What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe role of emotional and psychological development in IBD has become increasingly relegated to the role of symptom rather than cause. Many sufferers and practitioners are reluctant to raise the i ...
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Although a deficiency of virtually any nutrient can cause depression, the most pronounced varieties are caused by deficiencies in vitamin C, biotin, vitamin B12, folic acid, niacin (B3), pantothenic acid (B5), pyridoxine (B6) and thiamine (B1) (L...
JUST AS THEY'RE ABOUT TO BAN 'EM, PART II: Supplements improve antisoc
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Not only is cognitive therapy (CT) free from the potential side-effects of antidepressants, it also brings longer-lasting benefits. One study looking at relapse rates with severe depression found that those who had stopped medication were more...
Sadness, isolation and loneliness can cause heart attacks. In one study in San Francisco and another in Eastern Finland, of the 20,000 people observed for up to nine years, those who were lonely ...
There's a certain machismo attached to psychiatry. Friendly counselling may be fine when you have a patient with mild depression, but cases of severe depression need drugs, and quickly, goes the line.
Enough studies have been published to establish, beyond any doubt, the connection between the mind and the body. Our thoughts, moods and attitude have such an influence over our bodily health that it seems extraordinary that doctors persist with an...
Regular readers of this bulletin won't be surprised to hear that modern medicine is governed by the pharmaceutical industry, and that doctors have been reduced to being drugs deliverymen. Doctors have been so brow-beaten by medical school that their...
