Mental Health Pearls for Wellbeing

These are a couple pearls that I thought would be good to share.  

1)One condition can have many causes.  And one cause can cause multiple conditions. This is the basis of integrative/functional medicine. 

The issue is not that someone has been diagnosed with depression.  The issue is what is causing the depression – maybe it’s because of low testosterone, low serotonin , or maybe there’s an inflammatory condition going on in either the gut or the brain affecting how a person thinks.

2) Most psychiatric illnesses are not Mental Health issues but they ARE brain health issues. So it is related to how the brain works.  For example, zinc deficiency has been associated with 28% higher levels of depression.

So when someone has a psychiatric illness, they should be listened to to figure out whether there are underlying issues causing the psychiatric illness.

3) Candida when it is in an inflammatory environment turns aggressively bad. Yeast is commonly in our gut and just hangs out there. But when the body environment changes – either it becomes stressed because of a not great situation at home or work. Or perhaps because the health changes because of an infection such as Covid  then the body is inflamed. 

Therefore the yeast turns aggressively bad in the setting of an inflamed environment.  So keep your body healthy and non-inflamed!

I enjoyed the conference, reviewing what I knew and learning some new nuggets of wisdom which I can apply to helping current and future clients reclaim their health.