Sugar Makes Everything Sweeter.
We live in a stressful world, and the stress we’re exposed to can create stress in the body. The stress in the body can then cause more stress in the body, and this can...
Category: Anti-Depressing
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 I think that the right answer is definitely YES! However...
High Anxiety, When Sugar Falls.
I’d like to talk a bit about anxiety. Not so much about the external factors that help to create or worsen it: environmental toxins and other stressors; social interactions and relationships; hereditary and developmental...
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...
Feeling Very Periactin
When a drug has been around for many decades, tried and tested, with few known ‘side-effects’, yet highly beneficial in relation to a long list of issues, there’s a very good chance you won’t...
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 – and numerous other conditions of the mind – predominantly result from insufficient serotonin levels in the brain, has never been properly experimentally demonstrated...
Prepare To Be Salt Struck
One way of looking at salt is to see it as an all purpose, metabolism enhancing, stress reducing, anxiolytic, anti-depressant. When dietary sodium is restricted this tends to slow energy metabolism, lowering body temperature...