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| DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY Welcome to www.nutritionhelp.com. Did you know that depression and anxiety can often be helped by Nutritional Therapy? In my clinical practice, I have seen it happen time and time again - and now you can receive tailor-made advice online from www.nutritionhelp.com! My name is Erica White. I’m Nutritional Director of Nutritionhelp, and also a Fellow of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition and an Honorary Fellow of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy. I have now retired from clinical practice, but we have set up an online Questionnaire and Report system which can give you all the advice you need, with an optional facility to have contact with one of our associate team of qualified Nutritionists. I’m going to answer a few questions about depression and anxiety which I hope might be helpful to you. Q. What would you say to people who think that depression is solely a mental illness and that it’s caused by things like bereavement or redundancy – in other words that there’s no reason to think there could be a connection with nutrition? So often it isn’t realised that depression or anxiety can have a cause which is actually entirely physical, and which therefore can be helped by Nutritional Therapy. In fact, there are several common physical causes, and if the underlying factor can be discovered, it can then be tackled with specific nutritional steps, and in the meantime the unpleasant symptoms can often be alleviated by herbal or nutritional supplements. Q. What are some examples of possible physical causes? Well, both depression and anxiety can frequently be caused by an unsuspected allergic reaction – either to a food or to an environmental substance - in which case it is not only possible to take natural supplements with antihistamine effects but it is also frequently possible to sort out the underlying cause of the reaction. Many years before I became a Nutritional Therapist, I discovered that I had a severe reaction to potatoes – and their effect was to give me really morbid depression which lasted for about five days! I’m quite certain that very few people would ever dream that the common potato might be the cause of their depression or panic attacks. Q. Do you have any more examples of a physical connection with depression or anxiety? Yes, plenty! Either of these symptoms can be caused by hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar), or by an imbalance in histamine levels or hormone levels (as in PMS or the menopause), or by exhausted adrenal glands or an inefficient thyroid gland. Another very common cause of depression is sinusitis, and also flu or any other type of virus infection. Even certain types of artificial sweetener are known to cause depression, and probably one of the least suspected culprits is the contraceptive pill. With each of these situations there is a basic underlying requirement to achieve an optimal nutritional status, so this is where Nutritional Therapy comes in. Q. Is it possible for Nutritional Therapy to help post-natal depression? It is indeed! Post-natal depression is commonly caused by a deficiency of zinc. During pregnancy and when giving birth, there’s an increase in copper levels which leads to a drop in zinc. Iron supplements also reduce zinc levels, so the scene is set for a zinc-deficiency problem of depression. Taking an appropriate supplement programme containing zinc during pregnancy can help to avoid this syndrome, and if taken after the birth, it has been found to help overcome depression surprisingly quickly. Q. In your experience, has there been one major physical cause of emotional problems? Yes, there has. There’s an extremely common condition called yeast infection, or Candidiasis. It’s an overgrowth of the common yeast, Candida albicans, which is reckoned to affect one in three people in the Western world to a greater or lesser extent. It causes all sorts of physical problems, but it also leads to mental or emotional problems like depression, anxiety, irritability, mood swings or panic attacks. This is because it releases a great many toxins into the bloodstream (no less than 79 have been identified), and these toxins cause unpleasant effects on the brain. In my experience, a great many people suffering from depression or anxiety or other emotional problems have been surprised to see how their symptoms improved when they followed a nutritional anti-candida regime. Q. So what would you say to someone who is looking for answers to any type of mental/emotional problem for which they can find no obvious explanation? If you haven’t considered it before, you may well find that appropriate Nutritional Therapy could be very helpful. Of course, we can make no claims for you as an individual, but we can say that many people have seen significant improvement. If you have an online report from www.nutritionhelp.com, it will tell you about various optional supplements which can help to relieve your symptoms while you are tackling the root cause. Maybe you would like to register for an online report. A detailed Questionnaire enables you to be provided with personalised advice based on my clinical experience over nearly twenty years. For just £47 you will receive an extremely detailed report giving tailor-made nutritional advice to help you on your road to recovery. Read how the system works on www.nutritionhelp.com/quest_more.php. Register now for an online Questionnaire on www.nutritionhelp.com. I wish you well! Erica White, Dip.ION, FBANT
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