You know the feeling all too well. You wake up in the morning, eat a bowl of cereal, have a cup of coffee with sugar and cream and out the door you go. Mid-morning, you're starving and distracted, trying to get things done, but there's an underlying hum in your mind that keeps saying: "feed me, feed me"

Before breakfast and before coffee, comes warm lemon water. Upon stumbling down the stairs, half asleep, the first thing I do is put a kettle of water on the stove and squeeze half of a lemon into a 16 oz glass and drink a warm glass of lemon water. 

Very few people think of depression as a gut issue. Depression is typically linked to being a chemical imbalance in the brain. But understanding how the foods we eat affect our moods and general disposition can have a life changing impact on our every day.