New Help For Bipolar Disorder?
An increasing body of evidence is linking low mood, depression and psychological illness to neuroinflammation as a cause of these conditions not just ‘psychological’ reasons. That’s not to say that psychological causes and current treatments are not important (because they are), but its emerging that this is not quite the whole story!
In this latest sweeping systematic review of patients who were suffering with Bipolar Disorder researchers looked at the available evidence from a large number of studies that fitted their stringent criteria for analysis.
The researchers found a consistent association between inflammation levels and cognitive dysfunction. The higher the levels of the inflammation chemicals CRP, TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-1RA the more dysfunction of processing speed, memory and evident executive function was found. Executive function is the scientific term which refers to a set of higher-level cognitive skills that help you manage everyday tasks and achieve goals. The researchers concluded that:
“Targeting inflammation may offer a promising approach to mitigating these cognitive challenges”
Targeting Neuroinflammation With PBM Therapy
PBM Therapy is a drug free treatment. PBM Therapy has been scientifically proven to reduce/slow/stop the production of the exact same harmful inflammatory chemicals CRP, TNF-α, IL-6 as well numerous other inflammation chemicals – ‘the key to how to do this’ is to improve Mitochondrial (energy) production in the cells. Very much like a see saw, as Mitochondrial function and energy production increases (as a result of PBM Therapy), the production of these harmful chemical correspondingly falls! This mechanism along with increased delivery of oxygen to the brain can help explain why mood and cognitive function can be so much improved so with transcranial Photobiomodulation (tPBM) Therapy.
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