Treating depression with supplements and complementary therapies

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As the world continues to face a mental health crisis due in large part to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many integrative and functional medicine practitioners have turned to supplements and complementary therapies to help address the root cause of their patients’ depression. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, depression rates have skyrocketed, not just in the United States, but globally. In 2020, there was a 28 percent increase in major depressive disorder cases…