When you take a synthetic estradiol hormone for birth control (aka “the pill), can you end up with a B vitamin deficiency? Someone recently asked me about this issue and I looked it up in the Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletion Handbook. The basic idea is that your body has to metabolize any sort of medication and…
Category Archives: B Vitamins
Beef liver & vitamin b12 deficiency
Beef liver (and other animal livers) are extremely high in vitamin B12 and are great tools to fight a B12 deficiency. Note below that 100 grams (about 3.5 ounces) of beef liver has 29 times the recommended intake of vitamin B12. It is also a great source of other nutrients. Try to eat liver two…
New “laugh for supplements” giveaway; giveaway results
After writing that last post, I sure do need to laugh. I figure we should work it in this blog one way or another. With the new month coming up, I thought I would change up the supplement giveaway and find more opportunities to laugh. There may be nothing that helps our brain health quite…
Energy-boosting, mood-lifting, and frugal: A liver round-up
“There’s something about liver” is my code phrase for: “We know it is packed with nutrients, but there is something else too. People can get a lift from it.” Adele Davis actually adored liver. She was the go-to person on nutritious home cooking back when my mother was raising me. Adele Davis claimed that liver…
Moroccan Liver Salad
In our resolve to consume more liver I have been on the hunt for varying ways to prepare it. The traditional liver and onions is fine now and then (check out Mom’s flash cooked liver). But if you will eat liver regularly, the old standby gets old pretty quickly. We like liver around here because…
Friends don’t let friends go manic
My life has been filled with wildly productive work cycles. I look back on a few with pride even though they required months of recovery. I don’t bill my clients by the hour, but by the job, because I only work when I have the energy. When I do work, I do the work of…
Nebraska Beef: The End of Days?
It’s high in iron and B vitamins, but that is a small consideration if you find yourself in the ICU after eating an E. coli burger. I have deprived myself this summer of burgers from my favorite cowboy restaurant in the High Sierra’s Ponderosa. Granted, the restaurant is stronger on the cowboys than on the…
Chopped liver taste-off
If you are in the New York area and into eating one of nature’s most powerful depression-fighting foods, check out the chopped liver taste-off at The Fork in the Road blog at the Village Voice (via Marisa at Slash Foods) We should have a liver taste-off right here on this blog or perhaps a liver…
Your Nutrient Tool for Busy Times
I have a secret formula for getting through the holidays. I can maintain my energy with all of the seasonal pressures on me and I come out of the season feeling good rather than feeling deeply exhausted. The secret is dried beef liver tablets (desiccated liver) or Brewer’s Yeast. My first pick is the dried…
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Amanda Rose, Ph.D., is a political scientist and author of "Rebuild from Depression," on the link between nutrient deficiencies and depression. She has been depression-free for over four years, even during the recent pregnancy of her second child. Read her postpartum depression success story. Find Amanda on Google Plus.
Life After Depression
There really is life after depression. I am so excited by that point, in fact, that I neglect this blog and find fun/quirky projects to do with my family. We live in the Sequoia National Forest in a house (and former brothel) designed by Irving Gill. My 7-year-old son Frederick and I chronicle our adventures at Gill on the Hill when we're not exploring. Frederick posts some of his homeschool projects at "Frankly Frederick."