Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Depression

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 that one!

If you’re as much of a sucker for evolutionary biology theory as I am, check out:
High Blood Pressure May Be a Choice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/high-...)
The Problem With the Paleo Diet Argument (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-p...)
Why Do We Age? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-d...)

More on endotoxins in:
• The Leaky Gut Theory of Why Animal Products Cause Inflammation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-l...)
• The Exogenous Endotoxin Theory (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-e...)
• Dead Meat Bacteria Endotoxemia (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dead-...)

I got gazillions of videos on inflammation. Here are a few:
• Which Spices Fight Inflammation? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/which...)
• How Tumors Use Meat to Grow: Xeno-Autoantibodies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-t...)
• Potassium and Autoimmune Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/potas...)
• Anti-Inflammatory Antioxidants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-...)
• Modern Meat Not Ahead of the Game (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/moder...)

That study that showed 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 (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bibli....

And finally for more on the effect diet can have on mental health:
• Fighting the Blues with Greens? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fight...)
• Aspartame and the Brain (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspar...)
• Improving Mood Through Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/impro...)
• Exercise vs. Drugs for Depression (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/exerc...)
• Do Antidepressant Drugs Really Work? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-an...)
• Antioxidants and Depression (http://nutrititionfacts.org/video/Ant...)
• Can Dehydration Affect Our Mood? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-d...)
• Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant...)

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