The lifestyle of modern human beings have drastically changed in over a period of 100 years. Nowadays, people work for 8 hours in their computers sitting. This sedentary lifestyle may feel like the best thing. Well, it’s not.
You may think comfort is a good thing, but you won’t feel happy if you are comfortable the whole time. In other words, watching TV or playing video games all day long doesn’t necessarily make you happy.
Depression is a pretty serious mental health issue today. It has become an epidemic. The question is how did people start to suffer from depression that didn’t even existed before?
I think the reason will shock most people. Our lifestyle has drastically changed compared to our ancestors.
We don’t have to walk miles and miles in order to get food anymore. These days people get sick because of over eating. There is a saying, “We don’t stop moving because we get old, we get old because we stop moving.”
We rarely do physical exercise these days. Exercise strengthens all parts of the brain tissue, including gray matter. This makes your brain more resistant to stress and aging.
So if you stop working out, your gray matter may take a hit, potentially setting the stage for problems processing information and thinking critically.
This also means that, if all people start doing exercise then Pyschiatrists will no longer be needed. The effect of exercise on depression is far more superior than all of the modern medicines combined.
A Psychiatrist will prescribe you antidepressants, that overtime make things even worse. Psychiatric drugs sales worldwide are more than $76 billion a year. Psychiatry’s “therapies” have caused millions of deaths.
Depression is seen even in young people today. Today, Phychiatry has become a reputed profession. Phychiarty should not be a profession at all. They don’t know the condition of a patients brain and they simply put him/her on a medication. The medicines do work but for the mild depression only and the side effects are terrible.
The commonly prescribed antidepressants is Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). They can ease symptoms of moderate to severe depression, are relatively safe and typically cause fewer side effects than other types of antidepressants do.
How SSRIs work?
SSRIs treat depression by increasing levels of serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is one of the chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that carry signals between brain nerve cells (neurons).
SSRIs block the reabsorption (reuptake) of serotonin into neurons. This makes more serotonin available to improve transmission of messages between neurons. SSRIs are called selective because they mainly affect serotonin, not other neurotransmitters.
Natural Solution to Depression
The solution to depression is simple than you think. Start exercising 30 minutes a day from today and its a guarantee that your depression will disappear in a week.
Aerobic exercises, like running, walking, cycling and swimming is the most effective type of exercise for increasing happiness.
Aerobic exercise can create new brain cells and improve overall brain performance. A tough run increases levels of a brain-derived protein in the body, believed to help with decision-making, higher thinking and learning.
Running also rewires the brain. This is the reason why your depression goes away after a week of exercise. Rewiring the brain means the brain is becoming normal and the depleted receptors are being restored.
In case of mild to severe depression the receptors of the neurotransmitters like dopamine and seratonin are depleted in the brain. This explains whey people with depresssion fell sad and unmotivated all the time. Domaine is the chemical of pleasure, drive and motivation. On the other hand Seratonin is the chemical for happiness.
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How are Dopamine and Seratonin receptors depleted?
Stress is a major factor in case of the depletion of the neurotransmitters receptors. Other factors include drinking alcohol, drug addiction, watching explicit contents and chronic masturbation.
Before the persona computers and smartphones came, people spent more time with their friends playing, hanging out. Nowadays, when family go together in a restaurant, they are busy in their smartphones rather than having conversations.
