These Special Omega-3s Beat Depression

Over the years, I’ve seen an increasing number of patients at my wellness clinic suffering from depression – many without even knowing it. This terrible rise is a reflection of a growing epidemic of depression that’s happening all over the Western world. Depression is often hard to diagnose, because the individual symptoms often point to so many other things. Psychiatrists often talk about chemical imbalances in the brain – as if they really know what the right balance should be. They don’t. In fact, they’re guessing. And it’s hard to calculate the very real impact of spending every weekday with an aggressive employer, working at a job you hate, or the rage you might feel after a two-hour commute, or the financial stress you and your family may be under, or the media pressure to act this way or look that way. The psychiatrist’s answer is always the same – write a prescription for some addictive Big Pharma opiate or a benzodiazepine, like Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin, and then move on to the next patient who needs to be “numbed.” One in 10 Americans now takes an antidepressant medication. And among women in their 40s and 50s, the figure is one in four. Many people have been taking these scary and addictive meds for decades and they’re causing untold damage to their brain, liver, let alone the rest of the body – and all with the blessing of their physician and psychiatrist. Meanwhile, the latest statistics reveal th...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Brain Health Nutrition antioxidant astaxanthin depression DHA EPA krill oil omega-3 fatty acids suicide Source Type: news