Gisele Bündchen claims she cured her panic attacks and ‘severe’ depression by changing diet

For Gisele Bündchen, mental health begins in the kitchen.

The supermodel told “The View” co-hosts Thursday that she recovered from “severe depression and panic attacks in [her] early 20s” by changing her diet.

“I had no idea it was correlated with my lifestyle, and food was a big part of it,” she recalled. “I wasn’t really paying attention. I was just going 100 miles an hour.”

Gisele Bündchen credited a naturopathic doctor for her recovery from anxiety and depression. gisele/Instagram “Food, for me, is medicine,” the supermodel told “The View” co-hosts. The View/ABC

After a year and a half of “going through all the specialists” and having “one of the worst times of [her] life,” Bündchen, now 43, “didn’t know what to do” and started seeing a naturopathic doctor.

“He said to me, ‘Gisele, we have to change your diet,'” she remembered. “And I was like, ‘Diet? What does that have to do with panic attacks?’ And he’s like, ‘No, it has everything to do with it.'”

The “Nourish” cookbook author, who was drinking coffee, smoking and “eating terrible all day” at the time, realized her lifestyle was “destroying [her] health and creating the condition [she] was in.”

The former Victoria’s Secret Angel became a “different person” when she stopped “eating terrible.” Gisele/Instagram She also started doing yoga, meditation and breathwork. gisele/Instagram

“Everything changed,” she gushed. “I became a different person. I started practicing meditation. I started practicing yoga. I started practicing breath work. It was a long journey.”

She noted, “Food, for me, is medicine.”

On Monday, Bündchen broke down her current diet and exercise routine in a WSJ. Magazine interview.

Bündchen called food “a big part” of her recovery. gisele/Instagram The businesswoman was on the show promoting her cookbook. Instagram/Gisele Bündchen

In addition to Pilates, lifting weights and doing cardio, Bündchen enjoys outside exercise, from surfing and swimming to horseback riding and volleyball.

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She likes to wake up with “lukewarm water with a little lemon and Celtic salt,” also eating eggs if she has worked out.

“Sometimes I have a smoothie,” the businesswoman added before sharing the “poison” ingredient she never eats — white sugar.

Bündchen is a two-time mom. Instagram/@gisele She shares Benjamin and Vivian with ex Tom Brady. gisele/Instagram

While Bündchen did not mention jiu-jitsu practice in the profile, she has trained with Joaquim Valente since 2021 and is now dating him.

The former Victoria’s Secret Angel was previously married to Tom Brady from 2009 to 2022, and the former couple coparent son Benjamin, 14, and daughter Vivian, 11.

Since their split, the retired NFL player, 46, has been romantically linked to model Irina Shayk.