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"Larry was almost certain that it was causing Matthew to have mood swings. However, he thought, maybe the mood swings were inherent in Matthew's personality, and the Ritalin was helping control them. The only way to find out would be to discontinue the Ritalin for a few weeks and see what happened. If they did that, though, the school might intervene again, and maybe even threaten once more to take Matthew away." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"PMS may cause mood swings, irritability, tension, depression, anxiety, and fatigue. Physical symptoms may include breast tenderness, fluid retention, headaches, backaches, cramping, bloating, and lower abdominal pain. Fluid retention, directly linked to fluctuations in estrogen levels, has been associated with other symptoms, and if fluid retention can be reduced, other symptoms seem to lessen." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"We should be feeding our children foods that can regulate their metabolism, blood sugar, and even mood swings, hyperactivity, and depression. The hard part, it seems, is for parents to change their own relationship to food. According to Dr. Rosenbaum, "Numerous studies show that good or bad health and exercise behaviors learned in childhood are more likely to persist into adulthood. You can lay the behavioral groundwork for good health earlier—just as you can alter the early metabolic groundwork for disease. It's very hard to change someone's behavior as an adult." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"However, he thought, maybe the mood swings were inherent in Matthew's personality, and the Ritalin was helping control them. The only way to find out would be to discontinue the Ritalin for a few weeks and see what happened. If they did that, though, the school might intervene again, and maybe even threaten once more to take Matthew away. After all, school authorities regularly checked on Matthew's medication status, and it seemed as if every time there was any little problem at school, they would tell Larry and Kelly that they should increase Matthew's dosage." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Her system was too sensitive, and the side effects were potentially horrendous: severe mood swings, systemic swelling, and uncontrollable fat deposits in the abdomen, face, and neck. Some of the side effects were, in fact, quite similar to those of rheumatoid arthritis itself, and that made Anju worry that Priya's regular use of a steroid inhaler might have initially triggered many of the symptoms, and might still be perpetuating them. Anju began to search frantically for alternatives." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "He had mood swings and anxiety, which his mother felt were related to low blood sugar. He also had low energy, occasional headaches, impaired cognitive function, forgetfulness, obsessive traits, and frequent loose stools. He had evidence of impaired detoxification, metabolic imbalance, dysbiosis, and multiple nutritional deficiencies, including low magnesium, zinc, fat-soluble vitamins, and essential fatty acids (especially omega-3). He was started on oral medications and herbal antimicrobials for his bowel dysbiosis, including nystatin, vancomycin, and Advanced Bio-cidin." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Physical symptoms include fatigue, headache, mood swings, sinus congestion, depression, poor memory and concentration, and cravings for sweets. The 1980s book The Yeast Connection made the public aware of yeast growth control and catapulted Candida into a mainstream health concern. It is thought that the following factors contribute to Candida overgrowth: use of oral contraceptives, steroids, antacids, ulcer medications, antibiotics, high-sugar diets, pregnancy, smoking, food allergies or intolerances and diabetes." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"The Natural Hormone Makeover is intended to guide the millions of women who feel lousy and suffer fatigue, headaches, mood swings, heavy bleeds, low sex drive, and sleepless nights. It can also serve as a guide for women of any age suffering from deficiencies or imbalances of hormones. This book will help women to take charge of their own health. Symptoms are not the enemy to be masked by the latest new drug on the market. We must carefully listen to our symptoms. They are feedback from our body that there is imbalance, deficiency, or injury of some kind." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "When I prescribed birth control pills to alleviate the symptoms of menopause in them, new symptoms would erupt, such as breast swelling, headaches, bloating, mood swings, and worst of all, weight gain. I call that "symptom swapping." So I considered what I knew from Chinese medicine. The Chinese have always emphasized the kidney as a source of energy, necessary for fertility and healthy aging. They view aging and perimenopausal symptoms as "kidney deficiency." Of course, I had learned about the kidney in medical school but not about its relationship to healthy aging." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "According to Chinese medicine, symptoms due to liver stagnation include irritability, depression, migraines, PMS, mood swings, atypical chest pains, abdominal bloating, hyperventilation syndrome, fibrocystic breast disease, headache, and irregular menstruation or menstrual cramps. I think of metabolism as the biochemistry of the Chinese liver qi. If qi is flowing smoothly, then metabolism is working well, and the liver meridian and the organs it nourishes, such as the uterus, thyroid, and breasts, will stay healthy." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Some side effects of cortisone are weight gain, hypertension, thinning of the skin and mood swings. They usually use cortisone for severe allergies and asthma. It is a good temporary fix, but has many damaging side effects. Anti-histamines may work temporarily to suppress an allergic reaction. This can be effective for environmental allergies but not always for foods. Other treatments may include "enzyme potentiated desensitization" where an injection is given of a food mixed with an enzyme beta glucuronide. This enzyme increases its effectiveness." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"It's the product of a real hormonal turbulence that accompanies the menstrual cycle, more in some people than in others, and it can cause significant mood swings, crying jags, depression, anger, and irritability, not to mention a compendium of physical symptoms like bloat and constipation. That hormonal storm, which can be a light tropical rain for some folks and Hurricane Katrina for others, also affects neurotransmitters like serotonin, influencing mood and cravings and behavior. For various reasons the combination of nutrients I'm about to tell you about works wonders." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Other symptoms include extreme hunger, extreme thirst, weight loss, weakness, tiredness, irritability, mood swings, and nausea. Type-1 has also been associated with a variety of viral infections. This is in contrast to Type-2 diabetes, which is slow to develop with many of the same symptoms, but with hard-to-heal infections, blurred vision, itchy skin, Candida, and the mind not working so clearly. Cases of Type-1 can arise from exposure to viruses that have been documented, including measles, mumps, infectious mononucleosis, infectious hepatitis, Coxsackie virus, and cytomegalovirus." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The suffering and horror of delusions and hallucinations of schizophrenia, the horrendous mood swings of bipolar disorder, the desperate torpor of major depression, the misery of eating disorders—all that true medical ill health—need to be redressed and controlled. While a cure is unlikely, mental illness can be managed so that people can lead tolerable and productive existences. But I would contend that depression, in the sense of feeling things—feeling sad, feeling upset, feeling bothered—in these times is a good thing and an appropriate response." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The Ambien CR label also describes how patients in brief three-week controlled clinical trials developed hallucinations, disorientation, anxiety, depression, psychomotor retardation (mental and physical slowing), depersonalization, disinhibition, euphoric mood, mood swings, and stress symptoms. Hallucinations occurred in 4 percent of the patients taking Ambien and in none of the patients taking placebo. The label for Ambien CR also contains a special concerns section with separate subheadings for "Memory problems," "Tolerance," "Dependence," and "Withdrawal." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "The diagnostic fad cannot explain the greatly increased admission rate to mental hospitals for documented manic-depressive mood swings. THE COVER-UP WHAT'S THE CAUSE OF THE INCREASED RATES of severe cases of mania? Antidepressant medications, and to a lesser extent stimulants and tranquilizers, especially Xanax, are causing the upsurge of manic episodes. In almost all the adult cases that I have evaluated in the last decade, and in every child and teenage case I have seen in my office, the manic symptoms had begun after starting antidepressants and, more occasionally, stimulants or Xanax." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "She developed mood swings and became progressively more depressed. As in most cases I have evaluated, the doctor seemingly gave no thought whatsoever to the possible role of medication in Willow's steadily deteriorating condition. Within Willow's first year back on Ritalin, an ominous signal was recorded in the office telephone log. Mrs. Barlow told the nurse that her daughter had purposely taken extra Ritalin pills that morning. On another occasion, according to the psychiatrist's record, Mrs. Barlow also reported that Willow was "demanding Ritalin." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Nowadays they are given to many children and adults who have but the faintest signs of a maniclike problem, such as irritability and mild mood swings in adults or temper tantrums in children. Lithium was the original mood stabilizer. It was discovered when it was accidentally found that injections of lithium into guinea pigs immediately made them inactive and even flaccid.10 Numerous studies of normal volunteers have confirmed that lithium knocks people out of touch with their feelings, puts a dark glass between them and other people, and reduces their motivation to do anything." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Some women's insomnia, fatigue, mood swings, and other menopause symptoms may be more responsive to progesterone than to estrogen. It is important to note that all progestins (the synthetic progestogen) can have undesired side effects.155 Premenstrual symptoms such as increased breast tenderness, edema, irritability, and abdominal cramps are fairly frequent, causing as much as 40 percent of women to not take their prescriptions properly. More serious side effects are rare and include high blood pressure, blood clotting, and altered carbohydrate lipid metabolism." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "The creation of synthetic hormones in the 1950s and 1960s was unquestionably revolutionary for women in that it suddenly allowed personal life autonomy through successful fertility control and the elimination of the hot flashes and mood swings of menopause. Women's lives were changed forever. However, with hormones coming as they did on the heels of the "miracle medicine era" in which antibiotics and vaccines led the general public to believe medicine could do no wrong, the consequences of hormone excess and side effects were not anticipated or quickly recognized and dealt with." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Some women have bloating, breast tenderness or pain, headaches, mood swings, depression, weight gain, nausea, lowered libido, and breakthrough bleeding. Other women may experience significanr, more serious side effects such as complete hair loss, blood clots, high blood pressure, heart attack, and elevated liver enzymes. There are many kinds of birth control pills today, and fortunately they are significantly lower in dose and cause far fewer side effects than in the past. The pills vary in their estrogen and progestin dosages and contain different kinds of estrogens and progestins." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "One begins to see how our culture's historical attitude of embarrassment or distaste around menstruation might contribute to susceptible women's neurotransmitters being adversely affected at a physiologically critical time, resulting in mood swings, anger, and irritability. This is congruent with the views of feminist writers who criticize the medicalization of PMS symptoms as disease, arguing that medicine has tended to pathologize behaviors that do not conform to the unnatural yet pervasive female stereotype." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Symptoms of inadequate omega-3 are mood swings, depression, dry skin, digestive upset, and immune problems. Until the modern age, we humans routinely ate a diet of nearly equal omega-3 and omega-6 oils, naturally. Since the industrial revolution and the advent of vegetable oils, our diets have gradually changed. Living busy lives dependent upon easy-to-prepare, easy-to-pick-up fast foods, we have developed diets that are typically high in omega-6 and low in omega-3 (often twenty to fifty times more omega-6 than omega-3)." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"These mood swings, or "episodes," can take three forms: manic episodes, depressive episodes, or "mixed" episodes. The symptoms of a manic episode often include elevated mood (feeling extremely happy), extreme irritability and anxiety, talking too fast and too much, an unusual increase in energy, and a reduced need for sleep. It's also very common for someone to act impulsively during a manic episode and to engage in behaviors that are risky or that they later regret, like spending sprees. And in more than half of all manic episodes, people are troubled by delusions or hallucinations." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Side effects of estrogen therapy may include nausea, breast discomfort, headaches, and mood swings. The possibility that estrogen might increase the risk of breast cancer has long been a concern. For women who are already at high risk, it is not recommended. Postmenopausal women who take estrogen without progesterone have an increased risk of endometrial cancer (cancer of the lining of the uterus). The risk of developing gallbladder disease is modestly increased during the first year of estrogen replacement therapy. Premature menopause occurs before the age of 40." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Signs of poor endocrine function are low estrogen or testosterone levels, which can result in a wide variety of symptoms, including lowered sex drive, infertility, fatigue, feeling hot or cold, mood swings, and excessive sweating. Recommendations for supporting the health of your endocrine system include detoxification (through the process in chapter 4), nutritional therapies, lowering stress levels, and proper rest, as well as enzymes to support the digestive and immune systems and balance the body's pH levels." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "When these sugars are not properly digested, people often exhibit symptoms of depression, panic attacks, severe mood swings or mania, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, and environmental sensitivities. The sugar-digesting carbohydrases from fungal (plant-based) sources are sucrase, lactase, and maltase. The carbohydrases that digest fiber are called cellulases, and they are the only digestive enzymes our body does not manufacture, although the friendly bacteria in our intestinal tract do produce cellulase for our benefit (see chapter 3). PLANT-BASED VS." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"However, distortions in Integrator 9 also could display themselves as erratic mood swings, especially as expressed in hyperemotional behavior and a tendency toward fight-or-flight responses. ENERGETIC INTEGRATOR 10: CIRCULATION/PERICARDIUM MERIDIAN Energetic Integrator 10 bioenergetically correlates to cell respiration processes (as does Energetic Integrator 2) and a host of organs and their neuroendocrine functions. It has a significant bioenergetic influence on major portions of the circulatory system, and it is linked to digestion and respiration in general." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"In premenopausal women, symptoms can include: fatigue, depression, weight gain, water retention, headaches, loss of sex drive, mood swings, inability to handle stress, irritability, fibrocystic breasts, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, low metabolism, symptoms of hypothyroidism, unstable blood sugar levels, sluggishness in the morning, and a craving for caffeine, sweets, and carbohydrates." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Menopausal women can experience symptoms such as: hot flashes, vaginal dryness and atrophy, water retention, fat and weight gain, sleep disturbances, decreased libido, mood swings, headaches, fatigue, lack of concentration, short-term memory lapses, thinning of scalp hair, increased facial hair, osteoporosis, various body aches and pains, and dry, thin, and wrinkled skin. Estrogen dominance has also been linked to male problems, including lowered sperm counts, physical feminization symptoms such as enlarged breasts, as well as osteoporosis and prostate cancer." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

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