Brain Eating Zombies of the Day

Oh, you can be sure the pharmas are salivating over this...  a simple way to find kids who "need" pre-emptive antidepressant therapy...  cha ching!

Saliva test may identify boys at greatest risk of depression

Ian Goodyer of the Cambridge University's Department of Psychiatry said teenage boys with symptoms of depression and raised levels of the stress hormone cortisol were up to 14 times more likely to develop major depression than those without these traits.
...The researcher team collected samples of saliva from hundreds of teenagers and measured the levels of cortisol, as well as self-reported information on symptoms of depression. The researchers divide the data of the teenagers into one of four groups depending on their cortisol levels and symptoms of depression.

It has been known since 1958 that infection and bacteremia raise cortisol levels.  They should have checked those kids mouths and blood as soon as they found high levels.   Not wait for them to get clinically depressed...   sheesh.

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Mom’s Depression May Lead to Shorter Kids

The study doesn’t prove that mom’s depression causes a child’s short stature, only that the two are associated. And the authors couldn’t confirm the underlying mechanism linking the two factors, but they had some theories: maternal depression can lead to increased stress in kids, for example, and chronically high levels of the stress hormone cortisol have been associated with lower levels of growth hormones in kids. Depressed moms may also have poor feeding practices like spending less time breast feeding.  “Maternal depressive symptoms are associated with insecure attachment in children and with poor parenting behaviors,” the authors write.

 Your mission is to think of a reality based mechanism.

Blame Doctors

Food Deserts Aren’t the Problem

Getting fresh fruits and vegetables into low-income neighborhoods doesn’t make poor people healthier...

Why, then, do campaigns like the Healthy Food Financing Initiative persist? The push for fresh food is usually considered a progressive cause, connected as it is to criticisms of processed foods’ effect on health. And the most prominent voices against the fresh-food push have been conservative, from Rush Limbaugh to Reason magazine. But look a little closer, and fresh-food financing initiatives are a pretty conservative idea. They offer a market-based opportunity for individuals to make better choices about health, leaving the impression that people living in poverty get sick for reasons that are within their control.
...Bruce McEwan, one of the pioneers of research in the biology of health inequality, coined the term “allostatic load” to describe the cumulative wear and tear of stress reactions over time. Stress reactions, like floods of adrenaline and cortisol and increased blood pressure, are helpful as short-term reactions to dangerous or challenging situations. But if stress reactions are constant, they create physiological conditions that damage the body. “One of the things having an elevated sympathetic response is that you have an inflammatory tone in the body,” McEwan explains. “Inflammation underlies all of the diseases of modern life—from cancer to depression to neurological diseases.” Those diseases of modern life also include heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes—illnesses we typically associate with poverty.

But the implication of McEwan’s research—that poverty itself is making people ill—is not one that Americans are prepared to accept. Instead, we build supermarkets, finance green grocer carts, and teach former inmates about fennel, feeling like we’re promoting a progressive effort to improve the plight of the disadvantaged. Meanwhile, poor people are living shorter, sicker lives, with no helpful new policy in sight.

No, food deserts aren't the problem.   And inflammation isn't the problem.   And poverty isn't the problem.
The problem is erroneous medical information.  Which is only perpetuated in this article.
Fruits and vegetables are not a solution to obesity or diabetes.   Infection causes inflammation and chronic illnesses and stress.   And illness results in poverty.

They've got it all backwards.
Damn I'm tired of living in this mirror.

And so it goes

Chester Bennington’s Wife Shares Video Of Him Laughing Hours Before His Death
     Linkin Park singer’s widow, said that “depression doesn’t have a face or a mode.”

Yes it does.  I could have picked him out of a crowd.
This man shows all the symptoms of long term bacteremia and cortisol overproduction. Baldness.  Tattoos.  Serious epithelial dysfunction.  Insulin resistance.

I'm guessing he ate or drank something that ulcerated his mouth and his whole head inflamed.
It happens real quick sometimes. I've gotten migraines in 10 minutes after sour candy.

Rest in Peace dear man.