Nutrition And Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach To Balancing Body Chemistry Free Download
Genciana Haggins
Orthomolecular medicine aims to correct health problems by creating balance and targeting underlying causes using natural substances and nutrients.
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We are seeing a grand return to natural therapies across many disciplines. We see the return to natural regenerative farming practices to rejuvenate the life-giving properties of soil, and a turning away from GMOs, artificial fertilizers, and pesticides that have decimated farmland and lowered the nutritive values of crops across the planet. There is a health renaissance in progress, and we are happy to be part of it. The restoration of both mental health and physical health will benefit from this metamorphosis.
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Restoring balance and correcting underlying causes is possible by using substances familiar to the body such as minerals, vitamins, trace elements, fatty acids, and amino acids, for example. Another primary concept in orthomolecular medicine is that hereditary factors can affect more than just the physical characteristics of a person. Biochemical settings are also found to be hereditary.3
Biochemical pathways in the body (the chemical chain reaction of enzymes and other factors) are of interest in studies of illnesses such as cancer, schizophrenia, atherosclerosis, and even depression. Research has shown that specific biochemical abnormalities can be isolated as contributing or causal factors of illness and that these abnormalities may respond to targeted supplementation and other natural treatments.2
Dr. Abram Hoffer was right it seems. Since the brain utilizes the most blood, oxygen, and nutrients over any other organ, the brain, and the entire central nervous system start to feel the effects of biochemical deficiency long before any obvious physical symptoms manifest.
At Alternative to Meds Center, orthomolecular medicine is a founding principle of our programs. We deliver personalized nutrient, mineral, amino acid, and other supplement-based therapies according to the results of lab tests and other medical assessments unique to each client.
Program participants at Alternative to Meds Center consume natural, whole, predominantly organic foods. Elimination of processed foods, chemical flavor enhancers, sugars, and caffeine is also beneficial. Fermented foods and other agents that support microbiome health are incorporated into a delicious daily menu. Residents may additionally participate in sauna therapy, exercise, counseling, and other healing treatments. This is truly a holistic approach that impacts every level of physical and mental health.
Our educational series (Medication Titration & Neurochemistry Series) covers very diverse subject matters. We are teaching graduate-level clinical nutrition and environmental medicine and demonstrate the research that supports the view that nutritional deficiencies and imbalances and toxic accumulations break down the neurochemistry and can manifest many forms of dysfunction, including addictive cravings, medication use, and a wide range of mental health issues.
Collectively, this is called Orthomolecular Science. We inform you what foods to avoid, such as farm-raised fish, sugars, and processed foods. We teach the participant the exact nutritional precursors that provide balance for their own particular case, and how to read their lab tests so they may truly become self-health care savvy. Even some hygiene products may have been overlooked as contributors to the toxic profile that has chipped away at their ability to find balance.12
We are also administering learning modules such as trauma clearing, stress reduction, life coaching, art, family dynamics, and many other tools for the participant to succeed in life. By learning what was done to establish balance, clients can then understand and implement those skills to maintain it.
All orthomolecular psychiatrists are medical practitioners and many have received psychiatric training. However, orthomolecular psychiatrists reject the psychiatric drug-based model for treating mental health issues. While drug therapy may have been necessary for a short-term crisis, long-term drug use often results in worsened mental health.11,13
Dr. Pauling defined the principles of orthomolecular therapy as preserving good health and preventing disease through changing the concentration within the body of molecules of substances that are necessary for life, including amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and essential fats.
Allergies are believed by many orthomolecular psychiatry practitioners to be one overlooked cause of mental illness. Research has found a positive association between seasonal pollen exposure and anxiety, for example.15
Hypoglycemia is another one of the most frequently overlooked issues associated with emotional symptoms. Hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, is an interruption in sugar metabolism that is implicated in several mental and physical problems. Potential symptoms include anxiety, heart palpitations, alcoholism, insomnia, irritability, decreased sex drive, nightmares, violent behavior, crying spells, and nervous breakdowns.14 Hypoglycemia appears to be easily overcome with the professional help of orthomolecular psychiatry practitioners.
Nutritional pharmacology is no longer on the outside of medicine.5 Food affects the brain. Food affects behavior. In order to address this pervasive problem, our orthomolecular psychiatry program offers clients orthomolecular nutrition and dietary therapy including organic, whole, natural food, we also recommend that sugar, caffeine, white flour, and white rice are eliminated from the daily diet. Since modern food processing strips most of the nutrition, an individual eating a modern diet often develops a vitamin and/or nutrient deficiency even though they might consider their diet is adequate. Psychiatric symptoms are frequently associated with a lack of proper nutrition and supplementation. One example from research published in 2021 clearly showed a positive association between anxiety and vitamin D deficiency in children.16
When a person becomes symptomatic in a mental health way, they are almost always given psychiatric medication before any tests or other investigative work is done. Most of the time, medication is the length and breadth of traditional treatment. It is not uncommon for there to be no investigative efforts at all in conventional treatment. At Alternative to Meds Center, we have found more and more people with accumulated environmental toxicity, and these toxins disrupt the chemical relationships that are essential for mental health. These toxins include heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic, cadmium, lead, aluminum, pesticides, and organic toxins.1,12
Alternative to Meds Center additionally provides counseling with cognitive-behavioral therapists along with numerous other genres of one-on-one therapy and peer-based therapy. Some of these include Trauma Release, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, Reality Therapy, Adventure Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Art Therapy, Equine-assisted therapy, and more.
Some people have one or more genetic polymorphisms,3,5 meaning they have a genetic predisposition to detox poorly. Accordingly, people with certain of these genetic expressions will be unable to effectively detox everything from mercury, lead, and pesticides, to street and psychiatric drugs.
Those, for instance, who are less able to metabolize antipsychotic medications, are more likely to develop tardive dyskinesia, especially if the polymorphism behind this inability came from both parents (called a homozygous SNP).18
Brain chemistry is the most sensitive to chemical toxicity. This toxic load interferes with the way neurotransmitters are synthesized. Neurotransmitters are our chemical expressions of emotion; therefore, their disruption can manifest a wide array of mental health issues including depression, psychosis, anxiety, addictive behaviors, and even chronic pain.
We commonly see mercury toxicity causing insomnia and anxiety.4 Arsenic toxicity has been known to contribute to painkiller abuse due to its effects on endorphin synthesis, and mercury-lead or mercury-aluminum combinations have been demonstrated in psychosis as they bind to neuronal receptor sites generally reserved for neurotransmitters.
* NORD (National Organization for Rare Diseases) states that dental hygienists and others working with mercury should be aware that brain damage, asthma, pneumonia, and other health conditions have been found linked to breathing in mercury vapors.
We facilitate chemical and heavy metal toxin removal based on toxicity testing and provide treatment via customized chelation and targeted neurotoxin holistic detox protocols. The detoxification protocol used by Alternative to Meds Center was designed for people who have accumulated toxins and is tailored to specifically remove those toxins.
By identifying which toxins a resident is burdened by, chelating those toxins, and conjugating them so that they can then be safely eliminated, we consistently help some truly broken people get healthy and remain so.
Orthomolecular psychiatry is the use of orthomolecular medicine for mental illness. Orthomolecular psychiatry has been rejected by evidence-based medicine and has been called quackery. The approach uses unorthodox forms of individualized testing and diagnosis to attempt to establish an etiology for each patient's specific symptoms, and claims to tailor the treatment accordingly, using a combination of nutrients, dietary changes and medications that are claimed to enhance quality of life and functionality as well as to reduce or eliminate symptoms and the use of xenobiotic drugs. Scientific studies have shown mixed results; although there are some promising results from nutritional psychiatry, some forms of orthomolecular psychiatry are ineffective.
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