Tag: anxiety
Pregnenolone (P5) blocks stress-induced anxiety, hypertension and cocaine cravings
A great new study, and with humans too! As the study aptly demonstrates, the primary driver of…
Human study – vitamin B6 may relieve anxiety and depression
Vitamin B6 is perhaps one of the most underrated B vitamins. While it attracted a lot of…
Just a week-long break from social media alleviates anxiety and depression
I don’t think this study will come as a surprise to my readers, but it still helps…
Serotonin (and SSRI drugs) can cause anxiety and PTSD
Yet another great study exposing just how much of a “happy hormone” serotonin really is. As usual,…
Meditation can worsen mental health, even cause clinical psychiatric issues
I have always been ambivalent in regards to meditation, mostly due to its teachings that many perceived…
The social fabric in Western countries may be unraveling
In one of Peat’s recent newsletters he mentioned that there is an epidemic of mental disease in…
Hypothyroidism can cause anxiety, panic attacks and other mental issues
One of the few studies that is at least attempting to frame mental health issues in terms…
Prenatal stress ups serotonin, which causes autism and mental disease in offspring
Another good study, which not only corroborates the causative role of elevated serotonin in a number of…
Elevated serotonin may cause schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
The study and even the popular press article are fairly technical so I won’t go into the…
A third of Americans show signs of clinical anxiety, depression
The news about deteriorating health of the population just keep piling on. The latest one below shows…