All summer long as sun hits our skin, our body transforms the sunlight into vitamin D. Our body stores much of that vitamin D but as we stay holed up in the winter or face the cold outside in hats, scarves, and mittens, our vitamin D levels decline. Low levels of vitamin D may wreak…
Category Archives: Depression Food and Nutrients
Eggs: Depression fighters and pathogen incubators
Last week the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) published “The Ten Riskiest Foods Regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.” All foods on the list are healthy foods, seven or eight of the ten are quite healthy if, of course, they don’t kill you. Eggs are #2 on the list primarily…
Sesame seeds: A depression-fighting food
I buy sesame seeds in bulk through a food co-op because of their high nutrient content and their great flexibility. You can center an entree around sesame seeds; you can center a dessert around sesame seeds. All the while, the nutrients in the sesame seeds may well be combating your depression. (Read the Rebuild philosophy…
Foods Can Fight Depression: The Rebuild Philosophy
Brains need the right dietary mix to be healthy. Too much or too little of a good thing can lead to an unhealthy brain and you could well end up depressed. While all nutrients are important in healthy brains and healthy bodies, it turns out that some are more critical in our brain function than…
Eggs: Depression-fighting foods?
I am lucky here in the Sequoia National Forest that I have ample space for laying hens and, this time of year in particular, I have an abundant source of eggs. I can tell you that just looking at the eggs (or a picture of them) helps fight depression — the colors and textures make…
Frugal, easy, summery meal: Salmon-topped green salad (with salad-making tools)
Kimi at The Nourishing Gourmet has been discussing how to get by in tough economic times and still eat well. She has asked bloggers to contribute ideas in her Pennywise Platter blog carnival. You will want to check out the many ideas to find some that suit your cooking style and taste. Here in this…
Grass fed beef liver: Vitamins, Minerals, Omega 3s
Beef liver is my “food of recovery,” a food that replenishes me of nutrients when I have been through a rough patch. It is absolutely loaded with vitamins, minerals, and fats and, by chance, loaded with the nutrients that help keep our brains healthy. Depression is complex with many causes, but some folks (like me)…
Why I do worry about raw eggs
If we ever needed a visual that eggs can be contaminated on the inside as well as on the outer shell, we’ve got it. Here’s a gecko that took a real bad turn up the back side of a hen and spent its final days swishing around in egg white. That’s a custard you’d want…
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…
Can ice cream cure depression? :)
I just knew there was something about ice cream and perhaps eating it daily in the first trimester of this pregnancy is why I am getting along so swimmingly. In fact, in my last pregnancy I was in the depths of depression by about 28 weeks and headed into a couple of psychotic episodes. Here…
Daily sunshine, vitamin D, and melatonin
With busy schedules it is easy to forget some of the easy and most pleasurable things we can do to improve our health. In my announcement post some months ago now, Jennifer mentioned that she gets twenty minutes of sun every day. In those twenty minutes, she can grab a bit of relaxation but also…
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The best book on depression and food I've seen is Rebuild from Depression, by Amanda Rose, who understands the condition from bitter experience.
Nina Planck,
Author of Real Food
Rebuild from Depression is going to be a very important book. Its dissection of the role of diet and nutrition is well-researched and an eye-opener.
Robert Kotler, MD, FACS
Clinical Instructor, UCLA
Rebuild from Depression provides real answers for reversing depression caused by common nutritional deficiencies.
Jan DeCourtney, CMT
Co-author, Recapture Your Health
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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."