Feedback/assistance on a writing project i am working on

November 14, 2002

Dear Group:

Some time ago I joined this group. Due to time constraints, I have

been rather inactive, although I do search through the posts from

time to time and read what I am able to. This is a great group.

I am currently in the process of beginning to write a book length

document in regard to a proposed natural therapy for depression.

This is admittedly rather unusual material. Underlying this

material it is an enormous amount of effort, as well as my

personally taking about 75,000 capsules of various amino acids since

1997, and another 30,000 or so capsules of other various supplements.

I should perhaps note that when this material is completed, it will

be posted on the net and freely available to all. I am not selling

anything here, nor do I have any commercial interests whatsoever. I

am simply trying to give others that may be depressed information

that sure I wish I had thirty years ago.

I'd love to get any constructive feedback on what I have written

this far. Any comments, either positive or negative, on the

material below would be helpful to me.

All the very best,

Allen Darman

Introduction

The material that follows concerns a natural therapy for depression,

as well as all of the logical and biochemical principles underlying

it.

This material is written for both laypersons and doctors alike. The

author has intentionally tried to state everything in this material

in as simple a manner as I possibly can. My goal is for nearly

anyone to be able to understand what I am representing here, even if

they have not had any formal schooling in medical or biological

science.

What follows represents an entirely different perspective of

depression than that which you, the reader, may have heard about

from your doctor. It also represents an entirely different

perspective than that which you may have read about in magazines or

books, seen on TV, or heard from many other people.

It is best to try to forget everything you were ever taught about

depression when you read the following material.

Why?

The answer to this question is fairly simple. From the standpoint

of chemistry, the large majority of all cases of biochemical

depression involve only three classes of chemical substances;

nutrients, allergens, and toxins. All of these cases of depression

are best corrected by addressing such body chemistry directly,

rather than by using any medication whatsoever. These prior

statements probably apply to 85% or more of all persons that suffer

from depression.

On the other hand, modern pharmaceutical medicine essentially

ignores all of the chemistry of nutrients, allergens, and toxins

when they are dealing with depression in anyone that is thus

afflicted. The pharmaceutical-medical model especially ignores the

role of essential nutrients, despite the fact that these chemical

substances are both obviously and absolutely crucial to proper brain

and body function. In ignoring such obvious and essential chemical

issues when dealing with depression, the pharmaceutical-medical

model cannot have any real clue as to what depression is chemically

all about. The same is true for any person that is involved in

pharmaceutical medicine. Any person that believes in such

pharmaceutical medicine, whether they are a doctor, a psychiatrist,

a medical researcher, or a medical school professor is also clueless

when it comes to any valid understanding of the chemistry of

depression. Therefore it is best to try to forget everything that

you may have learned about depression from your doctor when you read

the material that follows. For nearly everything that you may have

learned from your doctor or any person involved in the

pharmaceutical-medical model about the chemistry of depression is

most likely to be incorrect.

You may like your doctor or your psychiatrist on a personal level. I

certainly do. You may be very grateful to him or her for

information or assistance that they may have provided to you. I

definitely am. You may also be quite thankful to them for the

medication that they have prescribed to you in the past; medication

which may have helped to greatly to relieve your symptoms of

depression. I am as well; my psychiatrist probably saved my

life. However, please be aware that your doctor, despite his or

her probably being a good, caring person, is a victim of a flawed

pharmaceutical-medical system, just as you are a victim of this

system. In essence, your doctor, good person or not, is simply a

highly trained and very well paid drug salesman, of which you are

his or her paying customer. Unfortunately, your doctor is a person

that was educated in a medical school whose curriculum and research

is all drug, and never nutrient, oriented. All of this is because

of money, many hundreds of billions of dollars of pharmaceutical

money.

According to the dictates of human nature, it is going to be quite

hard for most persons to accept any or all of the many significant

truths contained in the material that follows. We humans, once we

have heard a certain set of ideas stated over and over again for

years from a number of sources, strongly tend to believe these

ideas. We incorporate them into our own personal perception of how

things are. And once we do this, we find it nearly impossible to

let this reality go. We strongly tend to hang on to old ideas for

decades, even when new evidence and/or simple logic says that these

ideas are wrong.

It took decades for the human race to accept that the world was

round, and not flat, despite much evidence to the contrary. It is

probably going to take a similarly long time for mankind to realize

that nutrients and other natural measures are far more powerful and

far faster acting corrective chemical therapy than any anti-

depressive medication that ever was, or will ever be, in regard to

the treatment of depression.

The author knows that the material that follows may be some of most

accurate thought in existence at the current time on the subject of

depression and how to best treat it. However, I am aware that the

great majority of persons are not going to be able to accept this

material as having any truth or validity whatsoever. It may be

decades before many other persons accept much of what I am proposing

herein. Despite my being aware of this, I am going to do the best

that I can here to tell you, the reader, the truth about depression.

The pharmaceutical-medical model and this author do agree on one

single issue; that depression has a universal symptom. This symptom

is that the brain is functioning below par. After this agreement,

we part ways.

What is depression?

According to this author, depression IS NOT simply a state of brain

dysfunction.

The author proposes to you, the reader, that depression is primarily

a condition of general nutrient and biochemical deficiency in the

entire body, of which the brain is only one of a number of organs

that are impaired. Depression secondarily involves the possible

presence of allergic and toxic substances. The author also proposes

to you that directly addressing these nutrient, allergic, and toxic

issues is profoundly corrective of depression in the vast majority

of persons so afflicted.

In addition to the above, the author proposes to you that the brain

is NEVER the only organ that is affected when a person is

depressed. This is a crucial concept to both the proper

understanding and the proper treatment of depression.

How did mankind go so wrong in thinking that the brain was the

primary, if not often single, organ of involvement in a depressed

state?

One reason mankind assumes that the brain is the only organ of

involvement in depression is that the pharmaceutical-medical model

has repetitively told us this. We assume that the many billions of

dollars spent in research by all of these very intelligent people

must mean that they know what they are talking about. I would like

to caution the reader here. All of this money, all of these people,

and all of the research being done are directed at depression ONLY

from the standpoint of treating it with medication, and just

medication. In other words, the pharmaceutical-medical model

" has blinders on " . It is essentially not looking at any issue

involved in depression outside of the use of antidepressive

medication. It is doing this due to its own fiscal self-interest, a

fiscal self-interest that involves rather staggering amounts of

money.

To perpetuate the flow of money towards it, the pharmaceutical-

medical model must summarily ignore any and all essential nutrient

chemistry in the body when they are dealing with depression.

Nutrient chemistry cannot make the pharmaceutical-medical model any

money. Nutrient chemistry is unpatentable, readily available, and

rather inexpensive. Therefore the pharmaceutical-medical model must

ignore all such nutrient chemistry, despite the fact such nutrient

chemistry is absolutely critical to both neurotransmitter levels and

brain performance. This is especially true of amino acids, of which

most neurotransmitters are primarily made. The pharmaceutical-

medical model must especially ignore amino acid nutrients, as these

can so readily change the levels of their associated

neurotransmitters within a matter of hours when they are used

properly.

A second reason that persons assume that the brain is the only organ

of involvement in depression is that anti-depressive medications

target and treat only faulty neurotransmitter levels, a fact that

infers only brain involvement. This, and the fact that such

medications often bring substantial relief to persons from

depression, serves to solidly perpetuate mankind's general

misunderstanding that the brain is the primary organ involved in

depression, if not the only organ.

Yes, it is true that artificially increasing the amount of

neurotransmitters such as serotonin or dopamine available in the

brain with medications such as SSRI's and other antidepressants

often does bring substantial relief to a person that suffers from

depression. However, doing such does not chemically correct even a

small portion of what depression is truly all about. Taking an

antidepressive medication simply provides a relief from depressive

symptoms, a relief that is commonly known as " masking " (of

symptoms). It is similar to taking a painkiller for pain, the pain

is still there, but you don't feel it. When taking an

antidepressant medication for depression, the depression (which is

primarily a state of general biochemical deficiency) is still there,

but you can no longer perceive it.

A third reason that persons assume that the brain is the only organ

of involvement in depression is that human beings can only perceive

in themselves the sub par performance of a single organ – the

brain. We are conscious of brain performance. We know when our

brain is not working quite right. However, we are not conscious of

other organs in our body, unless physical pain is involved. We have

no way of telling, and can not sense in ourselves, sub par

performance of key organs and glands such as the pancreas, the

liver, the thyroid gland, our adrenal glands, etc. for the most

part, despite the fact that all of these organs and glands effect

brain performance. These facts have also helped to perpetuate the

erroneous conclusion that when we are depressed, it is generally

only our brain that is involved.

Despite the fact that the pharmaceutical-medical model has developed

a number of antidepressive medications that are often effective in

treating the symptoms of depression, the pharmaceutical-medical

model does not have a clue as to how to best chemically correct

depression in any person that suffers from such. The faulty

chemistry underlying a state of depression primarily involves a

general lack of essential nutrients. The pharmaceutical-medical

model does not know how to correct the chemical status of a general

lack of essential nutrients, nor do they want to find out. The

pharmaceutical-medical model also does not want you, the reader, to

find this out as well.

Why not? Because the pharmaceutical-medical model is making hundreds

of billions of dollars masking the symptoms of nutrient deficiency

with various antidepressant medications. In addition, the

pharmaceutical-medical model has the power and the prestige to

continue to make these obscene amounts of money, even if they do not

recognize or address any of the essential nutrient chemistry

involved in depression at all. Why should they change? Both human

beings and institutions only change when they are motivated to do

so. What motivation does the pharmaceutical-medical model or any of

the people involved in it have to change in regard to their current

treatment of depression? The answer of course, is none.

No antidepressant medication actually increases the level of any

neurotransmitter whatsoever. These medications only artificially

increase the levels of certain neurotransmitters in the brain. Only

nutrients can actually change neurotransmitter levels. They can do

this quite readily within a matter of hours. All neurotransmitters

are made out of essential nutrient substances, substances with names

such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids.

A lack of any single one of these essential nutrients can, and

invariably does, cause a lack of whatever neurotransmitter this

nutrient is involved with making. This is especially true of amino

acids. Amino acids are nutrient substances that most

neurotransmitters are primarily made of. Conversely, increasing

one's overall nutrient status increases one's overall

neurotransmitter status. These are all very basic and irrefutable

biological and scientific facts. Yet, the pharmaceutical-medical

model always ignores these facts whenever they attempt to change

neurotransmitter status in a person that is depressed. According to

the pharmaceutical-medical model, the use of medication is the

single and proper chemical manner in which to change

neurotransmitter status to alleviate a state of depression. Such a

position is absolutely ludicrous, but due to the lack of knowledge

of the general public, the pharmaceutical-medical model continues to

get away with telling us this.

The current pharmaceutical-medical model has a very erroneous

conceptual understanding of depression. The pharmaceutical-medical

model does not have a clue as to what the most common causes of

depression are, causes which may apply to well over 90% of us. They

also do not know how to correct for these common causes when they do

occur in a person. Nor does the pharmaceutical-medical model want

to find either the common causes of depression or their

corrections. In addition, they do not want you, the reader, to find

out as well.

Why not? Because the pharmaceutical-medical model is making

hundreds of billions of dollars ignoring all of the most common

causes of depression, especially that of hidden food allergy,

candida, and other various GI tract malabsorptive problems. The

pharmaceutical-medical model has the power and the prestige to

continue to make these obscene amounts of money, even if they do not

recognize or address even any of the extremely common causes of

depression at all. Why should they change? What motivation do

they have to change? None, of course.

Due to the facts that many people have died, and are continuing to

die, of suicide as a result of severe depression, and that the

pharmaceutical-medical model is perhaps intentionally ignoring any

and all rather biologically obvious nutrient and malabsorptive

issues when dealing with depression, this model may be quite

literally getting away with manslaughter on a grand scale. And it

is getting paid hundreds of billions of dollars to do so. In

addition, with their great fiscal wealth the pharmaceutical-medical

model controls the media, they control general public opinion, and

they control governmental legislation. Why should they change?

Not only does the pharmaceutical-medical model have no reason

whatsoever to change in regard to their current treatment of

depression, and they have hundreds of billion$ of reasons not to,

the truth is that they cannot change. It is nearly impossible.

One reason that it is nearly impossible for the pharmaceutical-

medical model to change is how could they say to the thousands of

persons that just spent a quarter of a million dollars going to

medical school in order to become psychiatrists that " I am sorry,

but the education that you received is already obsolete? " How

could they tell these newly educated psychiatrists that medication

is not the best chemical answer to depression, the therapeutic use

of nutrients is? And how could they tell all of the psychiatrists

that graduated medical school quite some time ago the same thing?

Are these psychiatrists all going to go back to school to learn how

to use nutrients instead of drugs? Not likely.

How could the pharmaceutical-medical model ever tell its doctors

things like " We have just learned that the therapeutic use of

nutrients can correct depression far better than antidepressive

medications do " , or " We were wrong to not address nutrient

malabsorptive issues when dealing with depression " , or " It is

likely that if you ignore essential nutrient levels in a depressed

person and dispense only medication in which to treat this

condition, you are likely to become part of a class action lawsuit

against you at some point in the future " ? The pharmaceutical-

medical model cannot say these things.

The pharmaceutical-medical model cannot change. They cannot

recognize nutrient issues in dealing with depression. This is

especially true because if they are applied in any manner that makes

any logical sense whatsoever (as this document proposes) they often

work profoundly well in an amazingly short period of time.

The pharmaceutical-medical model will never understand depression or

treat depression properly, unless they are someday forced to by

public outcry that generates substantial legal and political action

on this matter. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this to

happen. It is probably going to take quite some time.

This author does not agree with the pharmaceutical-medical model at

all. I know far too much to do so. I know that depression is

a " whole body " condition, affecting every organ and cell in

it. I know that, far more other than not, depression is primarily a

general state of nutrient and biochemical deficiency in the body,

and secondarily it involves a probable exposure to allergic and

toxic substances. The end result of these factors is a situation in

which brain function is impaired. And when brain function is

impaired due to a lack of essential nutrients, an exposure to

allergic or toxic substances, or both, all of other organs and

glands in the body are likely to be impaired as well.

I welcome you to an open-minded journey into how the human body

actually works from a chemical standpoint. I would also like to

welcome you to an explanation of how to fix the chemical machine

that our body represents when it this chemical machine is broken,

such that we may feel depressed.

In the material that follows is a step by step explanation of a

natural antidepressive therapy that can substantially increase

nearly every chemical substance in the body, to include increasing

the levels of all brain neurotransmitters, for all ostensible

purposes. This natural therapy can do so within a matter of single

day. It does so by the use of nutrients and other natural measures,

and without the use of any medication whatsoever.

The following material also provides many rather easily understood

explanations of many obvious biological and chemical reasons that a

person whom is depressed should perhaps consider using such a

natural therapy.

It may be worthy to note here that neurotransmitters are only one

class of the chemical substances in the body that are being broadly

and substantially increased by the use of the natural therapy that

is proposed herein. Hormones and enzymes are two of the other

classes of biochemical substances that are being broadly and

substantially increased as well. Neurotransmitters, hormones, and

enzymes are all invariably low in a person that is depressed.

Increasing the levels of these three classes of chemical substances

in the body can, and very often does, have a profoundly positive

effect on a state of depression.

For those times when broadly increasing the levels of

neurotransmitters, hormones, and enzymes does not result in the

complete resolution of depression within a single day, various

allergic or toxic issues may be involved. Most common allergic and

toxic issues can be resolved fairly quickly as well, especially in

regard to their current impact on a state of depression. These

common allergic and toxic issues, and their suggested corrections,

will be discussed later in this document as well.

For this author, it is apparent that doing the above is often

completely corrective of a state of depression. It is even often

completely corrective of a state of very severe depression with

suicidal ideation attached. Amazingly, it is often corrective of

either depression or severe depression within a period of time of

less than a single day.

The antidepressive therapy being proposed here is based on fairly

simple and rather irrefutable logic. In essence, this therapy

represents a logical coupling of a number of basic biochemical and

biological concepts together.

The anti depressive therapy that is being proposed here is also

based on experience. The author immediately knew the great

significance of what first happened to him in August of 1999. At

this point, partly as the result of an " accidental

discovery " , I was able to profoundly and completely resolve a

longstanding state of severe biochemical depression within a single

day. This is an event that modern medicine considers quite

impossible. It is also an event that I have intentionally repeated

many dozens of times since. I did this to either validate what I

had already learned, or to refine the concepts and methods that I

was using such that I could better advise other persons.

It is this author's belief that the material that follows may

represent a very important breakthrough in the both the conceptual

understanding and the treatment of depression for all mankind. This

material may not be " the final answer to depression " , but it

certainly advances it's understanding far more ahead of where it

is today. However, it may be quite some time before the

significance of what is being represented herein is realized. I say

this despite that fact that what I am proposing here is based on a

great deal of rather basic and irrefutable biology and science, as

well as it is based on much simple and rather irrefutable logic.

The natural antidepressive therapy that is proposed here has four

simple stages, each of which is critical to its success.

The first stage involves a general cleansing of the intestines with

a " gooey sticky plug " that, as it moves down the intestinal

tract, removes a number of common problems that can greatly impair

the absorption of essential nutrients into the body. This " gooey

sticky plug " appears to fix every major problem in the GI tract that

is commonly present in a person that is depressed. It removes

problematic allergic food residue. It removes problematic " bad

bacteria " . It removes a problematic yeast condition known as

candida. It removes excess mucous from the walls of the

intestines. It removes many problematic toxins. It removes

undigested food, which cannot be absorbed into the body.

This " gooey sticky plug " is rather amazing it its ability to

broadly correct all common problems in the GI tract for most persons.

This " gooey sticky plug " is also incredibly useful to the

quick correction of a state of minimal nutrient absorption in a

person in a person that suffers from such. Minimal nutrient

absorption (also known as malabsorption) is a situation that is

extremely common in a person that is depressed. A state of severe

depression and a state of poor absorption of nutrients into the body

are nearly synonymous.

The second stage involves " seeding " the small intestines with

a key amino acid nutrient. This special nutrient can substantially

increase the ability of the intestines to absorb any and all other

nutrients that are ingested later, a fact that is scientifically

proven.

The result of the application of the above two states of the therapy

being proposed herein is a very substantial change in nutrient

absorptive ability in the intestines within a matter of hours. Few

persons realize that the absorptive ability of the intestines can,

and often does, vary substantially from day to day, despite a person

not being aware of this at all. Even fewer persons realize that the

absorptive ability of the intestines is so readily changeable for

the better. The author is one of these persons. I have greatly

changed the absorptive ability of my intestines within a matter of

hours as many as a hundred times since 1999. It appears to me that

doing so is invariably crucial to the effective treatment of

depression.

The third stage involves taking a single substantial dose of every

single nutrient known to man, or taking a few divided doses in which

to achieve the same effect. Many of these nutrients are taken in a

form that does not require the normal digestive process to work in

order for them to be well absorbed into the body. The reason that

these nutrients are taken in a form that bypasses the digestive

process is that, not only absorption, but digestion as well is often

quite impaired in a person that is depressed. A state of severe

depression and a state of poor digestion are nearly synonymous.

The fourth stage involves replacement of a variety of " good

bacteria " in the GI tract. Many of these " good bacteria "

were removed by the cleansing action in stage one of the therapy

being proposed here, along with much else that was a potential

problem and therefore had to be removed. An adequate amount of " good

bacteria " in the GI tract is important to good digestive health.

And good digestive health is critical to overall nutrient status in

the body.

After you have performed all of the above four stages of the therapy

outlined above, all you have to do is simply wait. Nature does the

rest. A large dose of the entire range of essential nutrients is

absorbed into the body. These nutrients are then carried by the

bloodstream to where they are needed. Sluggish cells and organs

throughout the body, all of which lacked adequate nutrients, are

sparked back to life. They begin to do what they would have done

all along if they had been fed properly. In addition to this,

problematic and common allergens and toxins and allergens are being

removed. The result of all of this is that you will feel amazingly

better within a matter of a single day. And you will NOT feel

depressed.

This four stage natural antidepressive therapy often effectively

addresses all three chemical issues that are common to 85% or more

of all cases of depression. It substantially corrects the

problematic issues of a lack of nutrients, a presence of allergens,

and a presence of toxins in anyone. And it often corrects for these

issues within a single day, such that a depressive state that is

even quite severe is often fully resolved.

This four stage natural antidepressive therapy is a solution that is

elegantly simple. And it is a solution that is rather obvious, once

depression is understood for what it truly is. What is most

important to you, the reader, is that it is a solution that often

works!

I hereby welcome you, the reader, to a whole new world of molecular

medicine. This is a medicine that both recognizes and addresses the

enormous corrective power of nutrients. It is also a medicine that

recognizes and deals with all of the possible underlying causative

factors in various health conditions as well, especially those

involved with causing nutrient deficiency in the body.

I will do my best in the material that follows to explain to you the

simple logic and many powerful truths of this new medicine as it

relates to depression. I will do so using words and concepts that

nearly anyone can understand, doctor or not. And I will do my best

to relate how I put a number of this new medicine's concepts

together to achieve the greatest impact on a state of even severe

depression in a remarkably short period of time.

End of introduction…. To be continued….

November 14, 2002

I for one, can hardly wait to read and try the protocol. My daughter has been

on anti-depressants for almost 15 years and just put her 6 year old daughter on

Paxil. How long before you finish your manuscript?

Marilee Ü

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Allen Darman

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