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Tag: depression
Bringing Depression Out of the Shadows
Depression isn’t all in your head—and it isn’t your fault. Someone can sit next to you at lunch and talk freely about their gout or their backache. In fact, we often can’t get people to shut up about their gout or their backache. But people with depression are often treated differently. There’s an unspoken stigma attached to issues…
Is Your Diet Making You Depressed?
“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”—Moliere Feeling gloomy? Look to your diet. When you eat, you feed yourself—but you also feed your gut microbes. There are trillions of them in your gut and they make up a thriving community called the microbiota. Like you, they have their own favorite foods. Amazingly, they may…
Psychobiotics Get Real: A Case Study
Are you in a rainy-day mood even when the sun is shining? You may be depressed. If so, you have a lot of company. The World Health Organization asserts that depression is the number-one cause of disability in the world. This is in spite of all the antidepressants, old and new, available to psychiatry. And yet, all is…
Psychobiotics: A Revolution in Psychiatry
Psychobiotics are microbes that lift your mood. Psychiatry needs them now. What are psychobiotics? Despite their somewhat sinister-sounding name, psychobiotics are probiotics and prebiotics that can lift your mood and decrease anxiety. The word was coined by Psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Ted Dinan and colleague John Cryan, Chair of Anatomy and Neuroscience at University College Cork, in Ireland. These prolific…
Your Gut Microbes Can Keep Your Brain Young
Your gut microbes can prevent cognitive decline and help you stay young. “As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” — Norman Wisdom That quote is funny, but for many people, aging is not a joke. Cognitive abilities begin to slip; memories start to…