An Overview of Nutritional Medicine for Brain/Behavioral Illness

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	• Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry Carl C. Pfeiffer Healing Arts Press, 1988 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Help for schizophrenics

This book is a great help for Scizophrenics from a nutrtional point of view and balancing your levels.

Helpful but not total

Carl Pfeiffer's work was done quite a few decades ago as he passed away. Following up on his work and furthering his work is Abraham Hoffer and Patrick Holford. This foundational work on orthomolecular was first coined by 2 time Nobel Prize winner Linnus Pauling. Pfeiffer's work was foundational to the advance of orthomolecular treatment for mental illness and schiophrenia. International Foundation of Schiophrenia furthers his work. I would definitely recommend Carl Pfeiffers work with Hoffers and Holford's. The Pfeiffer Treatment Center in Chicago also furthers his work. His clinic in NJ closed down some years ago. But his partner continues in Chicago.

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An Overview of Nutritional Medicine for Brain/Behavioral Illness

Some of the reviewers below apparently have not done much homework, but are willing to shoot from the hip. Who cares if the former Brain-Bio Center was only near Princeton and now has a new name? Life goes on and Ignorance is Bliss, but millions of Americans and many more worldwide are finding out that nutrients are medicine: fundamental, curative, and supportive/restorative in nature, far superior treatments to antagonistic prescription meds in most cases. It's case dependent.

I have been taking a megavitamin/mineral/fatty acid and very good nutritional regimen for 2 1/2 years. Basically, I'm a different person: much healthier, more energetic, confident, more productive, creative, enthused, and able to help others, and loving it~! This field of orthomolecular medicine and psychiatry is the preeminent methodology for effectively, naturally, and inexpensively improving body, brain, and behavioral health.

Overall, it is the safest and most cost-effective therapeutic regime by far. It needs to be taught, learned, applied, researched, and ramified throughout our failing health care system to revitalize it with life-giving elements that are in our food to begin with!

The results of orthomolecular doctors such as Hoffer, Cass, Holford, Gambee, Riordan, and dozens of others are in a different category than conventional medical providers. It is like trying to compare a natural orange and some strange orange-flavored candy (orthomolecular medicine vs. drug-based therapy).

Most doctors recognize the strategic limits and theoretical & practical problems with their trade--it is allopathic, relying on powerful unnatural agents to suppress, stimulate, or knock out disease, while other problems break out elsewhere from the effects of the same drug. Orthomolecular treatment is fundamental and curative in nature since it uses natural elements in our diets, our bodies, and natural environment which are ordinarily very easily and naturally processed by it. It uses innate and already functioning processes to build cellular metabolism, healthier tissues, enhanced organ function, a balanced endocrine system, and our neurotransmitter complex.

Compare that to destroying neuroreceptors to reduce someone's mental energy, while the brain tries to produce more neurotransmitters to compensate, and then we continue 'needing the drug' which destroys more neuroreceptors until significant brain damage may occur. Even the theory of the drug paradigm is riddled with obvious problems and faults, not to mention the side-effects of unhealthy thinking, constricted science, and and degenerative physical theories and their agents.

On the other side, nutritional medicine and psychiatry allow our body and brain to build themselves back normally and naturally by providing the building blocks for good intracellular health and fighting disease. In 10 or 15 years, as more and more people find out about NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY, OUR ENTIRE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM COULD BE TRANSFORMED INTO A FUNDAMENTALLY HEALTHIER AND CURATIVE MODEL.

I would encourage you to read this book and some of the many other phenomenal books on this subject (1), Naturopathic Nutrition by A. Hoffer, M.D.; (2), Nutrients Quiet the Unquiet Brain, A Four-Generational Bipolar Odyssey, by D. Moyer; (3) What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You, by Ray Strand, M.D.; (4) Natural Healing for Schizophrenia and Other Common Mental Disorders, by Eva Edelman (an extremely well-written, insightful, and ground-breaking resource--look for her similar and much larger book on Natural Healing for Bipolar Disorder, due out sometime this Fall), (5) Optimum Nutrition for the Mind, by P. Holford; (6)Brain Allergies: the Psychonutrient and Magnetic Connections by William Philpott, M.D., or (6) The Natural Medicine Guide to...(A Series of Guide Books) by Stephanie Marohn, inc. The Natural Medicine Guide to Anxiety; Depression; etc. (5 books in her series on the various major 'mental disorders')--I could go on and on about the very good, scientifically-sound, and high level knowledge in these and other books that will advance your natural understanding of bio-behavioral illnesses by light years (exaggeration? I think not.) they also help you by showing some good ways to deal with these conditions nutritionally.

This (have I said it before?) is the preeminent, clinically proven, and most potent field in health care, pure and simple. Doctors such as Abram Hoffer and others also use medications in their practices, but only as tools, not the entire tool bag. Does a plumber come to work only with a powersaw, some caustic acids, and a sledge? Any honest and intelligent doctor will tell you that their trade is being controlled substantially by the pharmaceutical companies and that medical school education, research, and application are all under the pall of these mega-profit driven entities.

That's not to discredit all drugs, but the field must be opened up to the light of day, new knowledge, and scientific scrutiny not wedded with Big Pharma's big deception, big influence, and big need for our money and approval.

If you have time, read this book by Orthomolecular Pioneer Carl Pfeiffer, a good basic work in the field. Have a Nice Year!

Free Your Mind and Feed Your Brain! Healthy Inputs, Healthy Outputs (the underlying principle that the more commonly quoted "Garbage In, Garbage Out" is twisted out of). Interesting how hogs and other farm animals get more advanced, better-balanced nutrition that most of us.

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Sound Case Studies Back up the Claims

Dr. Carl Pfeiffer is deceased (probably why the clinic is no more) but his research lives on. I believe a colleague took over and started a new center with a different name. Dr. Pfeiffer called the condition pyroluria, however, I believe his successors call it zinc and magnesium deficiency. A neighbor sought treatment for her daughter from the Pfeiffer Treatment Center, (when it existed) which at that time also offered temporary satellite facilities so people didn't need to travel to NJ. Her daughter improved so drastically it was amazing. Diagnosed with mental illness, as long as she stayed on the supplements, she was functional. Pfeiffer took hair samples from all the serial killers on death row and found one unifying trait - these vitamin deficiencies. I first saw Dr. Pfeiffer on the Phil Donohoe years ago. I wrote down his name and the term for the condition and then in college did a research paper on the Biochemistry of Crime, using Dr Pfeiffer's research as part of my assertion. All I can say, is don't knock it unless you've tried it. I have seen living proof that his research premise is sound.

After all, we already know that the food we eat does not actually provide the nutrients that the FDA claims they do since 40 years ago an orange offered more vitamin C than it has in it today. The beef today is more marbled with fat than 40 years ago since cattle used to be free range and so had more muscle and less fat in their tissue. And how does every living mammal (including humans) deal with toxins? They are stored in the fat cells. So if you eat beef marbled with more fat than 40 years ago, you are consuming more toxins (from the cattle) too. With digestive problems fast becoming an explosive problem in the U.S., is it any wonder that whatever is consumed may not be absorbed even if it provided the nutrients it was supposed to?

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Believing that drugs and psychoanalysis were not always the best course of treatment for a variety of mental illnesses, Dr. Carl Pfeiffer began an extensive program of research into the causes and treatment of mental illness, and in 1973 opened the Brain Bio Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Here, with a team of scientists, he found that many psychological problems can be traced to biochemical imbalances in the body. With these patients, he achieved unprecedented success in treating a wide range of mental problems by adjusting diet and providing specific nutritional supplements for those conditions where deficiences exist. This book documents his approach.

Each year, thousands of people are diagnosed as schizophrenic; many more suffer from depression, anxiety, and phobias.

Dr. Pfeiffer's methods of treatment presented in Nutrition and Mental Illness are a valuable adjunct to traditional therapies, and can bring hope of real wellness to many of those who suffer.

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