nutriceuticals, supplements, herbs for anxiety and depressionThis site covers alternative and complimentary treatments for stress, anxiety and depression, and related mental health disorders, offering information, articles, current research, resources, and product recommendations. For example, if you take an SSRI to increase the neurotransmitter serotonin, then you are unnaturally blocking the process by which the serotonin breaks down and is re-assimilated. But if you take 5-HTP, it will covert into the serotonin in which you are deficient, and the increase in that neurotransmitter will be generate a better mood. (Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid) is an amino acid derivative and the nervous system's most important inhibitory neurotransmitter. Useful for racing thoughts or fearfulness, or any form of anxious over-stimulation. There is considerable debate as to whether it can be absorbed in the stomach and make it though the blood-brain barrier (it can). Taking it with B6 is helpful. GABA can be taken instead of a tranquilizer to calm the body with no fear of addiction. Taken with the B-vitamins B-6, niacinamide and also inositol, it prevents anxiety messages from reaching the motor centers of the brain by filling the brain's GABA receptor sites.
