Depression I

Medicine for the Mind

Tools to help fight depression.

1. Increasing serotonin in the brain helps improve mood and relieves depression.
2. Serotonin is made from the amino acid tryptophan. Adequate dietary tryptophan helps improve mood.
3. Diet rich in carbohydrates, increase available tryptophan by as much as 54 percent by limiting the intake of five competing amino acids. Because only plants contain carbohydrates, a plant diet increases tryptophan and thus helps raise serotonin.
4. Vitamin B6 is also needed to make serotonin - it raises serotonin levels. Dr. Teimeier of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, found patients with depression had low levels of vitamin B12 and folic acid.
5. Bright light increase serotonin levels. Dr. Lambert at the Baker Heart Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, found that brain serotonin levels were eight times higher on a bright day than on an overcast day. Dr. Terman at Columbia University found bright light and negative ions ( found in fresh air) together improved depression symptoms in those with Seasonal Affective Disorder.
6. Excercise - specially high-intensity exercise - reduce tension, depression, fatigue, and anger.

So, to help improve your mood and combat depression:

• Eat a plant-based diet, which helps raise serotonin levels.
• Maximize tryptophan levels by eating soy beans, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, almonds, and beans.
• Get thirty minutes of exposure to bright sunlight in the morning or take two fifteen-minute walks outdoors between 9:00am and 3:00pm daily. Be careful never to burn your skin. Only your eyes exposure to sun-light in order to raise serotonin, so you can keep your skin covered, as necessary, to prevent sunburn.
• Walk briskly for one hour six days a week.
• Eat one to two tablespoons of freshly ground flaxseed daily (measure tablespoons of the whole seeds and then grind in a coffee grinder).
• Eat one ounce (a cupped handful) of English walnuts at breakfast and lunch until symptoms of depression subside, then one ounce of nuts daily.
• Take a B-complex vitamin at the noon or evening meal.
• Dismiss negative thoughts and speak nothing negative of others. 

From Dr. Arnott's 24 Realistic Ways to Improve Your Health

Dr. Neil Nedley

MENTAL HEALTH 1 (DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY)

http://youtu.be/-dSq9RDqDco

MENTAL HEALTH 2 (DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY)

http://youtu.be/5AlN3jcvtFg

MENTAL HEALTH 3 A (DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY)

http://youtu.be/p9XX97u5jMk

MENTAL HEALTH 3 B (DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY)

http://youtu.be/76SPE3kPeWs

MENTAL HEALTH 4 (DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY)

http://youtu.be/8a5BYTywc1A