Tag: depression

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New IdeaLabs Product – 3α-Dihydroprogesterone (3α-DHP)

As many of my readers know, the medical industry has been quietly increasing its interest in and…

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Depression Is “A Normal Brain Responding to Stress or Adversity”

Actual title of the article, quoting the main author of the Nature op-ed. There has been a…

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High-fat, low-carb diet may cause obesity, inflammation, anxiety (by raising serotonin), even suicide

Double whammy for two popular medical dogmas. One of them is that serotonin is the “happy hormone”…

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Vitamin A may alleviate depression in humans

I know this post will make me a lot of new enemies among the anti-retinol crowd, but…

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Vinegar (acetic acid) alleviates depression in humans by increasing niacinamide

A very interesting study, which suggests niacinamide may be a treatment for depression. Strikingly, the almost 50%…

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Serotonin (5-HT) promotes (chronic) pain and, likely, depression as well

Evil serotonin rears its ugly head again. This time, the findings of the study below are that…

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Endotoxin/LPS can cause anxiety/depression; COX inhibitors (e.g. aspirin) may treat both

Another study demonstrating the potent effects endotoxin/LPS has on systemic inflammation and mental health even after a…

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Low thyroid, cholesterol, vitamin D/K linked to depression and suicide

One of the few studies out there that dared to touch the “metabolic theory” of depression. Namely,…

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SSRI drugs, serotonin (5-HT) can cause chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)

Mainstream medicine does not officially recognize the condition commonly known as CFS. Depending on which doctor one…

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SSRI drugs cause depression/anxiety, blocking serotonin rapidly reverses the latter

It is hard to come up with a more controversial statement in psychiatry than to say that…