Depression Is a Result of Trauma, Right?

The idea in modern medicine that you have some kind of trauma, you have a disrupted relationship with your mother, for example. And that somehow we're going to go and put neuroplasticity altering chemicals into the brain doesn't make any sense," he says. Depression rarely begins in the outside environment. It usually begins in the gut. The fix is not in a chemical or synthetic or pharmaceutical blocking the brain's capacity to uptake these neurotransmitters. But it can naturopathically make its way back up the biggest nerve and arrive to the brain.