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Depression

Chronic depression can make you feel that life is not worth living. So, unfortunately can long-term use of antidepressants with their attendant (often serious) side effects.

Luckily, dietary changes, vitamins and nutritional supplements, and even yoga offer hope and a healthier way to lift the clouds.

Quick Reads

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Try yoga for… Seasonal Affective Disorder

Yoga can reduce symptoms and improve mood.

Yoga Poses to Stave Off SAD

Seasonal affective disorder symptoms can be eased with these yoga poses.

SAD?

Winter doesn't have to equal depression. Learn easy Fixes for Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Lift Depression With Meditation

Meditation and cognitive therapy offer hope for depression.

Shower the Blues Away

A shower might be just as effective in treating mild depression as mood-enhancing drugs.

Beat Golden-Year Blues

Beat golden-year blues with good nutrition.

Reiki can relieve teen angst

Lift Brain Fog

Here are five common causes of “brain fog” and what you can do to bring back the sunshine.

Heal Thyself—Biofeedback at Home

You can now experience biofeedback at home or when on the go. Here’s a look At some popular computer-based biofeedback programs.

Smiles all around from St. John’s wort

A plant people have used for centuries to ward off evil spirits has a new stamp of approval from today’s researchers working on depression relief.

Patch up Your Psyche

The FDA OK’d the sale of the first-ever skin patch to relieve symptoms of depression, despite some concerns about side effects.

Chromium supplements, Mega vitamin B12

In a small double-blind, placebo-controlled study, researchers gave 113 depressed patients either 600 mcg of chromium (as chromium picolinate) or placebos daily for eight weeks.

Vive la Différence

Women and men never seem to tire of enumerating their differences.

Inner Balance—Take a Moment

Sometimes laughter really is the best medicine.

Awaken to the Walnut

The healthy walnut now has even more to boast about. In addition to protein, minerals, and omega-3 fats, it also contains melatonin.

When Dads Get the Baby Blues

For years we’ve known that a mom’s postpartum depression can affect her baby, dad's can get depressed too.

Natural Ways to Ward off Winter Depression

Does your mood darken right along with winter daylight?

Exercise Performance Enhanced by Herbal Extract

New research published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism suggests taking an extract of Rhodiola rosea

More Power to the Wort

Even people who are seriously depressed may benefit from Saint-John’s-wort.

The Test That Fails

Vitamin B-12 doesn’t make headlines the way C and E do, but new evidence suggests it should.

Read All About It

This section delves deep into the heart of the matter. Click below to read in-depth investigations, article features, cover stories, and the inspirational journeys of others.

Eat to Beat the Blues

Healthier foods can actually boost your mood.

Spice for the Spirits

Lift your spirits with frankincense.

Magnetic Personality

Magnet therapy is gaining acceptance for treatment of depression.

Breathe to Beat the Blues

Breathing can blow depression away.

Confessions of a Sugar Freak

One woman connected her bad moods and fatigue to the foods she ate. Find out how food affects you and make mood-mending changes.

The Healthy Palette

Can expressing your creativity make you healthier? New research and clinical practice show how activities such as painting, dance, and storytelling help people heal and grow.

Ending Mood Disorders Without Drugs

Holistic treatments for depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder can remove the physical and psychological obstacles to healing.

The Other Youth Drug Problem

Teaching our kids to “just say no” may keep them off street drugs, but what do we do when the schools, government, and pharmaceutical companies partner to push another kind of dangerous drug?

Turning SAD Into GLAD

Beat the winter doldrums with these natural treatments for seasonal affective disorder.

Get Rhythm

Unleashing your inner drummer may rock you back to health.

Healthy in the City

Fast-paced life getting to you? Get on the slow track for a more balanced lifestyle.

Yoga for Self-Confidence

Yoga poses will uncover the strong, fluid, healthy and sexy person inside you.

RX-Yoga and PMS

A daily yoga practice and a few lifestyle changes can help mitigate the effects.

Eating Disorders After 35

Think anorexia and bulimia are conditions only young women face? Think again. Many women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s still struggle with these afflictions. But now there’s help.

A Broken Dancer

A dancer’s path to wholeness which includes acupuncture, pilates, and an allergy free diet.

Depression and heart health

Having a broken heart can be more than just hard luck; it might put you at greater risk for a host of heart issues.

Healthy Aging

Aging is inevitable, but a loss of health isn’t—a fact that many people are realizing as they search for ways to age gracefully and healthfully.

fitness—child’s play

You may lead an active lifestyle—but what about your kids?

High Anxiety

With a little understanding and a few coping techniques, like biofeedback, deep breathing, and diet changes, you can corral galloping worries.

Blossom into Health with Flower Essences

Flowers don’t just seduce your nose—their essences belong in your emotional first aid kit.

Ask The Doctor

Everyone can use good advice. Below, we've gathered top queries and answers for you. Don't see the answer to your question? Email us and our team of experts with respond!

Not So SAD

Effective, natural therapies can directly address the lack of light and its consequences that precipitate SAD.

Relief from Seasonal Anxiety

Every fall I start feeling anxious and crave sugar. Why does this happen in autumn?

Battling Teenage Depression

Traditional Chinese Medicine's solutions for teenage depression.

Depression

St. John’s wort's effectiveness for depression in the longer term

On Emotion

Question: What can we do to help regain emotional balance?

Recipes

Isn't it wonderful that your food can be your "medicine"? All the recipes below include ingredients that act positively on your body for this condition. The bonus? Each one is delicious!

Fruity Good Shakes (Serves 2-3 children)

Kid-tested recipes to help manage ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) by delivering healthy nutrients.

Favorite Salmon (serves 4)

Kid-tested recipes to help manage ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) by delivering healthy nutrients.

Refreshing Massage Oil

Essential oil recipes to mend your mood, cheer you up and ease your stress.

Return to Earth Foot Massage Oil

Essential oil recipes to mend your mood, cheer you up and ease your stress.

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