Dr. Hotze Talks About A Natural Solution For Depression.

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The holidays can bring on more than cheer. It sometimes brings on depression. But if you. Are experiencing depressed moods. It may be the symptom of hypothyroidism. Doctor Steven Holtz, who is the founder of the Holts Health and Wellness Center, and. He is here today with great information about treating this type of depression. What is it exactly? What is depression exactly?

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Depression is a discouragement feeling down, feeling blue. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, it can be involved with mood swings and also be associated with anxiety and panic attacks. Oftentimes we feel depressed for good reasons or financial strain loss of a loved one. Breakup of a marriage, loss of a job that's to be expected, and you have to work through that. There's a grieving process that you need to go. Oftentimes when people are depressed and they see their physician, they're prescribed antidepressants which block the natural grieving process and never let you work through it. As a matter of fact, could have some severe effect on the way you think, but depression if it's continuous. Is something that lasts over a period of time. Oftentimes can be related to a decline in your natural occurring hormones.

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See, I'm glad you. Distinguish that for me because a lot of times we go through a case. Of the Blues. But how? Do you know when that case of the Blues is? Is something much more? And how do you know if when your doctor is saying antidepressant that you really need? Anything else? Well.

Speaker 1

Oftentimes you got. To go with. You go with the recommendations that your doctor says because you're trusting his judgment. Unfortunately, many physicians have been trained by the drug salesman and their and their drug reps to use antidepressants. Anytime a woman has a problem or a man has a problem. That they can't find a reason on a blood test. Routinely, they'll give them antidepressants so that the preponderance of antidepressants are given to women in midlife or other women in midlife have. That causes them to feel depressed. The decline in their natural occurring hormones, their natural sex hormones, particularly progesterone. And when the progesterone levels fall, guess what? They get too much. They have too much estrogen compared to progesterone and that adversely affects their thyroid function, which governs their metabolism, which governs their energy production. Which affects their brain function and they feel depressed.

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So your recommendation then would be to check the hormone levels before you try the antidepressants.

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First, before you check the hormone levels. Ask the patient and your your patient questions and listen and find out. Does she have problems with fatigue, difficulty thinking, depressed moods, can't sleep well, joint muscle aches and pain, sluggish bowel function, hair falling out, puffy, pale, cold hands, cold feet?

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OK.

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Those are all class and depression are those are all classical. Features of hypothyroidism. And so you do a blood test. The blood test comes back routinely, 95% of the case is not. Because she has all the symptoms of low thyroid, why not instead of giving her an antidepressant, give her some a clinical trial of all her thyroid and see if? And and that's safe and effective. It doesn't screw up your.

Speaker 2

OK, so the only thyroid being bioidentical.

Speaker 1

It's bioidentical, it's natural. We've only been using it for 100 years in medicine. It's safe and. Effective. OK, very good.

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So again, I just want to really be sure that we're understanding because this is the time of the year when we do fall into that.

Speaker 1

Well, a lot of things will. Feel that way because we remember Mom who died and this is the first year she's been gone. Her dad and all the. Loved ones we have, those are natural feelings and we don't need to mask those. Those probably are not. Due to hormones. That's just the way we feel. But as we age, our hormone levels fall and we tend to get that way. We tend to become more reflective and if you get your hormone levels back up, you tend to tolerate it. But it doesn't. You're not going to feel. Sad, but you bounce out of it.

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So look for the multiple symptoms.

Speaker 1

Right. The multiple symptoms, what you look for to see if it's more than just depression on its own, if you get these multiple symptoms, it's probably look that way.

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The fatigue and the foggy brain this OK.

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And then ability to lose weight and can't sleep well.

Speaker 2

And then the other thing about the antidepressants doesn't that sometimes cause you to gain?

Speaker 1

Well, it causes you to gain what? And guess what, the most common side effect of antidepressant is more depression. When the doctor will give you more antidepressants, you know more, you know, all we hear about all these weird killings that go off across the country. Invariably, those people are on antidepressants because it affects that that adversely affects. The way they think.

Speaker 2

You're giving us a lot. To think about. Thank you. Merry Christmas to you.

Speaker 1

You so much. Merry Christmas to you.

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Thank you For more information about hypothyroidism. Log on to Doctor Hotze's website. It's hotsy, HWC. Com or call his office at 877-698-8698 and you can catch that. The hotel's radio show, health and Wellness solutions. It runs Monday through Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 on 1160 AM KVCE in Dallas.

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