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[sSRI-Research] URGENT APPEAL FROM AN ORTHOMOLECULAR PSYCHIATRIC

SURVIVOR: VITAMIN ACCESS THREAT

 

URGENT APPEAL FROM AN ORTHOMOLECULAR

PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVOR: VITAMIN ACCESS THREATENED

GLOBALLY

http://www.iahf.com/on_the_back_wards.html

 

By John C. Hammell, President, International Advocates for

Health Freedom

Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

 

On the back wards, where the sun doesn't shine, time is

measured in the burning of cigarettes. Drugged zombies pace

listlessly past the peering eyes of hospital staff who observe the

pathetic scene from the other side of the nurses station window,

like people peering into an aquarium, taking meaningless notes

out of sheer ignorance.

 

Locked naked behind a two inch thick steel door, I felt sealed in

a tomb of hopelessness. I lay on the rubber mat in the corner,

with muscles turned to jello by an injection of a highly toxic

neuroleptic drug called thorazine. On the walls were obscenities

scrawled in blood and excrement from past prisoners in the

seclusion room, and the fetid stench of stale urine filled the air.

 

It was Christmas day, but I had no visitors, and the outside world

seemed hopelessly out of reach. In this setting, after being

forced out of college by my illness, I struggled for 4 long years to

hang on to a shred of hope. I badly wanted to resume a life put

on hold, and hoped of some day having access to

orthomolecular medicine, a suppressed nutritional treatment

mode that had helped my aunt and several cousins to heal on a

cellular level- via the natural substances that comprise the

proteins that make of each and every one of our cells: vitamins,

minerals, amino acids, trace elements, and hormones.

 

My aunt Jane sent three books about orthomolecular medicine to

the next to the last hospital I was in. When they first arrived, I

could not concentrate well enough to read them, but felt an

intrinsic pull to them and became determined to do anything

possible to bring about a sufficient physiological change

necessary to be able to concentrate at least enough to skim the

books so as to glean their essence.

 

The hospital had taken the one thing away from me that had

been helping: long distance running around the perimeter of the

grounds. Release of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine from

the running had a natural antidepressant effect, helped me detox

from the toxic drugs they gave me, and helped me cope with the

stress of my situation so I could sleep at night. They told me they

were going to stop me from " running away from my problems "

and stuffed me on a locked ward- where I was the only non

smoker. After my eventual orthomolecular recovery, I was to learn

that exposure to cigarette smoke, (also to several foods) to

which I am allergic, caused an escalation in my histamine

levels- which contributed enormously to my debilitating

symptoms.

 

On the locked ward, I compensated for running being taken away

by doing yoga, push ups, sit ups, tai chi, meditation, and prayer.

To get away from the cigarette smoke, I spent as much time as

possible in my room with the window open. I got so I could read

with great difficulty- if I read with my finger, and re-read a page at

least 10 times, I could retain enough to go onto the next page.

 

Via that means I struggled through Mental and Elemental

Nutrients by Carl C. Pfeiffer, MD, PhD after first reading an

account by a fellow patient, Mark Vonnegut, son of the famous

writer Kurt Vonnegut, about how this man's methods had helped

him recover.

 

Since Pfeiffer had also helped my aunt and some cousins, I was

more than a little interested in trying this nutritional approach, but

my doctor arrogantly and vehemently insisted that it was

" unproven quackery. " I got myself kicked out of that hospital by

breaking all their rules in order to get back to New Jersey, where

I was put in another hospital which ALSO wouldn't let me try

orthomolecular medicine- but at least I was in the same state as

Pfeiffer, so figured I had a chance- if only I could go see him and

get lab tested.

 

My dad was dead set against this idea because physician

friends of his advised him that Pfeiffer was a " quack " , but my

mom was more open minded- and she saved my life by taking

me to Pfeiffer who did a battery of lab tests that no one else had

known how to do.

 

Armed with the proper nutrients, I smuggled them back in to the

last hospital I was in, and took them on the sly while mouthing

my medication, and spitting it down a toilet. I had to hide my

vitamins in a cavity gouged out from the underside of a foam

mattress because they did room searches searching for

contraband- and if they'd found my vitamins, they would have

confiscated them as if they were cocaine or marijuana, having

been brainwashed into believing that any amount over the RDA

merely gives us " expensive urine. "

 

After just three weeks of taking my supplements, I was doing so

much better that I was given a full medical discharge, with the

doctors scratching their heads, wondering which of their drugs

had been helping me, but none of them had been- I was spitting

them all down the toilet where the toxic substances belonged.

That was 23 years ago.

 

WHAT PFEIFFER FOUND

 

Pfeiffer discovered that food and inhalant allergies caused me to

have an overproduction of histamine which is peripherally stored

in basophils of the blood and the tissue mast cells. Basophil

counts greater than 50 cells/cu mm and histamine levels greater

than 70 ng/ml (10 mcg%) are considered diagnostic for

histadelia. The average histamine for males was 111 mg/ml and

females 107 mg/ml in a study reported in 1975. My histamine

levels were up to 126. This is significantly different from normals:

42 and 46 mg/ml for males and females respectively. Histadelia

causes suicidal depression, paranoia, and obsessive thinking.

 

The amino acid methionine detoxifies histamine by methylating

the ring structure forming N-methylhistamine. Calcium, taken in

the form of calcium salts reduces the release of the bodies store

of histamine. Zinc and manganese aid the calcium- methionine

program and provide sufficient relief.

 

Pfeiffer also discovered that I had very high aluminum levels, and

copper levels, as well as overproduction of an enzyme called

kryptopyrolle. This enzyme robbed me of zinc, a copper

antagonist that I needed to eliminate excess copper which was

having an excitory effect on the brain as an electrolyte,

contributing to my difficulty concentrating, to thought disorder as

well as to my severe depression. In essence: high copper levels

were shorting out my brain, interfering with neural firing. Zinc,

Manganese, and vitamin C all help to lower a copper burden.

The amino acids l-tyrosine, and l-tryptophan boost

norepeniphrine and dopamine levels respectively, also helping

to alleviate depression.

 

I have barely scratched the surface of telling my story here, but I

hope it is sufficient to lead other suffering people to the help they

need. Meanwhile, please help STOP a global pharmaceutically

instigated threat to ban our access to these safe healing

nutrients:

 

URGENT GLOBAL HEALTH FREEDOM ALERT-

 

The EU Vitamin and Herb Directives, as well as the Medicines

Directive threaten to ban people's access to the nutrients that

helped me heal, and which enable me to maintain my health in

the face of genetic biochemical imbalances. They threaten the

lives and health of people not only in the EU, but due to the EU

regs threatened impact on globalized regulations via the UN's

Codex Alimentarius Commission- people all over the world,

including all Americans. American vitamin companies have been

lied to on this issue by their pharmaceutically dominated trade

associations. We must wake them up fast!

 

It is therefore essential that freedom loving people world wide

actively oppose these draconian, pharmaceutically biased

regulations. People in the UK (and world wide) should join

http://www.healthfreedommovement.com and take this to the

streets. Also in the UK see http://www.alliance-natural-health.org

Vitamin consumers world wide should contribute to these

organizations which are on the front lines of the global battle to

defend access to dietary supplements. Also please see

http://www.laleva.cc and sign the petition.

 

About the author:

 

John Hammell is President of International Advocates for Health

Freedom http://www.iahf.com POB 10632 Blacksburg, VA 24062

USA 540-961-0476 jham John is a grass roots health

freedom activist/organizer, political lobbyist/writer, and consultant

to the dietary supplement industry. John was on the ad hoc

Advisory Board that created the National Center for

Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National

Institutes of Health, USA http://nccam.nih.gov/ and is one of the

authors of Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons A

Report to the NIH on Alternative Medical Systems and Practices

in the United States c. '92 US Government Printing Office

http://www.access.gpo.gov ISBN 0-16-045479-4 John was

kicked off the US Delegation to the UN's Codex Alimentarius

Commission's Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special

Dietary Use for being a whistleblower attempting to expose

FDA's criminal efforts to set the USA up to lose in a WTO Trade

Dispute via which US supplement laws are threatened with

harmonization to a mindless international standard. Many of

John's articles have appeared in Life Extension Magazine

http://www.lef.org

 

Additional Web Based Information: Orthomolecular Medicine

 

http://www.orthomed.org International Society of Orthomolecular

Medicine, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Canadian

Schizophrenia Foundation,

 

Links to more info http://www.orthomed.org/links/web.htm

 

http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/default_1.htm Safe

Harbor- Alternative Mental Health Online

 

http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/directory/ Resourcesy- includes lists of practitioners and orthomolecular

clinics

 

http://www.dr-rath-research.org/home/index.php A wealth of

information from Matthias Rath, MD who along with Linus

Pauling developed the Solution to Human Cardiovascular

Disease- the world's number one killer. Also see health freedom

information.

 

http://www.truehope.com/ Synergy Group of Canada- Foundation

started by Tony Stephan in aftermath of his wife's suicide,

stemming from successful efforts to help his children find

nutritional answers to their biochemical imbalances- Very

inspirational

 

Books:

 

Mental and Elemental Nutrients Pfeiffer, Carl C, MD, PhD; Keats

c.'75 ISBN 0-87983-114-6

 

Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness- A Sourcebook of Clinical

Research, c. `91 Werbach, Melvyn R, MD Third Line Press, Inc.,

4751 Viviana Dr., Tarzana CA 91356 USA ISBN 0-961-8550-1-0

 

The Schizophrenias- Ours to Conquer – Pfeiffer, Carl C, MD,

PhD; Mailloux, Richard, B.S., Forsythe, Linda, B.A. c.'70

BioCommunications Press 3100 N.Hillside Ave. Wichita KS

67219 USA ISBN 0-942333-02-0

 

A Physician's Handbook on Orthomolecular Medicine edited by

Williams, Roger K with Kalita, Dwight K, introduction by Hoffer,

Abram, MD Keats, c. '77 ISBN 0-87983-199-5

 

Diet Related to Killer Diseases, V, Nutrition and Mental Health-

Hearing Before the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human

Needs of the United States Senate- 95th Congress, first

session, June 22, 1977- Mental Health and Mental

Development- 1980 Update c. 1980 Parker House- 2340 Parker

St., Berkeley CA 94704

 

Library of Congress Catalog # 79-57366

 

The Way Up From Down Slagle, Priscilla, MD c.'87 Random

House, NY ISBN 0-394-55194-X

 

Common Questions on Schizophrenia- And Their Answers

Hoffer, Abram, MD, PhD, c.87 Keats ISBN 0-87983-378-5

 

Biochemical Individuality the Basis for the Genotrophic Concept

Williams, Roger J.PhD c.'56 , 7th printing '79 Originally

published by John Wiley and Sons, Reprinted- University of

Texas Press- ISBN 0-292-70022-9

 

How to Live With Schizophrenia Hoffer, Abram, MD, PhD;

Osmond, Humphrey, MRCS, D.P.M c.74 Citadel Press ISBN

0-8065-0665-2

 

The Roots of Molecular Medicine A Tribute to Linus Pauling,

Based on a Symposium presented on May 7-8 1983 in San

Francisco by the Orthomolecular Medical Society edited by

Huemer, Richard P., MD c.'86 W.H. Freeman & Co. ISBN

0-7167-1761-1

 

An Alternative Approach to Allergies The New Field of Clinical

Ecology Unravels the Environmental Causes of Mental and

Physical Ills – Randolph, Theron G, MD; Moss, Ralph W, PhD

c.90 Harper & Row ISBN 0-06-091693-1

 

Molecules of Emotion- The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine,

Pert, Candace B., PhD c.'97 Simon and Schuster Inc, ISBN

0-684-846-34-9