Ive commented on depression many times here.

You are not lacking a synthetic chemical.

Pull any number of nutrient building blocks out of your diet and you will get depressed or develope other types of mood disorders.

We know that ascorbic acid, (vitamin c) converts the amino acids,
L- tyrosine and L-tryptophan to form seratonin.

You must understand Pharmacuetical companies cannot copy or patent these naturally occuring compounds and molecules or amino acids. They can only create drugs that mimic their effects. They make it sound as if depression is a great mystery to be solved by "research".

There are humanitarian scientists and there are profit motivated scientists.

You will find this pattern of mimic and copying many times over in other substances as well.

So what is more profitable, to sell you a mimic product or tell you what to consume to alleviate the problem?

Modern man has drifted away from his ancient paleo diets of fish and is now consuming more trash from the commerical food industry responsible for a lot of these nutrient deficiencies that in turn lead to these mental states.

You dont find nearly as many mental conditions in parts of the world like Japan as you do in the States. Because they consume more fish.

Fish oil is very important for a number of mental states including depression, shcitzophrenia, post pardom depression and bi-polar.

Just use your search box. (fish oil depression). You will find tons of well founded scientific backed research to support this. Many times supplemental fish oil works by itself. These are the scientists who are responsible and understand that these mood states are indeed dietary defiencies.

I posted a link a while back to an article from a scientist who did studies for Physciatric Times. Fish oil was all he used and showed amazing results.

So there are several approaches to natural remedies for depression.

Fall and winter are well known to be depression seasons due to the lack of vitamin D/D-3 synthesizing in the skin which then processes other vitamins in the body for depression. The lack of sunshine in these months causes depression.

This is why its important to supplement dry form D/D-3 in the fall and winter and in spring and summer to get 20 minutes of 50% full body exposure to the sun three times a week.

The problems with pharm drugs is there is a ton of side effects that go with these drugs. Some block vital nutrients in the body and cause more unrelated problems. Sexual side effects and lack of libido is common. Who wants that?

I would say make sure your getting adequate protien so you are derriving the amino acids, L-tryptophan/L-tyrosine from that protien. Turkey for example.

Supplement with 2-5 grams of ascorbic acid, 4 times a day to keep plasma levels constant as it is water soluble and quickly eliminated. Supplement with fish oil capsules EPA only not DHA. DHA can actually worsen it. As long as the EPA to DHA ratio is very low in the mix it is ok, meaning DHA is very low.

This is far healthier and far cheaper and far more effective at curing insteading of covering up the problem of deficiency.


Here is a link with other approaches.

http://www.healingwithnutrition.com/...ips/blues.html



Have a good one.