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Adolescent stress causes mental illness, cognitive issues by lowering metabolism

It has long been known that pre-natal stress (e.g. stressed of the mother during pregnancy), as well…

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Ocular progesterone administration may treat eye, brain, and mental illness

A few months ago, I posted a study demonstrating improvement in localized, ocular steroidogenesis by administration of…

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Childhood stress causes mental illness in adults by blunting androgens

Yet another great study solidifying the evidence on just how detrimental early childhood stress is. It has…

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Serotonin causes anhedonia…and mental illness in general

As many of my readers know, anhedonia is one of the most pernicious symptoms of most mental…

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Chronic stress (adversity) lowers dopamine and causes mental illness

The evidence for the role of chronic stress in virtually every health condition doctors have a name…

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PUFA and serotonin promote each other, and likely cause mental illness

I neat new study that draws a direct parallel between PUFA-driven inflammation, serotonin and depression. As the…

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Illness (endotoxin) makes body odor unpleasant, may lead to social shunning

The study below demonstrated something most of us have known intuitively since childhood. Namely, sick people not…

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Harvard Psychiatrist: All Mental Disease is Metabolic/Bioenergetic Disease

It is always nice to see mainstream medicine plagiarize from Dr. Peat attempt to right its course…

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Fatty acid oxidation – linking all illness (especially cancer) with stress and diet (fasting / low-carb)

The study below is one perhaps the most comprehensive review published to date, challenging the medical dogma…

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Higher PUFA intake correlated with mental disease

An epidemiological study, yet still useful IMO since the correlation was maintained across the various levels of…