Comments on: Food insecurity as a consequence or cause of mood problems? https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2016/01/food-insecurity-as-a-consequence-or-cause-of-mood-problems/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Sun, 18 Feb 2018 18:57:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 By: Looking Glass https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2016/01/food-insecurity-as-a-consequence-or-cause-of-mood-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-6533 Thu, 07 Jan 2016 20:02:45 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=8498#comment-6533 Huh, you like to point to discussions that rub up against my niche in Medicine.

The more interesting question is really: Does the Mental Disorder cause the physical decline or the decline the Disorder? (Answer: Can be either, as it depends on the person’s history, either the life they’ve led or their genetics.)

In most cases, Mood Disorders will always make consistently working very difficult. I imagine if you ran the numbers, you’d also find those with Mood Disorders are fired at a much higher rate than the Control group. Further, Mood Disorders directly effect the person’s ability to carry out directed tasks on time, which is a fancy way of saying “they will regularly be bad with their money”. (There’s also a sub-issue with the DSM pretty much deciding that anything that doesn’t effect your ability to work is no longer a Mental Disorder. Though this was coming for a while, given the functional utility of Anti-Depressants for the majority of the takers is “getting through your work day”.)

On the Biochemistry side of things, most Mental Disorders produce massive amounts of inflammation in the body, though more specifically the nervous system. The higher you run the blood glucose level, the higher the substrate availability is given to the nervous system energy production. The important detail here being that Inhibition is generally more energy dependent than the Excitatory processes. (Not in all receptor paths, but as a general guideline.) It’s not very different than craving certain foods because your body has an understanding that the specific food contains something you need. (Doesn’t mean you can get enough of what you need out of it, but the craving exists for a reason.)

But the problem with addressing a Mental Disorder by spiking the Glucose levels that hard is pretty obvious: heavier stress on the rest of the Organs. Obesity does bad things to the body.

]]> By: hearthie https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2016/01/food-insecurity-as-a-consequence-or-cause-of-mood-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-6531 Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:36:46 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=8498#comment-6531 I wonder about this occasionally – I think some of the reason for our obesity epidemic is the lack of proper nutrients in the diets of many. Keeps you always “hungry” – not for calories, but for nutrients. I know that helps me feel my best – eating good food. Not especially paleo, but good food, not fake, and as quality as I can source. You eat pastured butter, the regular stuff tastes almost as bad as margarine.

Have you ever checked out the Nourishing Traditions/Weston A Price people?

Probably not as big a deal in NZ. YOUR cows aren’t fed leftover candy bars. :p (I pay extra for milk/butter/cream from cows who eat grass – it tastes so much better).

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