Posted by bleauberry on March 15, 2008, at 10:56:53
In reply to Cytokines, Inflammation, and Depression, posted by moviemom on March 14, 2008, at 14:44:33
Personally I have no doubt there is a link between chronic hidden inflammation and depression. Not always, but sometimes I notice I get a pretty good mood after taking tylenol or advil. People have been cured by taking borage oil to increase GLA (anti-inflammatory). Fish oils or flax oils can sometimes help that too. If you do a search on inflammation and herbs there a bunch. I think common ones are ginger, cucumin, and licorice.
Where the inflammation is coming from is a whole different story. Could be a hundred different possibilities ranging from heavy metals to food intolerances/sensitivities to candida to parasites to autoimmune diseases and on and on. Whatever the cause, if there is inflammation then bringing it down should help body and mind in noticeable ways.
I remember reading a story of someone being treated naturally for depression. She went through the whole cycle of 5htp, then typrosine, then dlpa, and gaba. She was then switched to borage oil instead and completely recovered within 3 days. Her depression was not a neurotransmitter deficiency, but rather some unknown inflammation that GLA countered. There was someone here a couple months ago that also got significant benefit from borage oil when all kinds of other supplement trials didn't do anything good.
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