Meditation Works For Depression

A British study that pitted traditional Buddhist meditation against acidic anti-depressant drugs for symptoms of depression found that meditation prevented more relapses. The "Telegraph" reported that fifteen months after an eight-week trial, only 47 percent of people using meditation experienced a relapse compared with 60 percent of those taking highly acidic anti-depressants.

"Anti-depressants are widely used by people who suffer from depression and that's because they tend to work," said Professor Willem Kuyken of the Mood Disorders Centre at the University of Exeter. "But while they're very effective in helping reduce the symptoms of depression, when people come off them they are particularly vulnerable to relapse."




"The meditative alkalizing technique known as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), works differently. It helps people learn to focus on the present (which has alkalizing effects) instead of dwelling on the past (which has acidic effect) or thinking of the future, which is also acidic," states Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of the pH Miracle Living Center, in San Diego, California. "It teaches people skills for life," said Kuyken.

"What we have shown is that when people work at it, these skills for life help keep people well," said Kuyken.

"I have found that when you incorporate an alkaline diet of green foods and green drinks, daily alkalizing exercise, daily alkalizing breathing, daily meditation and/or prayer, and alkalizing nutritional support, you start feeling better. And, when you start feeling better you start thinking better to the point you forget you are depressed. This can all happen within just a few weeks," states Dr. Young.

The following suggestions are the quickest ways to overcome the symptoms of depression:

1) Start eating and drinking green foods and green drinks. This will help to detox the body from dietary and metabolic acids. It will also start energizing the body.

2) Drink 1 liter of Green drink with 15 drops of Prime pH at least 4 times a day.

3) Drink at least 100 grams or 3 to 4 ounces of unsaturated oil daily. Try our new cold pressed Hemp Oil and Avocado Oil.

4) Exercise at least 1 hour daily. Make sure when you exercise you sweat. Sweating is one of the best ways to remove dietary and metabolic acids. I would also suggest the VibrapHirm which will exercise every cell in your body simultaneously. To learn more about VibrapHirm and whole body exercising go to:

5) Take the Young pHorever supplements daily. I would suggest the COWS pack to get started.

6) Take at least 10 grams of whole unprocessed mineral salt daily. This will help increase your energy, help you feel less fragile and stronger. As you increase in energy and start feeling better you will forget your depression.

7) Meditate and/or prayer for at least 5 to 10 minutes twice daily.

8) Laugh for no reason daily.

9) Eliminate ALL acidic foods, drinks and supplements out of the diet, including animal protein, dairy products, bread, rice and pasta, high sugar fruits, fermented foods, all forms of sugar, vinegar, enzymes, probiotics, mushrooms, yeast, peanuts, corn, alcohol, chocolate, soda water, soda pops, tea, and coffee.

10) Have a infrared sauna daily.

11) Have a lymphatic massage 2 to 3 times a week.

12) Check your urine pH every morning. Make sure your urine pH is at 7.2 or higher. If your pH is lower than 7.2 pH then take 1 scoop of pHour salts in 4 to 6 ounces of water.

13) Start drinking electron-rich alkaline pH water with a pH of at least 9.5.

14) Take an art class. It will help to shift your thoughts to the canvas and will immediately stop the movie playing in your head.

15) Read more about alkalizing your body and brain and over-coming depression in our book, the pH Miracle for Weight Loss.

Acid Causes Depression and Depression Causes Bone Loss

The appended article below certainly bolsters the knowledge that "negative thoughts" and even chronic depression from our "negative thoughts" are "acidic" generating conditions, which can lead to bone loss...with the body trying in vain to buffer all of the increased metabolic and dietary acids with calcium ions from the bones.

Our medical savants just haven't even put depression and bone loss together, much less put two-and-two together connecting increased metabolic and dietary acids with increased depression, with increased bone loss and finally increased symptoms of bone thinning, osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.

If you want to have healthy strong bones and protect your bones from thinning then you must maintain the alkaline design of the body with the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet or a "COWS"
diet.

"Cows" is an acronym which stands for Dr. Young's four food groups as followings:

"C" = Chlorophyll - as much as you can eat and drink!
"O" = Oils - cold pressed polyunsaturated oil "W" = Water - alkaline water at a pH of 9.5 "S" = Salt - mineral salts from the sea.

When you are eating and drinking like a "COW"
you will be green and when you are green you are clean.

So keep in mind that all symptomologies of dis-ease, including depression, bone thinning, osteoarthritis, and osteoporosis is something "YOU DO" not something "YOU GET."

So I kindly and humbly suggest "STOP DOING DIS-EASE"
and start "DOING HEALTH, ENERGY and VITALITY" with an alkaline lifestyle and diet - the pH Miracle lifestyle and diet.

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Referenced Article

Reported November 28, 2007

Depression Linked to Bone Loss in Premenopausal Women Even mild depression can be a cause for bone thinning, osteoporosis, in premenopausal women.

The findings are from a study funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health and the National Institutes of Health. They add considerable credibility to preliminary studies that show depression is a risk factor for lower than average bone mass in younger women.

"Osteoporosis is a silent disease. Too often the first symptom a clinician sees is when a patient shows up with a broken bone. Now we know that depression can serve as a red flag,"
said NIMH Deputy Director Richard Nakamura, PhD.

The study was submitted by Giovanni Ciazza, MD, PhD, MHSc, Fariheh Eskandari, MD, PhD, MHSc and some of their colleague at the NIH National Institute of Digestive Disorders and Kidney Diseases submitted the report.

Study participants were premenopausal women from
21 to 45 years old. 89 were depressed and 44 were not. Except for depression, all other risk factors were equal. The women were at a relatively high socioeconomic status and well nourished. Although the depressed women were on anti-depressant medication, the study indicated that was not a factor in increased bone loss, which was measured using an X-ray technique called DXA scanning. Severity of depression was not a factor either.

17% of the depressed women showed thinner bones in the femoral neck compared with 2% in the non-depressed group. 20% of the depressed participants had low bone mass in the lumbar spine and the lower back as opposed to 9% for non-depressed women.

Blood and urine samples, taken every hour for a full day, also showed that the depressed women had imbalances in immune-system substances including IL-6 which is known to promote bone loss. That re-enforced earlier studies with similar findings.

"Depression generally isn't on clinicians' radar screen as a major risk factor for osteoporosis, particularly for premenopausal women," says Cizza.
"And it should be."

SOURCE: Archives of Internal Medicine,
Nov. 26th issue

Reference:
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=17574