Research has shown that obesity markedly increases the risk of depression. One study of more than 9,000 adults concluded that depression, and other mood and anxiety disorders, were about 25% more common in the obese people studied than in the non-obese. Several community surveys in the United States and Canada have shown associations between obesity […]
Fasting and Diabetes
The first physician to develop fasting protocols for treating diabetes was most likely G. Guelpa, a French physician. He detailed his experience in his 1912 book Autoin-toxiecation and Disintoxication, in which he discussed using fasting to treat diabetes and a variety of other conditions such as sciatica, obesity, pulmonary diseases, alcoholism, and melancholia (depression). Guelpa […]
Rhodiola Rosea and Depression
Rhodiola rosea (Golden Root, Roseroot, Aaron’s Rod) is a plant in the Crassulaceae family that grows in cold regions of the world. These include much of the Arctic, the mountains of Central Asia, the Rocky Mountains, and mountainous parts of Europe, such as the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathian Mountains, Scandinavia, Iceland, Great Britain and Ireland. Rhodiola […]
Garlic Helps Addiction and Depression
Various garlic health benefits and medicinal properties have long been claimed and it has been used extensively in herbal medicine. It has a reputation in folklore for preventing everything from the common cold to releiving depression. Amongst other things, raw garlic is used by some to treat the symptoms of acne and there is some […]