Dr. J and Evan on Depression Root Causes

The Evan Brand Show

Evan Brand, BCHN, FNTP

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

According to the CDC, depression is now the #1 leading cause of disability in the USA. I predicted this years ago when my podcast first hit the airwaves. The influence of social media, comparison, and envy are just a fraction of the issues the population is facing as a whole. As you know I dealt with depression for over a decade. It wasn't until I discovered that I had various parasitic, bacterial, and yeast infections in my body that were causing deficiencies in important amino acids that fuel neurotransmitter production. Once I was able to heal my gut, I saw positive improvements in my energy, mood, sleep, and more. Listen to this podcast with Dr. Justin and me as we delve into some of the most common and major root causes of depression. HINT: It's not a deficiency of Zoloft! Thanks to our sponsor Ahtrantil, get 10% off at lovemytummy.com/evan using the code Evan at checkout.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Evan Brand, functional medicine practitioner and nutritional therapist.
0:05.6	Today we're talking with my good friend, Dr. Justin Marcajani, about depression.
0:09.7	Him and I deal with clients with depression all the time. You know, I dealt with depression for 15, 20 years of my life, and I had this cloud over my head.
0:18.0	My energy was affected, my mood, obviously, but also people don't
0:21.7	understand that your sleep can be affected as well. Your sex drive can be affected. Basically,
0:25.8	everything gets depressed across the board. It's not just the cognitive aspect. So we're going to
0:30.3	get into that today, talk about some of the major root causes. For me, it was parasites and other
0:34.6	types of infections that were causing me to have malabsorption
0:37.7	problems.
0:38.6	Those malabsorption problems caused me to not digest my food as well.
0:42.1	That's why I had vertical lines, vertical ridges on the surface of my fingernails, and I knew
0:46.1	something was off.
0:47.3	So if you suspect you have underlying issues, reach out, get yourself checked, whether it's with
0:51.7	Justin, whether it's with myself, reach out.
0:54.2	Get yourself help because there's likely some underlying things that you just haven't found
0:58.0	yet, like myself. And once I fix these issues, my depression magically went away. So if you want to
1:03.5	schedule an intro call with Megan, my nutritional therapist on staff, that's a 15-minute free call.
1:08.7	You can do that at my site, Evanbrand.com, or if you want to
1:11.6	skip the wait and move right into care with me, you can book that one-hour call, and I look
1:16.1	forward to helping you out real soon. Now, a couple announcements. I've updated that opt-in box.
1:21.4	A lot of you guys emailed. You said, hey, I have no clue what you're talking about as an opt-in email box to get notifications for your functional
1:27.7	medicine program. Where is that? So I updated the text. So when you're on my site, whether you're
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