Depression… hormones or brain chemistry?
It is sad to hear so many accounts in our clinics of how episodes of depression have blighted great chunks of our patients’ lives.
There are often tears because it’s a shock and relief all rolled into one, to finally shed some light on past experiences while getting a better understanding of how our bodies got in that state. Sad because what all too often turn out to be simple blockages of chemical pathways, have resulted in symptoms that have had a major impact on whole families - depression, suicidal tendencies, infertility, ovarian cancer - just because a few little breakdown reactions could not happen, leaving an imbalance of hormones.
We have been very moved to witness the realisation for some that if they had not been treated heavily with medications such as Lithium, giving horrendous tremours, and drastic treatments, even electric shock treatments, instead of some simple hormone rebalancing, their memories of their past would have been a lot less tangled.
When anxiety or depression shows up during our testing, we look hard to see exactly where the chemistry is blocked in connection with those problems. The body is intricately designed to be well. The many enzymes involved in making and breaking down different substances in our bodies, so that we have what we need to do all the various jobs in our body, are very specific in their needs. They like to have the right acid/alkali environment, the right vitamins and minerals - or they go on strike! And people get a whole range of symptoms, from weight gain to blood sugar problems, spots and migraines, painful periods, terrible tempers, hot flushes as well as anxiety and depression. Take your pick.
It is amazing to think that so many conditions may have a common cause or two; the lack of the right environmental factors for our friends the enzymes to do their job description. So it’s not surprising that people we put on vitamin B12 for example, or zinc or buffered vitamin C, find it hard to believe that it can be all they need. No wonder they struggle with the idea after years of swallowing 10 to 20 different tablets A DAY in some cases to be told that not only will two or so remedies cover all those issues but could after a short time actually correct the problem and no longer be needed!
It’s not just the patients that have to learn to accept new ideas and possibilities about healing. The doctors it seem need quite a stretch to stop shouting “Placebo!” and “No written evidence… clinical trials… we don’t accept anecdotal evidence..”
Well, you and we all are the anecdotal bit rejected by much of the mainstream medical establishment -although perhaps we could ask our doctors, who call alternative medicine success stories “placebo”, while documenting in numerous clinical studies the evidence of “the placebo effect”, one simple question: How come people notice improvements often after short periods on “our placebo side effect free remedies” while they often don’t get better and often get worse after the pharmaceutical doctors hand out placebos?
But if a treatment approach by doctors with medicines has not solved the problem (such as depression and inability to cope) without bad side effects such as memory loss, severe tremours, anxiety - to quote our clinic patients just this week - could they not actively seek to treat other aspects of the biochemical balance, such as hormones, instead.
Please do contact us or look on our events page for details of our “STRICTLY HORMONES” talk and demo – and invite anyone you feel is affected by any of the issues in this post or the list of typical complaints on our website. There may only be a few nutrients or minerals in the way to feeling much better in yourself.
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