by Christy | Mar 18, 2015 | Depression, Menopause, Studies
Did you know that women are twice as likely to develop ‘significant depressive symptoms’ once they enter perimenopause? An interesting study with 133 participants was just completed comparing ‘Individualized Homeopathic Treatment and Fluoxetine for Moderate to Sever...
by Christy | Dec 15, 2014 | Depression, Homeopathic remedies, Studies
[Originally published in December 2014 issue of Health Action by Health Action Network Society Homeopathy for Depression] In Canada, approximately eight percent of adults will experience a major depression in their life and almost half of those who feel they have...
by Christy | Jul 10, 2014 | Depression
Grief is something that we all go through at some point in our life. Life happens around us and sometimes we get burnt by circumstances. When there is a shadow of grief in our lives- What is the best thing for someone to say? How do we heal and stay healthy? As in...
by Christy | May 7, 2014 | Anxiety, Depression, Studies
Read about the staggering figures for prescriptions of SSRI antidepressants in recent years in this article. ‘The problem is that many of these drugs simply do not work as people suppose. The main effect of antidepressants is not the reduction of depressive...
by Christy | Apr 28, 2014 | Anxiety, Depression, Homeopathic remedies, Studies
Study just published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology Effects of Gelsemium sempervirens L. on pathway-focused gene expression profiling in neuronal cells. RESULTS: Exposure to the Gelsemium sempervirens 2c dilution, containing a nanomolar concentration of active...
by Christy | Mar 15, 2014 | Anxiety, Depression
A great presentation about ‘power posing’ as a way to lower cortisol levels and increase confidence. Some promising research has come out and no drugs necessary! 🙂 Amy Cuddy is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School, where she studies how...
by Christy | Jan 14, 2014 | Anxiety, Depression
“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.” In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon takes you to the darkest corners of his mind during the...
by Christy | Nov 22, 2013 | Anxiety, Articles, Depression
For so long we were told to stay out of the sun because of the risk of skin cancer. However, that is how we get most of our vitamin D, a vital ingredient in many important physiological processes in our body. In the Pacific Northwest this is especially true. We just...
by Christy | Dec 3, 2010 | Articles, Depression, Studies
Please use this link to see the original article and for details of the study: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/46819/
