Depression tip number six, try to attain and maintain a healthy weight. If you're overweight or obese, the adipocytes, your fat cells, release inflammatory cytokines into your system and inflammation is associated with depression.💙

Also, it's been shown that people who were obese, when they lose a bit of weight, they have improved cognitive function. So there was a meta study done, which is a study that looks at all other studies that can find on a topic, and they looked at both longitudinal studies, which are once done over time, and randomized controlled trials.💙

And in either randomized controlled trials or longitudinal studies, they saw improvements in attention, memory, executive function, and language. And those are things that depression really, really adversely affects.💙

So if you're wondering what a healthy weight is, just go online and search for a BMI calculator.💙