WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT (TM): DEPRESSION: The Breakthrough Integrative Approach for Effective Treatment (What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About...

by Michael B. Schachter, Deborah Mitchell

Part of the bestselling What Your Doctor May Not Tell You series, an informative, detailed guide to understanding and treating depression.

Depression is a serious illness that can often have detrimental effects on one's personal and professional life -but it doesn't have to. With proper treatment, one can conquer this mental monster and lead a fulfilling and productive life. What's more, expensive prescription drugs with sometimes debilitating side effects may very well not be the answer. In this breakthrough programme, Dr Michael Schachter offers his proven protocol to treat depression naturally by rebalancing and repairing out of sync and inefficient neurotransmitters in the brain. Readers are guided towards relief through potent, safe natural supplements that directly affect brain chemistry.

Combining more traditional treatments with new proven remedies, Dr Schachter's programme the right amino acids that can help balance brain chemistry; how to easily and effectively control the amount of serotonin, dopamine, and glutamine in the brain - without drugs; the importance of Omega-3 intake and the role of mercury and fluoride toxicity can play in depression and much more. Dr Schachter leaves no stone unturned on the path to treating depression safely, effectively and naturally.

Genres: Health, Medical

416 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2006

Reviews

[Monica Willyard Moen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book shows how improving your diet, taking supplements, and exercise can improve your depression and in some cases remove the need for medication. In other cases, it can help a person reduce the need for medication. Many of the tips and techniques can be used by people who have bipolar disorder as well.

[Christina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, this book deserves more than three stars, but I don't actually suffer from depression, so it went into more detail than I wanted. I'm sure that if I had a more pressing desire to know more, then I would be interested in the in-depth details on things like diagnostic tests and psychotropic drug side-effects. It really is good information, and the author does an excellent job of taking complicated processes (like hormonal reactions) and explaining them in terms even I understood clearly.

This is a very comprehensive book including information about alternative therapies, nutritional guidelines, causes of depression, choosing a doctor, how prescription medications work, and much more. I read it because I have a son who occasionally shows signs of depression and I want to address the problem nutritionally. This book had well-researched information and I found it very helpful.

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the table of optimal vitamin doses (p. 174), the emphasis on feeling well through eating real food (see especially ch. 7), and learning of the idea of essential sugars (p. 196). I appreciate the word-explanation for biological processes.

[Asha · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must have book for everyone caring about his/her physical and mental health.