Pharmaceutical antidepressants aren't the best way to conquer our society's depression and anxiety epidemic, and they often have disastrous side effects, sometimes even increasing the risk for suicide. Taking the population as a whole, we're 100 times more depressed today than we were 100 years ago. Furthermore, panic attacks are the number one reason heart disease is going up in women. Julia Ross, a pioneer in nutritional psychology and best-selling author of The Diet Cure and The Mood Cure, explained these dire statistics at the 2005 Complementary and Alternative Medicine Conference (CAMCON).
Four brain chemicals -- serotonin, catecholamine, GABA and endorphin -- are essential for proper mental health, each affecting a different area of the brain. Some of us, unfortunately, have a genetic predisposition to lack these chemicals. Additionally, the modern mainstream diet is deficient in the amino acids that our brains need to make these neurotransmitters. As a result of these factors, incidence of depression and anxiety has reached epidemic proportions.
As a society, we just don't have the coping ability we should have. "Even if things aren't going well, we can still feel good anyway, but we're not," says Ross. Fortunately, these amino acids are widely available at local health food stores, and within five to 10 minutes of taking the supplement, you can feel its effects on your brain.
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