Can Infections Cause Depression, Anxiety & Brain Fog? | Dr Marty Ross
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Dr Ron Ehrlich and Dr Marty Ross discuss the intersection of chronic infections and mental health conditions like depression and anxiety.
In this episode of Unstress Health , Dr Ron Ehrlich and Dr Marty Ross explore a different way of thinking about mental health. Rather than looking only at psychiatric symptoms, they discuss how chronic infections, inflammation, mold toxicity, gut microbiome disruption and metabolic dysfunction may intersect with conditions such as depression and anxiety. Dr Ross shares observations from his clinical experience treating people with chronic Lyme disease and related conditions, including the possible role of neuroinflammation, cytokines, the blood-brain barrier, tryptophan, serotonin, mitochondria and the limbic system. They also discuss Long COVID, tick-borne infections such as Borrelia, Bartonella and Babesia, challenges around testing in Australia, and why listening carefully to a patient's history can be such an important part of healthcare. โ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ญ: ๐๐ฟ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐๐โ ๐ ๐ is a family physician and integrative/functional medicine practitioner whose work focuses on complex chronic illnesses, including Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections, mold toxicity, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and Long COVID. According to hisโฆ
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