Posted by bleauberry on December 19, 2018, at 14:41:16
You and I think of inflammation as the body's response to a wound or infection. That would be acute inflammation. But what about chronic inflammation? Or in other words, silent inflammation you can't see or sense? Doing tremendous damage to neurons and genes and tissue.
How would you know if you have systemic inflammation or brain inflammation? As scientists begin to understand the body's complex systems better, a clearer picture of how silent inflammation can impact your health is emerging. Here are four of the most common symptoms:
1.Danger #1 Brain Fog. A lot of people blame this on old age. Scattered thoughts and poor concentration are indications of silent inflammation.
2.Danger #2 Cognitive Impairment. Memory and recall suffer.
3. Danger #3. Aches and pains not justified. Silent inflammation creates heightened sensitivity to common everyday pains. You may feel stiff and sore generally.
4. Danger #4 Mood Issues. Science is beginning to show the link between systemic inflammation and its negative impact on neurons, neurotransmitters, receptors, myelin sheaths, and genes.
I could suggest dozens of supplements and herbs to get over the hump you face in your own treatment. That can be too overwhelming and confusing for most people.
So I am going to suggest to everybody here my number one pick for silent inflammation and mood support at the same time - Curcumin - extract from Turmeric. It should be a standardized extract - such as the NOW brand - and start with one capsule a day for a week. Increase it later to 1 capsule twice per day. Around week 3 or 4 increase it to 1 capsule 3 times per day.
Don't look for immediate results or 6 week results. Make it a regular part of your diet. A routine. Mark 3 months on your calendar and evaluate at that time if progress has been made and how much.
Curcumin can be a helpful ingredient of a cocktail of meds/herbs, or it can be a stand alone antidepressant. In a 2014 study it performed as well as prescription antidepressants.
But don't take it as an antidepressant. Take it as an anti-inflammatory, anti-toxin. The mood benefits arrive when the systemic inflammation comes down.
At some point you'll have to figure out where the systemic inflammation is coming from. You don't just want to push back on it. You want to end it. It could be as simple as gluten sensitivity - I have actually witnessed a difficult psych patient get totally better by just going gluten free. It could be a stealth unsuspected infection such as borrelia (ticks, mosquitoes, fleas), bartonella (ticks and cats), babesia parasites (ticks), Mycoplasma (ticks), Epstein Barr virus (ticks and general). This list can be expanded. Just giving you a glimpse of the enemy out there. They all cause psychiatric symptoms. Big time. And treatment resistant - because no amount of serotonin reuptake is going to hurt them!
Systemic inflammation. Learn more about it. Whether you are on prozac, Zoloft, lexapro, Xanax, depakote, ability, seroquel, zyprexa, nortriptyline, ritalin, or whatever, your outcome will be improved a little, or a lot, or totally cured, by focusing on systemic inflammation in addition to everything else you are into.
I truly hope this will be of assistance to as many people as possible because there is way to much suffering going on out there and that is just not acceptable in my book. You have to push back against that. And if the meds alone aren't doing that, then you have to do other stuff in addition to the meds. And you have to start somewhere. With a myriad of confusing choices, my journey has taught me that maybe one of the best places to start is with Curcumin added to your cocktail.
It is supposedly a weak MAO-A and MAO-B inhibitor. So some caution is advised, though I personally see the risk as being extremely low, almost non-existent. Because it's so weak in that regard. The caution is built into the suggested dosing - ramping up gradually over a month.
If you have psych symptoms that are not being satisfactorily treated then you almost certainly have systemic inflammation at the root of that. In my view. Science is quickly catching up to that.
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