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Your Brain-Chemistry, Energy-Level, and Physical Status Are Strongly Influenced by Your Diet, and by Your Blood- Levels Of Vitamins, Minerals, Amino- and Fatty Acids, and Thyroid Hormones.
Are you tired all the time, often depressed, irritable or forgetful? Do you have sleep-, tension-, or other problems unless you drink, or take a habit-forming drug like Xanax? Chronic pain or obesity? PMS, panic-attacks or moodswing-disorder? Impotence/ frigidity? Concentration difficulties? Rage attacks/ temper outbursts? An eating disorder? A high 'bad-cholesterol'-level? Even one of several types of psychosis, including manic depressive, paranoid, organic or senile type? Even the dreaded tardive dyskinesia? Chances are you can be helped a great deal by expert evaluation, blood analysis and natural treatment by a medically- and nutritionally oriented psychiatrist. This treatment won't interfere with any conventional medical or psychiatric teatment or psycho-therapy you may be participating in at the time but will usually enhance those treatments, making you a happier and more pruductive person.
"Recent research has led to the evolution of an important clinical relationship among psychology, neurochemistry, and nutrition. The result has been the development of the multidisciplinary field of psychoneuro-nutritional medicine. The successful application of this medical model to mental health problems, ranging from behavior disorders in children to cognitive/ emotional disorders in adults, has opened the door to new, lower-technology, cost-effective approaches to improving functional neurobiochemistry. ... Nutritional intervention derived from this model is directed at reducing one's exposure to substances that cause a neurotoxic response, and enhancing one's intake of nutrients that help normalize neurochemical activity. Specific nutritional interventions, therefore, can improve cognitive and emotional function." (Bland JS. Psychoneuro-nutritional medicine: An advancing paradigm. ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES 1995; 1, 2(May): 22-7.
What Jeffrey Bland, PhD, is talking about here is nothing less than a massive paradigm-shift in medicine, an entirely new way of looking at medical and psychiatric problems. I was first introduced to the word 'paradigm' and the concept of paradigm-shifts just 2 years ago when I was given a copy of the 1992 paperback by Joel Arthur Barker called "Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future" (Barker JA. New-York: HARPER-BUSINESS, 1992). It was an eye-opener to me; it provided for me the explanation of why human beings, esp. in groups, organizations or societies, are often unable to change their thinking in a timely fashion when new circumstances, discoveries and factors would appear to mandate that their thinking change. Basically, it said that humans are creatures of habit and do not change those habits or that mindset until a stimulus large enough to dislodge the outdated thinking occurs for each individual - or for a 'critical mass' of individuals - in that group or culture. It provided at least a partial explanation for me of why the medical profession, in relation to nutritional factors, has been so slow to change their thinking in ways that have/ would enable(d) movement toward a superior mode of medicine and health-care. It also helped me to be a little more understanding of those who have not yet made the shift in their thinking. After all, as the book points out, even the Swiss watch-makers who themselves discovered the quartz technology for watch-making, were unable to discern that that technology would take over the world of watch-making - so they demonstrated this new technology to the public at a watch-fair in Geneva: The Japanese picked it up, automated it, and the rest is history!
So I am claiming that, whatever distance nutritional-medical people have traveled along their path so far, this is the approach of the future. History will have to be the judge of this claim. For now, let me remind you that Thomas Edison already remarked, a century ago, that the physician of the future would not employ medicines, surgery or other artificial procedures or mediums to cure illness but would guide the patient in the best way to structure his/ her natural diet and lifestyle in such a way as to achieve maximum health. And, at about the same time-period, Sigmund Freud predicted that psycho-analysis would fall away as a method of treatment once physicians were able to find the organic/ biological/ neurochemical underpinnings of much of the area of mental and emotional illness, and correct them biochemically.
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