Major Cause of Depression and
Depression Treatment.
No one single factor can be pinpointed as the cause of depression. Female
hormone imbalance can cause mental depression. Thyroid conditions can cause
mental depression. Grief and loss can cause mental depression. Medication,
chronic pain, genetics, gender and possibly viral infections can cause
depression.
Some studies indicates that environmental factors like poverty or abuse,
contribute to the cause of depression. Living with a depressed family member or
an ill parent can also predispose a person to depression.
An external event like chronic illness, financial problems, divorce or the
death of a loved one often can cause depression.
Living with chronic pain or life-threatening illness can also cause mental
depression. Genetics can also be the cause of depression. People with a parent
who became severely depressed are eight times more likely to become depressed.
The cause of depression varies greatly from one person to the next, but
people with depression usually have one thing in common: low levels of the
serotonin.
Although over100 neurochemicals are found in the human brain, four
neurotransmitters - norepinephrine, serotonin, dopamine, and acetycholine -
receive the bulk of research the focus. Of these four high-profile
neurotransmitters, serotonin has the most widespread effect on the brain.
Serotonin, also called 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), is the brain's `happy
chemical.’
Although mental depression is associated with low levels of the serotonin,
scientists are still not sure whether low levels of serotonin and cause
depression or whether depression causes low levels of serotonin.
One thing they do know is that depression can often be lifted by raising
serotonin levels.
Serotonin is often referred to as the body's natural mood-altering drug and
changes in serotonin levels can quickly alter mood. If serotonin levels drop to
low levels, depression is almost sure to follow. Some antidepressant medications
work specifically to affect the action of serotonin. Deprex, a natural
antidepressant, naturally works to stimulant serotonin levels without the side
effects commonly associated with antidepressants.
It is important to note that certain drugs may cause depression. Hormone
Replacement Therapy and oral contraceptives both have the ability to cause
depression. If hormone imbalance or the use of hormone replacement therapy are
the cause of depression, it is also recommended that women find safe and
effective methods of hormone replacement therapy, like the Return to Eden line
of natural, bioidentical hormones.
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Diosgenin cream ingredients
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How to use diosgenin cream. |
Return to Eden Diosgenin (nicknamed Progesterone) Cream.
Do you remember our newsletter
last year detailing how Wyeth Pharmaceuticals was attempting to stop
compounding pharmacists from prescribing natural progesterone (diosgenin)
after their profits fell by more than 57% from $2.07 billion in 2003 to
$800 million in 2004 (after the WHI study had to be stopped)?
Well, now they have gone after
centers like ours making complaints to the Federal Trade Commission
(FTC). The FTC's position backed by the big pharmaceutical companies is
that Dr. John Lee, M.D.'s studies were not scientific and did not rise to
the standard of FDA and National Institutes of Health studies, and that
our claims about natural progesterone are false, unfair, deceptive,
misleading advertising in violation of the law..
(Please read
what Dr. Helen Pensanti M.D. has to say about this. Read on to how the study
was conducted.)
This is an attempt to force women into taking
unsafe proven cancer causing synthetic hormones using
your tax dollar to harass natural hormone suppliers. We here at the Women's
Menopause Health Center refuse to take away your choice of a healthy
alternative to Premarin, Prempro and the other dangerous drugs. We are
taking a stand against this heavy handed attempt to destroy competition. We
are going to fight for your choice of a healthy way to get through menopause
comfortably and safely.
(Ed. note: This was from our newsletter last year. The
continued harassment by the FTC has caused us to discontinue our wonderful
product. Do not be forced
into taking something that can kill you. You may purchase safe
progesterone cream at your local health food store, or find it a lot less
expensively on line at places like ebay and yahoo stores.
Do not let these heavy handed tactics destroy your health!)
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Also noted for their ability to cause depression are:
- alcohol
- amantadine
- amphetamines
- antineoplastic drugs
- benzodiazepines (in excess)
- certain beta-blocking drugs
- carbamazepine
- chloral hydrate
- clonidine
- cocaine
- cortisonelike steroids
- cycloserine
- digitalis (toxicity)
- disulfiram
- guanethidine
- haloperidol
- hormone replacement therapy
- hydralazine
- indapamide
- indomethacin
- levodopa
- methyldopa
- opiates
- oral contraceptives
- pentazocine
- some phenothiazines
- physostigmine
- prazosin
- reserpine
- succinimide
- sulfonamides
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