Humans may suffer
from seasonal affective disorder when melatonin, a compound found in animals, plants and microbes and produced by serotonin, is increased and serotonin is decreased.
It may also provide clues to the winter onset
of seasonal affective disorder, as well as seasonal symptom changes noted in psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia.
Shorter, darker days mean fatigue, oversleeping, too many carbs, and having a general sense of malaise: a pattern known
as seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
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They found that regular, early - morning, use of a light box — similar to those used to
combat Seasonal Affective Disorder — led both to increased testosterone levels and greater reported levels of sexual satisfaction.
Here are 5 ways to help you fight the winter blues wherever you are — whether you suffer from
Seasonal Affective Disorder like up to 20 % of Americans — or you just need a change of perspective without buying a plane ticket, including # 5 — a free live workshop at Parsley Health this evening!
Rosenthal, who, with the help of his colleagues, was the first to identify and in 1984
label seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, has spent the last 30 years of his career studying and refining the causes, symptoms and cures for depression induced by lack of light.
Not only do we stay in tip - top shape, but research suggests that exercise can help alleviate symptoms of depressionâ $» something especially important during the winter months
when seasonal affective disorder (SAD)  strikes as many as 20 % of Americans.
While Blue Monday is merely a myth, the winter blues —
a.k.a. seasonal affective disorder — are very real, and January's typically poor weather does nothing to help them.
Orexigen Therapeutics plans to seek approval from the Federal Drug Administration in the first half of 2010 for Contrave, a drug that combines naltrexone, which is used to treat alcohol and drug addictions, and bupropion, which is used to
fight seasonal affective disorder and depression, and as a smoking cessation drug.
It's evident from past studies that
seasonal affective disorder exists, but this study indicates that what is usually thought of as the winter blues doesn't affect us as much as we might think.
In one randomized controlled trial, a group of 15 subjects with
seasonal affective disorder received either 100,000 I.U. of vitamin D or phototherapy, a broad - spectrum light therapy.
The power of the winter blues may have been overestimated by the public for several reasons, such as the generally high prevalence of depression,
seasonal affective disorder awareness, and also a dislike of the weather in winter.
You'll discover that the wellness and health benefits of infrared saunas with chromotherapy can help as an
effective Seasonal Affective Disorder treatment and improve your quality of life in no time.
Vitamin D When you don't have enough daylight hours to absorb the sun's benefits, which include relaxing the muscles,
soothing Seasonal Affective Disorder, and helping the body maintain healthy sleep rhythms, you must turn to vitamin D supplements for extra help.
Each year as the dogwoods come into bloom and the first green peach fuzz of grass sprouts in the front yard, I begin to emerge from the winter -
long seasonal affective disorder that plagues my waning youth.