I take this topic very, and I do mean, very, personally. From the idiocy of how its handled by most general practitioners, and psychiatrists - it pisses me off. Take a child for instance, age 2. Depression isn't there. There is though, laughter, and the natural course of that age period. Depression eh? Of all the crap we do to our bodies, what else can we expect, properly balanced hormones? Neurotransmitters? Heck no! Yes, certain things can make us feel bad, very bad even, and those are usually people who haven't had the proper nurturing as children.
Neither is any emotional complexity or higher mode of thought. And violent, histrionic tantrums. Our bodies weren't designed for anything. Cooked food, antibiotics, organ transplants, blood transfusions, survival in Northern Europe. But we make do anyway. Bodies are really a pretty stupid system. Insert fat, sugar and protein, create energy, don't die. So you can put things like MSG into them and your liver and kidneys just toss them out. Sometimes there are bad things you could put in there but we have people to test those. We call them scientists. That's why we don't have the epidemic levels of suicidal depression that you would expect if you were right about anything here in the slightest. You have a lot of anecdotes and appeals to emotion, I'll give you that, but not so much in the way of useful information.Take a child for instance, age 2. Depression isn't there.
There is though, laughter,
Junk, artificials, preservatives. Were our bodies designed for it? No.