Re: Alcoholism seen as a Nutritional Disease

HI 50348.

You write:
"I've seen too many people enter recovery and stay for long periods of time without relapse, and without, to my knowledge, changing their eating habits too much, to believe that it's solely a physical issue. I've seen too many people relapse after getting out of a treatment program that, for instance, focuses on what you recommend -- a high-protein diet to supplement detox and early abstinence to believe diet and nutrition is the only part of the answer we need to pay attention to"

This reinforces my point, that if you do not change your diet - in other words do not treat the underlying insulin resistance - you are more likely to relapse. Being on a high protein diet is not necessarily treating insulin resistance.

I can understand that the feelings of cravings for alcohol or for that matter any cravings have "psychological" components or consequences and give the illusion that somehow the "mind" makes you crave. They are really your body telling you that you need whatever you are craving for. Thus craving for alcohol is the body telling you that your brain cannot produce the feel good neurotransmitters, because of lack of biological energy, which is derived from the sugars in your food and which is not converted to biological energy because of insulin resistance.

Also see:

Sugar Cravings at:

//www.curezone.org/upload/PDF/Articles/jurplesman/Sugar_Craving3.pdf


Being thirsty, being hungry or craving alcohol or Sugar are physiological processes that are recorded into consciousness, so that you can take action to look after the interest of the body. When you have a metabolic disorder the body might give you the wrong signals, but it is physiological at all times.

Another misconception is that nutritional therapy is a high protein diet. It is far more than that. Nutritional therapy aims at treating SPECIFIC nutritional disorders (such as insulin resistance) that are known to be responsible for mood disorders. There are many other diseases apart from hypoglycemia, that can cause mood disorders, such as allergies and food sensitivities , digestive illnesses, specific nutritional deficiencies or sensitivities and a host of undiagnosed degenerative diseases.

Please see:

Psychiatric Presentations of medical Illness by Ronald Diamond MD at:

http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/diamond.htm


and

Diseases associated with Emotional Disorders at:

http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/emotional_disorders.html


Thus if a high protein diet does not work it usually is because some ingredients in a "healthy diet" may be toxic to the individual.

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Jurriaan Plesman BA (Psych) Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
Editor of
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.

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