Where exactly did you get your information from regarding brain inflammation as being the cause of depression?
According to the forbes list of depression rates/countries, Nigeria comes out as the lowest rate of depression amongst the countries surveyed. The USA comes out at the top of the list. Do these Nigerians take omega 3 and magnesium supplements i wonder, I wouldn't assume they would be deficient in vitamin d?
The whole theory regarding nutritional deficiencies, neurotransmitters, low serotonin as the cause of depression is a hypothesis. The only drawback to this neat sounding theory is that it is almost completely unsupported by empirical evidence or scientific studies.
Why would cognitive behaviour therapy, distraction therapy, psychotherapy all be effective in treating anxiety and depression if there were such a nutritional deficiency or chemical imbalance?????
This whole theory reminds me of when I started the Atkins 13 years ago and how everyone forced their views on me about how eating all this fat would make me fat and how I'm more likely to get heart disease and a heart attack. How wrong were they.
Dont get me wrong, I do believe in nutritional deficiencies, but believing one size fits all shoes isn't viable as each individual persons depression is unique, and from what I have researched, it's far from nutritional deficiencies as a cause, it's more to do with environmental factors what contribute to a persons state of mind, which creates thought patterns that then become habitual.
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Originally Posted by Hutchinson
Show me a depressed person who is NOT vitamin D omega 3 or magnesium deficient.
It's inevitably the case that people who are deficient in one or all of those natural anti inflammatory agents will suffer more inflammation than is normal and eventually inflammation in the brain will cause damage that will present a depression.
Ensure all depressed people have magnesium,
Vitamin D3
and omega 3 deficiency states corrected almost always leads to an improvement in symptoms of depression.
Ideally as vitamin D3 omega 3 and magnesium work together in synergy better than individually it is more effective to correct all at the same time rather than trying to correct each separately.
Depression is a state where there is brain inflammation.
The idea that people who have deficiency states in natural anti inflammatory agents will not at some point in their lives eventually become depressed is frankly a load of boll*cks. You need the neuroprotection vitamin D, magnesium and omega 3 provide, if you choose to do without it eventually you will suffer the consequences. |