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Medicating Children with Scott Shannon, MD, on Fearless Medicine Radio

An amazing interview with Scott Shannon, MD, about a national crisis, as doctors and parents are medicating children at an alarming rate.

(Not a) Surprise: Glyphosate-Based Herbicides are Bad for Your Mental Health

In this study published in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology, researchers examined the effects of glyphosate-based herbicides (GBH) on gut microbes.

Anxiety
Brain health
Depression
10 Spiritual Lessons I've Learned From Pole Dancing

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18 Years of Autoimmunity...Now Healed

Cindy was medically hexed with a Lupus diagnosis 18 years ago, after the birth of her son. That is, until she said yes to her next chapter.

A mind of your own
3 Tips for Tapering Benzodiazepines or Sleep Meds

Here are three tips to help you plan for the best possible outcome should you choose to taper off a benzodiazepine or sleep aids.

Anxiety
3 Ways Sugar Is Ruining Your Mental Health

Sugar may be at the root of your psychiatric symptoms - here's what to do about it.

Anxiety
Depression
Hormones
Inflammation
4 Things to Check Before Taking an Antidepressant

Dr. Kelly Brogan discusses the cautions and concerns one should exercise before considering taking antidepressant medication.

Depression
Fatigue
Gut health
Hormones
Thyroid
4 Toxic Ingredients to Avoid in Your Personal Care Products

Dr. Kelly Brogan lists 4 common and toxic ingredients to avoid in your personal care products, and offers safe, easy alternatives you can make at home.

Detox
Vital mind reset
5 Essential Keys to Tapering from an Antidepressant

Here are the 5 key things you MUST know before beginning a psychiatric medication taper.

Antidepressants
Depression
Gut health
Meditation
Vital mind reset
5 Foods That Can Cause Depression

Removing these 5 inflammatory foods, which are staples in the Standard American Diet, can help resolve depression.

Inflammation
Depression
5 Rules For Eating Away Your Depression

Dr. Kelly Brogan explains why these 5 dietary rules will help you eat away your depression, safely, naturally and without medication.

Antidepressants
Gut health
Inflammation
Depression
6 Steps to Reclaiming Your Sensuality

Dr. Kelly Brogan shares 6 Tips for Reclaiming Your Sensuality.

A mind of your own
7 Facts About Depression That Will Blow You Away

Excerpt from Dr. Kelly Brogan's NYT best-selling book, A Mind of Your Own: 7 key facts about depression that you aren't likely to hear from your doctor.

A mind of your own
Depression
Inflammation
A Case of Gut-Induced Mania

Sometimes, it just takes one case to bring an entire medical construct to its knees. In this case, it was a gut-induced case of mania that left doctors awed.

Gut health
Inflammation
A Celebration of Love

The commitment celebrated in this video is to love itself and the many many deaths that are required to allow it to exist in its most expanded form.

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A Discussion of Pussy: A Reclamation

Kelly Brogan talks with NYT Best-selling author Mama Gena about her new book, Pussy: A Reclamation, and the need for women to focus on their own pleasure.

Depression
Women's health
A Meditation to Prevent Freak Out

While we band together in challenging times, I want to offer tools that help you access greater calm from within. My dear friend and healer, Swaranpal Kaur

Meditation
Vital life project
A Message to Help Dispel Fear

To shed some light on the current state of affairs and to help my community adopt a new narrative

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Stress
A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment

Let's take a look at what informed consent might look like for psychiatric drug treatment.

Antidepressants
Psychiatric medications
A New Perspective On Postpartum Depression

A new perspective on what might underly postpartum depression and what natural treatments to consider.

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A Psychiatrists Perspective on Antidepressants

The following are four principal tenets that may undermine your current understanding of the efficacy and safety of antidepressant medication.

Antidepressants
Depression
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A Scientist Speaks: Senate Bill 277 in California

Members of the California Senate Committee, The argument of forcing a parent to vaccinate their child in the name of the “greater good argument” is flawed

Vaccination
A Scientist's Experience at a 10-day Silent Vipassana Meditation Retreat

Alyssa shares her experience at a Silent Vipassana retreat, practicing a centuries old technique in meditation.

Meditation
A Smart Phone for Freedom Fighters

If you are a truth-seeker, odds are you are communicating material that does not conform to the dominant ideology. With this level of track and trace, you may be shut down, locked out, or otherwise relegated to non-participation based on the monitoring and review of your communications.

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A Time For Rain: Teaching Our Children About Sadness

Have you ever stopped yourself from crying? Why? Because you don’t want to feel out of control, or make someone you’re with uncomfortable?

Depression
Relationships
A Woman's Friend: Magnesium

Supplementing magnesium is important due to its ability to participate in 300 enzymatic body functions, affecting depression, PMS, anxiety, migraines.

Anxiety
Depression
Hormones
ADHD: More of It, Better Diagnosis, or Both?

Dr. Kelly Brogan asks the question: With 10,000 toddlers medicated for ADHD according to the CDC, why do we still have more questions than answers?

Antidepressants
Acid Blocking Gut Sabotage

Emblematic of symptom-suppression over root-cause resolution, acid blocking medication is sold like an over the counter vitamin. Acid Blocking Gut Sabotage.

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Adverse Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs in Children

Do antipsychotic drugs predispose our children to the metabolic syndrome just like adults? Or are they somehow protected from these deleterious effects?

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Alcoholism - Is It a Disease?

Has alcoholism played a role in your life, with family or yourself? This is the time to be self-aware and have self-realization.

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Ali's Story: Healing Bipolar Disorder and Suicidality

Kelly Brogan MD talks with Ali about her journey from a bipolar disorder diagnosis to living a vital life, medication-free.

A mind of your own
Antidepressants
Depression
Psychiatric medications
Vital mind reset
All in the Family: 4 Steps Toward Healing Adverse Childhood Experiences

How can we heal our pasts? Dr. Kelly Brogan reveals these 4 important steps toward healing adverse childhood experiences.

Inflammation
Depression
Relationships
An Immunologist's Letter to Legislators

Taken together, these four facts make it clear that discrimination against children who are not vaccinated is completely unwarranted.

Vaccination
An Important Blood Test For IVF

Wondering about epidemic levels of infertility today? It may have something to do with how the environment is stimulating our immune systems.

Thyroid
An Open Letter to the Spiritual Community About Psychiatry

After the passing of Michael Stone, Kelly Brogan, MD writes an open letter to those in the spiritual community and the truth about psychiatry.

Psychiatric medications
Ancestral Health Symposium Presentation 2014

The Ancestral Health Society is a community who collaborate to understand health challenges from an evolutionary perspective.

Antidepressants
Inflammation
Ann Petersen's Story: Can Candidiasis Cause Depression?

Suffering from depression and multiple health issues, Ann Peterson discovers how candidiasis and gut health are at the root of physical and mental health.

Depression
Thyroid
Another Vyvanse-Assisted Suicide Streamed Live on Facebook

Andrew Thibault of Parents Against Pharmaceutical Abuse unmasks the unfortunate circumstances of suicide in Florida's foster care system.

Antidepressants
Anxiety
Depression
Self-improvement
Anti-Feminist Medicine: Statins, Not for Women

Have you been recommended a statin? Are you a woman? Read why statins and women don't mix.

Inflammation
Thyroid
Antibiotics During Pregnancy: Let's Revisit

How do you refuse antibiotics during pregnancy? Can you? In the hospital, germs are the enemy and antibiotics are the front line offensive.

Vaccination
Parenting
Antibiotics: Side Effects and Alternatives

Have you ever thought of the side effects in antibiotic usage? Well Kelly Brogan, MD gives you an explanation and alternatives to healing.

Rethink health
Self-improvement
Antibiotics: The Bad News and the Worse News

Most women who have ever developed a post-antibiotic yeast infection are familiar with the idea that antibiotics kill important regulatory bacteria.

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Antidepressant Discontinuation: The Why & How of Tapering

Dr. Kelly Brogan details the important things to know before you begin tapering off psychiatric medication.

A mind of your own
Antidepressants
Depression
Detox
Rethink health
Antidepressant Drugs Work According to Latest Study: A Critical Re-Appraisal

How could it be that antidepressants are supposed to be clearly effective according to mainstream psychiatry, but judged largely ineffective by others?

Antidepressants
Depression
Healing stories
Inflammation
Publications
Antidepressant Risks: Mental Health Side Effects?

Antidepressant Risks: Mental health side effects? What are the mental health/pscyhological risks of antidepressants and how common are they?

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Antidepressants Can Work, But Only If You Believe They Will

With the support of research, Dr. Brogan discusses the idea of belief being the most powerful predictor of clinical outcomes in psychiatry.

Antidepressants
Healing stories
Rethink health
Antidepressants: No Diagnosis Needed

A condemning paper corroborates that antidepressants are used willy nilly with little regard for diagnostic criteria set up by the DSM.

Antidepressants
Depression
Are Mobile Phones Warping Our Brains?

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Are We Being Censored?

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Are You Ready for Personal Transformation?

Dr. Kelly Brogan shares stories of the archetypes of personal transformation she watches women undergo in her Manhattan psychiatric practice.

A mind of your own
Antidepressants
Depression
Rethink health
Self-improvement
Are Your Medications Causing Depression?

It’s no secret that all medications carry the risk of side effects

Depression
Healing stories
Vital mind reset
Are Your Parents Emotionally Immature?

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Artificial Sweeteners Making You Fat?

A comprehensive study has elucidated the causative mechanism of the glucose intolerance and weight gain associated with non-caloric artificial sweeteners

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Attachment Parenting: Why it Takes a Tribe to Heal Our Children

Christie Michelson discusses tribal parenting, often call attachment parenting, and how we can raise our children to contribute healthfully to society.

Parenting
Publications
Rethink health
Self-improvement
Author and Activist Francis Weller: Gratitude For All That Is

Author and Activist Francis Weller shares one of his essays with Dr. Kelly Brogan, about gratitude and thanksgiving.

A mind of your own
Meditation
Rethink health
Self-improvement
Avoiding Dogma: On Being Right and Eating Animals

Dr. Kelly Brogan's insight on being right, eating meat, and all the dogma that goes along with it.

A mind of your own
Depression
Gut health
Rethink health
Self-improvement
BRCA: The Lore of the Breast Cancer Gene

Instead of inborn genetic problems and even calculable infectious disease susceptibility, might be really looking at reversible nutrient deficiencies?

Rethink health
Baby & Breast: Perfect Together

We have to develop a collective consciousness about the origins of the microbiome. Knowing how something is made helps you to fix it when it’s broken.

Gut health
Rethink health
Parenting
Bad Medicine: Is Evidence What We Think It Is?

Of 3000 supposedly evidence-based medical practices, one third are effective or likely to be, 15% are harmful, and 50% are unknown.

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Before You Fill That Benzo Prescription: READ THIS

Kelly Brogan MD spotlights the documented risks and prevalence of WORSE OUTCOMES- including death- associated with Benzodiazepine treatment and withdrawal.

A mind of your own
Antidepressants
Anxiety
Depression
Rethink health
Benefits of Breastfeeding Depend on Weaning Diet

Could the benefits of breastfeeding be masked by weaning to the modern American diet?

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Beyond Genetics: Is Type 1 Diabetes a Lifestyle Disease?

What if I told you that Type 1 Diabetes could be reversed with diet and lifestyle changes?

Detox
Gut health
Inflammation
Birth Control, Breastfeeding, and Breast Cancer

Informed consent implies that we research and relay what we can about the risks of a given intervention and potential alternatives.

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Birth Defects From Contaminated Water

Municipal water is contaminated with pharmaceutical products, industrial pollutants, and microbes. A study looks at birth defects from contaminated water.

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Birthing Bliss, Birthing Trauma, and the Role of the Perinatal Patient

How does a woman get to a place where she can turn her back on a society that teaches birth is a painful nuisance at best and a danger at best?

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Breastfeeding and Postpartum Depression: Use One to Prevent the Other

Breastfeeding in the first three months, postpartum, may prevent depression.

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Breastfeeding: A Reproductive Right

After reading Kimberly Seals Allers' book, The Big Letdown, Kelly Brogan, MD shares her perspective on how women have been lead down the garden path.

Parenting
Bringing Our Shadow Out of the Dark

Working in-depth with our shadow is a powerfully liberating labor, affecting every area of our life, and furthering our capacity to become intimate with everything that we are.

Rethink health
Self-improvement
C-Section: What We Are Learning

This is a critical concept to wrap your mind around if you are going to engage conventional medicine and its drugs, surgeries, and procedures.

Rethink health
C-section: What's the Big Deal?

It's taken 30% of humans entering the world in an operating room for us to begin to examine what might be wrong with this approach.

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CDC: You’re Fired. Autism Coverup Exposed.

The dam is leaking, and the flood is coming. Are you ready to stand strong? The CDC autism coverup can no longer be contained.

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Can B Vitamins Prevent Infertility & Miscarriage?

Patients often ask - do I really need to take a prenatal? I have become fairly discriminating about my recommendations.

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Can BDSM heal the world?

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Can Gluten and Dairy Cause Neurologic Symptoms?

Are gluten and dairy causing brain-based changes? Does research support the claim that there is an overlap between the gut and the brain?

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Can I Really Get Better Through Mindfulness?

Dr. Stephen C. Fischer explains how the Mindful Wellness Wheel's process can be used to investigate the key aspects of your life objectively.

Antidepressants
Depression
Gut health
Meditation
Rethink health
Can Pharma Improve on Nature? HPV Vaccine vs Natural Infection

How does natural HPV infection compare to the HPV vaccine with regard to future infection and cancer progression? Do we know all that we should?

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Can Vaccines Alter a Child's Health Trajectory?

The question embodied in the title of this article is one that has never fully escaped the weaves of my inquisitive mind.

Inflammation
Parenting
Publications
Vaccination
Carrie-Anne Moss + Kelly Brogan

A video interview with Dr. Kelly Brogan, discussing self-care, women's health and breaking their reliance on prescription medication.

A mind of your own
Rethink health
Self-improvement
Videos
Vital mind reset
Carrie-Anne Moss on Intimacy

A guest post from Carrie-Ann Moss of Annapurna Living. Carrie-Ann considers intimacy and how it shows up in our daily lives.

Depression
Meditation
Rethink health
Case Report: Healing of Graves’ Disease Through Lifestyle Changes

This groundbreaking paper is the first of its kind to document the methodology employed in the successful healing of Graves’ disease, solely with lifestyle interventions.

Rethink health
Thyroid
Vital mind reset
Case Report: Successful Discontinuation of Psychotropic Drugs

Can Anxiety, Depression, Anorexia, and PTSD be treated without meds? The protocols in this study, can be accessed through the Vital Mind Reset program.

Psychiatric medications
Stress
Vital mind reset
Celiac Disease and Infertility

A number of European and two American studies have demonstrated a relationship between celiac disease and infertility.

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Celiac Disease and Infertility

A number of European and two American studies have demonstrated a relationship between celiac disease and infertility.

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Charles Eisenstein on the Importance of A Mind of Your Own

An essay by Charles Eisenstein about the importance of Dr. Kelly Brogan's book, A Mind of Your Own, and questioning the narratives underpinning our society.

A mind of your own
Antidepressants
Depression
Rethink health
Self-improvement
Cholesterol: Protection Against Depression in Pregnancy?

A decade in to undoing our industrial food-induced fat phobia, we have the first study to correlate low HDL cholesterol with depression during pregnancy.

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Choose Your Path: Symptom Suppression or Health Transformation?

Dr. Kelly Brogan delves into symptom suppression versus health transformation using holistic medicine, which seeks to honor and integrate the whole person.

Antidepressants
Anxiety
Depression
Fatigue
Gut health
Climate: A New Story

What can one person do? If I have to do something…if it becomes that urgent…won’t some authority make a law or at least give me clear directions?!

Meditation
Rethink health
Self-improvement
Codependent, Addicted, Toxic Love: How to Break Free

Relationships
Confessions of a Renegade Psychiatrist

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Conscious Initiatives Interview

interviews
Videos
Contraception Depression: Can the Pill Affect Your Mood?

Dr. Kelly Brogan discusses contraception, especially the physical and mental effects of The Pill, along with what you need to know about its risks.

Antidepressants
Anxiety
Depression
Hormones
Meditation
Conversations with Dr. Cowan & Friends

In this in-depth discussion, we cover a wide range of topics that all come back to one thing: what it means to walk the path of personal reclamation. 💃

Antidepressants
Anxiety
Depression
Own yourself
Psychiatric medications
Could Gluten Intolerance Symptoms Include Psychosis?

With most of America experiencing gluten intolerance symptoms, modern processed foods are causing a host of new conditions, including celiac psychosis.

A mind of your own
Antidepressants
Anxiety
Depression
Detox
Could the Flu Shot Make You Depressed?

Did your doctor or friendly pharmacist tell you that the flu vaccine could put your mental health at risk?

Depression
Inflammation
Psychiatric medications
Vaccination
Could this be Driving the Epidemic of Sudden Infant Death (SIDS)?

Sudden Infant Death. Even the CDC has been compelled to address the seeming 'coincidence'.

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Craving Carbs

Craving carbs? Wheat flour promotes blood sugar instability that looks a lot like irritability and anxiety.

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Curcumin: The Wonder Drug That Works

Curcumin is simultaneously a potent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective agent, hormonal and neurochemical modulator.

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Cure Depression with a Vitamin?

Dr. Kelly Brogan discusses the effects of Vitamin B12 on cases of depression in her patients.

Anxiety
Depression
Hormones
Rethink health
Self-improvement
DSM V: Bought by Pharma

DSM V: Bought by Pharma. The DSM is psychiatry's method of labeling patients. How much is the newest version of this book influenced by Pharma?

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David Perlmutter Interview

Here’s what two renegade doctors have to say about what depression is, what it isn’t, and how to reverse it.

A mind of your own
Antidepressants
Depression
Gut health
Hormones
Dear Class Moms. My Top 5 Optimal Children's Health Tips

Dear Class Moms. These are my top 5 optimal children’s health tips from my professional work that I apply in my home.

Rethink health
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