While some people love the fall and winter season, many don’t because they suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), otherwise known as “Winter depression.” SAD is affected by a lack of natural Vitamin C, longer and darker days, temperature drops, and more. Below are three ways to help support SAD:
Vitamin C Increase
With the colder seasons, the sunlight’s level is significantly decreased, leading to less natural Vitamin C that our body receives in the spring/summer and needs all year long. Without enough Vitamin C, our serotonin levels drop, triggering depression symptoms.
Considering this, those who struggle with SAD need to add a healthy amount of Vitamin C to their regular diet either through food, supplements, IV, or all the above – depending on what your body needs. It’s best to talk to your doctor about your levels and what you need.
Immunity Support IV Drips
We encourage you to contact us about our IV drip services that contain a mix of vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes, to quickly support your body’s needs. One cocktail we carry is The Immunity Support, designed to support your immune system, and it significantly helps with any depression with boosts of Vitamin C and more. We have other cocktails as well designed to help.
Mood Treatment
While SAD is temporary in the colder months, it’s often still very debilitating, so mood treatment is vital to support the depression. Sometimes the right vitamins, supplements, sun, light, sleep, healthy diet, etc. aren’t enough to combat SAD completely. This is where treatments such as light therapy or even something like Ketamine Therapy can significantly help!
Ketamine Therapy
We encourage you to contact us about our Ketamine Therapy services – an FDA-approved anesthetic that has shown remarkable results in helping relieve symptoms of depression. While it’s essential to note that this treatment isn’t a cure for depression, the ongoing treatment helps stabilize SAD’s negative effects. We recommend this in addition to other supports you can do to help combat SAD.
Healthy Lifestyle
Maintaining a healthy, balanced lifestyle is crucial when it comes to supporting SAD. This includes but is not limited to the following:
Proper Amount of Sleep
Ensuring that you get the right amount of sleep for your age is essential to feel your best, supporting SAD. Research how many hours you need for your age and aim to get that amount every night. When the days get longer with the colder weather, it disrupts our “biological clock,” and it needs to be reset with proper sleep!
Healthy Diet
Fall and Winter can be the yummiest time of year with Thanksgiving and
Christmas meals, but it’s very unhealthy stockpiling our bodies with that much unhealthy food! It’s vital to ensure you eat a healthy, balanced diet of fresh fruit and vegetables and non-processed foods as much as you can. Increase your water intake as well to stay your healthiest self!
Daily Exercise
Even though the colder, darker weather isn’t as pleasant to go for a healthy walk or jog outside as it is in the Spring/Summer, it’s still very essential! If you can get outside for even a 15-30 minute walk or jog once a day, the fresh air and healthy exercise will do your body and brain good! If you can’t get outside, try some small exercises at home to get your body up and moving and open some windows. It doesn’t need to be aggressive to work either.
Know the Signs and Act Accordingly
While SAD is a terrible thing to experience in the colder months, being aware of the signs, and knowing howPrepare yourselfPrepareyourself ahead of your time in the early Fall and make a safe, helpful plan to have a healthy, enjoyable Fall/Winter.
Share in the comments below: What is ONE thing you can do to help support/combat SAD this year?
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