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Depression-Free and Gluten-Free diet

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  • 18-12-2009 10:16am
    #1
    jenortega
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    mod edit

    please dont advise people to drastically alter their diet without seeking medical advice

    also please dont dismiss medical advice and tell people to use "common sense" instead


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    Graces7
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    Does not surprise at all; wish more would look at diet rather than think these things are psychological. Mind and body are interwoven.


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    Wibbs
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    Diet may have a role to play. Their has been some research that shows Vit D in concert with anti depressants(SSRIs) increases the effect of the latter. Even vit D on its own http://www.cma.ca/multimedia/staticContent/HTML/N0/l2/jpn/vol-34/issue-1/pdf/pg3.pdf Groups whose diets are high in vit D seem to show lesser risk of depression, but that could have so many co factors too.

    Ditto with the hunter gatherer stone age diet. They had/have a much more varied diet than the farmers that replaced them and more than the average westerner. Again such groups have lower depression rates. Much lower according to some research. Again they have other factors at play. Closer knit societies, defined roles and support, more physical exercise, regular hours in concert with the day and seasons, less marital breakdown, lower social pressures, more deeply entwined spiritual lives. So if there is an effect, diet would be but one part of it. People have a tendency to extrapolate too far IMHO.

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    jenortega
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭jenortega


    Thank you for the mod edit - You're right. Understood.

    And thanks Wibbs and Graces7 - That's really interesting Wibbs about the Stone age diet and the vitamin D. :)


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    #5
    jenortega
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭jenortega


    Wibbs - I just had a look at a hunter-gather-like diet, the paleo diet. I have been reading the success stories regarding the relief from depression on the official website, which is remarkable. The paleo diet removes all grains from the diet, which I have done, as I noticed corn was also triggering depression.


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