YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

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“In one study, supplementation with vitamin K reduced symptoms of these mental health problems but also normalized blood glucose levels. High levels of blood sugar can increase the risk of various health problems, including anxiety.”

All You Need To Know About Vitamin K - Ben's Natural Health

Vitamin K is important for blood coagulation and other functions in the body. The two main forms of this micronutrient are vitamins K1 and K2.

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“Higher dietary vitamin K intake was significantly associated with a lower presence of depressive symptoms, also after accounting for potential confounders, suggesting a role for this vitamin in the prevention and treatment of depressed mood.”

The Relationship between Dietary Vitamin K and Depressive Symptoms in Late Adulthood: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from a Large Cohort Study

Few studies assessed the associations between dietary vitamin K and depressive symptoms. We aimed to investigate the association between dietary vitamin K and depressive symptoms in a large cohort of North American People. In this cross-sectional analysis, ...

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“Birds have a higher metabolic rate than mammals of the same size, and live longer. Their tissues contain fewer of the highly unsaturated fatty acids. Queen bees, which live many times longer than worker bees, have mainly monounsaturated fats in their tissues, while the tissues of the short-lived worker bees, receiving a different diet, within a couple of weeks of hatching will contain highly unsaturated fats.” -Ray Peat

 

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“The problem is in the history of psychosis as a medical idea. About 100 years ago, attempts were made to classify psychoses by their symptoms, unifying a great variety of old diagnostic categories into two groups, manic-depressive mood disorders, and “dementia praecox,” or schizophrenia, which (as indicated by its name, premature dementia) was considered to be progressive and incurable. Several kinds of mental disorder were found to have clear causes, including vitamin deficiencies and various poisons and infections, but the idea of a certain thing called schizophrenia still persists.

The unitary concept of psychosis grew up in a culture in which “endogenous insanity” was a “hereditary taint,” that for a time was “treated” by imprisonment, and that more recently has been treated with sterilization or euthanasia to eliminate the “insanity genes.”

The idea that the disease is “in the genes” now serves the drug industry well, since they offer chemicals that will correct the specific “chemical error.”’ -Ray Peat

 

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‘The idea that the brain is like a computer, and that the nerves are like wires and switches, is behind all of the theories about transmitter substances and synapses. If this metaphor about the nature of the brain and the organism is fundamentally wrong, then the theories of schizophrenia based on nerve transmitter substances can hardly be right. Another theory of schizophrenia based on the computer metaphor has to do with the idea that nerve cells’ wire-like and switch-like functions depend on their membranes, and, in the most popular version, that these all-important membranes are made of fish oil. The supporting evidence is supposed to be that the fish-oil-like fatty acids are depleted from the tissues of schizophrenics. Just looking at that point, the “evidence” is more likely to be the result of stress, which depletes unsaturated fatty acids, especially of the specified type, in producing lipid peroxides and other toxic molecules.

In one of its variations, the “essential fatty acid deficiency” doctrine suggests that a certain prostaglandin deficiency is the cause of schizophrenia, but experiments have shown that an excess of that prostaglandin mimics the symptoms of psychosis.” -Ray Peat

 

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“A healthy gut contributes to a strong immune system, heart health, brain health, improved mood, healthy sleep, and an effective digestion system. If you don't cleanse the gut, you may experience mood swings, fatigue, constipation, insomnia, allergies, and much more.”

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“However, other researchers — specifically, Dr. Rodney Ford, author of The Gluten Syndrome — have hypothesized that gluten exerts a direct depressive influence on your brain chemistry, independent of malabsorption resulting from intestinal damage. Dr. Ford believes gluten is responsible for depression both in people with celiac and in people with non-celiac gluten sensitivity.3 In fact, his hypothesis of a direct effect would explain why so many people — both celiac and gluten-sensitive — experience short, predictable bouts of depression whenever they've been glutened, even if they didn't ingest enough gluten to cause lasting intestinal damage.”

“In fact, I've heard from several people that they feel incredibly depressed, weepy and even suicidal if they've been badly glutened, only to have those feelings dissipate quickly, frequently within a few hours, as the glutening seems to wear off.”

Is Gluten Why You're Depressed?

Gluten can cause depression in people with celiac disease and gluten sensitivity. Read on to learn what research has to say about this link.

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“If you are already taking a collagen supplement and have found no impact on your mood, continue but keep this information tucked away for a later date should you need to evaluate a period of low mood and what may have contributed to it.

If you have been taking it and have been feeling unusually low, you may wish to explore whether the collagen has been a contributing factor – simply stop your supplementation and note if you start to feel more yourself again.”

Collagen 101: Low Mood, Anxiety & Depression | Bare Biology

Is there a relationship between collagen and mood disorders? Nutritionist Charlotte Faure Green explores the evidence.

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“Since respiratory metabolism, governed by the thyroid hormone, is our main source of carbon dioxide, it's obvious that thyroid deficiency should impair our ability to regulate water and solutes, such as salt. An organism that illustrates this function of thyroid is the young salmon, when it leaves a freshwater river to begin its life in the ocean. As it converts its physiology to tolerate the salty environment, its thyroid hormone surges. When it's mature, and returns to the fresh water to spawn, its prolactin rises sharply. In experiments with rodents, it has been found that drinking a large amount of water increases their prolactin, but the same amount of water, with added salt, doesn't.”
-Ray Peat

 

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“It has been known for a long time that hyperhydration can produce seizures; at one time, neurologists would test for epilepsy by having the patient drink a pint of water. Although there are many reasons to think that the hyperhydration produced by hypothyroidism is a factor in epilepsy, physicians have been very reluctant to consider the possibility, because they generally think of thyroid hormone as a stimulant, and believe that "stimulants" are necessarily inappropriate for people with epilepsy.” -Ray Peat

 

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View: https://youtu.be/x86aCDtvbT0

Akathisia I - My Story

Each drop is .5 mg. So I would start with 10-15 drops. That's what I take every evening before bed... Alright. I did try MB before, but because how hard it was to dose I gave up lol. Also, it was a low dose of 1mg, so perhaps this time there will be more effect.

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“If we didn't eat linoleic acid and the other so-called "essential fatty acids," we would produce large amounts of the "Mead acid," n-9 eicosatrienoic acid, and its derivatives. This acid in itself is antiinflammatory, and its derivatives have a variety of antistress actions. The universal toxicity of the polyunsaturated fats that suppress the Mead fats as they accumulate, and the remarkable vitality of the animals that live on a diet deficient in the essential fatty acids, indicate that the Mead fats are important factors in the stability of our mammalian tissues. This protective lipid system probably interacts with cellular proteins, modifying the way they bind water and carbon dioxide and ions, affecting their electrons and their chemical reactivity.” -Ray Peat

 

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“Exercise is pivotal for the maintenance of physical and mental wellbeing. Although essential, exercise often results in stress, particularly in animals. The degree of stress is dependent on the conditions of the exercise. During exercise, a racehorses may experience different types of stress, including oxidative (1), heat (2), hypoxic (3), hormonal (4) and glucose stress (5). As a result of these aforementioned stress responses, levels of hormones become altered, including cortisol (6), adrenaline (7) and noradrenaline (8). Among these hormones, the steroidal hormone cortisol is the primary stress hormone produced by the adrenal gland. During the onset of stress, the pituitary-adrenal axis secretes corticotrophin-releasing hormone, which stimulates the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). ACTH then in turn stimulates the adrenal gland to secrete cortisol (9). Cortisol increases blood glucose levels and suppresses the digestive system (10,11). In addition, it affects the brain regions that control fear, motivation and mood (12). Prolonged secretion of cortisol may lead to physical and psychological effects (13). Indeed, serious mental issues associated with cortisol secretion include exaggerated negative cognitions, increased feelings of anxiety and helplessness in response to stress (14).

Prolonged secretion of cortisol occurs with prolonged stress, and is associated with disease, including heart disease, weight gain and depression (15). To reduce stress, the level of cortisol should be controlled or optimized externally, such as through the use of pharmacological agents that control cortisol levels. The administration of natural compounds to optimize cortisol levels in thoroughbred racehorses during stressful conditions is a convenient approach, as natural compounds may have fewer off-target effects than other pharmacological agents (16). Among these natural compounds, methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) is one such natural organic sulphur-containing compound that is present in fruit, vegetables and some beverages (17). MSM has properties that make it a suitable drug candidate to alleviate stress, as it has been previously shown to exhibit anti-cancer (18), anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity (19).“

Methylsulfonylmethane inhibits cortisol-induced stress through p53-mediated SDHA/HPRT1 expression in racehorse skeletal muscle cells: A primary step against exercise stress

Cortisol is a hormone involved in stress during exercise. The application of natural compounds is a new potential approach for controlling cortisol-induced stress. Tumour suppressor protein p53 is activated during cellular stress. Succinate dehydrogenase ...

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“More than 60 years ago, a vitamin E deficiency was known to cause a brain disease, sometimes associated with sterility and muscular dystrophy. The symptoms of the brain disease were similar to those of “mad cow disease,” and the condition is now usually called “crazy chick disease.” Veterinarians are usually taught that it is caused by a selenium deficiency, but it is actually the result of an excess of PUFA in the diet, and is exacerbated by increased iron or other oxidants, and prevented by increased vitamin E, selenium, or substitution of saturated fats for the unsaturated.“ -Ray Peat

 

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“After a century of scientific nutrition, public nutritional policies are doing approximately as much harm as good, and they are getting worse faster than they are getting better.” -Ray Peat

 

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“After a century of scientific nutrition, public nutritional policies are doing approximately as much harm as good, and they are getting worse faster than they are getting better.” -Ray Peat

Having just been round the supermarket I can concur with that.

 

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Having just been round the supermarket I can concur with that.

I don’t even go to regular shopped grocery stores anymore, and when I have to, I only shop around the outer edges. Everything in the center is toxic.

 

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“The observation that coffee drinkers have a low incidence of suicide, for example, might be physiologically related to the large increase in suicide rate among people who use the newer antidepressants called “serotonin reuptake inhibitors.” Serotonin excess causes several of the features of depression, such as learned helplessness and reduced metabolic rate, while coffee stimulates the uptake (inactivation or storage) of serotonin, increases metabolic energy, and tends to improve mood. In animal studies, it reverses the state of helplessness or despair, often more effectively than so-called antidepressants.” -Ray Peat

 

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“According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 18% of the American population (a total of 40 million adults) suffers from some form of anxiety disorder.

That’s a lot of prescriptions, but gelatin can provide an all-natural treatment. Gelatin contains the amino acid glycine, which is considered an ‘inhibitory neurotransmitter’. That means it essentially exhibits some of the same characteristics of anti-anxiety and anti-depressant meds—but without the side effects.“

Gelatin experiences new popularity as a modern health food - On Health

Can gelatin help with protecting joints, improving mood and heart health? Read on to find out more.

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