- Finding little interest or pleasure in doing things?
- Trouble falling asleep or staying awake?
- Feeling “blue” or hopeless?
- Lost your appetite or over eating?
- Experiencing repetitive thoughts or behaviors?
- Having trouble concentrating or focusing?
- Feeling tired or having little energy?
- Are you keyed up or anxious most of the time?
- Excessively worrying or experiencing racing thoughts?
- Experiencing panic attacks?
- Excessively fearful of a specific situation or object?
Any one of these symptoms could stem from depression or anxiety. Depression affects as much as 10% of adults in the United States and anxiety disorders comprise a larger percentage of the population as high as 18% or more. Approximately 3% to 8% of all children and adolescents have a depressive disorder, and 20% of young people show signs of some depressive symptoms.
While Americans spend billions of dollars on prescription medications, drugs are not always necessary to treat these disorders. The limitation is that psychiatric drugs are foreign molecules in the body that may produce unpleasant and sometimes side effects that are worse than the condition itself. Often times, these medications treat only the symptoms without addressing the underlying root causes of the issue. Targeted Advanced Nutrient Therapy is an effective method for treating anxiety and depression without harmful damage and adverse side effects.
To understand depression and anxiety issues, let’s review the important role of neurotransmitters to brain health. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that enable us to think and act. They have a dominant impact on mood, focus, concentration, anxiety, obsessions and mental well-being. Serotonin, dopamine and other key neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate with each other. Good mental health requires proper neurotransmitter activity. Imbalances such as severe overloads or deficiencies of specific minerals, vitamins, amino acids can significantly alter this activity in the brain. Mensah Medical’s Advanced Nutrient Therapy is designed to normalize key chemical factors that influence neurotransmitter synthesis and synaptic activity. By correcting balances of essential nutrients in the body, this nutritional therapy is a safe, natural and effective drug-free alternative to prescription medications. If you or a loved one is currently on an antidepressant and/or another psychiatric medication, Mensah Medical physicians will work with your psychiatrist to slowly decrease your medications while replacing them with nutrients – a “natural” match to your biochemistry.
Most experts have regarded depression as a single condition with variations along a central theme – low activity at serotonin receptors. The new DSM-5 classifies mood and anxiety disorders as separate conditions. Researcher and author William J. Walsh, Ph.D., of Walsh Research Institute, examined over 300,000 chemical analyses of blood and urine and identified five chemical biotypes of clinical depression. Each of these biotypes are separate conditions involving unique biochemistry and require separate treatment. These are: undermethylation, overmethylation, copper overload, pyrrole disorder and toxic metal overload. To learn more about these biotypes, click here to read about Biochemical Individuality and Imbalances.
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