by Dr. Josh Friedman | Dec 20, 2016 | Anxiety, Depression, Functional Medicine, Yoga |
I was 24 years old when I realized I had never learned to breathe. It was 1994, and I was sitting in one of my first hatha yoga classes being guided through a breath awareness practice by my first yoga teacher Simone. She said, “Notice your breath….where do you...
by Dr. Josh Friedman | Dec 8, 2016 | Anxiety, Depression, Diet, Functional Medicine |
If you have been following the field of integrative mental health for a while, you know that changing your diet is one of the most important steps in recovery. You might also be aware that there is a pretty solid consensus on what you should be eating (and avoiding)...
by Dr. Josh Friedman | Dec 1, 2016 | Amino Acids, Depression, Diet, Functional Medicine |
When mental health practitioners and doctors learn that I help people with depression and anxiety by using targeted supplements, they often ask: “When someone’s having really bad anxiety or depression, don’t they NEED medicine??” The truth is that sometimes they...