Re: Nutritional Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Hi 58606,

I wonder why one has to suffer from PTSD, before we are allowed to discuss the causes of this illness. As a matter of fact I have suffered from PTSD from my Second World War experiences having been occupied by the Nazis in Europe for five years. I suffered from Depression and nightmares. I and my family were subjected to some horrible experiences during that war. Not only PTSD, but I have been given other diagnoses of "mental illness" for which I received useless psychiatric drug treatment for many years that made me into a iatrogenic drug addict as well. I know that PTSD is a serious illness, and many expert regard this as a incurable disease, leaving people with treatment resistant mental illness and on a life-long regime of drugs. This is, of course, to the great benefit of drug companies. Because of my own personal suffering as well as that of my brother's (now deceased) who also was very very sick, I have made it my life's mission to study "mental illness" and to find a treatment without recourse to drugs and medication. I studied psychology at the university and nutritional medicine and finished up working as a Nutritional Psychologist for a government department. I do not reject medication outright, but medications are not the answer, as they only mask symptoms and do nothing to address the underlying causes of PTSD or any other form of mental illness. On the contrary they produce side effects - a pseudonym for poisons - cause "treatment-resistant depression" and entice patients for a life-long course of drug treatment.

To understand PTSD, you first need to ask the question why some people develop PTSD in very similar stressful situations and others do not? I have explained this at:

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): a Disease of Body and Mind at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/PTSD.html

Most of the evidence come from text books on Nutritional Medicine and years of study such as:

Werbach,M.R.(1991), NUTRITIONAL INFLUENCES ON MENTAL ILLNESS, A Sourcebook of Clinical Research, Third Line Pres, Inc.Tarzana. Cal. Werbach,M.R.(1991),
Reviewed at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0961855010/qid=1137899472/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6029204-6281424?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Werbach,M.R.(1991),

I have also collected a huge data base of references to nutritional aspects of mental illness at:
Research Evidence for Hypoglycemia at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/research_hypoglycemia.html

If the link does not work, please use the search engine at our web site and look for: "Research Evidence for Hypoglycemia". In fact you can get more information about terms entered into out "Search Our Web Site" on the first page.

My approach is a fairly new approach, familiar to some doctors in Australia. See for instance foreword to my book "Getting off the Hook" which is freely available on the internet. So it is not a surprise to me that "several alternative health care professionals" you have visited for the last 2 years, have not been able to diagnose you with hypoglycemia. Most of them do not know about the connexion between hypoglycemia and mental illness. See also:'
Dr George Samra: The hypoglycemic Connection II at
http://users.bigpond.net.au/gsamra/

Testing for Hypoglycemia at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/self-help_personal_growth.html#Testing

This test is not familiar to many conventional doctors and they often confuse this with a test for diabetes type II. The probable reason is that they tend to be in denial about hypoglycemia itself, because it cannot as yet be treated without the use of drugs.

As to meditation, I regard this as a "management technique", (please look up term at our search engine) which is different from a "cure". It is a technique that needs to be done at regular intervals, like taking drugs, but does not permanently "cure" the illness. We have a "relaxation therapy" at our web site (look up) that is similar to "meditation".

The point is that I know that psychonutritional therapy works -after all I made a living out of it - and i just want to share my experiences with other like-minded people in my retirement. Tweet