Mental Health Awareness Month is May, but I wrote this in April because I want to get out ahead of the wave of "foods that fight depression" content that floods the internet every spring. Food does affect your mood. The relationship is real. It's also smaller, more specific, and more nuanced than the headlines suggest. So can what you eat actually help with anxiety and depression? Here's the honest answer. What is the gut-brain axis? There is a real, two-way communication sys