Inviting consensus for nutritional psychiatry: Shared language, shared standards, and better care across biology, equity, and planetary health

: Nutritional Psychiatry has grown quickly, but overlapping terminology and uneven implementation can make research harder to compare and clinical translation harder to scale. Building on the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) position statement and the issue’s featured papers, this editorial highlights three areas where shared language can directly improve practice: (1) transdiagnostic care pathways, including workforce roles, safety monitoring, and referral governance; (2) a biopsychosocial view that links biological mechanisms with real-world constraints such as food insecurity, culture, and modern digital stressors; and (3) clinically useful correlations connecting nutrient status, dietary patterns, and developmental trajectories to psychiatric outcomes. Rather than setting rigid boundaries, we provide a practical framework for collaboration, facilitating the reliable transition of evidence from research to services and from guidelines to routine care.