Diet and Depression
First of all, I need to explain that the closest I've gotten to Harvard's medical school is to take the walking tour of Harvard.
In other words, I don't have a medical degree.
So when I talk about diet and depression, it is purely experiential, not scientific.
When I was fifteen years old, I reacted to some severe stresses in my life by binge eating on sugar, often consuming a quart of ice cream for breakfast, five or six candy bars between breakfast and lunch, several bottles of soda during the day, and a box of graham crackers for lunch piled high with jelly and peanut butter.
After a whole summer of this, my mind and mood became severely compromised.
By the time I returned to school, concentration had gone and academics suffered as a result.
I've since learned that heavy sugar consumption brought me to a new low in terms of mental health.
I now enjoy really high levels of mental stamina due to counseling support, elimination of sugar from my diet, a strongly alkalarian food regimen, thyroid support and vitamins, minerals, amino acids, adrenal and hormone support and the addition of iodine supplements to my vitamin cocktail.
According to Doctor Linus Pauling, serious vitamin deficiencies can lead to depression and psychosis.
Orthomolecular psychiatrists have speculated that replacement of these vital elements may reduce psychotic symptoms, as happened with me, and may improve depression in some people.
Readers, I'm really encouraging you to lend your comments on both alternative and medical means of maintaining a healthy state of mind and overcoming depression.
In other words, I don't have a medical degree.
So when I talk about diet and depression, it is purely experiential, not scientific.
When I was fifteen years old, I reacted to some severe stresses in my life by binge eating on sugar, often consuming a quart of ice cream for breakfast, five or six candy bars between breakfast and lunch, several bottles of soda during the day, and a box of graham crackers for lunch piled high with jelly and peanut butter.
After a whole summer of this, my mind and mood became severely compromised.
By the time I returned to school, concentration had gone and academics suffered as a result.
I've since learned that heavy sugar consumption brought me to a new low in terms of mental health.
I now enjoy really high levels of mental stamina due to counseling support, elimination of sugar from my diet, a strongly alkalarian food regimen, thyroid support and vitamins, minerals, amino acids, adrenal and hormone support and the addition of iodine supplements to my vitamin cocktail.
According to Doctor Linus Pauling, serious vitamin deficiencies can lead to depression and psychosis.
Orthomolecular psychiatrists have speculated that replacement of these vital elements may reduce psychotic symptoms, as happened with me, and may improve depression in some people.
Readers, I'm really encouraging you to lend your comments on both alternative and medical means of maintaining a healthy state of mind and overcoming depression.
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