Parent Angeline shares her family depression cure success with incorporating bone broths, probiotics and wild caught fish. And that a healthy gut is important to be able to absorb the nutrients you need.
Depression runs in my family (myself, my father, my brother, my 5 children) and over many years of experimentation we have come upon a program that has proven very effective. I know that depression can cause suffering from mild to unbearable, so I would not say taking antidepressants is not worth it. Some levels of depression are so excruciating that it can be equated with not using painkillers for surgery. As your health improves and you feel better, you can gradually reduce your antidepressant dose. This will avoid unnecessary suffering. The following is the approach my family has used to effectively eliminate depression and get off medications: Start by healing the gut. Without a healthy gut it is not possible to optimally nourish your body. The best program we have found for this is the GAPS Diet. (www.gapsdiet.com) The diet is based on bone broths (cooked) and probiotic foods. You can’t eat bone broths raw, but you can incorporate a lot of raw foods. The book does a fantastic job of showing you how the gut affects moods, the brain, etc. Next, go to www.truehealth.org (The Daily Seafood Diet). Our bodies need every one of the 72 + trace minerals that are no longer found in our soils. Some soils never had them. Wildcaught seafood has them. My family eats wildcaught (no farmed or lake fish) salmon every day (other seafood will work). This seems to be the most important factor for one of my sons. If he eats fish every day, he feels normal. If he stops for more than a few weeks, his symptoms of anxiety and depression start to come back. Back on the fish, those symptoms disappear. Finally, look up the Homo Optimus diet. (homodiet.netfirms.com) This can be converted to primarily raw. The ratios are the key. I hope this helps you feel better.
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