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Recommend any good natural remedies for Irritability or Mood Swings

  • 01-06-2015 5:21pm
    #1
    Pecker31
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    Hi I am just wondering can anyone recommend any good natural remedies for Irritability or Mood Swings? I am taking a Vit B Complex mix at the moment and also going to see someone, its just to help along the way.

    Any advise would be appreciated


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  • #2
    Dogwalker
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    How about a low GI diet? Food has a lot to do with wellness and resilience. I went to a talk by APC group based in Teagasc, Fermoy. They said there that probiotics have been proven to have a calming effect. They didnt say what strain, but most probiotics don't survive stomach acid. You are better off eating better. Natural yoghurt, sugar free, is calming. I brew kefir. That is calming in my experience.


  • #3
    Saipanne
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    Pecker31 wrote: »
    Hi I am just wondering can anyone recommend any good natural remedies for Irritability or Mood Swings? I am taking a Vit B Complex mix at the moment and also going to see someone, its just to help along the way.

    Any advise would be appreciated

    Avoid alcohol, caffeine and any other similar stimuli.


  • #4
    Torakx
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    Vitamin D might also be useful for mood regulation. We usually create it using sunlight on our skin, which helps it form in the skin and be collected gradually. Apparently this can be washed off during a shower. A lot of people in Ireland could be low on Vitamin D.
    The B complex sounds very sensible too for lots of immune system and digestive issues.
    I also ferment my own kefir which has helped with many issues and even helps animals recover from digestive problems.

    The ultimate fix for most issues is a varied diet of fresh veg, seeds(or berries) and nuts, with small portions of non grain carbs.
    And moderate exercise.
    Meditation too might be useful to balance the mind and allow the bodies immune system to recover if stressed.


  • #5
    JuliusCaesar
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    Eating well - healthy unprocessed foods mostly; regular exercise, especially in the open air; caffeine and alcohol in moderation; no cigarettes; a supportive social network; meaningful activity; fun and play; enough money to get by.

    After that, it's a matter of seeing what your triggers might be.


  • #6
    Pecker31
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    Thanks all very helpful - has anyone ever heard of kava kava??


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  • #7
    JuliusCaesar
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    eh, Pecker31, you do realise this is the Psychology forum? We're psychologists and counsellors, not nutritionists*. We are in the evidence-based scientific realm (mostly). You might want to find a more suitable forum.




    And being scientific, and looking for evidence, I'd like to see some peer-reviewed evidence that you can wash Vitamin D off your skin? Sounds flakey to me. Can you wash sunshine off? Can you wash a tan off?






    *Who was it said that "Nutritionists are to dieticians as toothologists are to dentists"?


  • #8
    Torakx
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    Helmer AC, Jensen CH: Vitamin D precursors removed from the skin by washing. Studies Inst Divi Thomae 1937, 1:207-216.

    https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/blog/washing-away-vitamin-d/
    Even more upsetting, they concluded, “There is definitive evidence that the secretions from the skin contains precursors of vitamin D, which after irradiation are to be reabsorbed by the body, and the removal of which tends to produce a dearth of the vitamin unless it be supplied in some other form.” I could not see evidence that they supported this statement with their research. What they showed was simple.
    Humans make some vitamin D on the surface of their skin, which water washes off. How much humans make on the surface and how much inside the skin, no one knows. However, the vitamin D levels of the African tribesmen support (but do not prove) the proposition that humans living in a natural state make a significant proportion of vitamin D on the surface of their skin for later absorption. Assuming the African hunter-gatherers do not take showers twice a day that so many cosmetically brainwashed Americans do, then simple water, especially soapy water, routinely washes off oils containing vitamin D in modern humans. This means we must add soap and frequent showering to the list of things that explain why modern vitamin D levels continue to decline, decade after decade.

    That isn't where I read about this, I never remember my sources.
    I tend to take it all with a pinch of salt, leaning slightly towards the idea that most likley this is the case. And if I'm wrong, I don't think I will suffer an overdose.

    I did say "Apparently it's washed off". Covering my ass a bit :)


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