Feed Your Mind - From a patient, for the patients.

Welcome to “Feed your Mind”

My name is Rémi. I’m 27 years old, and this Substack is the result of a personal journey that began years ago, rooted in my own experience with anxiety and depression—especially during adolescence. Since a very young age, I came to stumble on places like reddit, instagram and many YouTube channels focusing on nutrition and brain sciences.

Like many others, I turned to conventional medicine for help. And while it offered partial relief, I quickly realized its limits: most treatments focused on managing symptoms, often with little interest in the deeper biochemical causes behind mental suffering. Trying to fix an internal body issue with a foreign molecule (xenobiotics) always seemed strange to me. But when one has the statue of “patient”, not a lot of questions are raised to the doctors. This seems to be a very prevalent situation, unfortunately.

This led me to ask deeper questions about the way we live today—and how modern life is impacting our biological foundation.

I began researching obsessively, consulting documentaries, books, and studies in fields such as neuroscience, functional biochemistry, and anthropology. One area that stood out to me was the long-term impact of industrial agriculture: soil depletion, widespread use of pesticides, and the decline of nutrient density in our food supply. This is especially true for substances like magnesium, zinc and some other nutrients that all play an essential role in the functioning of the human body. I started to understand that many of the issues we face—fatigue, brain fog, emotional instability—might not be purely psychological, but biochemical in nature. Unfortunately, as life is kind of a chess-play, one can either have a move ahead, or behind. A lot of doctors and people still consider psychology and psychoanalysis as a legit reading grid to people’s behavior. Even if it can be true for a substantial part of people, I came to the conclusion that biochemistry and individualized nutrients protocols should lead the way for the future. I came to encounter many people on forums, that fixed long standing problems by simply fixing a vitamin D deficiency for example.

I especially recall a very funny anecdote about a guy on reddit that suffered from anxiety his whole life, and found he kind of felt good one day. He came back his mother and felt better. Many people told him it was because he saw his mother and felt better because of that. He then concluded that it was because of a bottle of “Vegemite” jam, that he ate for his whole holidays. This product is one of the highest source of B-vitamins that one can buy in a UK supermarket. Subsequently, a lot of people explained to him how those molecules were so important for brain energy, etc.

This exploration led me to the work of pioneers like Linus Pauling, Abram Hoffer, Carl Pfeiffer, and William Walsh, whose research opened my eyes to a new model of care: one that restores health by identifying and correcting nutritional and biochemical imbalances. Those approaches are not really recognized or accepted by conventional medicine nowadays. However, logic and intellectual honesty leads more and more people and researchers towards this path. One has to understand the notion of biochemical individuality to understand this approach and philosophy. Due to the pioneering and impressive work of people like Roger Williams, we know that people don’t have the same need in terms of certains nutrients. The recent work of Bruce Ames and his article “Triage theory” gave a strong theoretical and scientific basis to this approach.

From there, I immersed myself in orthomolecular medicine and functional psychiatry. I studied nutrient metabolism, enzyme activity, and how genetic variations—especially those affecting folate or B12 absorption—can play a major role in mood, cognition, and mental health. Even though I don’t have a diploma or a formal degree, I consider having a real expertise on those subjects. I came to realize that doctors don’t have this expertise on nutrients and on nutrition. In medical school, only 5 or 7 hours are taught to students about nutrition. This sounds really crazy and unexplainable, but this is the reality right now.

Eventually, I compiled a 500+ page research document on the Walsh Protocol—probably the most comprehensive database on nutritional psychiatry in the world. This has been nominated in 1980 for the Nobel Prize of medicine, under the name of Carl Pfeiffer. He is the person who first identified gluten as an allergen able to be the cause of more than 10 different diseases, from allergy to multiple sclerosis. That work became my gateway into understanding how our minds function at the molecular level: through vitamins, cofactors, trace elements, and subtle imbalances that conventional psychiatry often overlooks.

Over time, I became an administrator of the largest Facebook group dedicated to orthomolecular medicine: “Vitamin C, Vitamin B3, and Orthomolecular Medicine for Optimal Health”. Today, I regularly engage with tens of thousands of members, answering questions about nutrition, brain chemistry, and functional approaches to healing.

This Substack is the next step. The most important document that influenced me in my study of brain nutrition was a documentary called “Feed Your Mind”, that retraced the birth of orthomolecular medicine. As a tribute to this work, I decided to borrow this name and to create a dedicated YouTube channel with this name. This substack will bear the same banner.

It’s where I’ll publish what I’ve learned—and continue learning. It’s where I’ll write about brain nutrition, functional psychiatry, and everything that can help us support mental health naturally, intelligently, and holistically.

I’m not a doctor. I’m not selling miracle cures. But I believe that sharing solid, evidence-based, practical information can help others make better decisions about their own health.

If you've ever felt stuck, exhausted, or lost in the fog of mental imbalance, this newsletter is for you. I plan to update it every week or months, and to provide you with the latest updates about brain nutrients.

This expertise will range from nootropics, bio-hacking, to more scientific and conventional approach. I already have a 500 pages document that will be published here in pieces progressively.

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Welcome to BrainFuel.

— Rémi