Tag: depression
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…
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”…
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…
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%…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Blocking serotonin (5-HT) stops withdrawal symptoms in addicts
The role of 5-HT and other stress mediators such as cortisol, adrenaline, estrogen, prolactin, histamine, etc has…