288: Why We're Depressed & What to Do About It?

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

I've spent most my career researching, studying and teaching physical health and wellness only to realize that mental health is the big elephant in the room. In many cases, diet and exercise help, of course; but depression, anxiety and trauma wounds can dig so deep that a more comprehensive, mind-body approach to healing is needed.

On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet a pioneer in Mind-Body Medicine who has worked with everyone from war-torn refugees to leaders of state. His insights into the mental health pandemic will help you and those you love better manage emotional challenges.

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Listen & Learn:

15% of the adult population has clinical depression
Why some depression is reactionary and totally expected while chronic or clinical depression persists past reasonable triggers
How something as simple as a nutritional deficiency in vitamin D or omega-3's can trigger depression
When does empathetic behavior become enabling behavior for depressive tendencies?
3 types of meditation: concentration, mindfulness, and expressive

ABOUT OUR GUEST

James S. Gordon, MD, a Harvard educated psychiatrist, is a world-renowned expert in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma. He is the Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine and a Clinical Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at Georgetown Medical School.

Dr. Gordon served as the first Chairman of the Program Advisory Council to NIH's Office of Alternative Medicine and as Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy under Presidents Clinton and G.W. Bush. He is the author of, Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression

Nutritional Tip of the Week:

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0:00.0	This week's Yoga Talk Show is brought to you by HealthIQ.com.
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0:26.9	To see if you qualify for a lower rate life insurance for healthy people,
0:31.0	visit heathic.com forward slash yoga body, or else use the promotional
0:37.1	code yoga when you talk to a health IQ agent.
0:40.4	Here are some statistics from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the
0:48.5	nonprofit group. They estimate that 43 million people in the US will experience mental illness in a given year.
0:56.3	About 4% of those will be very serious, interfering or limiting major life activities,
1:01.3	so messing up
1:03.0	work.
1:04.0	With kids, 13 to 18, pretty similar one in five, a little bit more,
1:08.0	about 21% of people are having mental illness.
1:11.0	People don't realize, but about 1% of people have schizophrenia in the U.S.
1:15.0	About 2.5% have bipolar disorder.
1:18.0	Nearly 7% of the population in the U.S. will have a major depressive episode every year and about
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