The Mood Cure
We're in a bad mood epidemic, but Julia Ross's plan provides a natural cure. Drawing on thirty years of experience, she presents breakthrough solutions to overcoming depression, anxiety, irritability, stress, and other negative emotional states that are diminishing the quality of our lives. Her comprehensive program is based on the use of four mood- building amino acids and other surprisingly potent nutrient supplements, plus a diet rich in good-mood foods such as protein, healthy fat, and certain key vegetables. Including an individualized mood-type questionnaire, The Mood Cure has all the tools to help you get started today and feel better tomorrow.
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- A good story is Rich Roll’s Finding Ultra. Or a good technical read on nutrition is Julia Ross’s The Mood Cure. But I read about 50 non fiction books cover to cover each year, and learning about your health is a big area, made harder by the reality that for every good book on the topic there are 19 others that are bad. There are lots of bad fads and actors, and they can include pill pushing doctors, sadly. The only real way to figure out how to get healthy is to experiment until you succeed at it. I guess one piece of specific advice I’d give, is if you have long term high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, take your doctor’s advice and take a statin if they recommend it. I think that was a huge boost. Also, when you want online advice on health, add ‘site:.gov’ to your search so that you get good sources and not health blogs.
Ultimately I think you’ve got to come up with a good model of your physiology based on uncontroversial science. So in the case of your training, you’d figure out you are draining yourself of more than sodium chloride but rather the broad spectrum of minerals that you typically sweat out, so your ‘salt intake’ is a multi mineral supplement and not actual salt. Which is what I imagine you figured out.
- I personally have tried and agree with L-Theanine to reduce coffee anxiety without killing its alertness power, and anxiety certainly spikes a day after a night out drinking. But I think we are missing here the most important levers; 1) a steady regimen of well-scheduled exercises and injury-preventing recovery work, 2) a well-scheduled nutritionally balanced diet free of inflammatory products. Julia Ross’s The Mood Cure goes into specifics for the latter, for example sufficient L-Tryptophan is important for a feeling of well-being. I think scheduling is key because stress increases with energy unpredictability.
- In my opinion, the best benefit of fish oil and Omega threes and vitamin D are in combating depression. This article did not touch on that. There is pretty good evidence that fish oil is one of the best supplements for combating depression because it is used directly in construction of neurotransmitter pathways.
I highly recommend reading Dr Mark Hyman's book the Ultramind Solution. It's loaded with great info regarding nutrition and how it affects your brain. It is truly life changing information. He also had a podcast called Broken Brain that is worth checking out.
Julia Ross' the Mood Cure is good too, the not as detailed (tho that can be good if you are feeling overwhelmed).
- Do you only recommend prescription drugs? I'm asking because dietary supplements have reportedly also worked for mood disorders. See e.g. the book of Julia Ross, "The Mood Cure".
- In short, I would recommend supplementing with L-Tryptophan and DL-Phenylalanine. Tryptophan before bed, and DLPA first thing in the AM. To understand why I recommend these things, read the book "The Mood Cure" by Julia Ross.
- I had been feeling a little blue the past few months. I didn't want to take an anti-depressant (too heavy and too many side effects).
I read this book : http://www.amazon.com/The-Mood-Cure-Program-Emotions-Today/d...
She basically advocates for the supplements 5htp and St John's Wort taken three times a day (empty stomach ideally).
Her theory is that a lot of our depressive moods are due to nutritional deficiencies and that the amino acids that help with serotonin production are easily depleted (via drinking coffee, alcohol, aspartame, stresses, and lack of sleep).
Nonetheless, I am feeling better, and feeling like I am making incremental improvements each week. Much less anxiety.
No side effects to report (sexual, clouded brain syndrome).
St John's Wort: http://examine.com/supplements/Hypericum+perforatum/
5-HTP http://examine.com/supplements/5-HTP/
L-Tyrosene is also advocated in the book as a motivational booster (increases dopamine). It's effects feel like a strong cup of coffee.
I'm not in any way connected to this book or these supplements; just happy to share something that worked for me regarding depression and anxiety.
