Holistic Women's Health Psychiatry
With 11% of Americans on antidepressants and one in four women of reproductive age, one would assume these pharmaceutical products are well-studied and clinically indicated. As I have discussed, unfortunately, psychiatric research suffers from profound conflict of interest and corruption of its data set. We are also turning a blind eye to adverse effects that
Over the past two decades, researchers such as Maes, Miller, and Raison have helped to bring attention to the role of the immune system in the brain. Inflammatory messengers called cytokines can traffic from the body to the brain, stimulating brain immune cells called microglia and an enzyme called IDO. This stimulation shunts tryptophan from
Add to a growing literature exploring the efficacy of curcumin, an active polyphenol in the Indian spice, turmeric, comes a study entitled Curcumin for the treatment of major depression: a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study. This intervention, while still made in patients uncontrolled for active medication treatment, brings therapeutic relevance to the model of depression
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