Brain Allergies

[HysteryDiagnosis]

I read this book over 10 years ago, I found it to be informative and truthful. This is the hard road to travel.. since it strives to eliminate the true cause of various problems rather than using a chemical to try and stamp out the symptoms that are caused by the true biological anomalies. I guess its a matter of choice and how much effort one is willing to put out in order to achieve a thing.

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I have been researching the drug industry and psychiatry over the past year and have attended a Harvard Medical School seminar to see what is being taught concerning psychopharmacology. What I have learned is that for generations, orthomolecular physicians like Dr. Philpott have been curing mental illness by recognizing that brain malfunctions are caused by medical problems such as thyroid, kidney, and sleep disorder problems, an immune disorder cerebral allergy, metal toxicity, Candida infestation and enzyme and nutritional imbalances such as essential fatty acids deficiency (malnourishment). Biochemical testing can assist in determining underlying causes. Even Harvard's Dr. Stoll, who receives compensation from about ten different drug companies, recommends fish oil to provide essential Omega 3 fatty acids and vitamins as an effective treatment for depression.

According to Prescription for Nutritional Healing P. 448, A thyroid condition can cause fatigue, mood swings and depression, P. 153: An allergy is an inappropriate response by the body's immune system to a substance that is not normally harmful. P. 157: Cerebral allergies cause swelling of the lining of the brain. P. 154: Persons between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five are the most allergy-prone.

Entire food families can cause allergic reactions in susceptible people. Repeated headaches, or schizophrenic, violent, or aggressive reactions, can be an indicator. Foods such as corn, wheat, rice, dairy products, and chocolate, and certain food additives, are the most common offenders but chemicals such as petrochemicals or other substances, like mold can also cause serious problems. Other manifestations of food allergies are; acne, arthritis, asthma, chest and shoulder pains, colitis, depression, fatigue, food cravings, headaches, hemorrhoids, insomnia, intestinal problems, muscle disorders, obesity, sinus problems, ulcers, and unexplained dramatic weight changes. The list goes on and on. Allergies can also affect children diagnosed as Autistic or exhibiting ADHD.

To cure, orthomolecular physicians have patients stop eating what they are allergic to. These physicians remove toxic metals from the body, rid the body of Candida, and provide supplements as needed. The best book I have seen so far on this topic is this book, Brain Allergies. A proper diet is also wise to fuel the brain with essential nutrients and exercise provides oxygen to cells and assists in removing toxins via sweat glands.

Unfortunately, the drug industry has such an influence on psychiatrists that it is still common for them to recommend superficial physical testing (if any at all), ignore the results, and rather than determine the cause and fix the problem, they try to cover up symptoms with mega doses of drugs that cause damage and sometimes disability. One of many adverse effects from psychiatric medicine is the neurotransmitter brain damage imbalance known as Parkinsonism where a person can no longer walk or talk normally due to extreme slowness. According to Merck's web site, the disorder's pathophysiology is inhibition of dopaminergic system due to blockage of dopaminergic receptors by antipsychotic drugs. An excellent, very alarming book is Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs, which was written by a psychiatrist who stopped practicing psychiatry after seeing drug damage. According to this publication, drug trials are not unbiased, these drugs are no more effective than placebos, and they cause brain damage. A similar publication adds information concerning how to stop taking drugs, Your Drug May Be Your Problem.

If psychiatric drugs could cure, you would be able to take them and stop. Instead, drugs mask and/or change symptoms, they can be addictive, and they have serious side effects. Drugs are toximolecular. They are substances foreign to the body, in sub-lethal (and sometimes lethal) amounts. They should be used only as a last resort, emergency measure. Other treatments also cause permanent harm, such as electric shock that is well known in the industry for causing permanent memory loss. Harvard Medical School is now offering continuing education regarding using magnetic therapy. However the strength they are using is much higher than what Dr. Philpott used with success - so that will probably harm as well.
As a health consumer, you have to be your own best advocate.

The reason I am so concerned about this topic is that I know someone who was nearly disabled by antipsychotic drugs until Dr. Shaw with Great Plains Lab in Kansas (www.greatplainslaboratory.com) called with results from biochemical testing done. The lab tests showed this person is allergic to dairy and eggs, was toxic in aluminum, had a Candida problem and other imbalances. After the treatment plan outlined above, this person was able to get a job - cured!

I believe that all "mental" problems are caused by physical, medical problems. The fact the problems have not been discovered does not mean they do not exist. Treatments should not separate the mind from the body.
Just one person mentally distressed, disabled by drugs, and not able to work, will cost at least two million dollars over a lifetime, so this is an issue that impacts all of us financially as well as ethically.

[trotsky]

1. YES!

A review of a BOOK on Amazon.com stands as PURE MEDICAL TRUTH! Damn those bastards seeking to make money off sick people! Present company (and authors) naturally excepted. :eyes:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Egads man, find some other thread to show your limited understanding

of the subject matter in. I mean, I like you and all but this is bordering on stalking.


http://depression.about.com/cs/diet/a/foodallergies.htm
Food Allergies and Depression
How Modern Eating Habits May Contribute to Depression

From Ron Hoggan M.A. & James Braly M.D., for About.com

Updated: December 8, 2003

About.com Health's Disease and Condition content is reviewed by Steven Gans, MD
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The causes of depression may vary as much as our individuality, yet we often fail to consider our eating habits as possible culprits. With each passing year's increased understanding of the biological complexities of the human animal, more data suggesting dietary factors are unveiled.

The use of drugs such as SSRIs (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) and herbal extracts such as St. John's Wort (1, 2, 3) and 5-hydroxytryptophan (4) to manipulate quantities of serotonin at the synapses within the brain has demonstrated that available serotonin beyond the blood brain barrier (BBB) is an important factor in alleviating depression for many people. The brand name of one such drug, Prozac, has become a household word in our North American culture. Protein, if consumed in excessive quantity, suppresses CNS serotonin levels.

Carbohydrate intake, as well as alcohol and cocaine abuse increase levels initially, but if use is chronic, such use dramatically lowers CNS serotonin, resulting in depression, carbohydrate cravings, sleep disturbances, and proneness to argumentativeness, irritability. Violence can also be used to manipulate serotonin levels. Additionally, the morphine-like substances derived from the incomplete digests of dairy and cereal grain proteins are other dietary factors which may alter mood by depressing CNS serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine levels (5).

The reduced number of platelet receptors for serotonin found in patients with celiac disease, which is also caused, at least in part, by dietary factors, again points to food as a factor in some cases of depression. Such a propensity for depression, as is now seen in our modern world, seems to run counter to the process of natural selection. It is of more than passing interest that many of the foods which seem to be implicated in depression are also foods which Humanity has had only a relatively short time, on the evolutionary calendar, to adapt to (6). And we have been consuming more and more of these new foods during this century.

[trotsky]

6. You're a fine one to level charges of "limited understanding."

:rofl:

A book review on Amazon.com does not constitute valid medical evidence, no matter how much you desperately wish it were the case.

:rofl:

[cosmik debris]

10. But he also cites about.com

And everybody knows about.com is a peer reviewed journal right up there with JAMA!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. You obviously rather poke fun than look at the evidence. You are

predictable in the extreme.

[trotsky]

15. The "evidence" of a book review on Amazon.com.

:rofl:

[Warpy]

17. What utter rubbish!

Hasn't that clown ever heard of the blood-brain barrier?

None of his idiotic, overpriced supplements are getting through it.

I hope both he and Dr. Google keep their mundane day jobs because they're not going to make it big in scientific circles with hogwash like this.

[cosmik debris]

2. How much do you get paid to advertise for these books?

Do you ever actually read the books.

I know you don't bother to read the studies you cite, so how do we know you read the books you are shilling for?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. I read this book over 10 years ago. What's your specialty? Marvel?

DC Cosmiks?

[trotsky]

8. It's hilarious that cosmik's barbs have you so flustered...

that all you have left is unfunny distortions of his screen name.

Shill.

[cosmik debris]

9. Your record is so sketchy, I just had to check

I've documented that you use cut and paste plagiarism. I caught you at that.

I've documented that you don't bother to read the studies you use as citations. I caught you at that too.

So it stands to reason that any time you post, someone should ask if you are lying or not.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. I'm pretty much incapable of lying.

[cosmik debris]

13. You're pretty much incapable of telling the difference

between truth and fiction. That makes it impossible for those who read your posts to tell whether your posts are true or false.

[Orrex]

16. True or false, they're generally devoid of useful information

Convincing to those who believe with their eyes closed; entirely inadequate to people who require such novelties as evidence and reproducibility.

[gateley]

5. I feel food is the best medicine we have available --

The earth provides what we need to sustain and nurture us. So many medications are based on naturally occurring plants, herbs, etc. Look at aspirin.

I have Hep C and rather than go on the pharmacological cure (which is chemo) I chose to pursue clean up my diet -- followed The Liver Diet, and took it a step further by going all organic.

I have NEVER felt better in my life. I've never been HAPPIER in my life. I've never felt so calm and unstressed in my life. I was, to sound corny, high on life.

My dad was a doctor so I grew up believing wholeheartedly in drugs. When my friends had a cold and got childrens' aspirin, I got Terramycin. When we were older and were coming down with something, it was Vibramycin. (This was before it was known that too much antibiotics might not be all that good of a thing.) I always went for the pill - the fast cure. But I swear, my 'healing' by foods was almost as fast.

I wonder about all the allergies today - why our bodies react negatively to so many foods (the metals I can easily understand). I also wonder if a person were to switch to all organic, pure foods, if even the "forbidden" foods would cease to cause a reaction.

Anyway, great post and I'll certainly check out that book. Thanks!

[Orrex]

7. It's good that this issue is being discussed. Far too many woos are allergic to their brains.

And the reasoned use thereof.

[BuddhaGirl]

11. sounds fascinating!

thanks - I will definitely check it out.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

18. I believe that all "mental" problems are caused by physical, medical problems.

I guess if you include chemical imbalances and low levels of neurotransmitters as medical problems then you are correct. Unfortunately, many of these books have very, very loose ties to any actual studies, if any ties whatsoever, and are largely filled with anecdotal stories of people being cured.


David