SAMPLE LESSONS BY A DEPRESSION TOP PHYSICIAN AFTER 34 YEARS EXPERIENCE
Findings of expert researchers Li Q, Liu X and Others:
As neurotoxic agents, heavy metals have been implicated in [causing] depression.
- Examining over 8,000 USA residents they report:
- They found significant cadmium-depression associations. The way this happens is extensive and involves at least eight ways in this paper.
- Heavy metals may be in mixtures. But if Cadmium is in the mix, it will have pro-depression creative power.
One reason we wrote about my 34 years of research, solution creation and vast depression causes in Destroy Depression: Return to Joy (Jan. 30, 2026) is because 332 million individuals [are] suffering from depression worldwide in 2021.
It is a major cause of disability
Depression has a “strong correlations with heightened risks of cardiovascular disorder [heart attacks and possibly strokes].
It is related to obesity, and early death. This includes suicide but not only suicide.
The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that by 2030, depression will become the first disease in terms of global burden of illnesses (Yang et al., 2015).
DEPRESSION AND HEAVY METALS IN MORE DETIAL
Current science lists home wastewater discharges, atmospheric pollutants, and commercial processes significantly increasing heavy metals in people. And cause many diseases including neurotoxicity, brain degeneration, and depressive symptoms.
A Few More Comments for Clarity.
- Heavy metal mixtures are “significantly associated” with depression.
- Cadmium is a significant promoter of depression.
- One primary mechanism for this effect is oxidative stress causing this association.
Heavy metals are neurotoxins. I try to remove it by easy treatments if someone has depression, especially if testing shows it. Testing for heavy metals is not a routine physician test for depressed patients.
We will be adding further research on this important issue with heavy metal concerns being an early enhanced physician concern that would include naturopaths (ND).
Li Q, Liu X, Zhou Y, Wang K, Liu H, Fu X, Lu W, Wang L, Zhou C, Zhao Y, Xu W, Ji A, Li Y, Cai T. The association between heavy metals co-exposures and depression: a convergence of network toxicology and epidemiology. J Affect Disord. 2026 Jan 15;393(Pt A):120290. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2025.120290. Epub 2025 Sep 10. PMID: 40939991.