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The normal accepted recom- Recently the British Journal of Psy- out of the doctor’s offices and hospitals.
mended daily dietary amount chiatry published that people with a diet Since the arrival of selective serotonin re-
of magnesium is only 300- heavy in processed food had a 58% high- uptake inhibitors antidepressants (SSRIs)
400 mg. Many professionals er risk of depression. What they don’t say and atypical antipsychotics on the market,
feel this to be a bare mini- is that the reason for the depression was countless studies have shown the so-called
mum. Some would say that 1,000 mg is lack of dietary magnesium in such diets ‘new generation’ of psychiatric drugs to be
probably more in the range of what most and that depression can easily and best ineffective and dangerous but exception-
people need due to stress (measured by be treated with magnesium. What they ally profitable. There is no such thing as a
cortisol levels) causing magnesium to do say is that a ‘whole food’ diet protects substitute for the mineral magnesium.
be dumped into the sweat in increasing against depression because of the com- Worldwide, sales of anti-psychotics went
quantities. Actually there are all kinds of bined effect of consuming nutrients from from $263 million in 1986 to $8.6 billion
cellular stresses that drive down magne- lots of different types of food, rather than in 2004 and antidepressant sales went
sium levels including chemical stress. the effect of one single nutrient. Though from $240 million in 1986 to $11.2 billion
there is a glint of truth to this statement in 2004. For these two classes of drugs