#162 VR Vintage: "Mental Health Affects Everybody" - Depression, Suicidal Ideation, Therapy and Fear-based Medicine

(originally aired 8/3/2019)

TW: This episode discusses mental health, suicide, death thoughts, depression, and addiction which may be triggering for individuals.

This week on Vitality Radio Podcast, Jared rants about fear-based medicine that typically happens within the doctor-patient relationships. He also rants about how pharmaceutical companies sponsor studies on the effectiveness of their products which are published positively thus skewing doctors and public understanding of their products.

Jared also interviews Stacie Rasmussen, a marriage and family therapist. They discuss suicide. Stacie shares statistics on how common suicide and death thoughts are. They discuss the stigma of therapy and mental health."Mental Health affects everybody" - Stacie Rasmussen.

Finally, Jared talks the importance of how your nutrition affects your mental health as well. Addressing the gut is important.

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