The Cause and Cure for Depression

In our final blog on depression we focus on the foundations of depression and how to fight depression at the root. Today many patients are clearly unaware that most medications and doctor endorsed treatments merely aid with covering up symptoms.

For example, if someone is standing on a nail they can either a) step off the nail or b) keep standing on the nail and take an aspirin (or other pain killers/ anti-inflammatories) to deal with the "symptom" of standing on the nail. Standing on the nail comes first, the pain comes second. If we never step on the nail there is never any pain and therefore no need for the aspirin.

The question is, what causes depression so we can avoid it altogether? What comes first? The reason simple cures for depression are never discussed with most patients is that there is very little money in helping people cure themselves.

There is no money to be made off healthy people and there is no money to be made off dead people, the focus of conventional medicine is on the in-between.......people who are not truly alive yet are not yet dead. Conventional medicine traps people in the middle or the "in-between". Oddly enough North America's health care system focuses on citizens having a long (drug dependent and expensive) comfortable death and never a long vibrant life.

These patients (otherwise known as the "lost generation" or the "walking dead") are the cash cows of the North American medical system, with every new medication bringing additional side effects that are in turn treated with more medication or ineffective surgeries.

Dr. James Gordon and Dr. Mark Hyman both agree that new thinking is needed in regards to the root cause of depression. These two pioneering modern doctors are well aware that although the symptoms of depression are shared by many, the root causes can be very different. Even though the root causes can be very different they all do in fact stem from one basic principle. Living unnaturally is the foundation of depression and depression is just that.....the body is feeling down and depressed because of what it is going through.

The body is designed to operate under certain Natural Laws. The Laws of Nature apply to all people, at all times....and in all situations. The law of gravity is another natural law and it means that if two separate people jump out of a window they will both fall at exactly the same speed, even if they really don't want to. When we lead a life that is highly unnatural the body is designed to give signals to lead us away from anything that will end our life prematurely. Depression is our body's signal that change is needed. Lets listen to Dr. Hyman on this subject.



If you look at the list of items scientifically proven to be directly associated with depression we find a long list of highly unnatural compounds and activities.

A lack of sleep, working with the chemicals, inflammation, yeast infections, thyroid malfunction, high sugar foods, alcohol consumption, financial stress, narcotic abuse, smoking, believing only bad things happen to us, brain damage, molds, dangerous electrical fields, a lack of sunlight, a lack of exercise, make-up, vaccinations, a lack of a meaningful career or the inability to express our self through our occupation, medications, a lack of sex, food allergies, heavy metal poisoning, a lack of omega-3 fish oil, a bad childhood, traumatic experiences, the birth control pill, surgeries, a lack of human interaction, negative thought, a lack of travel, a lack of adventure, always playing the victim, not taking responsibility for the results in our life, always chasing the good life, letting life do us as opposed to us doing life, a lack of intellectual growth, losing the ability to think rationally, believing in false concepts like disease is genetic and that we have no control, always relying on others for survival, a lack of clean water, playing the game of "Keeping up with the Joneses", the pursuit of stuff at all costs, not spending time with our families and much more. The one item that effects depression the most is what we place in our mouths.

The most unfortunate part about everything listed above is that they often come as a package. One leads to another. Bad food leads to medications, medications lead to surgeries and a loss of income, a loss of income leads to more bad food, alcohol abuse, a feeling of being victimized and so on.......

You can add as many items to that list as are scientifically and observationally proven to cause depression but they all have one common link. That link is that everything listed above threatens how long we live and our ability to be contributing members of society. The body is designed to reject such factors and warn the owner of the body just how dangerous they all are. Every item listed above is "bad", in every sense of the word because they all will compromise our ability to live a long fulfilling life. The body purposely attempts to make sure that we associate highly negative emotions with all the above activities or products. Our body is an ancient tour guide as to what makes a great life. Our body does what it can to steer us in the right direction.

If someone does not drink clean water, smokes, eats donuts, takes toxic medication, talks negatively, plays the victim all day long and works at a job they hate........do you think their body is designed to just accept such a life? Depression is just an icon on the road map of life. The depression icon means "stay away, extreme danger, avoid at all costs, nothing good will come of this, do not underestimate the power of this one thing to completely derail your entire life".

Depression means you are going down the wrong road. Depression is not a signal to take antidepressants and just keep walking in the wrong direction. That is why we see the body actually get more depressed and extremely violent when it is given toxic antidepression medication. The body just sends louder messages and clearer signals the farther off the path we walk. This is also why our youth reacts the most violently to these medications. Interfering with a young spirit and polluting their bodies equates to the breaking of one of nature's most sacred laws.

It is time we all started listening to our bodies instead of taking medication that traps us in a dark valley on our journey through life. The body uses depression to facilitate a necessary reorganization before it tries to scale life's next mountain or challenge. The body never gives up trying to make us achieve our true life mission. Taking medication only treats the symptoms of a bad lifestyle (and even that is highly questionable as proven in the previous 5 blogs) and forces us back into habits and foods that will never bring us a fulfilling life.

Very simply, the exact opposites of the factors above are all scientifically proven to cure depression. Exercise, eating whole live non-processed organic foods, eating the colors of the rainbow, giving thanks or prayer, getting sunshine without sunblock, (when your skin turns red you seek shelter - just the way the body designed it to work) a great sex life, meaningful human interaction with people of similar interests, clean water, (not tap) travel, adventure, reading, education, the expansion the mind, life variety, relaxation, dreaming, no chemicals, no medications, taking responsibility for our health back from doctors, positive thought, helping others, volunteering, never playing the victim, taking full responsibility for one's life results, never playing "Keeping up with the Joneses'", no fear, believing all things in life happen for a reason, a belief life is good and all will unfold as it should, never rushing life and letting the good come to you, expressing your creativity, believing anything is possible and much more. We must live life in harmony with the way our bodies are designed. These good factors also compound, just like the bad factors. The more of them a person can combine, at anyone one time, the better they will feel and the better life they will live. Good only brings more good.

In the next 2-3 weeks I will be unveiling a complete health program using the nutrition protocols talked about by Dr. Hyman and used within Dr. Gordon's guide to curing depression. Dr. Gordon's book is called "UNSTUCK". If you read this blog you will receive information on my newest program in the upcoming weeks. As an end note I would like to declare for my readers that I have lived this complete depression cycle (minus the medication/it occurring to me from age 20-30) and a whole food diet cleared my depression instantly within 4 weeks. Thanks for following this series.