Sunday, March 23, 2008
5 ok... my last post was very pitiful. There are tons of people with harder trials than I. Suck it up J. and just do it. Compared to eternity this life is just a short time and I can endure it. Christ took upon him all, not just some but all the sorrows, pain and sickness of the world so I can get through this challenge and be quite successful.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
3-6 Big range I know but the ups and downs are what I do. This evening I started to think and then ball my eyes out because I will get to live as a BIPOLETIC for another 62 years and all I want is to be steady. All I want to give my wife and 4 kids is steadiness and security. I AM NOW YELLING THIS AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS. I WANT TO BE WELL. I WANT TO BE WELL. I WANT TO BE WELL. I guess when we pass from this life that those pesky mental illness challenges will be long gone.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Another witness of Nutrition
5-6 Writting is so very difficult for me. As a natural born salesman I love to talk but make me write something and you might as well pull my wisdom teeth. Below is another witness of nutrition and a mental health cure/relief. Please tell me what you think! Choa for now!!!
Source: The Guardian Date: 04 May 2004
The eating cure Forget drugs - diet is the way forward in treating mental illness, says Lucy Mayhew
Of all the unsolved mysteries of the human body, it is the brain that most rigidly resists our efforts at understanding it; and that lack of understanding is costing us increasingly dear. Mental illness is reaching epidemic levels. The World Health Organisation claims that mental health problems "are fast becoming the number-one health issue of the 21st century". Clinical depression is the biggest international health threat after heart disease. At the same time, there is a growing dissatisfaction with the drug treatments available. In the UK, the number of prescriptions for antidepressants has more than doubled in 10 years, with 80% of GPs admitting they overprescribe drugs such as Prozac and Seroxat because of the lack of alternative forms of treatment. But though they might not be available on the NHS just yet, alternatives are starting to emerge - and with some promising results.
Later this month Dr David Servan-Schreiber, a clinical professor of psychiatry and founding member of Medecins Sans Frontières in the US, will visit Britain to launch his book, Healing Without Freud or Prozac, which has already received an enthusiastic response in Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, where it has sold half a million copies. After a career in conventional medicine, Servan-Schreiber's theory is that exercise can be as effective in treating depression and stress as antidepressants. "It is not that I am against antidepressants," he says. "But there are some natural methods of treatment that have been demonstrated to work for milder forms of depression. It doesn't make any sense to ignore them any longer."
In this country, meanwhile, there is a growing interest in an orthomolecular, or nutritional approach to mental health problems. Food as medicine is not a revelatory proposition - it was the hobbyhorse of Hippocrates, the father of western medicine.
But there is a lot more to the science of nutritional therapy than adding the odd grilled fish and dollop of spinach to your shopping list. Differences from those affected by manic depression, schizophrenia, autism or attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are only achieved by giving patients large amounts of precise nutrients to alter their brain biochemistry.
All psychiatric drugs work to rebalance out-of-kilter brain chemistry. But the success rates achieved by providing the brain with the same molecules it uses to build brain cells and neurotransmitters are eye-opening - hence the well-publicised success of the essential fatty acid omega 3.
Twenty per cent of the brain is made up of essential fats. These fats are missing from the modern diet, and the body can't manufacture them itself. Each of our 100 billion brain cells links up to 20,000 others, and when essential fats are in short supply, the link-ups become difficult. The potential consequences are manifold: our mood, concentration, memory and intelligence can all suffer. So it is unsurprising that essential fats have been proven to help with numerous brain-based afflictions.
While 40% of patients who walk into doctor's surgeries are suffering from a mental health problem, an astonishing two-thirds of GPs have had no mental health training. As a result, most GPs do not even consider their patients' nutritional status. Professor André Tylee is chairman of the National Institute for Mental Health and is responsible for educating all British GPs in the treatment of mental health. He is passionate about the benefits of nutritional therapy and describes it as "the breakthrough we've been waiting for". He is hoping to ensure that nutritional approaches will become the first step that doctors use to defeat mental illness.
Tylee is working with Patrick Holford, founder of the Institute of Optimum Nutrition and author of the bestseller Optimum Nutrition for the Mind. Holford's latest enterprise is The Brain Bio Centre, which is dedicated to helping patients recover from all forms of brain-centred illness, from depression to Alzheimer's, using nutritional therapy. Tylee is anxious to introduce the clinic's approaches to the NHS and to conduct a clinical study that confirms their anecdotal success rate of 80%. The clinic defines success as freedom from symptoms, the ability to socialise with friends and family, and the paying of income tax.
According to Holford, a nutritionist and psychologist, nine out 10 people eat less than the recommended daily amounts of our 39 essential nutrients. "They're not called essential for nothing," he says. When this is combined with other factors such as high homocysteine levels, which leave one twice as likely to succumb to depression, blood-sugar and neurotransmitter imbalances, it is hardly startling that people's brain chemistry goes awry.
James Maclean, 21, is a typical Brain Bio Centre success story. James developed manic depression in his second year at university. He was given antipsychotics and antidepressants and received guidance from an NHS psychiatric nurse who "normally just spoke about his own family".
"I had to leave university," says James. "I hated taking so much medication - it made me put on five stone." When he started to believe that the radio was speaking to him, he knew he needed further help. "Within a space of 10 days I was sectioned, then released, then detained again three times." He was eventually hospitalised for two months. He calls the mental hospital the most soulless place on earth.
On his release, his sister-in-law suggested he see a nutritionist. After an internet search which yielded only a quack who wanted $10,000 for the first consultation, James eventually tracked down the Brain Bio Centre. After tests he was found to be very low in minerals and to be yeast- and gluten-intolerant; he was also suffering from blood-sugar problems. He changed his diet and took a comprehensive range of supplements, including high doses of niacin and essential fats. "The difference was startling," he says. "I feel sharper than before and I'm now supermotivated. I have lost three stone in the last two months and I feel whole again." James has reapplied to read sports science at university and hopes to play rugby professionally.
Holford may be regarded as being outside the mainstream, but increasingly his approach is being fostered in conventional medicine. Many respected scientists and physicians are reporting unprecedented success with the orthomolecular approach, so named by the American chemist Linus Pauling, who died in 1994. In the UK, Malcolm Peet, an NHS psychiatric consultant, recently led separate studies with schizophrenics and depressives who were failing to respond to drugs. Both studies concluded that the essential fat, EPA, is effective. Earlier this year, Dr Basant Puri, a consultant psychiatrist at Imperial College School of Medicine, published an entire book dedicated to explaining why EPA is so good at treating depression.
In the US, Dr Mary Megson, a fellow of the American Academy of Paediatrics, has treated over 2,000 children for autism and uses under a teaspoon of cod liver oil every day. The majority of subjects come out of the autistic spectrum within six months - some within weeks, she says. She has seen children making eye contact for the first time in their lives after just three days of treatment.
Similarly, Dr Alex Richardson, a senior research fellow at Oxford University, recently published a study showing remarkable turnarounds in concentration, attention and disruptive behaviour after combining the fish oil EPA with omega 6 to treat dyslexics and ADHD sufferers.
"We're not talking about easily labelled disease entities," says Richardson. "We are simply saying there is a frightening epidemic of children falling into categories where extra help and special education is needed. One in four children are now affected by underlying problems that stop them achieving their potential." Richardson, director of a new charity, Food and Behaviour Research, is anxious to emphasise that a single nutrient cannot work in isolation. "You can't carry a single nutritional supplement around as a talisman for superhealth, because usually specific vitamins, minerals or enzymes are necessary to ensure the key nutrient is absorbed."
http://www.moodfoods.com/foodmood/index.html
Source: The Guardian Date: 04 May 2004
The eating cure Forget drugs - diet is the way forward in treating mental illness, says Lucy Mayhew
Of all the unsolved mysteries of the human body, it is the brain that most rigidly resists our efforts at understanding it; and that lack of understanding is costing us increasingly dear. Mental illness is reaching epidemic levels. The World Health Organisation claims that mental health problems "are fast becoming the number-one health issue of the 21st century". Clinical depression is the biggest international health threat after heart disease. At the same time, there is a growing dissatisfaction with the drug treatments available. In the UK, the number of prescriptions for antidepressants has more than doubled in 10 years, with 80% of GPs admitting they overprescribe drugs such as Prozac and Seroxat because of the lack of alternative forms of treatment. But though they might not be available on the NHS just yet, alternatives are starting to emerge - and with some promising results.
Later this month Dr David Servan-Schreiber, a clinical professor of psychiatry and founding member of Medecins Sans Frontières in the US, will visit Britain to launch his book, Healing Without Freud or Prozac, which has already received an enthusiastic response in Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, where it has sold half a million copies. After a career in conventional medicine, Servan-Schreiber's theory is that exercise can be as effective in treating depression and stress as antidepressants. "It is not that I am against antidepressants," he says. "But there are some natural methods of treatment that have been demonstrated to work for milder forms of depression. It doesn't make any sense to ignore them any longer."
In this country, meanwhile, there is a growing interest in an orthomolecular, or nutritional approach to mental health problems. Food as medicine is not a revelatory proposition - it was the hobbyhorse of Hippocrates, the father of western medicine.
But there is a lot more to the science of nutritional therapy than adding the odd grilled fish and dollop of spinach to your shopping list. Differences from those affected by manic depression, schizophrenia, autism or attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are only achieved by giving patients large amounts of precise nutrients to alter their brain biochemistry.
All psychiatric drugs work to rebalance out-of-kilter brain chemistry. But the success rates achieved by providing the brain with the same molecules it uses to build brain cells and neurotransmitters are eye-opening - hence the well-publicised success of the essential fatty acid omega 3.
Twenty per cent of the brain is made up of essential fats. These fats are missing from the modern diet, and the body can't manufacture them itself. Each of our 100 billion brain cells links up to 20,000 others, and when essential fats are in short supply, the link-ups become difficult. The potential consequences are manifold: our mood, concentration, memory and intelligence can all suffer. So it is unsurprising that essential fats have been proven to help with numerous brain-based afflictions.
While 40% of patients who walk into doctor's surgeries are suffering from a mental health problem, an astonishing two-thirds of GPs have had no mental health training. As a result, most GPs do not even consider their patients' nutritional status. Professor André Tylee is chairman of the National Institute for Mental Health and is responsible for educating all British GPs in the treatment of mental health. He is passionate about the benefits of nutritional therapy and describes it as "the breakthrough we've been waiting for". He is hoping to ensure that nutritional approaches will become the first step that doctors use to defeat mental illness.
Tylee is working with Patrick Holford, founder of the Institute of Optimum Nutrition and author of the bestseller Optimum Nutrition for the Mind. Holford's latest enterprise is The Brain Bio Centre, which is dedicated to helping patients recover from all forms of brain-centred illness, from depression to Alzheimer's, using nutritional therapy. Tylee is anxious to introduce the clinic's approaches to the NHS and to conduct a clinical study that confirms their anecdotal success rate of 80%. The clinic defines success as freedom from symptoms, the ability to socialise with friends and family, and the paying of income tax.
According to Holford, a nutritionist and psychologist, nine out 10 people eat less than the recommended daily amounts of our 39 essential nutrients. "They're not called essential for nothing," he says. When this is combined with other factors such as high homocysteine levels, which leave one twice as likely to succumb to depression, blood-sugar and neurotransmitter imbalances, it is hardly startling that people's brain chemistry goes awry.
James Maclean, 21, is a typical Brain Bio Centre success story. James developed manic depression in his second year at university. He was given antipsychotics and antidepressants and received guidance from an NHS psychiatric nurse who "normally just spoke about his own family".
"I had to leave university," says James. "I hated taking so much medication - it made me put on five stone." When he started to believe that the radio was speaking to him, he knew he needed further help. "Within a space of 10 days I was sectioned, then released, then detained again three times." He was eventually hospitalised for two months. He calls the mental hospital the most soulless place on earth.
On his release, his sister-in-law suggested he see a nutritionist. After an internet search which yielded only a quack who wanted $10,000 for the first consultation, James eventually tracked down the Brain Bio Centre. After tests he was found to be very low in minerals and to be yeast- and gluten-intolerant; he was also suffering from blood-sugar problems. He changed his diet and took a comprehensive range of supplements, including high doses of niacin and essential fats. "The difference was startling," he says. "I feel sharper than before and I'm now supermotivated. I have lost three stone in the last two months and I feel whole again." James has reapplied to read sports science at university and hopes to play rugby professionally.
Holford may be regarded as being outside the mainstream, but increasingly his approach is being fostered in conventional medicine. Many respected scientists and physicians are reporting unprecedented success with the orthomolecular approach, so named by the American chemist Linus Pauling, who died in 1994. In the UK, Malcolm Peet, an NHS psychiatric consultant, recently led separate studies with schizophrenics and depressives who were failing to respond to drugs. Both studies concluded that the essential fat, EPA, is effective. Earlier this year, Dr Basant Puri, a consultant psychiatrist at Imperial College School of Medicine, published an entire book dedicated to explaining why EPA is so good at treating depression.
In the US, Dr Mary Megson, a fellow of the American Academy of Paediatrics, has treated over 2,000 children for autism and uses under a teaspoon of cod liver oil every day. The majority of subjects come out of the autistic spectrum within six months - some within weeks, she says. She has seen children making eye contact for the first time in their lives after just three days of treatment.
Similarly, Dr Alex Richardson, a senior research fellow at Oxford University, recently published a study showing remarkable turnarounds in concentration, attention and disruptive behaviour after combining the fish oil EPA with omega 6 to treat dyslexics and ADHD sufferers.
"We're not talking about easily labelled disease entities," says Richardson. "We are simply saying there is a frightening epidemic of children falling into categories where extra help and special education is needed. One in four children are now affected by underlying problems that stop them achieving their potential." Richardson, director of a new charity, Food and Behaviour Research, is anxious to emphasise that a single nutrient cannot work in isolation. "You can't carry a single nutritional supplement around as a talisman for superhealth, because usually specific vitamins, minerals or enzymes are necessary to ensure the key nutrient is absorbed."
http://www.moodfoods.com/foodmood/index.html
Thursday, February 28, 2008
5-6 Things have been very crazy around our family running everyday to the Mayo Clinic in Phx. KJ had to call all her family and let them know that Aunt V. might not make it past today. Pretty scary stuff. At 12:30 we met with the doctors and they said that things were stable and cautiously optimistic about a recovery. Nothing had permanent damage and if the bone marrow transplant does take we will know in 3-7 days... choa for now
Sunday, February 17, 2008
6< "The Brain Chemistry Diet" (Putnam Books, 2002) by Michael Lesser, M.D. I have to read it and then I will post a review. I ran across this in my seaching and the individual said that it helped him tremendously to be able to eat foods that would help get him out of depression or not stimulate his mania. I am willing to try just about anything
Yesterday, I went out and bought a men's active multivitamin, ester C, omega-3 and garlic pills. I have probably gone 1+ years w/o the multivatamin, C and garlic. Adding the omega-3 to that list are all supposed to help with my nuerotransmitters. Here's to crossing fingers!
My 14 yr old son and I took a($8.50/load and none thought it could be done) load of junk to the dump yesterday. It was so good to have some one on one time with him and really talk. I don't think I will ever forget those 2-3 hours we spent together just talking and working. My little Mazda pickup was stacked 4 feet high above the hood with the remains of a gazebo, ugly existing desk furniture that was nailed to the wall in my daughters room, horrible green faded verticle blinds, bad river rocks, rotten lemons and oranges that had fallen from the neighbors trees aswell as about 15 latices that where screwed into the block wall of our fence and a southwest design privacy door/screen(it was removed b4 we bought the house). All these things and more were between the RV gate and our backyard gate with all our trash recepticles and bikes. ect. intentionally placed there so as not to be seen by anyone.
Out of sight, out of mind, right? Probably not, KJ had been gone all morning (taking her mother Nan(my mother-inlaw to the hospital for more tests for the bone marrow transplant for Aunt V) so she didn't believe us when we told here that it was all cleaned up and had to go see it for herself. LOL doubting Thomas. Cleanliness is next to Godliness ya know! Have to go now cuz it is 5:50 am and wake everyone up for family scriptures. Choa for now!
Yesterday, I went out and bought a men's active multivitamin, ester C, omega-3 and garlic pills. I have probably gone 1+ years w/o the multivatamin, C and garlic. Adding the omega-3 to that list are all supposed to help with my nuerotransmitters. Here's to crossing fingers!
My 14 yr old son and I took a($8.50/load and none thought it could be done) load of junk to the dump yesterday. It was so good to have some one on one time with him and really talk. I don't think I will ever forget those 2-3 hours we spent together just talking and working. My little Mazda pickup was stacked 4 feet high above the hood with the remains of a gazebo, ugly existing desk furniture that was nailed to the wall in my daughters room, horrible green faded verticle blinds, bad river rocks, rotten lemons and oranges that had fallen from the neighbors trees aswell as about 15 latices that where screwed into the block wall of our fence and a southwest design privacy door/screen(it was removed b4 we bought the house). All these things and more were between the RV gate and our backyard gate with all our trash recepticles and bikes. ect. intentionally placed there so as not to be seen by anyone.
Out of sight, out of mind, right? Probably not, KJ had been gone all morning (taking her mother Nan(my mother-inlaw to the hospital for more tests for the bone marrow transplant for Aunt V) so she didn't believe us when we told here that it was all cleaned up and had to go see it for herself. LOL doubting Thomas. Cleanliness is next to Godliness ya know! Have to go now cuz it is 5:50 am and wake everyone up for family scriptures. Choa for now!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Bipolar Nutrition and Diet
5 <-- If you notice I haven't written lately. I had an episode and tried to hide it from my wife. Mental illness caries a huge stigmatizim because people are looked down upon as weak or lesser than. All this thinking came from working this week w/my trainer who has diabetes. Today we do not look at diabetes as something horrible and maybe we might catch it if we are next to someone with it. Because of modern medicine when my trainer wasn't feeling well he grabbed his test kit and found out that his blood sugar was too high. He got some rest made sure he didn't eat any carbs and he was great the next day.
So yesterday I had an apointment w/my counselor (due to the prior episode) and when I asked what should the diet of a bipoletic(made up word?) eat she knew only that a diet low in bad carbs was best. She also said that the omega-3 fatty acids were good to take. We talked about the similarities between Diabetes and Bipolar Disorder and that because mental illness science is soo new comparitavely that hopefully that my posterity can just take a home test each day and regulate their own levels of neurotransmitters. I guess you could say that I am a Pioneer in mentall illness and hopefully the next generations will be able to regulate this awful family crushing illness. Search google for Bipolar Diet and the 1st article that came up is now on the LINKS portion of this blog.
My grandfather Wayne Lemmon died from diabetes in 1959 when my mother was but 12 years old. It was induced from WWII injuries that he sustained as a gunner on top of many tanks. He returned 6' and 89 lbs and was in and out of the VA hospital so many times that it would make your head spin. He was a Pioneer for diabetes and I cannot wait to meet him in heaven along with my grandmother, his wife, who suffered severely from bipolar disorder. Between the years of 1959 and 1972 she was sooo messed up that all her kids didn't want anything to do with her and her dilusions/visions caused most to push away from her. Thank goodness for a wonderful angel by the name of Ernie Mocco who was a great stabalizer in her life and a huge SAINT in the lives of my aunt, uncle and mother because of the relief of such huge episodes and calming effect he had on her. I have a greater love and appreciation for her because of my own discoveries with bipolar disorder over the last year and a half. I miss her soooooo much and wish that we could talk about all of it. She was never diagnossed.
So yesterday I had an apointment w/my counselor (due to the prior episode) and when I asked what should the diet of a bipoletic(made up word?) eat she knew only that a diet low in bad carbs was best. She also said that the omega-3 fatty acids were good to take. We talked about the similarities between Diabetes and Bipolar Disorder and that because mental illness science is soo new comparitavely that hopefully that my posterity can just take a home test each day and regulate their own levels of neurotransmitters. I guess you could say that I am a Pioneer in mentall illness and hopefully the next generations will be able to regulate this awful family crushing illness. Search google for Bipolar Diet and the 1st article that came up is now on the LINKS portion of this blog.
My grandfather Wayne Lemmon died from diabetes in 1959 when my mother was but 12 years old. It was induced from WWII injuries that he sustained as a gunner on top of many tanks. He returned 6' and 89 lbs and was in and out of the VA hospital so many times that it would make your head spin. He was a Pioneer for diabetes and I cannot wait to meet him in heaven along with my grandmother, his wife, who suffered severely from bipolar disorder. Between the years of 1959 and 1972 she was sooo messed up that all her kids didn't want anything to do with her and her dilusions/visions caused most to push away from her. Thank goodness for a wonderful angel by the name of Ernie Mocco who was a great stabalizer in her life and a huge SAINT in the lives of my aunt, uncle and mother because of the relief of such huge episodes and calming effect he had on her. I have a greater love and appreciation for her because of my own discoveries with bipolar disorder over the last year and a half. I miss her soooooo much and wish that we could talk about all of it. She was never diagnossed.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Child 4
6<-- When I woke up @ 1.45am to check on the boys Child 4 was wide awake and very talkative. His temperature was high, so I gave him some medicine. I rubbed his back for quite some time but found it difficult not to chat with him so not to stimulate him any more. (I just checked on him again and the temperature is down and still fast asleep). What a character he is. Last night KJ and Child 3 took Child 1 to a bishops youth council and he became scared and was crying, thinking that nobody big was there to watch him all the while Child 2, his older brother, was sitting on the couch under the same blanket. I walked in and quickly assured him that he was being watched over, that we would never leave him alone and that his older brother Child 2 was old enough to take care of him.
Good, Better, Best by Oaks is such a great talk and I am currently listening to it. I believe that my organization troubles need to be based 1st on this and the other things will fall into placed. My family is more important than all other distractions. Yes, I do have to support financially my family which I have done a horrible job of lately. Due to struggles with depression my family has suffered much hardship over the last four months but there is a light now at the end of the tunnel that I have been in and things are slowly turning around. Chao for now!
Good, Better, Best by Oaks is such a great talk and I am currently listening to it. I believe that my organization troubles need to be based 1st on this and the other things will fall into placed. My family is more important than all other distractions. Yes, I do have to support financially my family which I have done a horrible job of lately. Due to struggles with depression my family has suffered much hardship over the last four months but there is a light now at the end of the tunnel that I have been in and things are slowly turning around. Chao for now!
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