Other causes (con't from befurther)

befurther: Great posts. I wanted to add that I knew a young lady who suffered with schizo type of problems and was on a whole bevy of pharmas in which the doctors changed often and of course with every new doctor came more adjustments. Of the 8 drugs or so she was on I would think that half of them was to control the side-effects from the primary drugs.

Anyhow a hair analysis test from Trace Elements revealed a very high level of copper which reports show will cause schizophrenia. http://www.healthiertalk.com/copper-making-you-crazy-closer-look-copper-toxic...


Of course not all schizophrenia could be traced to copper overload which can occur in some people. Trying to quantify copper levels through hair testing would be a much better way to address this.

Dr. Carl Pfeiffer was a novel researcher who wrote several key papers and a book that outlined toxic metals as being a possible cause of these reactions. http://orthomolecular.org/hof/2004/cpfeiffer.html

http://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Mental-Illness-Orthomolecular-Balancing/dp/08...


I also read Dr. Abram Hoffer's research concerning adrenochrome as being a causative factor in which high niacin would help. There are many research papers available online.