A Powerful Natural Remedy for Bipolar Disorder

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A Powerful Natural Remedy for Bipolar Disorder

These news that nutritional minerals provide a powerful natural remedy for

bipolar disorder is proof of all I've been saying in these pages. Featured on

Canada's national CTV news on Oct. 5. 2000, this news item dramatically confirms

the supreme effectiveness of the daily seafood dietary routine outlined here -

and gives supreme hope to almost all sufferers from bipolar disorder, as well as

the immediate simple, totally natural, and completely side effect-free means to

begin the road towards a normal life.

 

 

This news item told about a father with two children who had bipolar disorder,

in a family where bipolar disorder is common, and his frustration with the lack

of any improvement despite their long term prescription of lithium therapy. In

desperation he tried a " vitamin and mineral " supplement long given to pigs for a

similar condition. And the improvement was quick and dramatic.

 

So dramatic that investigators at the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada)

did a preliminary study with 10 people suffering from bipolar disorder - and

achieved the same quick and dramatic improvement. (Please note: I am recounting

this news story from memory, since I could not find it in CTV's news archive on

their web site, and my memory might not be entirely accurate concerning all the

details).

 

 

Original Abstract:

 

Successful Treatment of Bipolar Disorder With a Nutritional Supplement: Ten

Cases

 

Recent research on various nutrients has suggested that some mental illness

might be ameliorated by supplementation. Much work has focused on essential

fatty acids (1), although various minerals are also being studied (especially

zinc). We are evaluating a broad-based nutritional supplement that contains

primarily trace minerals, plus vitamins and amino acids.

 

Recent work has suggested that crops grown with western farming methods contain

fewer of these essential nutrients than they did in years past (2) . Although we

have been examining the effects of the supplement on a variety of psychiatric

symptoms in both children and adults, it appears to be particularly promising

for bipolar disorder in adults.

 

We will present an open case series of 10 male patients aged 20-46 years who

thus far have taken the supplement for 1.5 - 6 months. Four were diagnosed with

Bipolar I, four with Bipolar II, one with Bipolar Mixed, and one with

Bipolar-NOS. In most cases, the supplement has entirely replaced psychoactive

medications and the patients have remained well. Side effects (e.g., nausea)

have been rare, minor, and transitory. In all cases, the patients have been

evaluated periodically with the Hamilton-Depression Scale, the Brief Psychiatric

Rating Scale, and the Young Mania Rating Scale.

 

The change in mean scores for each scale from study entry to the time of the

last visit are as follows: Ham-D (20.4 to 8.2), BPRS (37.3 to 9.9), YMRS (16.8

to 6.1), and OQ (75.2 to 48.2).

A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of the supplement for Bipolar I has been

funded and began in July 2000.

Authors: Bonnie J. Kaplan1, PhD; J. Steve A. Simpson1, PhD, MD; Richard C.

Ferre2, MD; Chris P. Gorman1, MD; David McMullen1, MD; - 1Calgary, Alberta,

Canada; 2Salt Lake City, Utah

AbstractPresented at the Canadian Psychiatric Association annual meeting October

4, 2000, Victoria, British Columbia.

References:

1. Stoll AL, Severus E, Freeman MP, Rueter S, Zboyan HA, Diamond E, Cress KK,

Marangell LB: Omega 3 fatty acids in bipolar disorder: A preliminary

double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Archives of General Psychiatry 1999;

56:407-412.

2. Mayer AB: Historical changes in the mineral content of fruits and vegetables.

British Food Journal 1997; 99:207-211

 

Also see U of Calgary Press Release -

http://www.ucalgary.ca/unicomm/NewsReleases/bipolar.htm

 

 

This news item confirms my discovery, as described in these pages (see SUPREME

HEALTH), in several important ways. First of all, it confirms that the daily

seafood dietary routine as described in these pagee works, and works wonderfully

well - and that more than anything, the " trace minerals " (or trace elements) are

the therapeutic factor.

 

That the vitamins in the supplement are not the therapeutic factor follows from

the fact that no measure of vitamin supplementation has ever shown to have any

effect on bipolar disorder. This leaves the " trace minerals " or trace elements

in this supplement.

 

Further confirmation is provided by the presence of a very similar condition in

pigs, since they too are fed on the severely trace element deficient grains

and/or potatoes as produced by our modern agriculture - and by the fact that

this condition in pigs has long been remedied with the trace elements (or

" mineral " ) in this supplement.

 

It must be mentioned here that lithium definitely plays an important role in the

therapy of bipolar disorder - but it cannot do it alone! In fact, and especially

if large doses are given, alone it can do more harm than good. The fact is that

all of the trace elements work in conjunction, and most of them are useless, and

even dangerous, when given in isolation. Calcium therapy, for example, does not

work without its indispensable complement of magnesium.

 

Consequently, a daily helping of seafood works far better, is far safer, and has

nil side-effects - than any product containing only some trace elements (trace

minerals).

 

A note to livestock farmers: For the same reasons, incorporating an

ocean-derived component - such as kelp, fish or seaweed meal - in your livestock

fodder will cure and prevent this and many other diseases. And all the " side

effects " are beautiful; they substantially, and often dramatically, improve the

whole system!

 

Worth mentioning here as well is the fact that none of the participants really

know why this supplement works. They just know that it does, but that there is a

massive trace element deficiency in all of our daily food, as well as in the

fodder for the pigs is now, at least, beginning to dawn on the medical

establishment.

 

Here though, in these pages, is the whole story; the causes, the cures, and all

the whys and wherefores of it all.

 

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