Question:
Natural medication/help for depression?
Answer:
3,000mg DL-Phenylalanine bottled as "DLPA" - inhibits the breakdown of
endorphins in the brain 2,000mg L-Tyrosine - precurser to dopamine
2,000mg L-Glutamine
1,000mg L-Taurine
200mg or more of 5-HTP - precurser to Serotonin
SAM-e
5 mg extra folic acid.
Take the above on an empty stomach in the morning.
20 amino acid blend from www.jomarlabs.com .
30 grams of 20 amino acid blend 45 minutes later on an empty stomach and
wait at least a half hour before consuming any food.
Natrol's "My Favorite Multiple" brand multiple vitamin. www.natrol.com .
with food. This is a high potency complete six peace multiple vitamin. Take
two with each meal if you eat three meals a day. Three with each meal if you
eat two meals a day and six with the meal if you only eat once a day.
Get yeast free selenium from selenomethionine and take 200mg with one of
your meals for extra selenium.
Take 8,000mg extra vitamin C in divided doses throughout the day.
For energy use Creatine, Acytel-L-Carnitine, Coenzyme-Q10, and extra
chromium from chromium picolinate.
Go to a real health food store that carries organic groceries as well as
supplements and get a big bottle of unencapsulated unrefined cold pressed
flax seed oil for the high content of Omega-3 essential fatty acids. Take
two tablespoons of this a day before meals. Also take fish oil capsules for
the Omega-3 derivatives.
Use 1,000 IU of extra vitamin E before any very fatty meal.
If you ever not able to sleep well or are getting euphoric, paranoid or
psychotic use 500mg of 5-HTP or get a prescription for L-Tryptophan from a
compounding pharmacy if you can find one that carries it. Also use melatonin
before bedtime. Also GABA which you can get at the health food store. Take
these at bedtime.
Diet changes you may want to make as well are, no beef, pork, eggs, dairy,
sweets, refined wheat flower products, nothing fried or deep fried, no
partially saturated fat, no nutra sweet or soft drinks, no canned fruits and
vegetables only frozen or fresh.
No toxic psychiatric drugs and stop seeing the psychiatrist. Just see your
family doctor.
If you do the above it will not be long before you do not have a care in the
world and what seemed like big problems now will seem like nothing at all
and you will wonder what the big deal was. Give this a try. Results are
guarantied. This is nutritional and fixes the problem unlike herbs.
Please give it a try if you can afford to do all this. The results you will
get will be unbelievable.
Also negative ions fight depression. Go outside in a sage place during a
thunderstorm and breath in deeply doing deep breathing exercises. The
negative ions have been shown to fight depression. You could get one of
those air purifiers that use negative ions for your home. You're right about that! It was un-ing-believable that it didn't help. I spent thousands on "natural" healing, exercised, ate properly and gave
attention to my spiritual life. Didn't fix me.
Write about something you understand. Most people here have already tried
everything else out of desperation for peace. Also, don't assume everyone here
even takes meds. We're not all the same. Different treatments for different
people.
If you're so sure of this guarantee, and want to help, why not provide your name
and addy for folks to obtain more info? A long list of alternative remedies which s/he encouraged us all to
take. What he didn't say was that nobody should ever take such remedies
without first checking out all the possible side-effects or drug
interactions of such substances. "Help" has no idea what medications we
might be taking or what medical conditions we might suffer from. While
I don't doubt that s/he believes that s/he is helping others by posting
this, what s/he is actually doing is exposing others to possible danger
and health problems by recommending so emphatically that we should all
follow this regime without first checking out each substance. Just because a substance is "natural" doesn't mean it is safe. Some
are, some aren't, depending on what else we might take or suffer from.
http://www.Depressiondepot.net, referring to natural remedies and
supplements:
"You should never take any medication or supplement without
providing a full medical history, including current
medications, to your doctor and pharmacist.
Some supplements can be fatal if used in conjunction with
prescription medications, or other supplements."
"people should not exceed 1,200 mg daily without a doctors
recommendation. Can have side-effect of headache,
hyperstimulation in some.
It is also a fact that people who have PKU (phenylketonuria)
should nottake DLPA, as they do not have the enzyme that
metabolizes it."
People who are taking SSRIs (especially Wellbutrin and Zoloft) should
exercise caution in taking 5-htp. It can result in an overdose of
serotonin which has extremely unpleasant side-effects.
"Studies suggest that like other antidepressants, it may
trigger manic episodes in people with bipolar disorder.....
A key concern is that depressed patients will drop other
treatments to try SAMe, and end up suicidal..... And because
SAMe is absorbed mainly through the intestine, it's best taken
in "enteric coated" tablets that pass through the stomach
intact."
Don't take if you: 1. Have pernicious anemia (Folic acid will make the blood appear
normal, but neurological problems may progress and be
irreversible.)
2. Take anticonvulsant medication
Consult your doctor if you:
1. Have anemia
2. Are taking methotrexate, which is a chemotherapy that is given as
a treatment for some types of cancer. > Get yeast free selenium from selenomethionine and take 200mg with one of
> your meals for extra selenium.
According to Medline: "The suggested intake by nutrition experts is 50 to 200 MICROGRAMS
for adults. Excess selenium intake can cause problems with
the strength of teeth and the tooth enamel. Other problems may
include loss of teeth, hair, and nails. Skin inflammation,
nausea, and fatigue can also occur."
CNN interactive:
"One problem is that very high levels of selenium can be harmful,
causing nails and hair to become brittle. Higher doses can
cause neurologic problems and there are reports of selenium
overdose deaths."
This is about 7,940 mg more than the recommended daily allowance. It is
likely to cause diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, increased
urination, headaches and possibly anaemia. Mega doses of Vitamin C are
also suspected to cause kidney stones. It is also likely to interact
with barbiturates, anticholinergics and tetracycline. Patients taking warfarin, a blood-thinning medication, should never
exceed the RDA of 60mg for vitamin C.
Apart from the possible side effects, the body can't store Vitamin C.
It takes what it needs and the rest passes into the urine. This means
that much of what you'd be taking would be going straight down the
toilet.
The Wellness Newsletter of Santa Clara University CA:
VITAMIN C OVERDOSE:
"How much vitamin C is too much? This powerful antioxidant
can be a double-edged sword. While vitamin C protects cell
from damage by free radicals, researchers at the University
of Leicester have discovered it can also encourage free radical
damage. Thirty volunteers received 500 mg. of vitamin C daily
for six weeks. Their blood was drawn before the study, twice
during the study, and again, after the study ended.
The researchers were looking for 8-oxoguanine and 8-oxoadenine.
High levels of these two substances indicate damage to cells
from free radicals. After six weeks, they found that while
levels of 8-oxoguanine dropped, levels of 8-oxoadenine increased.
From this, they concluded that doses greater than 500 mg/day are
not safe and recommend no more than 200 mg/day.
(Health Magazine, July/August 1999)
You cannot guarantee any results at all. Any positive effects of all
these substances, individually or combined will vary enormously from
person to person. The side effects will also vary. They worked for you and you haven't apparently suffered any side
effects. That's great - for you. But please don't make false claims to
other people when you have absolutely no idea what medication they might
be taking or medical conditions they might have that might interact with
what you're suggesting here.
You say people should stop toxic psychiatric drugs. That's all very
well, but what about medication they might be taking for other
conditions? I take propranolol (Inderal) for migraine and large doses
of NSAIDs for a prolapsed lumbar disc. Both these can interact with
melatonin. Melatonin can also have seriously adverse effects on
epileptics, arthritics, MS ...
