Vitamin D in low levels may lead to depression among older people
According to a recent study in the Archives of General Psychiatry, soaking in plenty of sunshine and drinking lots of milk could help you ward off depression early in your life. Vitamin D (the sunsh ...
Major Depressive Disorder
I am a person, a unique complex individual. My diagnosis does not define who I am. It only describes some of the things that I experience. Major depressive disorder is one way to describe how I feel ...
Anti-depressants, Side-Effects, and Alternatives
Side effects associated with synthetic antidepressants range from aggravating ones, such as constipation and cotton mouth, to more serious problems such as impotence, irregular heart rhythm, and extr ...
Be your own drug pusher..... exercise
Two groundbreaking books are taking the exercise community by storm... "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" (by John Ratey) and "The Athlete's Way: Sweat and the Biology of ...
Human babesiosis?an unrecorded reality
Absence of formal registry undermines its detection, diagnosis and treatment, suggesting need for immediate mandatory reporting
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Yoga and Depression
According to researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine, yoga postures and the deep, controlled breathing associated with yoga might help to ease anxiety and depression. Brain scans of ...
Diabetes and Depression May Be Linked
According to a recent report from the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, depression can up the chance of contracting diabetes among older people. Researcher Mercedes Carnethon, an a ...
Depression Leads to Worse Overall Health
Recent studies suggest that depression has a much greater impact on one's overall health than arthritis, diabetes, angina, and asthma. However, it's a disorder that often goes unrecognized and thus, ...
Fatty acid tied to depression and inflammation
The imbalance of fatty acids in the typical American diet could be associated with the sharp increase in heart disease and depression seen over the past century, a new study suggests.
Specifically, t ...
Depression and Digestion
I don't know about anybody else but I've noticed that when I go through periods of extreme stress or depression, my digestive system gets all out of whack. I know a lot of people have problems with o ...