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 REPPED: The FDA has now approved a patch for depression. Slap one of these patches on your skin, and a slow dose of mind-altering drugs is slowly absorbed into your blood. This approval, of course, comes from the same federal agency that claims skin care and cosmetic products containing toxic chemicals aren't dangerous because the skin doesn't actually absorb anything.
Like most drugs, the approval of this patch for depression is based on the absolutely loony (and scientifically dishonest) idea that depression is caused by a lack of synthetic chemicals circulating in the brain. |
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 Omega-3 Fish Oils
Principal use: To relieve depression, bipolar disorder, poor memory, impulsiveness, hostility, and physical aggressiveness, and improve thinking processes.
What else you should know: The omega-3s are among the most healthful of all dietary fats. They are needed for normal brain development in infants and children and for normal brain function in adults. Omega-3s are found in salad greens, flaxseed, grass-fed meats, and coldwater fish, such as salmon. |
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 Facts like depression actually causes osteoporosis. Or that if you take enough SSRI drugs, you'll reverse bone loss (even though all the women taking those drugs have the lowest levels of bone density). Or how about the fact that ADHD is a "real" disease requiring treatment with amphetamine stimulants? Or that sunlight will kill you?
There are all sorts of idiot "facts" promoted by the mainstream media today. What's truly hilarious in all this is that Big Pharma and the FDA claim their pharmaceutical system of medicine is entirely "evidence based. |
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| Like most drugs, the approval of this patch for depression is based on the absolutely loony (and scientifically dishonest) idea that depression is caused by a lack of synthetic chemicals circulating in the brain. All disease is just a matter of chemical deficiency, according to Big Pharma and the FDA. And if all Americans just had all the right chemicals pumped into their bodies (at several thousand dollars a month in prescription drug costs, by the way), we'd all be healthy and pain free!
The side effects of this drug, of course, are only found in the small print. |
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| The idea that a nutrient like vitamin D -- available free of charge from sunlight -- might actually prevent depression, osteoporosis and cancer all at the same time is downright horrifying to conventional medicine. How would doctors, hospitals and drug companies handle the loss of tens of millions of revenue-generating patients if people suddenly learned the truth about vitamin D and started preventing all three of these diseases at home, without a prescription, and without paying any fees whatsoever?
Conventional medicine doesn't like to admit that sunlight has any healing powers whatsoever. |
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The problems with modern medicine and the mainstream media
This reporting about the link between depression and osteoporosis brings up several important concerns:
1. The medical community is incapable of identifying the common nutritional causes behind correlated diseases, even when those causes should be obvious.
2. The mainstream media is incapable of accurate scientific reporting on the nutritional causes of disease.
3. Both mainstream journalists and medical researchers remain nutritionally ignorant.
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| Next, they believe that antidepressant drugs relieve the symptoms of depression.
Therefore, in their little distorted brains, they believe that taking antidepressant drugs may reverse osteoporosis!
It's nothing short of astonishing. Did these people actually make it through medical school? Did they fail logic class? How on earth did they leap to this ridiculous conclusion? And just as importantly, how did all the journalists working for U.S. News and World Report (and other mainstream media sources) take this quote seriously and not even question the basic logic assumption behind all this? |
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 Hawkins was not reported to have been taking medications at the precise time of the shooting, but his caretaker, Debora Maruca-Kovac, said that "he had been treated in the past for depression and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder." We do not know exactly which drugs Hawkins had been treated with in the past, and we hope the names of those drugs will surface in future reports on this tragedy. |
| The psychiatric industry, though, thinks that yet MORE children need "treatment" with drugs for ADHD and depression. In fact, an industry press release recently claimed that only one-third of those children "suffering" from ADHD are receiving appropriate "treatment" for the condition. Of course, those are just code words for "drugging the children with high-profit pharmaceuticals." When the psychiatric authorities say "treatment," what they mean is "more drugging."
Want to learn the horrifying, yet true, history of modern psychiatry? Check out www.CCHR. |
| Because the shooter, Robert Hawkins, had a history of being "treated" for both depression and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). (Source: Associated Press)
And what is the standard American psychiatric "treatment" for these conditions? Mind-altering drugs, of course.
ADHD, for example, is treated with a drug that used to be an illegal street drug called "speed. |
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| While depression is a common problem that can be addressed through safe alternative therapies, people suffer from many other mood and behavioral problems that make life difficult for them and the people in their lives. In The Food-Mood Solution, I tackle a variety of these more common mood problems, including
• Anger and hostile behavior
• Tension and anxiety
• Irritability and impatience
• Impulsive and distractible habits
• Fatigue and fuzzy thinking
• Stress and sleep problems
• Alcohol and drug abuse
This book is different from all the other food-mood books in another important way. |
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| So instead, they report, "Depression Causes Osteoporosis" and somewhere in the story they repeat the quote from the researchers claiming that taking antidepressant drugs might actually reverse osteoporosis!
Why are there so many idiots in medicine and the media today?
Sometimes, I'm just so astonished at the lack of intelligent thought in medicine and the media that I wonder if I've somehow been teleported to Planet of the Idiots where stupid people run everything. When I've said things like this in the past, some readers have complained that I'm sounding arrogant. |
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| They have pointed out that various symptoms, such as irritability, depression, muscle pain, migraines and other types of headaches, and even flulike symptoms, can be triggered when people miss their caffeine fix.
The increasing consumption of caffeine led to yet another problem: not only were people sleeping less, but they were also sleeping less rest-fully. Sugary foods and irregular and late-evening meals compounded the problem, exacerbating morning hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and hyperglycemia (elevated blood sugar) and making it more difficult to get out of bed. |
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| Note that the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine makes absolutely no causal relationship between depression and osteoporosis. It only points out a correlation. Leaping to the conclusion that one disease actually causes another disease is a common error of intellectually challanged journalists who have no understanding of basic logic or the difference between causation and correlation. The truth is that many news reports that claim one disease "causes" another are blatantly wrong: Most of these correlated diseases simple have a common root cause. |
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| It may have some benefits in posttraumatic depression and anxiety.
What else you should know: Magnesium plays a role in more than three hundred enzymatic reactions in the body, influencing heart rate, muscle tone, bone density, labor, and the risk of headaches. Muscle spasms, charley horses, and restless legs syndrome are often signs of magnesium deficiency.
The mineral is essential for relaxing muscles. Your heart is a muscle, and it pumps blood by repeatedly contracting and relaxing. Its contraction depends in part on calcium, whereas relaxation requires magnesium. |
| In addition, low levels of dopamine are often found in people with sleep disorders, apathy, depression, and increased sensitivity to pain.
Type of neurotransmitter. Usually stimulating, occasionally calming.
Nutritional building blocks. To make L-dopa, the precursor to dopamine, the body uses the amino acid tyrosine, along with folic acid, vitamin B6, magnesium, zinc, and S-adenosyl-L-methionine (a vitaminlike compound also known as SAMe).
Norepinephrine (Noradrenaline)
What it does. |
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| Yet here in the United States -- the capitol of gun violence by kids on depression drugs -- the FDA and drug companies pretend that mind-altering drugs have no link whatsoever to behavior.
Enormous evidence linking mind-altering drugs with violent acts
In 2005, I reported on this site that Eli Lilly had full knowledge of a 1200% increase in suicide risk for takers of their Prozac drug, a popular anti-depressant SSRI medication. (See http://www.newstarget.com/003086. |
| Those lacking keen observation skills are quick to blame guns for this tragedy, but others who are familiar with the history of such violent acts by young males instantly recognize a more sinister connection: A history of treatment with psychiatric drugs for depression and ADHD.
It all started in Columbine, Colorado, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold massacred their way into the history books on April 20, 1999 by killing 12 and wounding 23 people. |
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 The drug companies have no reason to tell people they can eliminate depression through phototherapy or by eating flax seeds, walnuts, fish oils and molasses. They want people to think the only solution is a chemical solution; that if you have a symptom, you need a drug.
And surprisingly, many people believe just that. I have seen perfectly healthy individuals believe some diagnosis of depression, and walk around popping Prozac pills every couple of hours. I ask them, "Why are you taking these drugs?" And they say, "My doctor told me to. |
| John's Wort, a medicinal herb frequently blamed by conventional medicine for interfering with prescription drugs, is more effective than a popular antidepressant drug in treating depression. The study found that the herb is actually much more effective than antidepressant drugs, since more than half of those taking St. John's Wort in the trial experienced improvements in symptoms of mental depression. Conversely, only 1/3 of those taking the popular antidepressant drug showed such improvements. |
| However, if you are in search of a way to treat your depression, it is always much better to eliminate the depression at its source, rather than try to mask its symptoms with a drug or an herb. Many people tend to use St. John's Wort and other herbs in an allopathic fashion, which means they attempt to counter a disease or symptom with a chemical, regardless of whether that chemical comes from a plant or a prescription drug. Using medicinal herbs or prescription drugs in such a way is really not a healthy way to treat symptoms, disorders or diseases. |
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| These include high blood pressure if you happen to eat anything containing tyramine, a dietary compound that is incompatible with most depression drugs. Those foods include cheese and smoked meats. Giving up cheese depresses a lot of people all by itself, thereby creating demand for even more depression drugs. Clever gimmick, eh?
McDonald's finds more trans fats in french fries
McDonald's has just "discovered" its french fries contain far more trans fats than previously thought. |
| Like most drugs, the approval of this patch for depression is based on the absolutely loony (and scientifically dishonest) idea that depression is caused by a lack of synthetic chemicals circulating in the brain. All disease is just a matter of chemical deficiency, according to Big Pharma and the FDA. And if all Americans just had all the right chemicals pumped into their bodies (at several thousand dollars a month in prescription drug costs, by the way), we'd all be healthy and pain free!
The side effects of this drug, of course, are only found in the small print. |
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| One in five people will suffer from serious depression or bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder. One in every eight people will abuse alcohol or drugs.
A separate study, also in the Archives of General Psychiatry, reported that slightly more than 9 percent of American adults currently have serious mood disorders, and another 11 percent have clear-cut anxiety disorders. These percentages add up to a frightening 42 million adults, equivalent to the combined populations of New York, Illinois, Oregon, Colorado, and Connecticut. Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D. |
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 When that market was saturated, drug companies began selling the idea that antidepressants were "happy pills," suitable for use in not merely serious depression states, but even as "depression prevention!" (So-called "early intervention," where you use antidepressant drugs in perfectly healthy people in order to "prevent" depression from appearing.) This was a major breakthrough for Big Pharma: Now they could sell drugs to healthy people and were no longer limited to merely selling drugs to the sick.
When that market was saturated, they went after the children. |
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 It is this molasses that's normally sent off to be used in livestock feed, and yet what we're finding here with this research is that this molasses can help prevent depression. Eating molasses is part of a food strategy that's just as good as antidepressant drugs. |
| All of this also goes to show why people who pursue healthy diets tend to have such a positive outlook and outstanding mental health -- it's the foods, stupid, because the food greatly affects your mental state, and if you eat healing foods, and foods rich in vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, then you're going to have healthy mental function and will probably never experience depression, especially if you combine these foods with natural sunlight. |
| By the way, the news of the healing potential of these foods and the fact that these foods can treat depression better than antidepressant drugs may be new to the general public and conventional medical doctors, but it's old news to those in the fields of holistic nutrition and natural health. This has been known for a very long time. We know that eating nuts and molasses and getting good nutrition greatly affects mental health. |
| And of course I'll include depression in that book, and I'll be talking about molasses, nuts, fish oils, and wheat germ. So the answers for these diseases are really right in front of us every single day. And if you're willing to take one step further and actually visit a health food store or a natural grocery store, then you can find even more healing foods. You can bring in even better nutrition and more potent phytochemicals for preventing these chronic diseases. |
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