Flashback Friday: Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Depression
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 15/02/2019

If depression can be induced with pro-inflammatory drugs, might an anti-inflammatory diet be effective in preventing and treating mood disorders?

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Whoa, I packed a lot into this video! If you’re as much of a sucker for evolutionary biology theory as I am, check out:
• High Blood Pressure May Be a Choice (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/high-blood-pressure-may-be-a-choice/)
• The Problem with the Paleo Diet Argument (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-problem-with-the-paleo-diet-argument/)
• Why Do We Age? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-do-we-age/)

More on endotoxins in:
• The Leaky Gut Theory of Why Animal Products Cause Inflammation (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-leaky-gut-theory-of-why-animal-products-cause-inflammation/)
• The Exogenous Endotoxin Theory (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-exogenous-endotoxin-theory/)
• Dead Meat Bacteria Endotoxemia (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dead-meat-bacteria-endotoxemia/)

I’ve got gazillions of videos on inflammation, including:
• Which Spices Fight Inflammation? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-spices-fight-inflammation/)
• How Tumors Use Meat to Grow: Xeno-Autoantibodies (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-tumors-use-meat-to-grow-xeno-autoantibodies/)
• Potassium and Autoimmune Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/potassium-and-autoimmune-disease/)
• Anti-Inflammatory Antioxidants  (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-antioxidants/)
• Modern Meat Not Ahead of the Game (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/modern-meat-not-ahead-of-the-game/)

The study showing that dramatic decrease in inflammation within weeks on a plant-based diet was the one I featured in Biblical Daniel Fast Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/biblical-daniel-fast-put-to-the-test/).

And, finally, for more on the effect diet can have on mental health:
• Fighting the Blues with Greens? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fighting-the-blues-with-greens-mao-inhibitors-in-plants/)
• Aspartame and the Brain (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspartame-and-the-brain/)
• Improving Mood Through Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/improving-mood-through-diet/)
 Exercise vs. Drugs for Depression (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/exercise-vs-drugs-for-depression)
• Do Antidepressant Drugs Really Work? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-antidepressant-drugs-really-work/) 
• Antioxidants and Depression (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Antioxidants-and-Depression)
• Can Dehydration Affect Our Mood? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-dehydration-affect-our-mood)
• Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-diets-for-improved-mood-and-productivity)
• Are Happier People Actually Healthier? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-happier-people-actually-healthier/)
• Which Foods Increase Happiness? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/foods-increase-happiness/)
• Best Food for Antidepressant-Induced Sexual Dysfunction (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-food-for-antidepressant-induced-sexual-dysfunction/)

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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