10 Nutritional Deficiencies That Cause Depression and Mood Disorders

Depression and mood disorders are devastating health problems today. When you go to your doctor, their answer is often a prescription for one of the various popular anti-depressant drugs. Many doctors do not investigate for metabolic or nutritional deficiencies that may be the ‘real problem’ for your depression. Patients have no idea why they feel so awful or where to start looking for the answer. They expect their doctor to give them real solutions. Instead they get drugs as the easy fix. Drugs are not an easy fix because of the serious side effects that come with taking them. Doctors prescribe these drugs from information they get from the drug sales rep which often is only part-truth. The side effects and dangers of these drugs are down-played or left out altogether.
http://blogs.naturalnews.com/10-nutritional-deficiencies-that-cause-depression-and-mood-disorders/

My Thoughts on Offshoring

I just received another solicitation for me to offshore my administrative tasks “for up to 70% off” what I would pay to have them performed locally. It’s a good thing I can still put food on the table and maintain my integrity. I was able to respond like this:
G’day Glenn,
Using a person’s first name got you a response. Most don’t do that so it makes it very easy to just hit the delete button.
I think it is important to balance making a $ with one’s social responsibilities
And I don’t see how it is socially responsible for me to sack an employee here in Australia and give that work to someone overseas in order for me to make more money or to sell my product at a cheaper price so someone else can report a better profit at the end of the year.
I think there is a large element of unfairness in buying labour at an artificially low price and selling one’s product in markets that can afford the higher price.
In view of the fact that globalisation as a concept was formulated to make every country interdependent and unable to stand on their own two feet and resist the pressures of the criminal elite in charge of the international banking system and the fact that Australia is deeply in debt as a result of treasonously gross mismanagement by politicians elected to represent the people, I think it behooves me to politely decline your offer.
All the best.
Tom Grimshaw

A great start to the year- New Year's Day – 2014

I want to congratulate you for finding me and share a win with you!
Have you ever had the feeling that you just KNOW something? Despite a lack of any previous experience or data in the area? Well, knowingness is a spiritual perception senior to the physical universe. In fact, as a spiritual being, you have the potential (most often not attained) of knowing anything, past, present or future.
Well, I did a personality test a while ago. The summary analysis point was that I was an “intuitive investigator”. That I was able to use my intuition or knowingness to determine a research direction or path.
And it’s true. I LOVE learning and researching. I find it exciting.
Five and a half years ago, when I started getting people report more energy from the food bars I started making for my daughter, I embarked on a path of research towards combining as many high nutrient foods as I could into an easily consumable form.
Ever since, there is hardly a month goes past that I do not receive either anecdotal or scientific evidence that proves the validity of that decision.
Today I was reading my emails. A promo for an anti-aging formula was amongst them. This new anti-aging drink contains a mere 13 of the ingredients in my top bars and powders:
Cranberry
Blackberry
Cherry
Pomegranate
Raspberry
Bilberry
Blueberry
Elderberry
Green Tea
Resveratrol
Pterostilbene
Magnesium
Potassium
This is the list of benefits reported by some of its users:
“But the people who have discovered this anti-aging secret report feeling younger every day. Along with*:
• Vigorous energy
• Better sleep
• Weight management
• Healthy blood tests
• A robust immune system
• Blood pressure support
• Stronger libido
• Less allergies
• Greater mental clarity
• And much more…
*Results not typical for all users.
Emerging evidence from in vitro and animal research suggests that it:
Reduces free-radical damage and protects your cells. Heart Health
Helps keep your heart young and healthy.
Supports healthy cholesterol levels naturally.
And that’s not all. Combined with other science-backed nutrients, this wonder compound could help you:
Wake up vibrant every day.
Have boundless energy that carries you throughout the entire day—no caffeine needed.
Be more productive and finish each day feeling satisfied with your accomplishments.
Feel more positive, reeling with good energy.
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But why does it work so well?
While our biochemists were researching the formula, they hit upon a massive breakthrough in the anti-aging field.
It’s simple. But it’s also revolutionary on a nutritional level.
You see, the body requires a certain balance to function properly. It is not that we need more of some nutrients and less of others. It is that we need certain basic nutrients, together, to get the maximum benefit from everything we eat. Makes sense, right?
Well, consider some of the changes the body can face when it ages. Problems regulating blood flow and processing sugar… difficulty with digestion … changes in bone density… muscle fatigue and weakness…You’ll find there are two specific nutrients that support every one of these functions in the body.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition declared that these two nutrients, along with certain fruits and vegetables, could help maintain bone density in the elderly… And that’s just the beginning.
On the flip side, when we’re low on either of these two key minerals, it has a definite effect on our health. They are that essential.
I’m talking about magnesium and potassium.
Magnesium is mostly stored in our bones, and some in our muscle. In fact, its beneficial effect on the body’s biggest muscle, the heart, has been noted by researchers at Harvard and Oxford and was reported in the New York Times almost a decade ago.
Potassium is essential for the proper functioning of the heart, kidneys, muscles, nerves, and digestive system.
And once again, it’s the combination here that really matters. Some studies have indicated that there is an important inter-relationship between the two nutrients.
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Know that with every step you take, your body’s inner defenses are hard at work keeping you healthy.
Everything that’s good for you gets magnified when you include the magnesium and potassium your cells need…
Antioxidants that protect your cells… …help keep your mind sharp… …and your memory intact… …are now put to maximum use.
Polyphenols that help promote healthy levels of inflammation and keep blood flowing strong… …can be magnified
Superfoods that keep your immune system strong and healthy… …work like a charm
Minerals that strengthen bones, maintain muscle tone, and keep your heart naturally healthy… …keep your body feeling younger and more energized”
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OK. End of their advertisement!
How am I going with it? I had a lovely young lady call in last night. During the conversation she mentioned to me that she will need some more Nutri-Blast in a week or so. Jem volunteered that since she started taking it she is more instantly awake when she wakes up.
As my son would say, “Booyeah! Mission accomplished.”

10 Nutritional Deficiencies That Cause Depression and Mood Disorders

Depression and mood disorders are devastating health problems today. When you go to your doctor, their answer is often a prescription for one of the various popular anti-depressant drugs. Many doctors do not investigate for metabolic or nutritional deficiencies that may be the ‘real problem’ for your depression. Patients have no idea why they feel so awful or where to start looking for the answer. They expect their doctor to give them real solutions. Instead they get drugs as the easy fix. Drugs are not an easy fix because of the serious side effects that come with taking them. Doctors prescribe these drugs from information they get from the drug sales rep which often is only part-truth. The side effects and dangers of these drugs are down-played or left out altogether.
http://blogs.naturalnews.com/10-nutritional-deficiencies-that-cause-depression-and-mood-disorders/

Educate and Inform

Educate and Inform
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
This is the key. This is how you achieve victory over the corrupt system WITHOUT having to resort to violence or civil war.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War

If You Ever Feel Alone, Read This

My heart really went out to a girl tonight. over on VacTruth’s Facebook page a mother wrote:
“Okay, I need to vent. I am the mother of a child who was injured by the MMR vaccination. He has a rare form of epilepsy called Doose Syndrome. I have made it my mission to share our story of pain and if healing. However, whenever the topic of my refusal to vaccinate him, or my fully un-vaccinated 15 month old, I am ridiculed and judged.
I have been told I am being neglectful and even uneducated! This being said from the same people who will read the back of their cereal boxes but not the inserts of vaccinations! How do you all keep your spirits up when being so deeply ridiculed? I have even considered NOT sharing our story to protect my family from such harsh and uninformed judgement and hate.
I have no one in my personal life who opts for no vaccinations and am feeling pretty alone here. I feel like one person trying to fend off a pack of wolves!”
For what it’s worth, I replied:
OK mum, please accept a spiritual hug from me!
And another!
I feel your pain.
I well recall 44 years ago trying to convince my immediate senior to implement a change that would have led to greater efficiency and more production only to be told, “No.”
After rephrasing the proposal only to be greeted by the same response I asked, “Why?”
The answer I received rocked my world, “I don’t want to.”
It was my first perception that there was more to the mind than I knew of.
Since then I have studied much and learned volumes.
One of the things I learned is that there are some people so deeply inculcated into the absolute necessity of following authority that they will defend all opposing data and logic with the most extreme vilification. Nothing whatsoever to do with you.
As a matter of fact, a great many people go through life not even looking. You are obviously prepared to look and question. That is so far above where most people are at. Did you see the recent post on Facebook? “Common sense is so rare it should be classified as a super power!”
The ability to set aside one’s opinions, prejudices, beliefs and even data, to actually look at new data is a remarkably high ability.
To then be careful to retain the conviction of your own observation despite it being in conflict with any personal vested interest and despite opposition from others around one is a very high state of personal integrity. Congratulations!
Expect no less than what you are experiencing for that is the low state of most individuals who have been for decades indoctrinated into the subservience to “authority knows best”. For more data on this read Charlotte Iserbit’s book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/?
If I may make a recommendation. You mission is not with those people. Sure, I could give you techniques for chiselling cracks in their armour of prejudice, and, if you get really competent with the people whose minds are not so firmly shut that you wish to tackle the hard nuts, come back to me and I will share those techniques with you.
I see your mission to be with those who are not so concrete hardened in their views. Those who are closer to your level of awareness. Those who will listen to your story. Sure they might ask a probing question or ten. But it from interest, not an attempt to find something to discredit.
Any time you are attacked, do two simple things.
1. Say to yourself, “They are not my target public.”
2. Erase that person from your communication lines.
Older societies had a method for dealing with trouble makers like that. They were outcast from the tribe.
No malice. No hatred. No lack of impetus to your forward progress. For you are the fire truck and your mission is to not be distracted by the curs yapping at your wheels. It is to apply some water to douse the deadly fires that consume the health of too many of our young.