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Self Care Via Nutrition - An Anti-Antidepressant Approach

Mem Lang 2/19/162:09 PM

Whilst I'm not promoting this book, I am trusting Chris Kresser, a 'functional nutritionist', in his 'endorsement' of Dr Kelly Brogan, to a degree at least. It was Chris Kresser who really started a conversation years ago about gut health, way before the mainstream medical cohort were embracing it. As to a Paleo diet, it's fraught with contentious toing and froing of its benefits, or lack thereof. Depends who you listen to! Chris Kresser seems to have a more nuanced approach to Paleo...

Anyway, I thought it was worth just looking at, as nutrition is part of what makes us healthy. But I believe that it is the feeling of taking control that is the most pertinent feature of one's health. Self care can be so lacking in people with high ACEs, etc. Bothering to care and be proactive can be a challenge. The 1 in 4 ration of women taking antidepressants that don't necessarily help, also encourages one to look elsewhere.

Though it focuses on women, I don't see why most wouldn't apply to men as well.

I hope this is seen as somewhat relevant! Part of the Toolkit of wellness - maybe!

http://kellybroganmd.com/

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Mem LangMember

And yes Leckey, lots of water!

2/22/1612:04 AM

Mem LangMember

Yes, Cissy. No harm in trying things out of mainstream ideas if it makes sense. Personally I've never been able to stay on one of these type of diets, but have always felt good eating more wholesome food. I try to use the adage: would someone 200 years ago recognise this as food?!

There's a big push by some of the functional medicine people to get people to try these ways of eating to ensure against, decrease or at least halt deterioration of the auto immune response, that is caused by stress/trauma/high ACEs.

Chris Kresser had Crohn's disease, which is how he started out. Researching for answers where there didn't seem to be any...

We know anti-depressants often don't work, so...

Haven't actually read the book myself - it's just been released I think. I was interested in the concept and her website has quite a few links...

2/22/1612:02 AM

Christine Cissy WhiteIt's not trauma-informed unless it's informed by trauma survivors.

Hi Mem,

I don't know anything about this particular book or author but I'm a big fan of functional medicine and how my own functional medicine person addresses toxic childhood stress in adults. Thanks for sharing!

Cissy

2/21/169:23 AM

Leckey HarrisonMember

I agree that nutrition is important. I find that people don't drink enough water, and consume too much sugar and caffeine in drinks, and that only keeps the adrenal system activated as well as hosing the glucose/insulin system, already exacerbated by constant stress. It is however, the last place I go when dealing with traumatized people. I have discovered that if they start with a modality that releases the trauma, and teaches self-regulation, the self-regulation will spread to other areas on it's own.

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