When your blood sugar crashes, your body can release its fight or flight hormones – adrenaline and cortisol. In this context, these hormones are alarm signs to your body – these foods are “shocking” and/or “scaring” you. Often, many symptoms of depression can get significantly better by eating foods that keep your blood sugar stable such as high quality protein, like eggs, and healthy fats such as avocados.
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Food tips to help improve depression are:
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Eat more prebiotic fibre
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Eliminate processed foods and highly refined carbohydrates
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Increase your intake of healthy natural fats
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Reduce your sugar intake
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Nutrients and vitamins that can help improve depression are:
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Adenosyl cobalamine, the right kind of B12
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Foods high in the Amino Acid L-Tryptophan
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​Beans
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Nuts and Seeds
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Grains - Wheat germ
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Cheese - Cheddar, Parmesan, Swiss
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Eggs
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Brewer's Yeast
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Lecithin - found in egg yolks and most soy products
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Melatonin, helps you sleep better
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Poultry, especially the dark meat
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Vitamin B6
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Vitamin C
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Herbs that can help improve depression:
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Foods:
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Coriander, also known as Cilantro or Chinese parsley
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Hawaiian spirulina, not spirulina from other places.
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Hemp seeds, fantastic food to overcome depression.
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Oranges, great one for depression of any kind.
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Sprouts
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Walnuts
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Suplements:
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B-complex
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EPA, DHA, that’s plant-based
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Lithium Orotate
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Magnesium, Magnesium glycinate
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PharmaGABA
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Disclaimer: the preceding is intended as educational material and not as individual treatment recommendations.
Lemon BalmIs an anti-inflammatory for the brain - drink as tea | Nutmeg | Oregano |
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RosemaryDrink as tea | Saffron | SageDrink as tea |
St Johns WortDrink as tea |