The Mood Cure: Take Charge of Your Emotions in 24 Hours Using Food and Supplements. Julia Ross

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      2 Have you been through a great deal of physical or emotional pain?

      3 Do you crave pleasure, comfort, reward, enjoyment, or numbing from treats like chocolate, bread, wine, romance novels, marijuana, tobacco, or lattes?

      Total _________ If your score is more than 6 in part 4, turn to chapter 6, page 100.

       True-Life Stories of the Four False Mood Types

      Cara had a typical case of the “dark clouds.” She’d been low in confidence all her life. She was a doer, though—her underwear drawer was a work of art, and her boss adored her perfect projects and reports (not that she was ever satisfied herself). She worried a lot and woke up in the night feeling panicky at times. She had recently started to feel really depressed and had tried an antidepressant but hadn’t liked its side-effects, though it had lifted her mood a bit. She’d tried therapy, but hadn’t had much to talk about—she’d come from a close, warm family, and her adult life had gone fairly well. She was out of luck till she came to our clinic and completed her mood profile, which showed that she had almost every symptom in part 1! She left with some targeted brain repair supplements and the next day called to report the best night’s sleep and the best morning mood she’d had in years.

      Emma was too lethargic to clean up her underwear drawer. She had “the blahs,” the kind of low-energy depression that too often made her unmotivated, unexcited, and unfocused. She was sick of being an emotional flatliner, but she had no idea what was wrong or what to do about it. We did, though. We could see that she needed our most brain-stimulating nutrient supplements. Fifteen minutes after she took them, we could see that she was feeling more like the person she was meant to be: humorous, sharp, and more alert. This became a permanent state of being for her after a few months of nutritional brain repair work and a revitalization of her thyroid function.

      Rob had plenty of drive and energy, but he was a real “stress” type. Years of sixty-to-eighty-hour workweeks, too much coffee and fast food, and too many skipped meals, plus a drawn-out child custody battle, had turned him into a tense, wired, and tired mess. He was clearly sinking into adrenal burnout. On his new antistress supplements and regular meals, he was able to cut out his coffee without a backward glance, cut back his work hours, and begin to feel like a new man.

      Sam was “too sensitive.” He teared up whenever he talked about anything painful. He avoided hashing out problems with his wife because it was just too uncomfortable for him. Instead, he tuned out with a beer or a bowl of ice cream in front of the TV. Things started to change when we recommended some supplements that allowed him to tolerate pain more easily and enjoy life a lot more (without either the beer or the ice cream). Then, when he was no longer overly sensitive, we recommended couples therapy, which he was then able to tolerate and even enjoy.

      HOW TO USE THE MOOD CURE

      Now that you’ve completed and tallied the questionnaire, you’ve taken the first step in your Mood Cure: you know which false mood type (or types) you are. Having this crucial information will allow you to move on to step two, “Eliminating the Four Most Common Mood Imbalances.” There you will discover what is causing you to have a particular set of false moods and what you can do about it. At the bottom of each part of the questionnaire, next to your score, you’ll find the page number of the chapter that will tell you more about your symptoms and all about the solutions to that particular mood type’s problem. For example, if you find yourself checking off symptoms in part 1, “Are You Under a Dark Cloud?” you’ll turn to chapter 3, “Lifting the Dark Cloud.” Each chapter ends with “Action Steps” that summarize all its suggestions, to make them easy to follow.

      If you recognize significant symptoms in two, three, or all four parts of the questionnaire, you’ll read each of the corresponding chapters. If your score is under the cut-off number in any part of the questionnaire and the symptoms you do identify with are significant, look over the relevant chapter to explore further.

      Next you’ll move on to step three, “Creating Your Nutritherapy Master Plan.” There you’ll learn about the good-mood foods that will become the heart of your diet and about how to avoid the bad-mood foods. I’ll make it easy for you by providing simple and tasty menus and recipes.

      Step three also features a master supplement plan that will provide you with several key pieces of your Mood Cure. First, it describes the basic vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that I want you to make a permanent part of your life. Second, it warns you of anything that might make it unwise for you to take a particular supplement. Finally, it provides a master list of all the special repair supplements recommended in each chapter of the book. You’ll copy this list and check off just the items you’ll be using for your own supplement plan. Then you’ll take your list to the store, get your supplies, start taking your supplements, eat your good-mood foods, and watch your false moods slip away.

      As you work through steps two and three of The Mood Cure, you may find that you have other mood-related troubles beyond the big four and a mood-poor diet. Step four, “Getting Help with Special Mood Repair Projects,” provides the answers if you have questions about sleep difficulties, addiction problems, or alternatives to antidepressant medications.

      The Mood Cure concludes with five tool kits. The “Resource Tool Kit” will help you locate all the products and services described in the book. The next three tool kits give you the detailed, technical advice you’ll need in order to deal with any hormonal imbalances that may be holding up the mood repair process. Finally, the “Food Craving Tool Kit” will outline effective options if “emotional eating” is a particular problem for you.

      When Are You Cured?

      You should start feeling cured in the first week as your nutritherapy program begins to take hold. At some point, in a few weeks or months, depending on your unique biochemical needs, your repair process will be complete. You will have corrected the underlying imbalances that had produced your false moods in the first place. After that, you’ll be able to travel on your own true emotional power, so you’ll stop taking the special repair supplements and continue to feel just as good without them. All you’ll need to do to maintain your new sense of well-being and prevent a relapse into false moods after that will be to keep eating lots of good-mood food and taking a few basic nutrient supplements.

      I wish you a very smooth and rapid shedding of your false moods and the enjoyment of discovering your true emotional self!

Step 2 Eliminating the Four Most Common Mood Imbalances

       CHAPTER 3 Lifting the Dark Cloud

       Eliminating the Depression and Anxiety Caused by Inadequate Serotonin

      Serotonin deficiency is far and away the most common mood problem we see at our clinic. Serotonin starvation is a virtual epidemic in the United States, inflicting its unique brand of dark cloud misery on people of all ages, sexes, and walks of life. One researcher estimates that more than 80 percent of adults in the United States suffer from this deficiency.¹

      The reason that serotonin is so emotionally vital is that СКАЧАТЬ