Prescription for Happiness: How to Eat, Move, and Supplement for Peak Mental Health

I bought this book thinking I would already know most of the advice-thought it would be a good reminder. However I learned so much I didn’t know. I was blown away by the detailed reasons for why we should eat certain foods or which supplements can replace pharmaceutical drugs. Dr. Berzin gives an incredible and easy explanation of the science and chemistry behind everything as well a clear map on how to achieve this ‘state change.’ Add to that her story is compelling and a pleasant read. It is a refreshing take on medicine today.

This book is a prescription for health happiness and longevity. Today medicine treats disease. Dr. Robin Berzin gives us an easy holistic plan. I am nearly 70, an old retired nurse finding happiness and energy with confidence and support. I have been a patient with parsley health for less than 1 year and love them. I have lost weight and become energized.

I love Robin and Parsely Health. I think this book is amazingly written and it makes you want to go through the state change.

I picked up this book because I was referred by a friend to Parsley after struggling to get much help with a treatment plan beyond pills for a chronic illness, so I was curious to learn more about the founder's background and approach.I appreciated how thoughtful and comprehensive this book is about treating a bunch of different chronic ailments that often get brushed aside by typical primary care doctors. Having clear action plan, a list of tests to get, and supplements to take including dosage and the why behind each recommendation makes this book more beneficial than your average health and wellness book. I also appreciated that she gave researched-backed non-traditional recommendations like psychedelics with integrative therapy for treatment-resistant depression.But overall, this book is not anything new. You're going to get the same wellness advice you've always heard: eat your fruits and veggies, cut out added sugar, exercise 6 times a week, meditate, stop looking at screens, have good sleep hygiene. At least she's clear that if you follow the recommendations for 30 days and they aren't serving you and making you feel better, you can drop them.The tone of the book is all about personal choices, without going into systems to help you actually achieve these changes or how to make your personal relationship with your doctor better. She pushes going to an integrative healthcare physician (especially at her clinic) heavily. But she doesn't even include a section for doctors about ways they could better serve their patients or take a more holistic approach. Maybe that'll be the next book...There were other things about this book that made me uncomfortable too. For starters, Dr. Berzin talks about interventions that can help with things like ADHD in a way that makes me get the sense that she doesn't think it's a real disability or a valid diagnosis. For example: she reports that one of her patients goes on a two-month boat trip away from technology and is magically cured of ADHD when she gets back.She also mentions that she got her start with integrative medicine by working for Dr. Oz's radio show, which is not an instant discredit from me, but certainly a red flag.She suggests that people go plant-based paleo without super concretely defining what that means. It's not regular paleo, since you can eat whole grains but not gluten, but also maybe no grains at all if you're doing her Advanced level reset. She also recommends them in combination with intermittent fasting, without any acknowledgment that it might be harmful for people with a history of eating disorders or disordered thoughts about food, and even slips in a couple of "it's not about weight loss, but you will lose weight" comments.Interestingly enough, my doctor at Parsley didn't even order all of the tests that Dr. Berzin recommends in the book, and my health coach through them recommends a very different approach to eating (Meditteranean and stop intermittent fasting because it can apparently mess up women's hormone cycles?) so I haven't even done what she has recommended through her practice. But outside of that list of tests, I'm not sure that this book is worth reading. It probably could have been a four-page worksheet with the symptom inventory, test recommendations, supplement recommendations, and list of lifestyle adjustments.

As an older woman (84 years old), I am very interested in maintaining my health and energy.Dr. Berlin, you bring so much great information in one place.I have been reading your newsletter and Now I am so happy to have your book.