Nutrition Archives

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

Glyphosate is linked to higher rates of cancer, but getting it out of the food supply is no easy task. Glyphosate Is In Our Food Supply The Detox Project recently published their latest results from the most comprehensive glyphosate testing of food products ever conducted in the U.S., showing that the contamination of the U.S.

Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

Posted on July 31, 2017 by admin

An Open Letter to the Spiritual Community About Psychiatry By Kelly Brogan, MD There’s life with the experience of mental illness and then there’s life as a mental patient. I’ve been told that both entail a large serving of unfathomable suffering. Suffering that brings you to the brink of something you can’t imagine tolerating one more

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Bipolar, Drugs, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Nutrition, Psychiatry, Spirituality, Suicide Kelly Brogan, psychiatry, Robert Whitaker, spirituality

Gut, Mood & Mental Health

Posted on July 31, 2015 by admin

Beneficial bacteria may serve the same role as antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs. In one study, people who took a multi-strain probiotic for at least four weeks reported a lessening of rumination—recurring, persistent thoughts about something distressing that has or may happen, which tends to create anxiety. Ninety percent of the neurotransmitter serotonin, (which is thought

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anti-Depressants, Anxiety, Depression, Diagnosis, Mental Health, Micronutrients, Nutrition, Psychiatry anti-anxiety, anti-depressants, micronutrients

Breakfast Cereal !?

Posted on August 19, 2014 by admin

That old standby just may be different than what you thought! Aaaargh! After being exposed to very high temperatures and very high pressure, the grains that go into almost all of the major brands you see on the supermarket store shelves are not only unhealthy, they’re poisonous. Even the whole grains in the “healthier” cereals

Posted in Children, Health, Micronutrients, Nutrition nutrition

US Ranks 70th in Health

Posted on April 3, 2014 by admin

The Social Progress Index was published on April 2, 2014. It was created by an independent, not for profit org called the Social Progress Imperative—directed by Michael Green and sponsored by the likes of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Social Progress Imperative defines Social Progress like this: “the capacity of a society to meet the basic

Posted in Health, Nutrition, Suicide