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Depression can be stopped in its tracks. Pharmaceuticals aren’t the only or best way to reduce depression. Administrating drugs for what many times is a lifestyle condition is the wrong approach. High potency drugs can cause more problems then they solve. The numbers and variety of legal drugs are increasingly suspected of causing this problem. Some common drugs that are known to cause depression are: barbiturates, amphetamines, pain killers, beta-blockers, high blood pressure medications, heart medications and psychotropic drugs.

Depression Solutions

A good diet has many benefits that help with mood disorders, ADHD, cognitive function, and depression. The biggest barrier to brain health is a poor diet. After decades of of looking at mental disorders as separate from overall health, the tide is turning. There is a relationship between what you eat, how much you exercise, and what you think.

Essential Fatty Acids

Two-thirds of the brain is composed of specific kinds of fats. The two kinds of fatty acids that your body can’t manufacture and needs from food sources are the ones the brain depends on. These are the essential fatty acids (EPAs): Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) the foundation of the ”omega-3″ group of fatty acids, and Liolic acid (LA) the foundation of the “omega-6″ group of fatty acids.

These are the building blocks of brain cells. Food sources of Omega-3 (ALA) are flax seeds, chia seeds, walnuts, sea vegetables, green leafy vegetables, salmon, sardines, mackerel, trout, olive oil, grass fed beef and dairy. Linolic acid (LA) is found in expelled cold pressed oils, like sesame, primrose, flax, and others. The other sources are pumpkin seeds, avocados, poultry, cashews, acai berry, and spirulina. Many of the foods that have omega 3 contain Linoleic acid.

The brain makes docosehexaenoic acid (DHA) from (ALA) and (LA). Scientist at the National Institutes of Health has associated the increase in depression in North America with the decline of DHA. This is the most important fat for all cognitive functions.

B Vitamins

The B-complex vitamins are essential to both mental and emotional health. The B vitamins can’t be stored they depend on our daily consumption of them. They are destroyed by alcohol, refined sugar, nicotine, caffeine, and stress.

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) is used by the brain to help convert glucose into fuel, it is the primary source of energy for the brain. Deficiencies can lead to fatigue, depression, irritability anxiety, and insomnia. Simple carbohydrates such as sugar drains the supply of all B complex vitamins.

Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) aids is the processing of amino acids. the building blogs of serotonin, melatonin and dopamine. These are know as the happy hormones.

Vitamin  B12 is important in preventing Anemia, which can cause mood swings, paranoia, irritability, confusion, dementia, and depression.. Folic Acid is need for DNA sysnthesis.

Lifestyle 

With our modern lifestyle many people shouldn’t be a stranger to depression. Depression is more than genetics. This condition is more than minor worries; it is the collapse of our agriculture system. The quality of our food supply is dismal. As our nutritional foundation is giving way our mental illnesses will sky rocket. Just by looking at the rates of autism, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and bi-polar disorders you can see the hair-curling trend. This is unprecedented and is setting the stage for a boon in prescription medications.

Antibiotic resistance strains of bacteria are more than just than MRSA. Every time we turn around we meet the new kid on the block, and each time the danger escalates. Drug development seem to give superpowers to these life-threatening bacteria. The problem seems to be growing too quickly for the pharmaceutical companies. It seems that the drug companies have a working relationship with the infections. The higher the potency of the antibiotic the stronger the bacteria become.

Bacteria

As the bacteria evolve we may be heading for extinction. We live in a challenging times. Creating a way to handle this problem requires new thinking and creative solutions. Antibiotics are losing their luster. Upgrading them may further risk our health. Innovative thinking may manage this scourge better than the drug mentality.

For a society that worries about bacteria, and concentrates on making everything sterile, we seem to be a hot bed for their activity and growth. The evolution of the super bugs are in direct proportion to the aseptically filled syringes, and prescriptive filled antibiotics.

Sanitizing

This is without taking into account hand sanitizers, which are used on just about anything in arms length. The problems is going to grow too quickly unless we put a wrap on sanitizing the planet. Our commercial meat, poultry, produce and dairy supply are become a health hazard thanks to nurturing the big pharma instead of our livestock and vegetation.

Pharmacutical Problem

The pharmaceutical company has put their stamp on every aspect of our lives. This may be the point where we sound the alarm. The potential impact on the quality of our lives isn’t potential anymore, it is here. We have to stop increasingly sponsoring this way of thinking. There is a lot of pressure by consumers for big pharma to save us. This is because of the fear generated by a harmonized network of marketing by the pharmaceutical industry. All treats are either large and global or small and regional but they are all in close proximity to you, and the next blockbuster drug will save you. They may not have drug development down to a science, but they surly have consumer centered marketing down pat.

We need a partnership that gives us a reason to smile, and one that is easy to work with. There are people and companies that it would pay us to sponsor. At this point in time our dollars are sponsoring the companies that are changing the landscape of the planet for the worst.

Coriander Oil

While the scientist ponder the best preclinical drug for eradicating these supper bugs. We already have an arsenal of natural herbs, spices, and plants that can independently eradicate some of the antibiotic resistant bacteria. Case in point, researchers from the university of Beira Interior in Portugal test coriander oil against 12 bacteria strains, including Escherichia Coli, Salmonella enterica, Bacillus cereus and meticillin-resistant Staphylococuus aureaus(MRSA). All the strains showed reduced growth and most were killed by solutions containing 1.6% coriander oil or less.

The coriander oil damages the membrane surrounding the bacterial cell and its environment. This action inhibits essential processes like respiration, which ultimately leads to the destruction of the bacteria. This is without side effects, unless they manage to put it into clinical drugs. To prevent food-born illnesses, and treat antibiotic resistant infections we have to look outside of the current thinking.

Is the doctor in, I think not. Private practice has changed over the years. Now, it seems to be at an all time low. The yearly exam which all insurance companies seem to want you to get has become nothing more then a referral system. The doctor has become the pez machine of the pharmaceutical companies.

The Exam

The exam most people go for each year can be done as well at a CVS. To obtain weight, blood pressure, heart rate and temperature reading you may have to wait two hours. The stethoscope is use for all of 2 minutes.

Many people have a scale and blood pressure cuff that also measures heart rate at home. Many know what the numbers mean, and really don’t have to wait hours see them. Some of the time is used on an appointment is for to share any troubling symptoms. From that you will probably get some referrals for additional tests. Then the staff or doctor will suggest you take your yearly flu shot and check if you are up-to-date on some vaccines.

This is not supposed to be urgent care, but preventive. The troubling part is it like being on a merry-go-round that goes in an endless circle. It is a round of tests, vaccines, and medication that keeps you spinning without a safe landing. Treating symptoms by catching a condition early keeps you depending on tablets, capsules or powders. To get healthy is your choice; the optimal ranges of glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol aren’t in a pill.

Lifestyle

What people need a lifestyle make over, which will eliminate most of their troubling symptoms. As we assert control over our lives the doctor will be within us. That is the way to protect your body the leading cause of decline is to keep clear of pharmaceutical mindset.

To protect our health it is urgent that we obtain the latest information on defensive and offensive ways of living. What has happened is the doctor is out and a hands on approach from him is going down the drain. The motto seems to be send the patient on to every specialist, who in turn can use all diagnostic tools at his disposal. Then give the patient an amply supply of drugs to address the possible condition.

What the current breed of doctor don’t seem to realize is the latest pharmaceutical formula doesn’t address the cause, just the symptom. Being compliant will not overhaul your health. It may help manage symptoms until you overhaul your life.

Interesting Take on The Way Many Doctor’s Think