Brogan's "shocking" truth about depression is to rule out any underlying physiological causes, eat well, exercise, meditation, yoga, nutrition and walah! Cured! (eye roll) It's a purely biophysical approach that says eat well, live well, and medications are all bad mmmkay?
It doesn't talk about coping with trauma, abuse, grief or loss, and actually trivializes them in favor of a purely physiological model as though diet and exercise will somehow magically make your real life problems and pain go away. I did find it rather amusing, I lie, I found it hysterical, that there's an entire section dedicated to telling a depressed person to get sleep, with complete disregard for depressives that do nothing BUT sleep. Next, a section dedicated to exercise ….patronizing at this point.
The last section on lifestyle should just suggest plain old yoga, plain and simple. However, she specifically recommends Kundalini Yoga, basically just because she personally likes it. She claims on the Joe Rogan podcast that it "literally rewired my entire nervous system and now I don't feel stress about anything." Seems fantastical, fluffy, and new agey enough, but for the laymen; let me explain what this very ancient, spiritual practice that westerners have made trendy, entails.
"Yogis believe that when the Kundalini awakens, the door of the Sushumna (an energy conduit) is opened and the Kundalini ascends through the six chakras (alleged energy centers) until it reaches the crown chakra at the top of the head. When it reaches this height, it unites with Lord Shiva (the god of destruction) whose consort is Shakti. This union supposedly brings about the joy of “Blissful Beatitude.”
There is also what's called Kundalini syndrome. Awakened Kundalini energy can cause a spiritual crises. Symptoms are ...Ding Ding Ding ...Depression, hallucinations, breaking with reality, depersonalization, and a variety of other physical symptoms.
Clearly, our dear Doctor here is wayyyy out of her field of expertise and knowledge to be recommending ancient spiritual practices and wording them as new age fluff.
My last point is the adamant anti-serotonin theory that serotonin plays no role in depression. Clearly our "woke" Dr. missed all the research on psychedelics like psilocybin, ayahuasca etc.. and their powerful effects on serotonin, alleviating depression, and neuroplasticity. Then again, she's not concerned so much about healing emotional trauma and she badly wants to throw that pesky serotonin theory out the window.
Dr. Brogan says that depression is just a side effect for an underlying physical condition like inflammation or leaky gut. I can assure you that depression is very real, complex, condition and those suffering from dysthymia, chronic persistent depression, or severe debilitating depression will place this book on the heap with all the other "miracle cure" books that didn't work.
Interesting to see hat she's extorting folks and putting that money to good use such as artificially inflating high reviews and sending flying monkeys at negative reviews.
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The Silent Tragedy in Health Care Today
By Kelly Brogan, M.D., Author of A Mind of Your Own.
A silent tragedy in the history of modern health care is happening right now in America, but no one is talking about it. We have been told a story of depression: that it is caused by a chemical imbalance and cured by a chemical fix—a prescription. More than 30 million of us take antidepressants, including one in seven women (one in four women in their forties and fifties). Millions more—maybe you—are tempted to try them to end chronic, unyielding distress, irritability, and feeling emotionally flat—trapped by an exhausting, unshakable inner agitation.
It is time to let go of this false narrative and take a fresh look at where science is leading us. Before you try an antidepressant, I implore you to read this book. And if you do currently take these drugs, then I have an important message for you, too. Let me give you a primer.
Believe it or not:
- In six decades, not a single study has proven that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
- The serotonin theory of depression is a myth that has been supported by the manipulation of data and an echo chamber of industry and media rhetoric.
- Depression is not a genetic disease. It is an epigenetic syndrome. In 2003, a study published in Science suggested that those with genetic variation in their serotonin transporter were three times more likely to be depressed. But six years later this idea was wiped out by a meta-analysis of 14,000 patients published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that denied such an association.
- Depression is often an inflammatory condition, a manifestation of irregularities in the body that can start far away from the brain and are not associated with the simplistic model of so-called 'chemical imbalances'.
- Depression is an opportunity. It is a sign for us to stop and figure out what's causing our imbalance.
The human body interacts in its environment with deep intelligence. Your body creates symptoms for a reason. We usually suppress these symptoms with medication, but that is like turning off the smoke alarm when you have a fire going on.
I get the allure of the quick fix cure via a drug. I used to believe in the magic pill. Then, after my residency and fellowship training, I took a sharp turn.
I have spent years voraciously researching to find better health solutions for women, hungry for the truth about what works and what doesn't. In my research and work with patients—people just like you—I've been analyzing data and connecting the dots.
First we have to ask why you are feeling the way you are feeling, and the sources of your symptoms may surprise you. It may be your food, your gut, your thyroid, or even your go-to pain reliever. I continue to be amazed at the power of the body to heal, after decades of abuse by our lifestyles, within time frames as short as thirty days.
My goal is to:
- Help you change the beliefs we've all been fed by a system that is not really focused on wellness, but on symptom suppression—and profit.
- Help you discover your body's innate ability to recalibrate, reset, and recharge so you can heal.
- Give you simple, highly practical steps in a comprehensive plan that activates your own healing power so you can start feel freer and healthier in thirty days or less.
Because you deserve to experience a mind of your own.
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A Pediatrician Gives a Glowing Recommendation
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2016
As a Functional Medicine practitioner (pediatric), I have studied the integrative medicine literature and read a large number of the most highly regarded books in the field. After 31 years in private pediatric practice and 11 years in academic pediatrics, in the past five years of moving to a Functional Medicine (healing) approach to chronic health problems, I have had more rewarding experiences than in the previous 42 years. The very patients I used to dread seeing in my pediatric practice – children and adolescents with depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, functional bowel disorders and the like – I love to see now. I have found Dr. Kelly Brogan’s writing, and especially now this book, to be a veritable gold mine of information that combines the best science with the wisdom of experience in applying the principles outlined in the book. Every person who struggles with depression or anxiety, and every health professional who treats them, must read this book. She presents in a compelling manner the rich scientific basis for the approaches recommended in a very user-friendly style of writing and provides practical information that can be put to use immediately. This book is among the best of the some 100 books I have read in the field over the past five years. Dr. Brogan belongs in the same company as Drs Perlmutter, Hyman, and Galland among others.Bose Ravenel, M.D., F.A.A.P.Robinhood Integrative HealthWinston Salem, North Carolina
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2016
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