Nutrient Power
Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
• Illuminates new scientific developments that can aid those with schizophrenia, anxiety, and more
• A must-read for families, individuals, and medical practitioners interested in psychiatric healthcare
• Updated with the most recent data to push beyond psychiatric medicine to a more efficient treatment system
Over the past 50 years, psychiatry has made some significantly large strides, but it needs a new direction. The current emphasis on psychiatric drugs works for now, but it is a temporary solution. Studies involving nurses, nursing, interventions and clinical work have led to a new type of treatment. Recent advances in the molecular biology of the brain and epigenetics have illuminated a new plan. The result? A treatment path for the creation of natural, drug-free, and effective therapies that do not produce severe side effects.
The need-based treatments outlined in Dr. Walsh’s Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain show a research-based nutrient therapy system that can help people with a variety of mental disorders. The guide explains that nutrient imbalance can cause mental disorders by disrupting gene expression of proteins and enzymes, crippling the body’s protection against environmental toxins, and changing brain levels of key neurotransmitters. Walsh’s database has connected nutrient imbalances in patients diagnosed with a variety of disorders found in the DSM. This guide will show families, patients, and doctors how to change their behavior and improve their health through new skills that will last when psychiatric drugs are no longer used.
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Walsh, an expert in nutritional medicine, has gotten into the heads of thousands of mental health patients and found them lacking or overloaded with crucial nutrients like copper, vitamin B-6, zinc, folate, and amino acids, which he attributes to genetic and epigenetic causes. Now Walsh is hoping to catapult biochemical therapy into the mainstream of treatment for a wide range of mental disorders, including autism and Alzheimer's. With missionary zeal, Walsh predicts that, for instance, correcting vitamin C deficiencies might be as effective as Prozac in treating depression. The challenge will be to identify the specific nutrient imbalance and normalize blood and brain levels. This could be an elegantly simple solution to dysregulation of the extremely complex chemistry. Walsh concedes that the results have not always been convincing. For example, early research on nutrient therapy in children with brain disorders and ADHD found the improvement greater in younger children. Walsh also provides a thoughtful history of nutrient therapy pioneers like Canadian psychiatrist Abram Hoffer, whose studies were rebuffed by the American Psychiatric Association. It remains to be seen whether Walsh's confidence in his program's efficacy will attract funds for clinical testing needed to nudge this therapy into accepted practice. Illus.
