Recipe for Happiness Blog | Drew Ramsey MD

Power Foods For Your Brain

Check out this video I did with ABC News, featuring some secrets from The Happiness Diet and your top brain foods this week: Spanish mackerel, oysters, grass-fed beef, and organic leafy greens.

Posted on February 28 2012 in News

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Tags: zinc, vitamin d, vitamin b12, omega 3s, magnesium, grass-fed, food choices, folate, clas, abc news

Your Questions Answered: What do you think about Agave and Stevia?

Jane R. asks:

I’ve just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and am trying to cut out sugar. What your thoughts are on “natural” sweetener alternatives to sugar like Agave and Stevia?

Don’t Stop Your Meds Cold Turkey

If you're feeling better and contemplating going off your meds, please discuss with your physician. Stopping your meds cold turkey can be dangerous.

Posted on February 24 2012 in Clinical Corner, Video

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Tags: medication, antidepressants

Brain Food: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Chili peppers contain a compound called capsaicin, which helps fight diabetes and stomach ulcers and supports memory during times of stress.

Posted on February 23 2012 in Brain Food, Video

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Tags: stress, immune response, hormone

Half the World is Nuts! Or What’s A DALY

A comprehensive survey of mental disorders in the European Union published in September 2011 found that close to 40 percent of the population suffers from brain-based mental disorders like depression, dementia, and alcohol addiction. This study includes children and teens. Another recent, similar study in the US by the CDC found 25 percent of adults suffered from brain-based disorders. And headlines also buzzed when in 2005, Harvard researcher Ronald Kessler found that that about half of Americans would struggle with mental illness at sometime in their life.

Pundits express outrage at these numbers, asking, “How can half the world be mentally ill?” But given that brain disorders are the largest health care challenge facing modern medicine, you should understand more about the studies behind these headlines…and why these numbers are the tip of the iceberg.