135: Finding the Source of Depression: An On-Air Session
Episode description
Most people assume depression that has no obvious cause is a chemical mystery. Dr. Lisle says that is almost never true. Depression is failure feedback from three specific domains of life, and the job is to find which one is pushing on you.
In this on-air session, Dr. Lisle walks a listener named Amy through her life systematically, checks work, checks friendships, checks romance, and lands on the real source of her depression: the gap between her A-plus effort on a clean vegan diet and the B-minus results her body is producing. He explains why that gap registers in the nervous system as failure, how weight frustration leaks into the mating domain through Stone Age mate-guarding instincts, and why the subtle hidden calories of dried and concentrated foods are almost always the culprit when clean eating stalls. He then gives Amy a practical Pleasure Trap protocol to close the final gap.
Key question covered: Why am I depressed for no reason when I do everything right on diet, sleep, and lifestyle?
Beat Your Genes is co-hosted by evolutionary psychologist Dr. Doug Lisle, PhD and Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, DC.
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Intro and outro: City of Happy Ones. Ferenc Hegedus. Licensed for use. Copyright Beat Your Genes Podcast