Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast that delivers cutting-edge food is medicine solutions for optimal health.

Ali Miller is a nutrition expert sought up by the media in America's top medical institutes

for her revolutionary functional medicine interventions.

From disease treatment to prevention, every episode will empower you with ways to put yourself

back in control of your health. Please know, the topics discussed are for educational purposes

only. Now welcome, Integrative Dietitians, Allie Miller, and her co-host Becky You.

Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast.

You are joining us for episode 22, and this is going to be a really important conversation

connecting the links of depression in the immune

system and laying it into the constructs of the current pandemic, which I think has influenced

depression for a lot of people. Yeah, most definitely. I think that today's conversation is really

important. And I honestly can't believe

Becky that we've gotten this far 200 plus episodes in doing so many episodes on mental health

and neurotransmitters, anxiety, adrenals, really touching on in many ways depression through the

HPA access and microbiome and again all

of the kind of mechanisms I just noted but we haven't really dug just into the topic of depression

and at this time of the year you know chatting with you guys in January we are about a year

into the pandemic and we're looking at potential additional

lockdowns. We are looking at the impact of seasonal depressive disorder and, you know,

lack of sunshine and so many other mechanisms going on. A lot of people out of work, a lot of people with school closures and so much more.

And really, I think when it comes down to it, any time that you feel out of direct control of your choices, of your life, you know, like you can't plan for a trip in six months.

You can't select what you're going to do in the next couple weeks or even goodness in the coming days. It can be really

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