Controversial Thoughts: Can an animal based diet help with depression/anxiety?

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Paul Saladino, MD

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🗓️ 17 September 2021

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You bet it can!

The current paradigm of mental illness focuses on neurotransmitter derangements, but these are not the root of the problem in depression/anxiety etc., they are a manifestation of underlying inflammation and metabolic dysfunction.

Yes. These imbalances underlie almost all chronic illness, yet western medicine sadly continues to focus on symptoms rather than addressing the root cause.

What is causing the metabolic dysfunction and inflammation in many mental illnesses? Find out in this week's Controversial Thoughts video.

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0:00.0	What is up you guys? Welcome to another edition of controversial thoughts. I want to talk about
0:07.9	connections between diet and mental illness today. This is a fascinating concept so often
0:15.2	mental illness, whether it's depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, psychotic disorders,
0:20.7	our thought of as purely the arrangements of neurotransmitters. But there is a large body of evidence,
0:28.1	a very large body of evidence suggesting that these disorders are much more than neurotransmitter
0:34.7	arrangements or and that the neurotransmitter arrangements in these illnesses are often secondary
0:41.0	to an underlying inflammation and underlying inappropriate activation of the immune system in the
0:47.7	brain, cerebrospinal fluid, the spinal cord, these are all contiguous and bathed in cerebrospinal fluid.
0:54.2	So if the neurotransmitter arrangements are not the original piece of this puzzle and we're just
1:00.4	treating something down the line like we always do in medicine, we treat the symptoms without
1:03.7	actually treating the root cause, what might be the root cause of these mental illnesses? And so
1:09.2	in this video, I want to talk about the large amount of evidence, the preponderance of evidence
1:13.2	suggesting that the root cause is inflammation. And I would suggest autoimmunity in some sense that
1:18.7	the immune system is incorrectly responding or reacting in the brain and spinal cord,
1:23.2	leading to these disorders, leading to derangements and neurotransmitters, leading to other problems.
1:27.3	And that treating neurotransmitters is the worst way to address these illnesses. But if your
1:31.6	psychiatrist, if your physician is giving you medications or you know someone who's being treated
1:36.5	and their physician is only working with neurotransmitters and not thinking about neuroinflammation
1:43.0	and microglial cells and changes in microglial cell phenotypes, but they are essentially
1:48.8	30 years in the past. They are operating on 30-year-old information and not thinking about what we know
1:54.2	today. And to be fair, mainstream Western medicine ignores many of these concepts which are
1:58.7	blatantly in the spotlight. They're very clearly demonstrated in the research. And so from that,
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