I’m all for nutritional balancing. I’m using that tool right now too.

What irked me is how you discredited my original hyperventilation post so that you could promote a web article that you wrote.  

90% of your posts contain links to a site that you are an editor for....so it seems like it is about self promotion

Self promotion on Curezone is against the terms by the way...and for good reason. Because people might post something purely for self interest, rather than trying to help people.....such as descrediting someone else's well researched post for their own gain.

Did you even read the article I posted on how hyperventilation reduces cerebral blood flow? Or did you just see anxiety in the title and figured it was a good chance to post a link to one of your articles?

There are many many studies and articles on Pubmed discussing the connection of hyperventilation to anxiety and panic attacks, as well as the effectiveness of breath retraining in reducing panic attacks.

Before I started nutritional balancing, breath retraining reduced my anxiety and panic attacks by about 80%.  And nutritional balancing is helping too.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17713689
The role of hyperventilation: hypocapnia in the pathomechanism of panic disorder.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17681544
Feedback of end-tidal pCO2 as a therapeutic approach for panic disorder.

Here is a link that shows how hyperventilation, as measured by CO2 levels, results in reduced cerebral blood flow.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC522264/figure/F3/
Reduced cerebral blow flow to higher centers of the brain, such as the pre-frontal cortex is associated with worry and anxiety.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21394853

The charge of overfocusing into one direction can be directed to any one writng about mental illness. The emphasis on the multi-factorial nature of mental illness stops people looking at the MORE IMPORTANT factors in mental illness. Among the multiplicity of factor a scientist has to choose what he regards the most important factor. Then if treatment succeeds then this becomes the MOST IMPORTANT factor. 

For instance I find people tend to overfocuss on single supplements as a panacea for treatment. This tendency may have been influenced by the practice of conventional medicine to overfocus on single drugs and single causes.. So folks believe that single nutrients may do the same thing. 

From a nutritional point of view the production of feel good neurotransmitters is a very complex business. 

For instance we all know that vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) is a necessary co-enzyme in the production of serotonin. But for pyridoxine to be effective it must first be converted to Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate (P5P) by a zinc dependent enzyme. Thus most nutrients work in combination with other nutrients. See here.

From my clinical experience I have found most people with mood disorder of any kind are hypoglycemic, so I find that going on a hypoglycemic diet is the first step in treatment. The next step is usually the emergence of allergies. If symptoms do not improve, we need to look for other factors that may affect mood disorders as outlined in: Silent Diseases and Mood Disorders.

Here we need the expertise of nutritional doctors to carry out a number of tests.

Further down the procedure we may have to look at Psycho-social factors and encourage people to do a course in Psychotherapy. If you have suffered from a long standing illness, affecting your personality, you may have to reconstruct your personality and learn new social skills via a psychotherapy course.

Talking about psychotherapy one must realize that the nature of psychotherapy depends on the philosophical assumptions of a therapist. No two therapists are the same. My approach to psychotherapy has been outlined in:

Assumptions in Psychotherapy

Summary of Psychotherapy Course