By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World If you are one of the estimated 15 million Americans suffering from depression, you may be surprised to learn that the path to wellness and...
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Dr. Kelly Brogan is boarded in Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, Reproductive Psychiatry and Integrative Holistic Medicine, and practices Functional Medicine, a root-cause approach to illness. After studying Cognitive Neuroscience at M.I.T., and receiving her M.D. from Cornell University, she completed her residency and fellowship at Bellevue/NYU. Taking a holistic evidence-based approach to the care of patients, she is the Medical Director for FearlessParent.org and an advisory board member for GreenMedInfo.com. Visit KellyBroganMD.com for more.
(Not a) Surprise: Glyphosate-based Herbicides are Bad for Your Mental Health
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World Eat your veggies is no longer synonymous with health thanks to the increasingly documented deleterious health effects of chemical pesticides...
New Insights on Gut Permeability and Depression
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World Originally published at kellybroganmd.com and reproduced here with permission. If you know what depression feels like – the brain...
Adverse Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs in Children
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World We’ve all wished for it at one time or another. It may have been with your son who can’t sit still in school, your niece who was...
Your Microbiome On Drugs
May 24th, 2019 By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World For those of you who have ever had a garden, you know the struggle. It requires hours of back-breaking work to pull out the weeds...
Oops! The Brain DOES Have An Immune System
May 14th, 2019 By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World Recent research shows basic anatomy that has eluded scientists and clinicians up until this point: the brain has a lymphatic...
Is Your Prescription Drug Causing Your Depression?
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World Let’s face it… our current medical industry loves pills. When you go to the doctor for any kind of discomfort with any kind of...
Contraception Depression: Can the Pill Affect Your Mood?
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World What if I told you that a product is available that can interfere with your hormones to the extent that your daily and monthly rhythms are no...
Two Foods That May Sabotage Your Brain
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World Could two of the most popular foods consumed in the West be a major cause of psychiatric disorders? Could there be a food-based cure for...
A Time for Rain: Teaching Our Children About Sadness
April 2nd, 2019 By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World Stop crying Danny! That tears are a bad thing is so baked into our social fabric that parents might find themselves renouncing...
From Gut to Brain – The Inflammation-Depression Connection
March 27th, 2019 By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World When a woman experiences fatigue, brain clouding, flat mood, PMS, and constipation, we call it anxiety or stress and we...
Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Trigger for Anxiety and Depression?
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Depression, Anxiety: All In Your Head? One of the most remarkable papers I have read in the psychiatric literature was about a 57 year...