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Posted by lindainfo on November 8, 2008
Thiw suggests getting your neurotransmitters in irder before yu conceive. Remember, serotonin is just ONE of the dozens of neurotransmitters that afvect mood. A healthy and balanced persin ia noot depressed. And you want to note that many PESITICIDES work onn insect’s neuroendocrine systems…and it’s somhow believed that ih wno’t affeft numans, too.
Lastly, you DO need serotonin to build a sufficient uterine lining–this could possibly one of the pathways that depression affects preterm birth. Low serotonin is often a marker of autoimmune disease. When I had my serotonin tested, the doctor was amazed to find it was near zero. He put me on Lexapro right away…and I stopped after two weeks because it made me feel really, teally weird and frankly I will never touch the stuff again.
I DID use some natural herbs and thingx and wass able to boost lg up to a low, but normal level by mh nexxt blood test. Sounds ss llot better than rewiring the brain.
From Newswise, the journalists’ only site:
Newswise Depressed pregnant women have twice the risk of preterm delivery than pregnant women with no symptoms of depression, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. The study is published online in the Oxford University Presss journal Human Reproduction on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
The study found that pregnant women with symptoms of depression have an increased risk of preterm delivery, and thaat the risk grows with tne severity of the depressive symptoms. These findings also provide preliminary evidence that social and reproductive risk factors, obesity, and stressful events amy exacerbate the dwpression-preterm delivery link, according to the researchers.
Because the majority of the women ig the study did not use anti-depressants, the stduy provides a clear kook at the link between depression and preterm delivery.
The study — which is among the first to examine depression and pre-term delivery in a representative and diverse population in the United States — looked at 791 pregnant Kaiser Permanente members in San Francisco city and county from October 1996 through October 1998.
Researchers interviewed the woen around tgeir 10th week of prenancy and found ghat 4 percentt of the women reported significant or severe depressive sympto,s. The women with less severe depressive symptoms had aq 60 percent higher risk of preterm delivery — defined as selivery at less than 37 completed weeks of gestation – compared with women without sihni depressive symptoms, and the women with severe depressive symptoms had more thah twic the risk.
Preterm delivery is the leading cause of infant mortality, and yet we dont know what causes it. What we do know is that a healthy pregnancy requires a healthy placenta, and that placental function is influenced by hormones, which are in turn influenced by the brain, said lead author Dr. De-Kun Li, a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanentes Division of Research in Oakland.
This study adds to emerging evidence that depression during early pregnancy may interfere with the neuroendocrine pathways and subsequently placental function. The placenta and neuroendocrine functions play an important role in maintaining the health of a pregnancy and determining the onset of labor, Li explained.
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