Most therapists won't tell you this, but I will:
Your depression is not a mental health disorder.
I've helped hundreds of clients heal by fixing their biology, not their thoughts.
Here's the exact blueprint I teach them: 🧵
Your depression is not a mental health disorder.
I've helped hundreds of clients heal by fixing their biology, not their thoughts.
Here's the exact blueprint I teach them: 🧵
First, let's explain what's really happening.
Research calls it "immuno-metabolic depression."
Most depression cases involve chronic inflammation, high cortisol, and insulin resistance.
Depression happens through your entire metabolic system.
Research calls it "immuno-metabolic depression."
Most depression cases involve chronic inflammation, high cortisol, and insulin resistance.
Depression happens through your entire metabolic system.
Your brain (hypothalamus) is the master regulator of metabolism via the hormonal system.
During fight-or-flight, stress hormones literally shut down "non-essential" functions like digestion and immune response.
Your body prioritizes survival over housekeeping tasks.
During fight-or-flight, stress hormones literally shut down "non-essential" functions like digestion and immune response.
Your body prioritizes survival over housekeeping tasks.
Studies show 44.3% of depressed inpatients have metabolic syndrome vs 17.3% of healthy controls (that's 2.5x higher risk).
About 25% of depressed patients show hypercortisolemia (chronically elevated cortisol).
This isn't coincidence, just simple biology.
About 25% of depressed patients show hypercortisolemia (chronically elevated cortisol).
This isn't coincidence, just simple biology.
Chronic stress flattens your natural cortisol cycle.
It stays elevated when it should drop at night.
High cortisol suppresses mitochondrial ATP production and increases oxidative stress in neurons.
Your cells literally can't produce energy.
It stays elevated when it should drop at night.
High cortisol suppresses mitochondrial ATP production and increases oxidative stress in neurons.
Your cells literally can't produce energy.
Patients with immuno-metabolic depression tend to respond less well to standard antidepressants.
You can't think your way out of metabolic dysfunction.
If simply thinking differently could reset metabolism, sufferers would have done so already.
The solution?
You can't think your way out of metabolic dysfunction.
If simply thinking differently could reset metabolism, sufferers would have done so already.
The solution?
Somatic therapy works with your nervous system state, i.e. noticing tension, breath, heart rate to identify where fight/flight/freeze responses remain stuck.
Instead of just talking, we release the trapped energy hijacking your metabolism.
Instead of just talking, we release the trapped energy hijacking your metabolism.
Freeze is triggered when neither fight nor flight is an option.
It's meant to be temporary.
Wild animals shake off freeze states once safe. Humans often fail to complete this process, leaving stress energy stuck.
It's meant to be temporary.
Wild animals shake off freeze states once safe. Humans often fail to complete this process, leaving stress energy stuck.
Simple somatic techniques that work:
• Deep breathing stimulates vagus nerve
• Grounding exercises discharge excess stress arousal
• Body awareness helps track nervous system states
• Deep breathing stimulates vagus nerve
• Grounding exercises discharge excess stress arousal
• Body awareness helps track nervous system states
"All healing happens by creating safety in your nervous system to produce balance."
Only in safety do key processes return; digestion resumes, sleep improves, energy returns.
The body knows how to heal when not in survival mode.
Only in safety do key processes return; digestion resumes, sleep improves, energy returns.
The body knows how to heal when not in survival mode.
Stop asking your body to heal while it's still at war.
The 7-Day Somatic System gives you the exact steps to discharge stress from your body, regulate your nervous system, and create the safety your system has been craving.
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The 7-Day Somatic System gives you the exact steps to discharge stress from your body, regulate your nervous system, and create the safety your system has been craving.
Join 1200+ here: 7daysomaticsystem.com
For most people diagnosed with "mental health disorder", interventions targeting inflammation, metabolism or lifestyle may be more effective than standard treatments.
Stop treating symptoms. Heal the nervous system, restore metabolism, transform depression.
Stop treating symptoms. Heal the nervous system, restore metabolism, transform depression.
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