The Best Natural Alternative to Prozac
Are you looking for a natural alternative to Prozac for anxiety and depression?
Did you ever think of deadlifting to fight depression?
I didn’t think so, because neither did I!
But if you are looking for a Prozac alternative, you are in the right place.

Let’s look at the reasons why it is a great idea to begin a deadlift workout program to lift depression:
#1. Who Does Not Want Serotonin and Endorphins?
The deadlift will increase endorphins in your blood, which is going to make you feel much better, and help you fight off depression.
#2. You Need More Testosterone
The deadlift is one of the best exercises to increase your testosterone, which is a known guard against depression.
High testosterone is associated with low depression, and low testosterone is associated with depression.
#3. Imagination to the Rescue
The deadlift will help you visualize lifting depression out of your life.
How?
The more adept you become at the deadlift, the more you will be able to imagine lifting the weight of depression off of your shoulders.
You will be able to think to yourself that just as I am lifting this dead weight off of the floor, similarly, I can lift the weight of depression out of my life.
Depression is a burden for you and those who care about you; depression is a weight that you do not have to carry forever.
Learn to deadlift, and you will be able to imagine lifting the dead weight of depression off of your shoulders.
#4. How Confident Will You Become on Prozac?
It is difficult to feel depressed when you feel confident.
Confidence is the opposite of depression.
When you feel confident, you can take on life challenges.
When you are confident, you cannot feel hopeless, and it is difficult to feel sorry for yourself.
Consistently doing the deadlift will help you build confidence as you get stronger.
#5. Do You Think Prozac Will Make You Strong?
Of course, one of the most visible benefits of the deadlift is that it increases your physical strength.
Conquer the deadlift gradually by slowly increasing your weight to deadlift and great form.
The stronger you become physically will carry over to mental and emotional strength, and the stronger your mind is, will make it much easier to overcome depression.
#6. Is Impotence Freaking You Out?
Not pretty.
Impotence.
Choose antidepressants, and you run the risk of impotence.
Your doctor might tell you that it does not matter since you are depressed anyway and not interested in ‘it,’ but do you want that potential side effect?
Deadlifting will also strengthen you in ‘that’ area since it can significantly raise your testosterone.
#7. Get Rid of Insomnia – Are You Ready to Start Sleeping?
Deadlift for a good night’s sleep.
Choose antidepressants, and you might end up with a case of insomnia for more years than you bargained for.
The first time that I took Zoloft, I could not sleep for over three days straight.
How do you think that continuing insomnia affected my job performance?
Would your company like having a zombie on board better than a depressed tiger with an ‘edge’?
Well, my company would have preferred the depressed tiger with the ‘edge,’ which is why after antidepressants morphed me into a zombie for over a year, I no longer had my job or career.
#8. No Profuse Sweating with Prozac Alternative
Would you like to wake up in pools of sweat?
Are you interested in bathing your clothes in sweat all day and night?
If yes, then antidepressants are for you.
If not, try the deadlift first and other powerful compound exercises like squats, pushups, and walking.
Imagine walking your depression away, which is a lot simpler than popping pills that end up with your bedsheets soaked in the morning.
#9. Stop Hallucinations
Enough tiptoeing around the actual potential side effects of antidepressants.
Yes, antidepressants can be a lifesaver for some people, and for those people, that is wonderful.
But let’s not pretend that there are no other people for whom antidepressants that play with your brain chemistry can be lethal.
One day, while I was walking in my room on my fourth round of antidepressant cocktail experiments to find the ‘right’ doses of chemicals that were supposed to take off the ‘edge’ of depression, I looked at the mirror.
I am sure you do that too; look in your mirror while walking by.
But I imagine that your reflection does not begin to speak to you!
When my reflection began to ask me how my day was and what I was doing, I knew that I had to get off those drugs and throw out the
- Prozac,
- Zoloft,
- Neurontin,
- Risperdal,
- Effexor,
- Xanax,
- Welbutrin,
whichever of those I was on at that time.
I knew I needed a natural alternative to Prozac.
I knew I had to go cold turkey, no more drugs to save myself because, at that moment, I was hallucinating, and I did not care that I would be going AMA, against medical advice at that point.
Don’t let yourself get to that point.
So, deadlifting to lift your depression sounds a lot saner to me than hallucinating.
#10. Reduce Suicidal Ideation
Deadlifting is a much better choice than choosing death.
Now, most people who go on antidepressants are, of course, attempting to overcome depression and avoid death by not becoming another suicide statistic.
We know that depression is a significant risk factor for suicidal ideation and suicide.
However, the warning labels on antidepressants are there for a reason.
There is a risk of suicidal ideation.
Why not try
- real food daily,
- squats,
- pushups,
- walking and
- deadlifting
before ingesting chemicals that might cause suicidal ideation?
I always had what is called ‘dysphoria’ or low-grade depression.
But I did not think about jumping out of windows or off of bridges till I went on antidepressants to ‘cure’ my ‘depression’ and ‘take off the edge.’
The Best Natural Alternative to Prozac – Wrapping Up
These are just the first ten reasons why the deadlift is a better natural alternative to Prozac or any other antidepressant medication.
If the deadlift and the other exercises and strategies that I speak about do not help, then, by all means, you must try additional methods, which might have to include antidepressants.
Still, as a first choice, after my experiences with the catastrophic side effects of medications, I suggest the deadlift.
What’s Next
For your next step to fight depression, please give the New SIGECAPS Roadmap a chance to work before going on antidepressants.
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