Dr Maria Fabbro Naturopathic Physician

09/19/2022

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09/18/2022

Meditation re-wires the brain and impacts the hippocampus. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction helps manage stress, depression, and anxiety.

09/02/2022

Posted • High sugar intake is linked to a greater risk of depression.

What’s the mechanism?

◾Rodents fed high-fat and high-sugar diets, but not high-fat diets alone, have lower BDNF levels, which is associated with the shrinking hippocampus seen in depression.

◾Sugar is addictive, tying in the addictive and depression effects of dopamine.

◾Eating a diet high in refined sugar increases inflammation, which may lower mood and lead to exaggerated insulin responses, harming mood.

◾In addition to an inflammatory response that can trigger depression, a high-sugar diet may cause obesity and resulting psychological problems, such as having to cope with weight discrimination.

👉In short, sugar harms your body, then your brain.

Just as depression is twice as common in women, it’s twice as common in people with diabetes, and blood sugar problems are worse in depressed people with diabetes. Depression and diabetes likely share the same mechanism of overactivation of the immune system, leading to a cytokine-driven inflammatory response, as well as overactivation of the HPA axis.

Other mutual mechanisms (meaning they are associated with both blood sugar problems and depression) are sleep disturbance, sedentary lifestyle, poor nutrition and eating habits, and other environmental and cultural risk factors.

These same mechanisms result in different downstream effects: insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease, depression, and early mortality. The cytokines mentioned above are like bombs and gunfire that inflame the brain, causing depressive symptoms, poor stress coping, and blood sugar problems.

In my opinion, we need to consider these shared origins of blood sugar problems, stress overload, and depression to improve the outcomes of both disorders simultaneously and, ideally, prevent and reverse disease.

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04/01/2022

Thanks for a lovely evening Matthew!!

03/22/2022

Happy 18th birthday my beautiful, kind daughter ! So happy to be in Cabo to celebrate with you!! 😘😍💕❤️🎉

01/07/2022

My article for Pure Pharmacy on the GI MAP stool test.

08/25/2021

Here's some good information on safe cookware, and which products to avoid.

There's a good chance the cookware you are using is toxic, especially if it's the nonstick variety. Learn more about the hidden dangers, plus better options.

07/06/2021

I am pleased to be able to offer my patients the GI Microbial Assay Plus (GI-MAP) stool test! It is the first comprehensive stool analysis to include an FDA approved DNA/PCR assay for GI pathogens performed on stool. The pathogen targets include bacteria, parasites, and viruses.

GI-MAP tests for GI Pathogens, opportunistic organisms, normal flora and markers of GI health including:
- Bacteria - Inflammation
-Viruses - Immune function
-Parasites - Pancreatic function
-Fungi - Occult Blood

Please DM me for more details!

07/05/2021

Feel like your hormones aren't quite right? Having a hard time sleeping? Hot flashes and night sweats are making life miserable? Don't guess, test! I am now offering the DUTCH Complete urine hormone test. Here is a YouTube link for more information. https://youtu.be/5IUEBawirgE

05/13/2021

Pre-diabetes? Diabetic neuropathy? Type 2 diabetes? You may want to read this as well as exercise and watch your diet.

Its use in weight management, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA), also known simply as lipoic acid, is a naturally-occurring substance that is an essential cofactor for several enzymes.[1] ALA, synthesized in the body

03/29/2021

Insulin resistance (pre-diabetes) is a major player in women’s health conditions such as PCOS, acne, fibroids, perimenopause, and heavy periods. Insulin resistance can also cause abdominal weight gain.

Do you have insulin resistance? It’s time to find out.

The test for insulin resistance is a test for the hormone INSULIN — not a test for glucose

Insulin resistance causes abdominal weight gain and is a major player in women’s health conditions such as PCOS, fibroids, and heavy periods.

01/01/2021

Let’s start 2021 with real food...vegetables, nuts and seeds, real meats, fish, fruit... minimal sugar and highly processed foods.

Individuals who consume a high proportion of ultraprocessed food in their diet were at a heightened risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality, Italian researchers report.