Hi 👋 I’m Sonja I have late dx Bipolar 1 & Borderline Personality Disorder both in remission by natural & lifestyle plus very very late dx/very recent Inattentive ADHD & Autism, (History of PTSD/cPTSD/GAD) Dx at 49 with Bipolar & BPD at 52 & #AuDHD just this year! All my belated diagnoses have helped me as maps to manage this extreme combination of conditions. Never medicated, never hospitalised, my blogs contain a distillation of the natural means i’ve found useful to date. This is a new blog as I feel like I’m a new person now that I’ve finally got all the pieces I need to make sense out of my broken/different physiology, nervous system & psychology.

Monday, December 11, 2023

Saffron - Eat the Stigma

I was just following up from a Dr Amen piece on Instagram, I was reading about the really wide ranging effects of the Ayurvedic herb Saffron particularly for eye health as I’m finding my eyes are sore a lot from screens & they water in sunshine since going into presbyopia a couple of years ago. So I remembered the brain eye link, that eyes are really visible bits of brain so that’s all nervous system & Saffron is highly neuro protective, a very valid attribute by itself but there’s much more.

It has particular positive gut relaxation benefits & generally reduces inflammation & all cause oxidative stress in the brain & nervous system, making it especially likely for Alzheimer’s & ADHD, it promises cognitive & mood improvement as well as physiologically enhancing overall experience of sex for both genders, really, what’s not to like 😂😉

So I thought to check for my daughter who has Fibromyalgia & has low mood & anxiety way too much of the time but can’t be coaxed into any therapy atm & sure enough its a really good bet for Fibromyalgia support.

And I just thought personality disorder management and searched for articles & sure enough Psychology Today covered it among others.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inner-source/201601/saffron-emotional-health

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9781906/

https://drtorihudson.com/general/consider-saffron-for-fibromyalgia/

https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2016/7/saffron-improves-vision-in-aging-humans

A quick search showed Swanson do a nice pure stigma product 15mg very cheap & I was so thrilled by the irony of dual word meaning 🤷‍♀️ I find those irresistible, that I felt I had to post it on here. You wouldn’t want more than 1 cap twice a day - I will go in at just one a day & see how I feel, I might not need it but I do like to try things.

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