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7 Facts About Depression That Will Blow You Away

Adapted from A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan, MD

A silent tragedy in the history of modern health care is happening right now in America, but no one is talking about it. We have been told a...

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Ann Petersen's Story: Can Candidiasis Cause Depression?

Suffering from depression and multiple health issues, Ann Petersen takes us through her journey to a healthy and productive lifestyle.

I suffered my first depression in my senior year at high...

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4 Things to Check Before Taking an Antidepressant

What if I told you that the vast majority of the time, taking an antidepressant for depression is like taking a Tylenol for a shard of glass in your foot. Wouldn’t you rather just remove it?...

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Grassroots Campaign Update: A Mind of Your Own Hits #1 on Amazon

Amazon Sold Out – Making Waves

The tidal wave of grassroots support has vaporized the Amazon inventory. Not to worry! Barnes & Noble purchased A Mind of Your Own for all their national...

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A Leap Forward in Medicine - Functional Forum

I spent years feeling overwhelmed and even hopeless about the state of affairs on this planet, and in this country. All that was exposed to me through my research into the truth about medicine,...

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Is The Pill Changing Your Brain?

Oral Contraceptives

Where you look, you may find. Because oral contraceptives seized the market in 1959 and have not let go since, there has been little to no incentive to actually research the...

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Is Thyroid Hormone Dangerous for Psych Patients?

Thyroid Hormone and HDT

In psychiatry, we have a long history of using high dose thyroid hormone as an "augmentation strategy" - often employed without even checking thyroid labs in the...

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Have You Been Told It's All In Your Head? The New Biology of Mental Illness.

Psychiatry is notorious for saying “oops!” for a long history of abusing patients with pseudoscience-driven treatments and its shameful lack of diagnostic rigor. From the 1949...

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In a Glutenous Mood?

As we expand our knowledge of gluten's impact on extraintestinal regions and systems in the body, diet-based trials will help to elucidate symptoms driven by this exposure. The limitations of...

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Inflammation Begets Depression: New Data

With two decades of literature supporting the cytokine theory of depression, we finally have the first study examining "proteomic changes" or inflammatory markers in unmedicated patients....

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Game Changer: Brain Immunity

This post first appeared on GreenMedInfo.com.

Sometimes science gets things wrong. With acknowledgement of these fundamental misapprehensions, whole swaths of dogma have to be unraveled,...

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Postpartum Depression: My Interview with Science & Sensibility

Lamaze is an incredible organization dedicated to supporting women’s birth and postpartum experience. Their clinical and scientific influence has reflected the conventional concerns around...

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