Depression and Diet

For anyone questioning if their diet can be better enhanced to try to combat depression, I would advise them to get in touch with a nutritionist.

While suffering with depression, a friend mentioned to me that she had begun visiting a nutritionist and that I may find it useful to consider looking at my diet. I began my research into diet and how it may be affecting me and ultimately not helping with my depression.

After much research, I established that I was pyroluric (genetically determined chemical imbalance). Being a pyroluric meant that my body was producing kryptopyrroles. Kryptppyrroles have no known function in the body but are expelled and can be detected in urine. Tests are available and can be don by a nutritionist/GP at a cost of approx