18SW13 - Re-evaluating Botanical Medicine Approaches to Depression and Anxiety Herbal Therapeutics Botanical and Nutraceutical Medicines for

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A discussion of the effects of soy isoflavones

Speaker: Kenneth Proefrock

We then discuss therapeutic interventions

eliciting multiple types of physiological responses: from activating macrophages and balancing helper T1 and T2 cells to inhibiting inflammation by blocking pro-inflammatory cytokines

18SW13 - Re-evaluating Botanical Medicine Approaches to Depression and Anxiety Herbal Therapeutics Botanical and Nutraceutical Medicines forSpeaker: Kenneth Proefrock. Depression and anxiety are complex psychiatric disorders that affect 25 30% of the population (a conservative estimate) and come with an enormous social cost. Recent evidence suggests that these disorders are far more complex than ever before appreciated and are products of epigenetic, genetic, and situational circumstances that include neurotransmitter metabolism, altered receptor sensitivity, immunological inputs and