Fundamentals in Depression
What you'll learn
- Gain - Deeper understanding of the cellular processes that led you to where you are now
- - Knowledge about neurotransmitters and the role they play in your mood
- -Information about how insulin and neurotransmitters relate to each other and how the one impacts on the other
- - Steps to take to gain control of this interaction in your body to affect your mood positively
Requirements
- No Prior requirements
Description
Depression and low motivation are a growing problem, with many people finding that nothing seems to help them feel better or lift their mood.. The benefit of medication, vitamins and 'pep me up' tonics is short lived and for many people, growing older looms with increasing low mood and energy, robbing us of the joy it is our right as vital humans, to experience.
We may go from doctor, to psychologist, to psychiatrist, with no light at the end of the tunnel, creating more anxiety, stress and fear for our future, for how can we face our future when we feel so low?
This course will give you essential information about the foundations of depression, specifically about neurotransmitters such as Serotonin and Dopamine and what we need to do to either enhance medication we are taking, or turn around the downward spiral leading to ineffective, or diminishing supply of our necessary neurotransmitters
Specifically, this course will increase your understanding of insulin, a hormone we are constantly exposed to, and how exactly Insulin affects neurotransmitter activity, particularly that of Serotonin and Dopamine.
This course will give you a place to start, with changes you yourself can effect, without the need for expensive consultations. It will give you some guidelines in order to begin to make positive, impactful changes, to turn low mood and depression around.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone with depression or low mood.
- People who struggle to motivate themselves
- Children who are moody and/or irrascible
Course content
- Preview01:17
- Preview01:36
- Preview03:12
- 02:07Impact of Insulin, hypoglycaemia, and Insulin Resistance on Neurotransmitters.
- Preview02:31
- 04:39How exactly does Insulin change the action of our neurotransmitters?
- Preview01:25
- 04:14How Neurons Protect Themselves when there is an Excess of Serotonin.
- 03:45What steps can I take myself, that will make a difference in my mood?
- 01:35. A Healthy Gut and Serotonin.
- Preview00:33
Instructor
![Jules Allen-Rowland](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 398 Reviews
- 10,566 Students
- 3 Courses
Biography:
I trained initially as a podiatrist and then went on to do a Bachelor's Degree in psychology and communication. I live in South Africa and have a private podiatry practice specializing in diabetic and arthritic patients, but subsequent to that, I studied Exercise Science (SA), Health and Nutrition (UK) and Functional Medicine (USA). Functional medicine looks at the interplay between our genes, nutrition, lifestyle, exercise and stress and how that relates to health and chronic, non communicable conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis and ageing. My sub- studies include, pain management, detoxification, gut management, energy management, hormone and sexual health. I am concerned at the downward spiral in health care and believe strongly that much of our health status lies within our own power. Education is everything but most of us do not have the time to sift through the information to establish what will work for us in our own unique context. This course aims at changing that. I am committed to empowering people so they are informed and can make health choices that will impact positively on their life and vitality.