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Originally posted by Dr. Davis on 2018-12-10 on the Wheat Belly Blog, sourced from and currently found at: Infinite Health Blog. PCM forum Index of WB Blog articles.
If you experience depression, you will typically be prescribed an antidepressant, an SSRI or other agent, and have to endure the common side-effects such as weight gain, aggression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and erectile dysfunction. If you consult a psychologist or counselor, the underlying psychological underpinnings (if any) are explored, strategies devised to cope. But there will almost never be talk about your diet, nutritional deficiencies that amplify dark moods, or the microbiome.
Yet there are very powerful strategies available that have potential to substantially lift mood. Such solutions won’t, of course, erase the effects of childhood trauma or grieving from personal loss, but they can help smooth the emotional impact of such life events, elevate the hormones of mood, and make life easier naturally and inexpensively.
Among the most powerful nutritional and natural mood lifters:
Not foolproof, of course, but effective for the majority in improving mood while costing next to nothing and empowering health in so many other ways with no concerns about weight gain, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, or erectile dysfunction.
Why aren’t such solutions the default answer from psychiatrists, psychologists, and primary care physicians with drugs and counseling held in reserve should such natural solutions not provide full benefit? I am generalizing, of course, recognizing that the breadth of human experience cannot be remedied with a single solution. But the reluctance to embrace natural solutions is not unique to mental and emotional health; it afflicts all areas of healthcare, an over-reliance on drugs and procedures, dismissal of the power of natural methods, and an underlying assumption of your constitutional weakness.
We don’t stand for such disempowering ideas around this neighborhood.