'When you improve nutrition, you reduce violence': Psychologist Kimberley Wilson on working in Europe's largest women's prison

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British psychologist Kimberley Wilson has worked with people from all backgrounds following her years working as a therapist at London's Holloway Prison, which was Europe's largest women's prison at the time. But those formative years shaped the advice Wilson gives her clients and patients to this day.

It was around that time that this replication of a study came out. They had taken a cohort of violent male prisoners and improved their nutritional status through supplementation .

KW: This raised really interesting questions as a psychologist as to actually how much of my patients' behavior is within their grasp and how much is it being influenced by things that they are completely unaware of. I just found it a fascinating area and also one that was really relevant to the work I was trying to do.

SP: Do you think that interest in the kind of work you do — more holistic therapy that integrates lifestyle factors — has increased in recent years? In terms of broader dietary intakes, that data is kind of coming in now. First of all, a diet that's high in ultra-processed foods is lower in nutrients. We see that across the world, and the issue for the brain with that relationship is that the brain is the hungriest organ in the body.

 

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