afterthought, we’ve built our entire clinical approach around it.
Daily Essential Nutrients delivers over 40 essential vitamins, minerals, and cofactors in therapeutic doses—designed to target the systems most affected by stress, trauma, and chronic depletion.
It’s used in independent research, trusted by practitioners, and grounded in one simple truth:
The brain cannot heal if it doesn’t have what it needs to function.
The JAMA article ends with an urgent call for reform. Electives and special tracks aren’t enough. Nutrition must be integrated into core medical education.
We agree. Hardy Nutritionals® exists because the science on nutrition and mental health is already strong—and patients can’t afford to wait.
We’re here to bridge the gap between what research shows… and what patients actually receive.
To help drive this transformation, we offer personalized, free consultations and training for Health Professionals interested in incorporating micronutrient therapy into their clinical practice.
The future of mental health support demands more than prescriptions. We're here to equip professionals with the tools—and training—they need to deliver it.
