Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts |  Mood Disorders
SAMe significantly improved quality of life and behavior in subjects (aged 55 to 80 years) with mild mood disorders. One hundred ninety-two subjects, who did not meet DSM-IV criteria for major depression or qualify for psychotropic medication, received SAMe 100 mg 2 times a day orally for 2 months in an open-label, multicenter trial. Subjects were administered two self-assessment questionnaires at prestudy and at 1 and 2 months post treatment in order to evaluate physical, mental, and social behaviors and to rate drug efficacy and tolerability. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |  Menopause, mood disorders and Magnesium
Perimenopause and menopause related mood disorders cause significant distress to a large number of women. In the United States, one half of perimenopausal women will report feeling irritated or depressed.21 Different studies have shown that a woman's risk for a first bout with depression rises sharply as she approaches menopause. "There is a subgroup of women who, for multiple reasons, may be more vulnerable," said Dr. Lee Cohen of Harvard Medical School, which followed 460 Boston-area women for six years. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  England and corn sweeteners and put them next to our swelling stats for depression and mood disorders, the evidence suggests that a connection exists. Isn't it curious that we've become a nation of antidepressant-popping folks just as our consumption of added sweeteners has soared to the point that refined foods and sweets now comprise about one-third of our daily calories?
Sugar and the Chemistry of Your Brain
Experts aren't entirely clear about why people get the blues. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  They also dampen an overactive immune system, which seems to play a role in mood disorders. Start with 3 grams of fish oils daily; you can safely increase the dose up to 10 grams daily. Note: The omega-3 fish oils have a mild blood-thinning effect. Alternatively, you may try 1.5 grams daily of DHA.
Magnesium. If you have persistent feelings of irritability, take 400 mg of magnesium citrate, which is better absorbed than other forms of magnesium. Magnesium is a muscle relaxant and a cofactor in the production of serotonin. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
See book keywords and concepts |  Mental and Emotional Disorders
Food additives may also cause mood disorders. The symptoms include fatigue, depression, and anxiety, in various mixes. Most sufferers of the very severe and manic depressions do not fall into this category, but there is evidence that they are suffering from severe allergic reactions, perhaps to foods. We have seen many patients with mood disorders recover when the proper nutritional supplements were used.
The relationship of the schizophrenias to nutrition is not as clear. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  It's a nutritionally based program for a variety of issues, but particularly for mood disorders, addictions (alcohol, substance abuse addictions, and sugar addiction) and depression.
Alzheimer's Disease
The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation
Tucson, Arizona
520.749.8374 www.alzheimersprevention.org
A charitable organization that advocates a complete prevention program for memory loss and Alzheimer's, mixing complementary and conventional medical modalities. | | One of the best nutritional programs for mood disorders.
See also Alcoholism and Addiction.
Digestion and Gastrointestinal Health
See Gastrointestinal Issues.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Online Resources www.emofree.com
Emofree.com is the website of EFT's founder, Gary Craig. You can find out all about EFT as well as order instructional DVDs from this website. www.mercola.com
Joseph Mercola's site is another valuable resource for a baker's dozen of subjects having to do with complementary healing, nutrition, and health. | | John's Wort, SAMe, and omega-3 fatty acids eventually may prove to he valuable additions to the psychiatrist^ pharmacologic armamentarium, both as monotherapy and as adjunctive therapy for mood disorders. Current research data are compelling, from a standpoint of both efficacy and safety...."
—David Mischoulon, M.D., Ph.D.,
Harvard University Department of Psychiatry Depression and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital covered by the country's national health care system, and in fact is the number one prescribed antidepressant in Germany and most of Europe. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  So many of today's ailments, from purely physical illnesses to mood disorders, are intertwined with prediabetes and overweight. Even when prediabetes and overweight are not the direct causes of health problems, they exacerbate the symptoms, the complications, and the progression of diseases. Trimming the branches, so to speak, such as by prescribing drugs, may improve some of the symptoms, but it does not change the underlying disease processes—the root of the problem. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Mood Disorders Research in the psychiatry department at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Marangell and Dr. Westover admit they can't conclude that high sugar consumption causes depression, but they aren't ruling it out either. "It's just far too early to tell. Maybe that's the case, maybe not," Dr. Westover told me.
"The study also raises some interesting questions about the relationship between diabetes and depression," adds Dr. Westover, who would like to further investigate the carb-bad-mood hypothesis.
The link between diabetes and depression is nothing new. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | Prozac, Zoloft, and several other drugs are frequently prescribed to help the brain maintain higher serotonin levels.
Yet mood disorders do not result from a deficiency of Prozac and Zoloft. Because these drugs are not normal constituents of brain chemistry, they can often strain the biochemical pathways involved in neurotransmitter production. This strain results when certain chemical reactions are artificially sped up, while others remain slow. The situation is somewhat like cooking meat, vegetables, and rice to serve at the same meal. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |  According to the 1996 survey, about half of all treatments were done in the psychiatrist's offices; mood disorders accounted for the greatest proportion of caseloads (36%), followed by patients with anxiety disorders (14%) and schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (13%).11
Until a few decades ago, the psychiatrist treated the patient with "talk therapy." Today the treatment is drugs. A survey of psychiatrists, conducted in 1997, showed that 89% of all patients received at least one psychotherapeutic medication; 14% received four or more medications. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  More common "everyday" mood disorders, such as "down" days, irritability, impatience, anger, and hostility, affect millions of people to varying degrees.
The Gene Connection
Some genetic polymorphisms do increase the risk of depression and mood disorders. However, the impact of these polymorphisms depends on diet and stressful events. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | Click on "Fact Sheets," and then scroll down to "Seasonal Affective Disorder" under the heading "Depression and mood disorders."
The Health Benefits of Good Sleep
Studies now link lack of sleep with heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and difficulty controlling weight.
In addition, a lack of sleep boosts stress hormone levels, impairs the body's ability to process blood sugar, reduces levels of leptin (an appetite-depressing hormone) and increases inflammation—a factor in the development of heart disease. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | A separate study, also in the Archives of General Psychiatry, reported that slightly more than 9 percent of American adults currently have serious mood disorders, and another 11 percent have clear-cut anxiety disorders. These percentages add up to a frightening 42 million adults, equivalent to the combined populations of New York, Illinois, Oregon, Colorado, and Connecticut. Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D. | | In one study, researchers found that 80 percent of people with mood disorders knew that the foods they ate affected how they felt. Sugary foods and alcohol contributed to mood problems, whereas fish, vegetables, and fruit were associated with better moods. The translation: bad foods set the stage for bad moods, while good foods led to good moods.
What could food possibly have to do with our moods? The answer might surprise you. Nutrients provide the biological building blocks for brain chemicals called neurotransmitters, which affect how we think and feel. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Even our children are in trouble, with at least 1 in 10 suffering from significant mood disorders. Our mood problems are increasing so fast that, by 2020, they will outrank AIDS, accidents, and violence as the primary causes of early death and disability."
When you look at the escalating figures for our consumption of sucrose confessions of a sugar kicker
"Sugar makes you into someone you're not, if you're sensitive to it. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | Low norepinephrine levels can be a factor in mood disorders, fatigue, lack of ambition, excessive sleep, depression, and anorexia. High levels can contribute to anxiety, insulin resistance (prediabetes), obesity, feelings of stress, and high blood pressure.
Type of neurotransmitter. Usually stimulating, occasionally calming.
Nutritional building blocks. The basic building block of norepinephrine is the amino acid tyrosine, which is first converted to L-dopa and then to dopamine with the help of folic acid, vitamin B6, magnesium, zinc, and SAMe. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | This disruption in the brain can cause depression, mood disorders, and other emotional disturbances. Once people start cleansing internally, emotional disorders often go away. Do you ever go about your day feeling like you're in a fog, like everything is slightly out of focus or you can't concentrate like you used to? This perpetual haze isn't caused by just the natural aging process. Your mental clarity can be affected by the toxic substances you consume.
TO RAISE THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PLANET AND TO ACHIEVE TRUE SPIRITUALITY, OUR BODIES NEED TO BE PURE! |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  Schildkraut was a mentor to me, and I was lucky enough to have a firsthand look at the scientific inquiry into the biological theory of mood disorders. Two years later, I was off to medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, where I started my own daily psychoanalysis and steeped myself in the emerging brain science. Everyone at Pitt was already working on MHPG, so I settled for measuring lithium uptake into red blood cells as a possible way of identifying different mood problems. | | Madhukar Trivedi, a clinical psychiatrist who is the director of the mood disorders Research Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, has been researching the effectiveness of using exercise to augment antidepressants. In 2006 he published a pilot study showing that patients who weren't responding to antidepressants lowered their scores on a common depression test by 10.4 points on a 17-point scale — a huge drop — after twelve weeks of exercise. All seventeen patients were deeply depressed and had been taking antidepressants for at least four months. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  Anxiety, stress, depression
Seasonal affective disorder Sleep disorders Delayed sleep phase syndrome -» Immunological disorders
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BEHAVIOR CHANGES AND MOOD DISORDERS
Abnormalities of melatonin circadian function have been closely linked to a variety of behavioral changes and mood disorders. Determining the circadian secretion rhythm of melatonin can assist the clinician in diagnosing the type of mood disorder.
In general, studies have reported decreased nocturnal melatonin levels in patients suffering from depression. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
See book keywords and concepts |  These include mood disorders (depression, mourning, anxiety, fear, and anger) with cardiovascular consequences.4 Depression also worsens the outlook for coronary heart disease, increasing myocardial infarction, stroke, and carotid atherosclerosis. Anger increases coronary artery disease, premature coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, and hypertension. These adverse side effects of adrenaline are very dangerous. Contrary activity, which decreases the intensity of such emotions, is therapeutic. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts | | And some people use omega-3s as a stand-alone treatment for mood disorders and ADHD. One study showed that people who eat fish once a week slow the yearly rate of cognitive decline by 10 percent. The Framingham Heart Study followed nine hundred people for nine years and found that those who ate three meals with fish oil per week were half as likely to develop dementia. Omega-3s lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and neuronal inflammation, and they elevate the immune response and BDNF levels. | | Depression
Move Your Mood
In the fifty years since then, mood disorders have been the focal point of psychiatric research. We still don't know what causes depression, but we've made great strides in describing the brain activity underlying emotions. And the more we've learned about the biology of mood, the more we've come to understand how aerobic exercise alters it. In fact, it's largely through depression research that we know as much as we do about what exercise does for the brain. It counteracts depression at almost every level. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  It can also completely reverse heart disease, depression, most mood disorders, liver disease, kidney stones, chronic inflammation, arthritis, gout, urinary tract infections, asthma and numerous other health conditions.
What could this amazing nutritional medicine be? I'll give you a hint: It's not one single nutrient, food or superfood. In fact, it's a combination of literally thousands of known phytochemicals (and probably thousands more that have yet to be discovered). |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Among women self-presenting to PMS clinics for medical care, fully 75 percent had another diagnosis that contributed significantly to their symptoms—major depressive or other mood disorders being most prominent.6 About 10 percent had early menopausal symptoms, 10 percent were affected by hormonal contraceptives, and about 5 percent each were found to have eating disorders or substance abuse issues predominating. Anyone who considers her PMS to be significantly bothersome might be wise to check with her practitioner should her efforts with self-care fail. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts | | Recent data indicate that disturbances of glutama-tergic transmission (especially via NMDA-receptor) are involved in the pathogenesis of mood disorders.
Magnesium deficiency is related to a variety of psychological symptoms, especially depression. There are many reports indicating significant changes in blood levels of magnesium or copper during a depressive episode. Moreover magnesium exhibits antidepressant-like and anxiolytic-like effects in animal models of depression, in rodents. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | As a result, the omega-3s are virtually nonexistent in many people's diets, contributing to depression and other mood disorders. High intake of the omega-6s increases the risk of depression, whereas many studies have found that omega-3 fish oil supplements are helpful in treating depression. They also function as a mild blood thinner and a regulator of heart rhythm.
Other studies have found that the omega-3 s can help to reduce impulsive behavior, hostility, and physical aggressiveness. In a double-blind study of forty middle-aged men and women, taking 1. |
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