Feeling Very Periactin
When a drug has been around for many decades, tried and tested with few known ‘side-effects’, yet very helpful with a long list of conditions, there’s a good chance you won’t be hearing about...
Category: Anti-Depressing
Are You Running On Empty?
What if I said to you that chronic anxiety and depression are metabolic issues, that one way or another they relate to fuel, and that it cannot really be any other way. No, I’m...
Sugar Makes Everything Sweeter.
We live in a stressful world, and the stress we’re exposed to creates stress in the body. The stress in the body can then cause more stress in the body, and this can impact...
Do You Have Type Two Depression?
ARE YOU DEPRESSED BECAUSE YOU HAVE DIABETES OR IS DIABETES CAUSING YOUR DEPRESSION? As funny as it sounds this is a good question, and the answer is definitely YES! However you look at it,...
High Anxiety, When Sugar Falls.
I’d like to talk about anxiety. Not so much the external factors that help to create or worsen it: environmental toxins and poisons; difficult social interactions and relationships; hereditary elements; early life and present...
Schizophrenia – Keeping It Real
“A spontaneous recovery from schizophrenia…is so rare…that when it occurs psychiatrists routinely question the validity of the original diagnosis” – A Beautiful Mind It’s sad when you realise how much is known about metabolic...
A Grain Of Salt Restriction.
Decades worth of anti-salt fear mongering has made sodium restriction a very common thing today, and unfortunately it is probably true that those who could benefit the most from increasing their intake, also tend...
Depressing Anti-Depressants.
“Internal documents show that in 1990, Lilly scientists were pressured by corporate executives to alter records on physician experiences with Prozac, changing mentions of suicide attempt to “overdose” and suicidal thoughts to “depression”. Researchers...
We Told You The Important Parts!
“Evidence-based medicine is valuable to the extent that the evidence base is complete and unbiased. Selective publication of clinical trials — and the outcomes within those trials — can lead to unrealistic estimates of...
Sorry! We Meant To Say Lower Serotonin.
The simplistic idea that mood disorders like depression or anxiety result from insufficient serotonin in the brain, has never been properly demonstrated, and contradicts basic physiology. Regardless, extremely profitable drugs – like SSRI’s (Selective...