Summary: The Pipeman interviews Sara Banta. They are going to talk about how to beat depression. With everything going on depression has rose. Depression is different than anxiety. There is no way to diagnose depression medically. BDF is Brain derived neurotrophic factor. More BDF is good. Gives you mental alertness. Gives you more dopamine and serotonin. Happy you're having the Blues sleeping more than normal we're anxieties more of chronic stress worry panic attacks but what was shocking to me is there's actually no way to diagnose depression physically except for there's a strong link between low BDNF and depression and you're probably wondering what BDNF is well BDNF is brain derived neurotrophic factor and in the health space I've always heard about beating up that you want more of it more is good more makes you smarter and your brain more flexible and memories better higher thinking it reduces inflammation in the body gives you that mental alertness it's also increases the absorption of neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin I imagine that those are the field so we want those hormones to be high and I want to also before we go further with antidepressants the way they work is they block the receptor sites for serotonin in these feel good hormones so that your brain thinks there's more serotonin circling in in the blood and says oh my gosh well we're good we've got plenty so then what happens is it actually shuts down the production of serotonin even more because it thinks it's got plenty so then someone says well I’m going to get off my antidepressant and they get off of serotonin in their body. Falls off a Cliff because now they're not even making the amount that they were making when they decided to get themselves onto it and a depressant. So that's something to think about. If you are currently taking an antidepressant, you don't ever want to quit cold Turkey. you want it to do it with the guidance of a doctor and with some other natural remedies that we're going to be talking about in the background building up and natural production. I mean why are you taking the drug where the side effect is what you're trying to avoid that it's help with your depression. And if you've heard me on this show before, a lot of these things you've heard me talk about for other facts, like you know, beating chronic disease, helping your thyroid health, helping your metabolism, helping your physical energy, will all those factors. If you think about it. you have low physical energy or a low thyroid. I talk about accelerating your body, mind and spirit, cause they're all connected, but the first one is the accelerating iodine and iodine deficiency is the number one predictor of depression. It is also related to that low metabolism, low metabolism, low physical energy, mental fog, and chronic fatigue. And I don't increase, is that BDNF and opens your pineal gland, which in some religions they call your third eye and helps you have a stronger connection to God or your higher self. And all these factors can lead someone from being depressed to feeling better and elevating their mood. Opening their pineal gland, helping them feel more awake, increasing their energy, increasing their thyroid health because you need iodine for T4 and T3, that's the four and the three molecules of iodine in those in those thyroid numbers, and without enough iodine. You're not going to have the building blocks to have your thyroid work and produce energy. The other thing is, is that accelerating increases that ATP and number that we've talked about in the past, which is true, cellular energy. And as that number increases significantly with the iodine your cells. Themselves are going to have more energy in them, whether it's in your brain or your body, and this second one is something that is cool. It's the accelerated gold and gold has been known for thousands of years to help with anxiety depression, calming the mind, increasing focus, concentration and...
