CHAPTER ONE
When You Have a Problem- Myths and Thoughts
The illness that your son or daughter has is not connected in any way with religious belief, economic status, or any other cultural thought. They are not demonically possessed. "I have a friend who has a child with many behavior problems, and the church they attend said that it was demons." I disagree and will give you information to show they are wrong. They are not bad people (even though their behavior may be, and probably is, horrible). If they had polio or some other so-called physical illness they would not be treated with the same scorn and disgust that we may have for them with biochemical illness. "If they had polio or some other illness their behavior would not be this bad." That may well be true. However, polio, even though it may affect many various parts of the total person (I will use this term throughout this book which refers to the total person including physical, mental, and spiritual), is not so obvious to us as observers of that illness. The biochemical illness we are going to talk about is intentionally left without a diagnostic label.
Every day in our own lives we feel we are not having the same behavioral difficulties that this ill person with the biochemical illness is having. "I have verbal skills, appropriate behavior, thought processes, desires, wishes, development, and all the things that I designate as 'my reality'." Good for you. But good for you does not mean that others with a biochemical illness are as fortunate. "I do have three other children, and they don't act the way she does." There are reasons why your loved one with the behavioral problems may act differently than your other children. I will explain later. People with biochemical imbalance have pains you may have thought you have had, but probably have not had in the same magnitude that they have their pains.
Classify yourself as lucky in the "draw of life", but do not be so quick to judge those whose "reality of life" ranges from mild confusion to utter unconscious rage or to violence and destruction. Many of the various things in life that you "hold" to be precious, such as freedom of thought, place, or deed are, in fact, denied to those you love by their biochemical illness. "Yes, I do hold on to them, and others better hold on to theirs, too."
So if you will listen for awhile you may not only learn something about the illness of biochemical imbalance but also may well learn a very valuable lesson about yourself. Yes, you will have to dig deep within your own feelings to withstand the multitude of destruction that this biochemical illness is doing to your loved one and to you and everyone in your family as well as society at large. You did not ask for this situation and neither did your loved one. Do you think for one moment that anyone would choose this illness for their loved one, or that the person with the illness would choose anything less that what others have called "normal"?
It will take a great deal of time clouded with guilt, anger, hatred, wishes that they were not there in your presence, attempts to control everything they do, being a tough parent for their own good, total dismay, in tears in private, in tears in their presence, tears everywhere, confusion in your own mind in an attempt to find what you know as your reality, and thus, a reality for them to hold on to. Just when you think you have figured out this or that about the illness it takes a turn in another direction and you seem to start over from zero. You may not be starting from zero but feel as though you do not have one more ounce of energy left; energy to help yourself, much less help the one you love, who has the biochemical illness. (The reason I keep using the term biochemical illness or biochemical imbalance is to get you to understand that you probably have not thought of illness and behavior together).
You may have always thought of illness as some bacterial, fungal, viral or other cause, and it had a specific time and dimension to its effect. You believed that you could get a "quick fix" with some medication or the like, and all would be well in a relatively short period of time. But what if I said that one disease such as biochemical illness is, in fact, a combination of many diseases with different problems associated with each part of that disease? Are you beginning to see the magnitude of such a complicated illness?
"How long does this take for my loved to get well?" I don't have an answer as simple as that. It may depend on your own personal growth before your loved one's illness "kicked in", how you help them, and what each layer and direction the illness takes over a period of time that can last a few weeks to many years. I mean many years, such as 31 years, as is the case of one of my relatives. "Well, if he couldn't get his act together in 31 years I would forget him. He's a loser." No, he is not in any way, and you might learn to see his many virtues, too. That is a long time of suffering for all, but certainly the most suffering comes to the person with the biochemical illness. It will depend on the correct balance of biochemicals in the total person from the cellular level to correct part of the problem. It is balance that is paramount, and some of the chemicals may not even be there enough to get a balance by simple supplementation. What appears to be supplementation as "normal" may not in any way come close to alleviating the symptoms of your loved one's biochemical illness.
As you will see at the end of this book there is a large bibliography which is very important. "Boy, I don't like to read, so I don't know about this stuff." It is not just a mere listing of manuals, references, and books to impress you, but is the scholarship of giants in the field of orthomolecular medicine and biochemistry who have spent entire lifetimes pursuing the truth to that point of the biochemical nature of wellness and illness. They are not just scientists who have jobs to do, but are imbued with a quest for truth, and the quality of life that that truth brings forward. Some have done extensive experiments on themselves, their family members, and trusted colleagues in all types of scientific double-blind studies repeated many times to establish meaning to their research. To me personally they are the mountain climbers of science- they try to succeed in their science for pure reasons so that the life process may be enhanced. They do this, not only for their own patients, but also for those not yet born. These scientists leave a legacy of dedication to research that is similar to the dedication of a J.S. Bach or Mozart, in my own field of expertise. People such as Abram Hoffer, an orthomolecular psychiatrist, medical doctor, and biochemist, who has treated schizophrenics successfully for 45 years with niacin and vitamin C. If your loved one had schizophrenia (the scare word of our society) wouldn't you want someone of Hoffer's ability to help your loved one? I certainly would.
How about Eric Braverman and Carl Pfeiffer at the Princeton Bio Brain clinic, treating over 22,000 schizophrenics over 42 years successfully? And what do I mean by successfully? People they treated went from people who had violent rages, or were almost catatonic, almost like a vegetable, and were changed into functioning citizens. They are contributing members of society who work, pay their taxes, marry and have children, participate in their own chosen culture, have a much better, fuller life, and strive to reach their greatest potential. This kind of recovery did not happen by accident.
And what about all those researchers who spent a lifetime doing research with nutrients? People such as Klenner, Stone, Symthies, Pauling, Altschul, Williams, Osmond, Cheraskin, Folkers, Horrobin, Philpott, and the list goes on.
However, the upper echelon of biochemical giants is reserved, as in any field of human endeavor, for those who have a special insight into their chosen field. The research is carried on by others such as Walsh, Rimland, Rogers, Pearson, Shaw, Hadady, Varmus, Weinberg, Beinfield, Kaptchuk, Mims, Becker, Cathcart, Pressman, Levine, Comings, Werbach, Boik, Jamison, Erasmus, Walker, Cerney, Challem, Judy, Yu, and literally hundreds more. These are people that are working on biochemical balance, and they have been for some time even though you may not have been aware of it.
And just when you thought your were getting overloaded with so much new information, let me tell you something that is equally important. The Chinese doctors and thinkers who figured out the acid-ph base balance and the biochemical reactions, including some 2200 meridian points in the body (160 main ones), herbal remedies for almost every illness, energy pathways ("chi"), tongue analysis for diseases, and many more things 2500 years ago without any scientific machinery, x-rays, electricity, or the like, were also brilliant. How could the Chinese figure these and so many more things out? It leaves one in awe of some people's quest for knowledge. You are probably asking the question- does acupuncture really work? Yes, it does and in so many ways that we as Westerners cannot even realize. (Are you still with me? You have been quiet for awhile.) I will write about selecting doctors and professionals later, but I simply bring up this point now about Chinese medicine. There was only one J.S. Bach or W.A. Mozart just as there are a very few visionary scientists that, by their dedication and without you knowing them, will help your loved one by their knowledge.
"How long has orthomolecular medicine been going on?" From my research you can say since the great Greek civilization with herbals and nutrition, but the orthomolecular medicine I am referring to here has been going on since approximately 1880. Some scholars would probably argue this point, but my point is that information particularly since 1930 is extremely valuable with insights into ways to help your loved one.
Nutrients and the Marble Tournament
One way you might think of nutrients is from this analogy. When I was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in school each springtime our school would have a marble tournament. Marbles are little round objects made out of glass in varying colors. Before we had the marble tournament we would study the mathematics of a circle, diameter, and circumference.
Then, on the day of the marble tournament the entire fourth, fifth, and sixth grades would go behind the school, find a very flat, smooth, dirt surface, sweep the surface as smooth as possible, mark where the center of the circle was to be, take a pre-cut string and make our circles with indentations in the dirt. Each grade had three different sized circles: one 8 feet across, one 10 feet across, and one 12 feet across. Then, as many as 100 marbles were placed in the center of the circle. The object of the marble tournament was to shoot your marble from the outside line, hit a marble in the center or anywhere else the marble was, and knock it out of the circle without your marble, the one you are using to shoot the others in the circle, coming out of the circle. If your marble came out of the circle then it was the next shooter's time to try. The person with the most marbles knocked out of the circle was the winner. There were teams as well as final run-offs with individuals. The first shot of any tournament was done with a "steely", a marble made of steel, so that when it hit the marbles in the center of the circle they would disperse more easily and in all directions.
The marbles disperse just as nutrients do when stress has caused nutrients to go in various directions. If you had a slow motion camera you could figure out which marble hit the next marble, which hit the next marble, which hit the next marble, etc. and know how each marble it hit moved. With nutrients we can't do that. We have no measuring devices of "in action" nutrient shifts but only after movements have been fixed in a new place. In other words, we can measure that we are low in a nutrient after a severe stress, but we don't have a device to measure the action. The other thing that the marbles represent is the nutrients themselves. If each of the marbles represents a nutrient and that marble or nutrient is knocked out of our circle, then we no longer have that nutrient in our body. We still have other nutrients, and some of these nutrients either have two or more jobs and can make up some for the missing nutrient. Others can work with several to make up for the missing nutrient, but the main missing nutrient, or marble, is gone from our circle.
Then let's say that in order for the marbles to be knocked out of the circle you must have them in a particular sequence. Let's say that we put a section of red marbles, green marbles, white marbles, etc. in the center of the circle, and the object of the game is to alternate knocking out all the various colors in sequence. Red, then green, then white. And this is another thing that nutrients do. All nutrients have what are called enzymes and pathways where each sequence is dependent on the next link in that sequence. So, if you shoot two red marbles in a row you are disqualified. If you have two enzymes that are not matched in the sequence, then the nutrient either stops working, has limited working ability, takes longer to perform its function, and, in some cases, has a reverse effect of it original purpose and does harm. This last part you can see by the element oxygen. You need oxygen to live, but too much oxygen will kill you. It is called oxidation and we will talk about it later, but the main thing to remember here is balance of all things makes for biochemical balance. The circle also represents a totalness of life- all things within. If you knock out something on the inside it become something on the outside. Behavior is something from the inside that comes out, and we have behavior as an outside thing even though it originated from the inside. That is why it is so paramount to understand that you are a total circle, a form of energy that goes around and around. All the inserts and exits to that energy are the various aspects we classify by words, actions, thoughts, spirit, or all the things that we have not yet labeled, or that which we do not know exists yet. All things are from within. This is not a new theory or a profound theory. It has been around for many thousands of years, but it may be new to you in your thinking of how behavior or anything else could come from this type of thinking. Simply, what goes in must come out. Much more on this later. Back to the marbles. That first shot is very similar to what happens to your nutrients and biochemical balance when you have a severe shock to your person, and severe shock has many definitions. Each and every time you are missing a marble or nutrient, it may be because of some stress. The more marbles we knocked out in the tournament the closer we were to winning the game, but the more nutrients that are knocked out in your person, the farther you get away from wellness until you are classified as biochemically imbalanced or ill. So, in conclusion, it is the size of the circle, the types of marbles used, the order of the marbles that we are shooting at, the number of marbles remaining to be shot at, the sequence of the marbles, and many more things that are similar to biochemical balance.
However, there is one huge exception. We want all the marbles inside the circle, not knocked out of the circle. Well, you might say, just put them in the circle. Sometimes that is possible solving some of our dilemma, but, other times, that is not possible. This is when we have problems, including behavioral problems and biochemical imbalance. So, if your loved one has behavioral problems remember it is something that has been knocked out of her circle and other things cannot do the work of the missing nutrient. If you knock enough nutrients out you have illness. If you knock all the nutrients out you have death. The game is over. In marbles you won by knocking all the marbles out. In life, you have death by knocking all the marbles out. Energy has lost its dimension in that form of energy called life to be replaced by another form of energy called death, as they say in TCM. So much for marbles. Maybe there is something to that old phrase, "he lost his marbles".
1 "Why Don't Doctors Know About It?"
" Why wasn't I told of this for my loved one and her biochemical illness?" This question requires an entire book to explain how the so-called medical profession, not only in the US, but also in much, if not all of the Western world, has suppressed, misguided, deliberately altered information, and done almost everything in their power or ignorance to control their profession and destroy orthomolecular medicine. Quacks are in any field, and so the medical profession thought that nutritional medicine must be some sort of quackery and must be destroyed. Put salt water on a flowering plant, and see how long it takes for the plant to die. But put the correct nutrients on the plant and see how it thrives. Orthomolecular doctors attempt to do this.
The medical profession well knew it made a "big mistake," and all those that have followed since the big mistake have perpetuated this mistake. You guessed it. Yes, we, as humans seeking insight into our own wellness, have been shortchanged just as your loved one is now. We are shortchanged by the suppression of knowledge, including the suppression of orthomolecular medicine as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine.
2 What Do You Mean Biochemicals?
Biochemicals are made up of molecules which include hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and literally thousands of combinations of elements that are present, or should be present, in the human species in order for that human to maintain life, regardless of the length of life. If I told you that you need "air" to breathe and stay alive you might say, "don't be ridiculous. I know that." If I said you need water (hydrogen and oxygen in the correct balance) you might still give me the same answer.
I will play a little game with you that goes from absurd to rude in a rather fast fashion. I will list the vitamins, minerals, and amino acids that we know of at this point, and as you see the names mentally mark which ones you know by name.
Vitamins: Vitamin A (beta carotene), vitamin B1
(thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), vitamin B (panthothenic), B6 (pyridoxine),
vitamin B5 (folic acid), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B (biotin), vitamin B (choline),
vitamin B (inositol), B17 (amygdalin), vitamin B (paba-para-aminobenzoic acid), B15
(pangamic), Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E (tocopherol), Vitamin K, Vitamin P
(bioflavonoids).
Minerals: Calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, iron,
copper, manganese, zinc, chromium, selenium, iodine, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium.
Amino Acids: Phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan, cysteine, taurine,
methionine, homocysteine, arginine, ornithine, glutamic acid, proline, aspartic acid,
threonine, glycine, serine, alanine, leucine, isoleucine, valine, alanine, gaba,
gluatamine, lysine, carnitine, and histidine. Enzymes : Co Q10
COQ10 is an extremely important enzyme and should be taken by supplementation daily. Dosage for therapeutic purposes should be in large enough dosages to work properly. I suggest between 100-300 mg per day.
Back to our story. At some point I will ask you to put imaginary numbers with each of the nutrients, and then tell you that the total number you can come up with is 100. But you don't know which ones get more than one number (such as a quantity of 5 or 9 or whatever), and you have to figure out how to get to an equal number of 100 total. All right, you have already caught on and you know where I am going with this game. There are so many variables, plus the fact that cellular growth is changing so fast that there is no truth to correctness because we can't even measure time that small with the ability to utilize the small amount of time and how the biochemicals have changed.
You, as I, do have
some 6000 enzyme changes every second in our bodies (that is what they know now that they
didn't know 20 years ago). Then how do you get from "air", which is the first
one we talked about, to some huge number of changes and say with the same certainty that
you did about "air" that you need such and such a biochemical at this nanosecond
XXX?
You see it is, in fact, impossible to think
that you or any other person at least in this millennium, or the next, will figure out
life. By the way, we have been talking only about biochemical life, and that doesn't say
anything about spiritual life and all its changes. So it is, indeed, impossible to define
life. Let's get that out of the way as we don't want people to think we are Ponce deLeon
and have just found the Fountain of Youth.
3 WHAT
THE BIOCHEMICALS DO
Sharp turns and U Turns
I call
these paragraphs sharp turns and U turns in the behavior of your loved one because many
times that is exactly what it is. The onset of the biochemical imbalance will usually
bring about sudden and very observable changes in behavior. "My wife told me she has
a friend who had a child that has always been bad. What about that?" I will tell you
later. You may think at the time that some of these behavioral changes that are going on
with your loved one will change the next day back to normal. You usually convince yourself
that your loved one has recently had a series of events that have brought on the changes
in your loved one's behavior. Maybe, and maybe not. You must know your loved one's
personality by now, you think, and hopefully you do. However, small changes may have been
appearing over a long period of time, and if you are working at a job, have the child in
day care, school, after school projects, and the like you may not have noticed little
changes.
Most people are social to a certain extent and
have at least one or two playmates that they respond to, plus a family member or members,
or a social network at the school, church, or other places. If your loved one is withdrawn
and quiet it does not by itself mean anything except that. However, if he or she
is withdrawn and quiet day after day then look for the behavioral
reasons. If none of the behavioral reasons make sense then look to something that probably
is biochemical. "My daughter is only quiet and withdrawn when I tell
her I am not putting up with her nonsense, and she goes to her room to pout." Wow.
"Do you mean to say if she is quiet and withdrawn for a couple of days, and I can't
figure out the reasons for her being quiet and withdrawn then she has a biochemical
imbalance?" Yes, in a way I am. It is perhaps the first "trigger" to watch
very closely, plus other behavioral traits that may appear in quick succession, such as
appetite loss, stomach pain, ear infections (especially in very young children), outburst
of anger, throwing tantrums, wanting to stay at home, watching television as a means of
escaping whatever they may be experiencing, or anything that is "not
normal" for that person. If they are young, even at the age of three, or
even as old as 17 years of age, they may not in any way notice that they have changed
their desires and wishes.
Additionally, they cannot tell you because they
don't know how to communicate these changes; and if you are seeing it for the first time
you may simply toss it off as a "so what" and "tomorrow he or she will be
better."
First and simple. Look for the food that your
loved one had that day but, more importantly, food eaten approximately 8-24 hours earlier.
"She eats everything. That is one problem we have never had with her." Back to
the story, please. All people have varying transient time for food entering the body and
bowel movement (excretion), but usually, unless the person has a history of extreme
"holding" of food within the body as with severe constipation and only excreting
every two or three days, then it should be in the 8-22 hour range. (If, in fact, your
loved one does have the severe constipation problem I just mentioned, then you can be
assured that toxins are damaging your loved one.) (My point here is not to solve, even if
I could, the various problems of physiology but to point up a few telltale signs that may
help you.)
So, I am giving you information in common terms
backed up by those whose foundations in scientific research are meaningful and important
to your loved one. Most people still want the quick fix, but I strongly suggest that you
obtain as many of these books as possible and study them- not simply read them. To get
back to my original point- what appears to be supplementation as "normal" may
not in any way come close to alleviating the symptoms of your loved one's biochemical
illness. You may have to take 3000 mg of vitamin C to stay healthy without getting
diarrhea, and others with biochemical illness may require as much as 45000 mg of vitamin
C. Cases of severe illness or trauma may require 200,000 to 400,000 mg of vitamin C. So
please do take the time and energy to read these extremely valuable reference books. They
are the basis of this book.
I am simply attempting to give you hope that
there are, in fact, some answers to your loved one's biochemical illness. That simple old
adage- "hope runs eternal" may not be such a myth, and you will better your
loved one. If I had not experienced some of the same suffering and the vicarious suffering
that my loved one did (and all the suffering that I have no idea that he may have
suffered), I could not write this book, nor would I have any reason to do so.
Some of
the worst behavior-changing foods can and do alter behavior. Some are milk and any milk
product, such as cheese, and wheat. It seems that if our food industry didn't make it out
of wheat, it chose corn, the next worst one. So anything with milk, wheat, or corn.
Take a look at the ingredients of many of your processed foods in the supermarket, and you
will be amazed at the number that have one or all of these in them. "My daughter
loves her ice cream and eats it every night right out of the container." (More on
this in chapter 4.)
If you take a glass and each day of your loved
one's life put one grain of salt in, it would appear that it will take a great deal of
time before the millions of individual grains of salt finally fill up the glass. However,
at some point you will start to observe that the salt is, in fact, accumulating in the
glass. As time goes on, and you still have been adding one grain of salt per day, you will
find that it is finally getting full. Now let's take that same glass of individual grains
of salt and think of them as toxins going into the body. It is true that we have all kinds
of detoxing agents and mechanisms that work in the body, but let's say that some of these
detox agents and mechanisms don't work all the time or at top efficiency. Then you have
toxins that your body should have gotten rid of, others that got changed into the wrong
things biochemically, and the total body is functioning at 20% of its optimal capacity.
Don't you think that behavior will change? It has to eventually. "If she is operating
at 20% then why doesn't she have polio or something else?" Back to the story, please.
Timing is the question answered for behavior
problems. The same analogy has no answer as to when the onset of illness or the type of
illness that will occur. It may be cancer 20 years from now. They may never have a
discernible disease. They may have behavior problems (which again, I must caution you, are
merely extensions of the total person) or any labeled disease you can think of at any
time. The sky is not falling and your loved one can be helped.
Sugar, as we know it, is one of the worst
things in the world for biochemcially ill people, and it certainly is extremely bad for
everyone. It should be avoided . No one should eat sugar. You need sugar, as it
is converted to energy. However, there are several types of sugar, if we can say it
simplistically. The white sugar from sugar beets or sugar cane that is made into white
sugar is the one I am talking about. There are many excellent books written about what
sugar does to your loved one biochemically, effects which are extremely harmful. These are
not in any way scare words, but are backed up with extensive studies of how sugar can, and
does, alter behavior. The behavior is always altered for the bad and in some cases to the
point of violence and even murder.
Your body does need sugar in the form of
natural sugar from fruits and vegetables, but not from white sugar-based foods of any
kind, including even vitamins. If your vitamins have sugar in them, toss them away and get
vitamins without sugar. In very simplistic terms, white sugar increases insulin, which in
turn makes the adrenal glands work overtime. Then you have aminochromes which, under
stress, change into other biochemicals that cause behavioral problems. All of this is a
chain reaction that happens in one way or another every time you eat sugar. Each time that
happens you have a behavior change, too.
Eat a candy bar filled with sugar and you feel
good for an hour or so. You then feel less good until you may even get irritable or angry.
You may attribute your anger to something specific and say that such and such caused you
be angry but you would not have been angry at that specific thing had you not had the
sugar in the first place. And what if it is not anger but a thousand different emotions
that we could name including even subtle things such as, "can't concentrate as well
as before the sugar," "reaction time is faster and more impulsive," and
"not as clear in thinking things through." I don't want to get into list after
endless list of negative behavior traits of what sugar does to your loved one, so please
read the books I have suggested in the bibliography.
Just get them off of sugar, period. You will
have to watch and be very careful since so many, many food products have sugar in them.
You can read in all the books about 9-12 teaspoons of sugar in one soft drink and the
like, but the main point is simple- get your loved one off sugar, regardless of how you do
it. It is an absolute must.
Even though this section has been very short without all kinds of
analogies, it is a simple statement that you must understand. Get your loved one
off of sugar .
"Wow, I took away milk and my loved one was
back to normal. Thanks for the information." Not so fast, Dr. Einstein. Just because
you have taken away the milk and your loved one is back to normal does not mean in any way
that you have nothing more to solve. There may be so many other things going on. There are
some occasions which, in fact, with only one biochemical change, can dramatically
demonstrate improvement in health and behavior. However, do not assume that only two or
three food types are the only causes for biochemical illness. There are millions of things
including pesticides, herbicides, rodent sprays, radiation, electrical fields, gases in
the air, and a multitude of others that do not belong in our person. There are so many
things, in fact, that if you think you have the answers to health, then you will be the
first person on this earth that does have the answer. So if you do not remember each and
every time a food alters your loves one's behavior then you are not paying attention.
In addition to that, if you remember the salt
in the glass analogy you may remember that sensitivity noticed and observed for the first
time, as in the case of milk with your loved one, is an indicator of the possibility of
many other things that may or may not come about in the future.
In TCM certain foods are eaten at a particular
season of the year but not eaten at another time of the season. Does this tell you
something?
Another form of playing doctor is to think that
just because you took milk away from your loved one and she was better that everyone else
in your family knows about it. "Boy did she throw a fit when I said she couldn't have
any more ice cream." We must continue. Because of separations, divorce, or simply
passed years, your loved one may consume milk, not knowing that they are incapable of
biochemically balancing milk in their person.
They may find that their reactions are even
worse than when they, as children, had their first problem with milk. It is highly
suggested that if you know of particular foods that your loved one is sensitive to, by all
means tell others in the family. Certainly tell your loved one that they must not have
milk or whatever that food is. Your ability to build and maintain a history of
sensitivities to foods for your loved one is necessary, and you and your loved one must be
responsible for this information.
"You mean to say I have to watch any and
every thing that my loved one eats? I don't want to live this way, and there is no fun in
life if everything has to be figured out." Yes, you do have to watch which
foods your loved one eats if you "see" a behavior change connected to
what they have eaten. Let me tell you a story from one of the many brilliant books by the
biochemist, Carl Pfeiffer. But before I do, let me say that the above analysis of food
example was something that caused harm or possible harm to the individual, but the story
by Pfeiffer has a happy ending "by watching what the child eats" (page 238-241).
Pfeiffer and The Girl With a Zinc Problem
Pfeiffer tells the story of an adopted girl who was
overactive as a baby, but her parents saw no evidence of difficulty until she started
school. There she had to repeat the first grade because of her poor learning. Her behavior
and learning problems seemed to be emotional, but psychological counseling did not help.
In the sixth grade a psychiatrist diagnosed her as having minimal brain dysfunction and
later as poor visual perception and auditory memory. At age thirteen she was hospitalized
for three weeks, placed on a high protein, sugar-free diet plus vitamins. After she had
been in the hospital for a few days, her antagonistic and uncooperative behavior suddenly
changed. Her ranting and raving and cruel swear words all suddenly stopped. As a teenager
she again began eating sugar and had destructive tantrums. She was immature and had poor
logic.
Her parents noticed that when she ate fried
oysters she was unusually alert and cooperative and never had any tantrums. The parents
read extensively and found information about a high-histamine level patient in one of
Pfeiffer's books.
Although the parents had tried megavitamin
therapy without any significant improvement, they had again started Fran in August 1973 on
a closely supervised megavitamin dosage of mostly vitamin C, niacinamide (2 to 3 gm
daily), and B-6. After four months of this therapy, they could not ascertain any
significant improvement. Then, on 27 December 1973, they gave her the first dose of zinc.
The very next day she was positively improved. Within two weeks after she started the zinc
she had 1) obtained her driver's license (for two years she had had a learner's permit but
had not wanted to try for the license); 2) obtained a full-time job from midnight to 8
A.M. (the first job she ever had); and 3) enrolled in college for a three-hour-per-day
course (she had been out of high school for several weeks and had previously not expressed
any desire to attend college). Although after two more weeks she had to drop the college-
no time for sleep- they just couldn't believe the change that had taken place in their
Fran.
Then, they stopped the megavitamins completely
but continued the zinc. There was no discernible change- the very great improvement
remained. They continued the zinc for a total of 3 1/2 months (from 27 December), then
stopped everything to see what would happen. For two days there was little change, but on
the third day Fran had a "blowup"- a real temper tantrum. The next day, another.
This one included the ranting alone in her room. It was the first time such ranting had
taken place since she had begun receiving zinc. One week after they stopped the zinc her
behavior had deteriorated so much that they felt they had to resume it. They gave her the
zinc capsule at 8:30 A.M. By 6:00 that night she was, once again, a changed person - and
continues to be as the zinc is continued.
Fran still has problems. She is immature, still
has poor logic (although this seems to be improving) and a few friends. Her parents have a
strong feeling that she lost the sugar compulsion, although they are not yet certain. But
after eighteen years of watching Fran try to cope with frustrations and failures, the
parents thank God she is not in prison. No one can imagine how much the parents are
enjoying the new Fran. They say, "She has a great sense of humor, is considerate and
fun to be around. There is no doubt whatsoever in our minds that zinc saved her
life." ( Reprinted by permission )
This book was one of first books on
biochemistry that I ever read and when I read the few pages of the story you have just
read I was in tears because of the way in which one individual did not know she had
biochemical imbalance and struggled to do whatever she could. She had help from parents,
and a brilliant and human biochemist helped to guide all of them so that the girl would be
able to live to her greatest potential. Simple, but beautiful.
So many times we as parents predict and force
our children to be something that they cannot be; then, because we feel that they have
fallen short of what we think their potential is, do not give the love, compassion, and
understanding for them in a way that glorifies their potential. If we wanted to have a
duplicate of ourselves then perhaps we should have gotten a robot instead of a human that
we say we love. I am personally not in any way saying that we should not strive to be the
best person that we can in all ways, but it is as if life were some sort of train station
that people are at and that is their definition of life. Then, life can be judged for its
worth or lack of worth. Life to me is a process, period, and it does not have an arrival
point.
If you read very carefully the story by
Pfeiffer you will notice that the girl was quiet (not, of course, in her rages and anger)
and withdrawn. By themselves these traits may not mean much, but be on the watch for other
traits right behind those. On the biochemical side of the Pfeiffer story, you should know
that even at the time Pfeiffer wrote of his patient using zinc (1975), biochemistry knew
of over 450 biochemical actions and reactions. Biochemists know of over 600 biochemical
reactions and actions of zinc a mere 23 years later, and I am certain there will be many
more biochemical reactions and actions for zinc in the human person. (Please read
Pfeiffer's books, especially, Mental and Elemental Nutrients ).
Now you can read about specific traits to look
for. Even though I have given age groupings, in many ways they are not age-specific, and
many cross-overs in symptoms can be observed. So read all the material, but don't think
that if your loved one is past a certain age that the traits of younger years do not
apply. They might.
The following is brief description of some of
the traits that may act as guide posts for discerning behavioral traits that may indicate
biochemical imbalance. What they do, with whom, how they respond,
direction-development, desires, etc. for each age grouping.
Ages and Emotional Markers that May
Indicate Biochemical Illness
Big Word of Caution
The problem
of controlling parents manipulating youngsters by instilling problems when there are
none do great harm. I put this here to remind you that we are talking about biochemical
illness, and we are not talking about some child who is simply having "natural
growth".
All in bold letters are major signs.
age 1-3
1) Awaking at night not wanting any food or needing
biological functions
2) Staying awake for awhile then falling asleep from exhaustion
3) Food (only wanting to eat one or two specific foods)
4) Sleep (too much, excessive sleep time)
5) Awareness (you feel they are not responding to your physical movements or words because
they appear to be dazed or in another world, without specific stimuli coming into the
loved one; or a little later in age such as waiting for you to tell them something, and
then they can go play)
6) Verbal interaction (you say one thing and they respond with an entirely
different thought on a number of occasions, and you wonder if they are listening)
7) Hazard signs/fires
8) Violence
9) Bed wetting
10) Cruelty to animals or objects
11) Always wanting more and nothing is ever good enough
12) Antisocial or gravitating to only one person
13) Resists changes
14) Not being able to separate beauty from pain (thought disorder)
15) Limited or no sense of humor; no jokes about them or jokes about others
16) Lack of smiles
17) Lack of laughter
18) Lack of hygiene
19) Body language including eye contact, clarity of eyes, voice usage in terms of
intensity, pitch, speech speed and volume, shoulders and body carriage, walking, facial
complexion, and odor
20) "A raindrop is a thunderstorm"- exaggerated response to stimuli well outside
of the range of any type of normal response
21) 24-72 (or less) hour(s) reactions after stress- what are their reactions behaviorally
and physically to stress?
22) Rage of any kind
23) Easily distracted, lacks focus
age 3-6
1) Obsessive with the way shoe strings are tied (visual), how clothes (shape
color-eye-visual) fit or look to them, texture (touch sensation)
2) They do not enjoy being touched by anyone or only by one particular person (touch)
3) A negative response to family social customs
4) Difficulty eating at restaurants and eating out
5) One person to child conversations
6) Two people and the child, all in conversation
7) Three people and the child in conversation
8) More than 3 people and the child in conversation
9) Food (nutrients)
10) Sleep (too little, too much, abrupt changes either way, awaking after short periods of
time)
11) Eating (at irregular times and eating processed foods or being food sensitive)
12) Awareness (thought order- do they follow conversations and participate?)
13) Verbal interaction (do they wish or have a desire to share on a daily basis?)
14) Hazard signs- lack of empathy
15) Fires
16) Violence
17) Bed wetting
18) Cruelty to animals or objects
19) Not being able to separate beauty from pain (thought disorder)
20) Resists changes
21) Limited or no sense of humor; no jokes about them or jokes about others
22) Lack of smiles
23) Lack of laughter
24) Lack of hygiene
25) Body language including eye contact, clarity of eyes, voice usage in terms of
intensity, pitch, speech speed and volume, shoulders and body carriage, walking, facial
complexion, and odor
26) 24-72 (or less) hour(s) reactions after stress- what are their reactions behaviorally
and physically to stress?
27) Rage of any kind
28) Easily distracted, lacks focus
age 6-10
1) Foul language
2) How do they interact with playmates- are they always the "boss"?
3) Always wanting more; nothing is ever good enough
4) Antisocial or gravitating to only one person in conversation
5) Food (nutrients)
6) Sleep (too little, too much, abrupt changes either way, awaking after short periods of
time)
7) Eating (at irregular times and eating processed foods or being food sensitive)
8) Awareness (thought order- do they follow conversations and participate?)
9) Verbal interaction (do they wish or have desire to share on a daily basis?)
10) Hazard signs- lack of empathy
11) Fires
12) Violence
13) Bed wetting
14) Cruelty to animals or objects
15) Not being able to separate beauty from pain (thought disorder)
16) Resists changes
17) Limited or no sense of humor; no jokes about them or jokes about others
18) Lack of smiles
19) Lack of laughter
20) Overthinking
21) Fatigue
22) Lack of hygiene
23) Body language including eye contact, clarity of eyes, voice usage in terms of
intensity, pitch, speech speed and volume, shoulders and body carriage, walking, facial
complexion, and odor 24)"A raindrop is a thunderstorm"- exaggerated response to
stimuli well outside of the range of any type of normal response
25) 24-72 (or less) hour(s) reactions after stress- what are their reactions behaviorally
and physically to stress?
26) Rage of any kind
27) Easily distracted, lacks focus
age 10-13
1) Foul language
2) Not taking advice from anyone
3) Rationalization in order to push others away from the illness- the ultimate denial of
illness.
4) In deep depression- pushing others away
5) Refusing any and all attempts to calm the person; better to have stimuli of any kind
(strong evidence of racing mind thought disorder) than boredom; at least with stimuli one
feels they are alive
6) Hazard signs- lack of empathy
7) Fires
8) Violence
9) Bed wetting
10) Cruelty to animals or objects
11) Growth spurts
12) Looking for something but don't know what; frustration leading to stress-induced
depression
13) Not being able to separate beauty from pain
14) Always wanting more; nothing is ever good enough
15) Antisocial or gravitating to only one particular person
16) Attention to experimentation with drugs and alcohol.
17) Attention to theft of things in house, purse, etc.
18) Learning that lies are a means of getting what they want.
19) Resists changes
20) Limited or no sense of humor; no jokes about them or jokes about others
21) Lack of smiles
22) Lack of laughter
23) Overthinking
24) Fatigue
25) Lack of hygiene
26) Body language including eye contact, clarity of eyes, voice usage in terms of
intensity, pitch, speech speed and volume, shoulders and body carriage, walking, facial
complexion, and odor
27) "A raindrop is a thunderstorm"- exaggerated response to stimuli well outside
of the range of any type of normal response
28) 24-72 (or less) hour(s) reactions after stress- what are their reactions behaviorally
and physically to stress?
29) Rage of any kind
30) Easily distracted, lacks focus
I must
take this time in our conversation to tell you a very important thing that can happen in
any age but is generally more specific to the 10-13 age group and especially the 13-18 age
group. Growth is continuous from inception, but the growth spurt I am talking about can
and does lead to many biochemical imbalances. If your loved one grows say, for example, 4
inches to as much as 8 or 9 inches in a small span of time such as 14 months, then I think
you must consider what is going on biochemically in your loved one.
This type of growth needs nutrients in a
massive way to offset the cellular expansions that are taking place. We all sort of make a
joke about the hormones of youngsters kicking in and what all that means, but we usually
fail to connect physical development with behavioral traits. If you are a male with huge
growth spurts which can be interrupted by a few months, and another growth spurt, you are
probably not considering that they are masturbating maybe even twice a day.
This is not a discussion about sex, but sexual
pleasures do, in fact, have something to do very specifically with nutrient imbalance. If
your loved one masturbates once a day or even once every third day or whatever, they will
loose approximately 15 mg of zinc per ejaculation. This is because one of the holding
reservoirs for zinc is in the testes. Please don't think that your loved one does not
masturbate because they do and it is just as natural to their development as eating or any
other bodily function. You can do your own mental calculations in your mind for how much
zinc is required just to maintain what is lost by masturbation.
The second part of this is that zinc works in
over 600 enzymes or biochemical actions and reactions in the body. Zinc is a mineral that
we need in trace amounts, but that trace amount is extremely necessary, not only for
cellular growth, but also for good behavior in cellular growth, too. Then you can say that
your loved one gets all the zinc they need from the food they eat. Totally wrong. Not
unless they eat oysters and they would have to eat them each and every day in order to
maintain a biochemical balance. There have been hundreds of studies for well over 45 years
as to the specific need for zinc and all of the studies that I have read say not even one
word about attempting to get zinc only through food. So forget that. Zinc must be taken as
a supplement unless you know with great certainty that such and such an organic farmer has
the necessary zinc in his soil, is transferred to the growth of his plant, and that
nothing has altered the strength of the zinc in that food. Then, of course, you would have
to eat that food every day, or you will have biochemical imbalance. So, for most of us, we
have swallowed our anger and frustrations at the food industry for killing the soil and
depleting zinc, and we take our zinc through supplementation. If the zinc-copper ratio of
biochemicals is not maintained it is a certainty that there will be some behavioral
problems of some kind.
Copper is
perhaps one of the hundreds of agents that has a most destructive biochemical action known
to cause massive behavioral problems. I will not get into any of the many biochemical
imbalances that an overload of copper in the person can have, but I will point up a few
things that may initiate a desire on your part to read about copper. It devastates the
human person, not only in behavioral terms but in all physiology.
First, let me tell you where we get overloads
of copper. In our drinking water. Most all water systems throughout the U.S. have old
pipes, galvanized with copper lining, and the leaching effect of these pipes allows for
many particles of copper to be carried directly into your water faucet at work, at school,
or at home. The fact that our water supply is so bad and harmful is another example of how
we mess in our nest and then many years later, even if we realize that we have created a
problem, we fail to do anything to correct our mess. As you will see throughout this book
there are many times when I, as well as many thousands of others, have said time and again
that as a society we are, indeed, very destructive by our arrogance and ignorance. We
suffer from a lack of admitting we have made mistakes with the lack of ability to correct
those mistakes. There is nothing new there, for sure. However, the water is so bad, and I
am not talking here about bacterial infections, fungi, and all the rest but mainly about
copper in the water. There are hundreds of books written about the water quality in this
country and a few about copper in the water. It is the last group of books that has
particular meaning to your loved one's behavioral health.
Too much copper can and does cause total and
complete psychotic breaks from reality. You can have a full-on uncontrollable organism
that will require strong psychotic drugs to control that person. This is not a scare
tactic, but I must impress upon you that if you loved one has a high copper load in their
person it is a certainty that at some point they will have behavioral problems and
probably many more other problems as well. To stabilize the overload, one of the best know
nutrients is zinc. There are so many reasons for the supplementation of zinc, as I have
said before. In fact, there are over 600 known reasons to take zinc, but the use of zinc
here is extremely important to balance the amount of copper in the person.
If you have any foreign chemical in the body at
any time it can and does cause biochemical imbalance. This then can and does cause any
medical problems including behavioral problems. These foreign chemicals may be some real
bad chemicals such as toxins or some that we have not fully understood how damaging they
can be.
Copper overload is another reason why your
loved one needs zinc. Did you know that people do "go off the deep end," to use
your phrase, if their zinc levels are not maintained? They do and then everyone says,
"Well, they are teenagers, and that is the way teenagers act." Nonsense.
Teenagers are always attempting to establish their individuality, and find a mate to
continue the species, and all the things that go along with brain-stem animal behavior;
but, there is big difference between that and behavioral problems that are so varied and
complex.
As I said before, there are a few nutrients
that stand out from all the rest, even though you need them all in balance, and zinc is
one of the four or five primary absolute nutrients that is crucial to growth at any age. Your
loved one must have zinc. Now, I have been talking about the male and why the
male has more need for zinc, but females also need zinc. In some cases they need as much
or more, and they need it sooner than males do because their maturation time starts
earlier. So this zinc thing is in no way a male thing. Do not be misled into thinking that
just because you have not seen physical growth spurts that your child doesn't need zinc.
Their growth is different, but they need zinc just as much as if they were having a growth
spurt. However, the growth spurt is your clue.
There is an additional problem of your
loved one not eating regularly and often, too. Many times young people will go the entire
day without eating and then eat either junk food or sugar-laced foods. These two aspects
alone will not allow for zinc from foods.
So, you must take zinc by supplementation.
Obviously, if you have very young children you may have had them on zinc supplementation
for years, and I hope you do. But during these growth spurts you will have to increase the
amount of zinc they are taking. You may go ahead and ask all the behavioral questions
about this and that behavioral trait and if it is connected directly to zinc deficiency. I
will say yes, yes, yes. Do not forget zinc. So one of the main tests that
any orthomolecular doctor will do is a copper-zinc balance test. Many will do it with
blood tests and one doctor who treated a family member had a rather simple way of testing
for the lack of zinc, which doesn't mean that copper is not high, but simply that zinc is
missing. The doctor filled up a glass of water and put many, many milligrams of powered
zinc in it, brought it to the room for the patient, and asked him to sip it. My family
member thought it was water and drank a great deal of it without any problem at all. Zinc
is extremely bitter to the taste, but if you are low on zinc in your person then your
person craves zinc. Then, the bitter taste of zinc is not so pronounced. Yes, the family
member was low on zinc as other tests confirmed as well.
age 13-18
1) Peer influence, boredom, misplaced boredom
2) Not realizing consequences of actions- delusional or misperceptions of thinking
3) Thinking that happiness and pain are bound together- delusion of thinking and the harm
of this misconception, major signs of trouble
4) Lack of empathy
5) Fascination with or setting fires
6) Aggression toward any human
7) Aggression toward objects; destruction
8) Negativism
9) Obsessive-compulsive
10) Low inhibition threshold
11) Lack of rituals, routine, daily schedule
12) Blaming others
13) Food
14) Sleep
15) Eating
16) Awareness
17) Verbal interaction- behavior modification and its advantages and disadvantages
18) Lies, deceit, manipulation
19) Nutritional deficiency becomes more definite- that it is causing the problems and not
simply someone who is manipulating the situation
20) Their eyes (disperception)
21) Hazard signs
22) Violence
23) Bed wetting
24) Cruelty to animals or objects
25) Looking for something but don't know what- not being able to separate beauty from
pain- always
26) Wanting more, and nothing is ever good enough
27) Antisocial or gravitating to only one person
28) Finding a mate such as a girlfriend or boyfriend or a mate of the
same sex can offer the adolescent a multitude of happy as well as sad experiences. Mental
battles beyond belief can get so involved that anger, hostility, and even rage can
transpire. With the addition of disperceptions you may have your hands full. For example,
let's say your son has had a fight with his girlfriend and comes home to call her and
argue. He calls her every foul word in the book. (She may be doing the same.) When you ask
if you can help he goes into a verbal rage with you. If you do not ask if you can help he
might even go into a throwing of objects rage. If you happen to be his mother you might
get a verbal barrage such as "you fucking whore" or "you bitch, you are the
same as my girlfriend." Obviously, these situations are no-win from the very
beginning, and there are no easy answers to tell you how to avoid them or to tell you of
ways to help you loved one. So you tried to help and you got an angry reply, the
possibility of the rage and a disperception. The disperception was the association of the
mother with his girlfriend.
29) Lack of empathy
30) Attention to possible addiction with drugs and alcohol
31) Attention to theft of things in the house: purse, etc.
32) Lies become more outlandish, and you begin to wonder if they know truth at all
33) Resists changes
34) Limited or no sense of humor; no jokes about them or jokes about others
35) Lack of smiles
36) Lack of laughter
37) Overthinking
38) Fatigue
39) Lack of hygiene
40) Body language including eye contact, clarity of eyes, voice usage in terms of
intensity, pitch, speech speed and volume, shoulders and body carriage, walking, facial
complexion, and odor
41) 24-72 (or less) hour(s) reactions after stress- what are their reactions behaviorally
and physically to stress?
42) Rage of any kind
43) Foul language
44)Easily distracted, lacks focus
age 18-26
This age
of 18-26 has almost been forgotten in psychiatric research compared to other ages, but is
an extremely important age and perhaps demonstrates a more vulnerable age than we might
think. People think that this age group of people have "arrived" at adulthood
and are on their own to provide their own inner strength to solve whatever problems they
may have. This age is an age where many of the biochemical illnesses show up that have
devastating effects such as schizophrenia, manic depression, and so on. (Yes, you caught
me using labels, but I hope you will understand that these are, in fact, biochemical
diseases. I could not find any other words that might explain to you the specific types of
biochemical illnesses.)
1) Food
2) Sleep
3) Eating
4) Awareness
5) Verbal interaction, social skills
6) One to one communication
7) 2 people to the biochemically imbalanced person
8) 3 people to the biochemically imbalanced person
9) More than 3 people to the biochemically imbalanced person
10) Restaurants and social situations
11) Out of control
12) Better to have stimuli than boredom; at least with stimuli one feels they are alive
13) Hazard signs- fires
14) Violence
15 )Bed wetting
16) Cruelty to animals or objects
17) Looking for something but don't know what- not being able to separate beauty from pain
18) Always wanting more, and nothing is ever good enough
19) Antisocial or gravitating to only one person
20) Obsessive-compulsive behavior A lot of people are fooled by the term
obsessive-compulsive since they think it means not stepping on the cracks on concrete
sidewalks, or washing their hands over and over, or repeating a phrase of words over and
over. However, there are different levels of obsessive-compulsive behavior that I shall
write about which deals with disinhibition or lack of impulse control.
The "let everything rip" at any time and under any circumstance is the
obsessive-compulsive trait that I wish to tell you about later. "Hey, I found 38
things she did. Does that mean I am in for it with her?" No you..., never mind.
21) Lack of empathy
22) Negative thinking
23) Resists changes
24) Limited or no sense of humor; no jokes about them or jokes about others
25) Lack of smiles, lack of laughter
26) Overthinking
27) Fatigue
28) Lack of hygiene
29) Body language including eye contact, clarity of eyes, voice usage in terms of
intensity, pitch, speech speed and volume, shoulders and body carriage, walking, facial
complexion, and odor
30) 24-72 (or less) hour(s) reactions after stress- what are their reactions behaviorally
and physically to stress?
31) Rage of any kind
32) Foul language
33) Easily distracted, lacks focus
I must
again stop here and tell you about something that is very important for this age group.
Heal thyself. If you feel that there are things you don't understand about yourself, that
is fine. You may be very healthy in all aspects of your life. However, if you feel that
there are just too many things that are out of control in your mind then I would suggest
that you do a little self diagnosis and seek out an orthomolecular doctor to deny or
confirm your suspicions. I have listed several key things that can act as guides. If you
have a number of these traits then you probably have some biochemical imbalance, and it is
to your benefit to seek a biochemically-trained doctor to do some tests.
1) Lack of empathy
2) Possible addiction with drugs and/or alcohol
3) Theft
4) Lies
5) Limited or no sense of humor; no jokes about yourself or jokes about others
6) Lack of smiles
7) Lack of laughter
8) Overthinking
9) Obsession with fire
10) Violence
11) Cruelty to animals or objects
12) Looking for something, but don't know what
13) Not being able to separate beauty from pain
14) Always wanting more, and nothing is ever good enough
15) Antisocial or gravitating to only one person
16) Negativism
17) Obsessive-compulsive behavior
18) Low inhibition threshold
19) Lack of rituals
20) Lack of routine, daily schedule
21) Resists changes
22) Irregular or bad eating habits
23) Insomnia or irregular sleeping habits
24) Working with or being exposed to toxins
25) Foul language
26) Easily distracted, lacks focus
It sounds as if I am trying to say that
anything that does not fit into these categories would be considered "normal",
and that anything that is on the list is abnormal. There is nothing that is abnormal or
normal except through the eyes of society. You, as a member of that society, feel you are
either a part of that society or not in many varying degrees. However, even if you were a
hermit on a lone mountain top and away from all society you may indeed still have
biochemical imbalances and illness.
The above terms should not be confused with
normal and abnormal as defined by society. If you feel strange it may mean nothing, and
yet it can be your first clue to biochemical imbalance. Remember, as in TCM, "Heal
thyself". Now, you might say this is the same thing that behavioral psychologists do:
giving a list of symptoms, then a diagnosis, and then treatment. I have no problem with
any list, but I have a big problem with the diagnosis part and an even bigger problem with
the treatment. Just because you label something it does not and is not, in many if not all
cases, the root cause of the problem. Thus, the label is incorrect, and, thus, the
treatment is way off the mark. Treatment by means of talking and/or tranquilizers is not
going to work because it is a biochemical problem. Try talking to a horse in the field
that has gone "mad or wild", and see if it does any good. It is truly absurd to
treat some mislabeled disease with something that does not and cannot work.
Once you have thought about your self
analysis then find an orthomolecular doctor, have the tests done, alter your biochemical
life, and I can assure you will feel better. It is not "snake oil" or some other
form of quackery, but the basis for life itself.
How many of the behavior traits did you find on
these lists that apply to your loved one? How many did you miss on these lists that apply
to your loved one? Obviously, you may have never thought of any connection of behavior and
biochemical imbalance. I missed plenty. My other family members missed plenty as well. All
the time people suffer and we don't know why they suffer. I am now telling you how to see
biochemical illness. Later I will tell you what to do about it.
A few thoughts about specific behavior traits in the various age groupings
There are
a few of the behavior traits that I want to give you a little bit more information about
and try to tie them together, instead of just an abstract list. I am not attempting to
give you more psychological analysis and a new course in college psychology, but perhaps
by a little clarification you will see how some are very important as a thread that runs
through all the various age groupings. They indicate that a biochemical illness has been
there for a longer period of time that you would have thought.
The first one that I will choose is the lack of
empathy. The lack of empathy is the inability to feel the joys and pains of another human,
animal, substance, or object. At first, you may think it strange that I put animal and
even more strange that I put substance or object. The inability of your loved one to feel
empathy may be a direct result of a sub-level of depression even in early childhood years.
You may miss it completely. If the child is at an age when they are to develop
individuality from their mother, but this does not take place properly, then the child may
feel abandonment later in life.
The one difference I wish to point up here is
that if at that particular time there is a biochemical imbalance then the child will have
great difficulty developing empathy. If this biochemical imbalance is not corrected then
you will see some signs of the lack of empathy. Then if you see the lack of empathy you
can see also a withdrawal of the child into himself or herself. Then you may see their
desire to only socialize with only one particular person. Usually it is the mother,
another attempt at soothing the abandonment problem in the eyes of the child. Then you may
see many patterns that go in and out of daily or weekly phases that you finally accept as
the way your child sees their environment.
So the lack of empathy and abandonment are
reinforced in the eyes of the child, and their behavioral pattern has been established.
The problem all along is the biochemical imbalance.
Many behavioral patterns will carry on until
some biochemical balance is obtained. This may be directly associated with bed wetting,
sleep problems, eating problems and more. Then again they may be separate problems
originating from other parts of their development. However, all of them are caused by
biochemical imbalance. All you are seeing is your child's behavior.
If I got rather absurd with you and asked,
"What does vitamin B6 look like in the organism," you might start to tell me the
size, shape, taste of the pill or capsule. However, I asked the question of, "What
does vitamin B6 look like in the organism?" If you think of behavior then why can't
you think of a nutrient? There is no doubt that it is an absurd analogy, but just
because you see one thing rather easily does not mean it is what you are really seeing,
but the result of something else. If you remember this principle of thinking in terms of
biochemical illness you will understand a better perspective in terms of behavioral traits
and where they come from. It does make a difference in the types of lack of
empathy certainly, and we would much rather have a child who has biochemical illness toss
a glass across the floor than to punch out the family dog or slap his sister. However, we
don't want any of these things to happen, period. That can be achieved by biochemical
balance. So levels of one thing may indicate levels of another but all will have the same
root or original starting place.
You probably have already noticed that in each
age grouping category that the list continues to get longer and longer and the same traits
that existed, with a few exceptions, remain the same throughout all groups. Obviously,
life gets more complicated as it goes on and thus you could say that is the reason.
However, if I said we also learned about life as life went on, then the list should become
shorter, not longer, because we would have learned from life's experiences. If we have
biochemical balance as we are learning at any age we will shorten our list of damaging
behavioral traits and increase our other "imaginary list" of good behavioral
traits.
Biochemical balance is not about the little
train who said, "I think I can." Will and determination and their significance
to life are extremely difficult or next to impossible to teach a very small child,
especially at that age when they have biochemical imbalance. If the lack of empathy
development has been damaged in early childhood you might think that you have the start of
a serial killer or at best an uncaring person. What if I told you that regardless of the
age and regardless of the length of time that a person has been without empathy, it can be
reversed with biochemicals?
"Are you saying that someone who has been
a selfish ass and a no good their entire lifetime can be corrected biochemically?"
Yes, that is correct. Yes, there will have to be the biochemical balance and the
biochemical balance may not be easily achieved at first. Yet, with time it can be. All
this with some direct-insight conversations, not high powered-psychotherapy that tells
that individual right from wrong and the possible consequences of their choices will
follow. "I think you must believe in fairy tales, too." No. Everything I have
told you is true. That is why you must try to see the signs of biochemical imbalance and
immediately get the proper nutrients into your child. Your child doesn't know what is
going on, and if they have always lived that way they think that is life (and it is for
them). However, you know what these behavioral traits indicate. It is your responsibility
to correct your child's biochemical imbalance. Humans do want and desire to succeed at
adventure, whatever that adventure may be. Humans do not choose failure and pain.
Biochemical imbalance allows pain and confusion, and it clouds many desires for success or
adventure.
Biochemical Balance From Biochemical Imbalance
age 13-18
Now let's
take all the biochemical imbalance induced behavioral traits and make all of them positive
by the use of the correct balance of biochemicals. Here's how the age 13-18 age group
might look. I will put the new positive traits in bold letters.
1) Peer influence, boredom, misplaced boredom- active involvement in family,
school, religious and community activities involving many various types of people and
interrelationships.
2) Not realizing consequences of actions- delusional or misperceptions of thinking- they
show, believe in, and demonstrate responsibility for themselves and others (empathy)
3) Thinking that happiness and pain are bound together- delusion of thinking and the harm
of this misconception, major signs of trouble- they know and seek beauty from what
they determine as beauty. They spend very little time in the pursuit of overthinking
4) Lack of empathy - they believe in and show empathy for all things living or
non-living
5) Fascination with or setting fires- does not even enter their minds except as
another pleasure to watch such as a campfire outing.
6) Cruelty to animals - they believe in and show empathy for all things living or
non-living
7) Aggression toward any human - they believe in and show empathy for all things
living or non-living
8) Aggression toward objects; destruction - they believe in and show empathy for
all things living or non-living
9) Negativism- either they don't have time or don't wish to participate in
negative thinking because they are doing so many other wonderful things
10) Obsessive-compulsive- does not even enter the picture
11) Low inhibition threshold- for the most part this never enters the picture
12) Lack of rituals, routine, daily schedule- they are involved in so many aspects
of living that they are into many rituals and routines just to keep going in their
pursuits of adventure in life.
13) Blaming others- for the most part this totally goes away.
14) Food- they have a variety of foods they enjoy and are far more adventuresome
in choices of foods.
15)Sleep - better sleep habits, revitalizing sleep, better dream recall, and
overall greatly enhanced sleep wellness.
16) Eating- they have a variety of foods they enjoy and are far more adventuresome
in choices of foods.
17) Awareness- they obviously have more awareness and many have a calmness along
with this awareness.
18) Verbal interaction- behavior modification and its advantages and
disadvantages- This should be obvious without any explanations.
19) Lies, deceit, manipulation- Less or none at all
20) Nutritional deficiency becomes more definite- that it is causing the problems and not
simply someone who is manipulating the situation- too many things are going right
for them and you admire and enjoy vicariously their adventures
21) Their eyes (disperception)- none
22) Hazard signs- none
23) Violence - none
24) Bed wetting- none
25) Cruelty to animals or objects- none
26) Looking for something but don't know what- not being able to separate beauty from pain
- none
27) Wanting more and nothing is ever good enough- for the most part none of the
bad trait
28) Antisocial or gravitating to only one person- not even a consideration in the positive
trait.
29) Finding a mate such as a girlfriend or boyfriend or a mate of the same sex can offer
the adolescent a multitude of happy as well as sad experiences. Mental battles beyond
belief can get so involved that anger, hostility, and even rage can transpire. With the
addition of disperceptions you may have your hands full. For example, let's say your son
has had a fight with his girlfriend and comes home to call her. He argues with her and
calls her every foul word in the book. (She may be doing the same.) When you ask if you
can help he goes into a verbal rage with you. If you do not ask if you can help he might
even go into a throwing of objects rage. If you happen to be his mother you might get a
verbal barrage such as "you fucking whore" or "you bitch, you are the same
as my girlfriend."- this would never happen unless biochemically imbalanced.
Also, your loved one would wish to share on varying levels about their mate choice.
30) Lack of empathy - they believe in and show empathy for all things living or
even non-living things.
31) Attention to possible addiction with drugs and alcohol. - less or no addiction
32) Attention to theft of things in the house: purse, etc. - almost none
33) Lies become more outlandish, and you begin to wonder if they know truth at all - none
34) resists changes- looks forward to change as adventure
35) Limited or no sense of humor, no jokes about them or jokes about others- very
sociable including humor, laughter, and smiles
36) Lack of smiles- as above
37) Lack of laughter- as above
38) Overthinking- almost none
39) Fatigue- they have adventure, relax, rest, sleep, and have adventure again as
a cycle of enjoyment.
40)Lack of hygiene- complete hygiene responsibility
41)Body language including eye contact, clarity of eyes, voice usage in terms of
intensity, pitch, speech speed and volume, shoulders and body carriage, walking, facial
complexion, and odor- the look of health is obvious many times
42)24-72 (or less) hour(s) reactions after stress- what are their reactions behaviorally
and physically to stress?- varies but much better
43)Rage of any kind- none
44)Foul language- almost none except under very stressful situations
45)Easily distracted, lacks focus - very focused and directional in thinking "How
does all that work for my loved one"? Just stay with me and you will see.
Physical Signs and What They Mean
Body language including eye contact, clarity of eyes, voice usage in terms of intensity, pitch, speech speed and volume, shoulders and body carriage, walking, facial complexion, and odor are clues to anyone's wellness. If you take the list of TCM symptoms you will find almost all of these above traits on the TCM list. A few words of explanation about a few of these may help you. You may readily see bloodshot eyes, dark colored rings under the eyes, lack of clarity in the eyes or a glazed look to the eyes. You may also judge from the pitch, speed, intensity of the voice if this is "normal" speech for your loved one. If it is not then you have some more clues. Facial complexion may not be so easily discernable. The face will have a very slightly greenish tint to the skin. The last one is odor. I do not speak about what we commonly call body odor, but an odor that has a very slight, sweet smell to it. All of the above things are clues and each one by itself is not of great meaning, but many or all together are a big clue to look for additional clues which, if they appear too, then your loved one probably has some form of biochemical imbalance.
Terms Usually Applied to One with Biochemical Illness or Biochemical Imbalance
1) lazy
2) irresponsible
3) mean spirited
4) angry 5) hostile
6) wayward
7) doesn't listen
8) in another world
9) just a teenager
10) out of control
11) they never pick up things and put them away in their proper place after they have
used them
12) they wear the same clothes for days without changing
13) they wear the most horrible looking clothes- no wonder people think they are weird
14) they never sit still long enough to ask them a question
15) overactive
16) poor judgement
17) depressed
18) they want what they want when they want it
19) foul mouth
Parent views of how to handle behavior problems
It is my house and I will call the shots- will give
the orders and all will respond
What did I do to have this person treat me this way?
They will grow out of it
I will use "tough love"
I will be patient and show great love and compassion
I will not participate in their problems-their problems are theirs- he or she is old
enough and they need to learn once and for all.
If parents use these thoughts (with the
exception of love and compassion), then the parents are clueless as to biochemical
imbalance as the cause of their loved one's illness and behavior.
All of the above deal with the reactions or
actions of the parent toward the biochemically imbalanced or biochemical deficient person.
The only one that will work is love, compassion and patience but only with the correct
balance of biochemicals even then. These two must be together- biochemicals and love. They
will not work alone. "I don't do any of those things." (no comment)
Now, let's take that same list of terms that
people apply to biochemically imbalanced people and see how I have given you a few clues
as to what those traits mean.
1) lazy fatigue,apathy-indifference
2) irresponsible apathy-indifference
3) mean spirited
4) angry failed attempts at function
5) hostile
6) wayward
7) doesn't listen
8) in another world
9) just a teenager
10) out of control
11) they never pick up things and put them away in their proper place after they have
used them
12) they wear the same clothes for days without changing
13) they wear the most horrible looking clothes- no wonder people think they are weird
14) they never sit still long enough to ask them a question
15) overactive
16) poor judgement
17) depressed
18) they want what they want when they want it
19) foul mouth
All words in bold letters are my analysis.
Terms Commonly Used by the Person
with the Biochemical Imbalance or Illness
I am worthless and have no meaning
I have no friends
No one understands me
It takes too much work and who cares anyway
I don't care;
I will die this way
All of these are major biochemical imbalance markers of depression, a biochemical
imbalance.
from (The Subject With His Own Observations
About Himself)
Here are some observations made by Osmond when given adrenolutin during scientific studies
by Hoffer, Osmond, Symthies, and Altschul during the 1950's and 60's.
1)I feel no urge to cooperate in volunteering information about my feelings (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
2)I did not feel any desire to talk more than a few seconds and felt very little interest
in what was going on (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
3)I chatted with the technician and was interested in all that was going on and now as a
person I felt no interest in him whatsoever. (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
4)I remember thinking I was like a monkey and how they were treated in a recent film-
passive, compliant, emotionally flat, but awake and and well aware (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
5)I felt I could not be bothered so I remained silent (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
6)Poverty of thought and content to remain in one position or place (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
7)I felt I had lost the capacity to feel joy, sorrow, or any powerful emotion (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
8)My mind was blank for long periods of time and I felt contented to lie and not think
about anything (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
9)I had no interest in this experiment, his feelings, or anything else (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
10)I saw many colors in patterns (hallucinations)
11)His face looked much more dark and somber than usual, almost threatening (disperception)
12)I felt automaton, dull and detached, and not interested in talking to anyone (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
13)Unwilling to do tasks (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
14)Did not read instructions carefully and misinterpreted (disperception)
15)I did not really feel myself in them (Lack of Empathy)
16)I did not feel any interest and tried to make succinct answers (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
17)Pupils dilated (TCM)
18)Slightly withdrawn (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
19)Music that prior experiences seemed less intense than usual (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
20)Dull and flat (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
21)Less interest than unusual (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
22)Marked reduction in drive and interest with resulting poor concentration (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
23)Inability to feel deeply (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE??)
24)Diminished empathy toward others (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
25)Complete absence of anxiety
26)Lack of drive to carry a thought to its conclusion (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
27)Lack of interest in myself and indifference to what others thought of me (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
28)Lost urge to make critical appraisal of changes (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
All words in parentheses are my analysis.
(Reprinted by permission )
Here is a very important clue- None of these behavior traits were "normal" for Osmond in his normal personality as verified by other doctors and even his wife. Anything that is not "normal" for a person and they demonstrate unusual or bad behavior is a very strong clue that they have biochemical imbalance.
Abram
Hoffer and Humphry Osmond worked together for many years in various hospital facilities in
Canada. During the early 1950's they did exhaustive experiments of various hallucinogenic
drugs that gave similar and in many cases exact behaviors that mimic that of mental
illnesses. Their work in the area of drug induced behavior changes was one of the first
researches that sparked on my own research into how things work or don't work
biochemically. They gave pure facts plus the anecdotal diaries of the person who had
received the hallucinogen, which showed behavior changes that illustrate how behavior can
be changed biochemically. Very specific behavioral information even down to exact symptoms
can be seen in these studies.
Here is a list that I have taken from one of
the many LSD 25 experiments done by these thinkers. This one being by Humphry Osmond.
Here's what he had to say when he was given LSD 25. See how it differs from adrenolutin
from the previous list. LSD 25 mimics symptoms of schizophrenia. Here is what Osmond said:
(my thoughts are in parentheses)
1)Thought of being object as a stone or plant- as feelings for inanimate grew, feelings
for humans decreased. (hallucination)
2)Had to curb unpleasant feelings (slight anger)
3)Impulse to say or do what wanted to- disregard for others feelings (increased
anger)
4)Did not wish to talk- more comforting to gaze (APATHY-INDIFFERENCE)
5)Time was of no importance- did not hurry in normal tasks (indifference)
6)Things normally done cause great stress and cannot be done-persuading others to do tasks
for you. What would be humiliating in normal circumstances was not humiliating.
7)Stress brings on unusual feelings
8)Sensing something is holding them in such as a glass wall but not visible (it comes and
goes)- paranoid feelings (paranoid feelings-dispercption)
9)Don't know anyone here
10)Wonder if handwriting is his (unusual thought-possible hallucination)
11)Cannot (measure) distance and time- objects look closer or farther away, or smaller or
larger than in reality. (hallucination)
12)Paranoid feelings from non-specific identifiable people. Life circumstances of others
become personal; for example, wrecked car viewed by Osmond: thought- they were involved in
the accident, being preoccupied thinking one is normal, usual self but one is not (my
thoughts to help clarify- he thought that it was normal to have thoughts about car
accident fixation of ideas) (paranoid-disperception)
13)Difficult to divert attention away from inanimate objects. Refuses to follow
directions- as noted by other doctors. Needed continual persuasion to get a response- as
noted by other doctors) (possible disperception)
14)Loose associations- taking unrelated thoughts and joining them together and being
convinced they make sense and being angry that no one else can see their value
(disperception)
15)Marked refusal to communicate, resistance to requests as observed by other doctors
(indifference)
16)Withdrawal from people- antisocial, disinterested, antagonistic, defensive, and
delusional offensive (indifference)
17)Increase in body image in size, shape, design (visual hallucination)
18)Depression more than euphoria (depression)
19)Distant objects too close- movement of stationary objects (hallucination)
20)Easily distracted- can change subject in mid-sentence; others can alter subject too.
21)Complaint of mild heart pain (TCM)
22)Objects change in color, size, and quantity (hallucination)
23)Depersonalization of body, not real, not a part of him (hallucination)
4)Mysterious messages; telepathic code coming from universe (hallucination)
25)Tactile hallucinations (hallucination)
26)Changes in tempo of ideas- rapid thoughts
27)Flight of ideas, difficulty concentrating, blocking and speech alterations (hallucination)
28)Negativism, ambivalence, personality splitting, inappropriate behavior, sitting in a
waste basket, creeping on the floor (disperception)
29)No insight that he was different from others. (disperception)
30)Word associations unusual
31)Forming thoughts before sender has sent entire thought
32)Interrupting conversation
33)Steering conversation in different direction away from the thought or question
34)Formed answers before they understood the thought or question
35)Object identity (possible dispercption)
36)Mannerisms unusual, euphoria, giggling, laughter in inappropriate manner or timing (TCM)
37)Mood irritable, negativism, "do you know what I mean" (anger)
38)Physical symptoms, nausea, headache especially in an angry mood in the front of the
head (TCM)
39)Reading; words move too quickly or too slowly- visual distortions or malfunctions with
brain receiving (hallucination)
40)Distortions- words jump around (hallucination)
41)Hallucinations; physical, environmental- can't or will not measure distance
(hallucination) 42)Length of time to do task is beyond any margin of what this
person was able to do in past (disperception)
43)Does not realize it took that long and will deny it did because he is uncertain. May
have fear of failure to do task, so it is better not to do any tasks and avoid criticism (disperception)
44)Inhibition/impulse to smash something without any reason to do so; no insight that he
has changed. (disperception-anger) (TCM)
45)Separation from one place and thinking he is in another place (hallucination)
46)Thinking he is an object or another living creature (hallucination)
47)Dimensions change- photos become "real"- using senses to experience innate
objects- for example, the sensation of the touch of a cloth in a photo or an object moving
in a photo. (hallucination)
48)Surroundings causing paranoid reactions (paranoid)
49)Overanalyzing surroundings and giving meaning to surroundings such as cracks in the
sidewalk - to non-analyzing and then swing from one to the other - things have special
significance or importance (overthinking TCM)
50)Feeling cut off from society (depression)
51)Disinterested in social events (apathy-indifference)
52)No sense of satisfaction in anything (apathy-indifference)
53)Others do not appreciate my work- expectations that later turn into disperceptions (disperception)
54)Hearing voices or sounds (hallucination)
55)Feeling of losing control with reality- common things that in the past that felt good
socially are not worthwhile and, in fact, are repulsive now (disperception)
56)Viewing violence as in a theater movie or the disperception of visualizing violence
when it has not happened (disperception)
Here is a very important clue. None of these behavior traits were "normal" for Osmond in his normal personality as verified by other doctors and even his wife. Anything that is not "normal" for a person and they demonstrate unusual or bad behavior is a very strong clue that they have biochemical imbalance.
Other Doctor's view of Osmond when on LSD25
1)Becomes irritable with a few questions
2)Unable to connect thought to what had been the cause of a problem and instead having
disperceptions as to thinking it was other causes, and additionally not only seeking
advice but refuting any advice and becoming entrenched in his disperceptions.
3)Lack of insight when doing things for the first time-anxiety causing situations
4)Telling others of sense changes or thought changes and attempting to convince them of
their significance and expecting them to experience the same reactions and becoming angry
when they do not experience such
5)Blaming others and society in general especially including authority figures.
There are many more observations given by
observers but I just wanted to give you a very few. (Reprinted by permission)
Here is a very important clue. None of these behavior traits were "normal" for
Osmond in his normal personality as verified by other doctors and even his wife. Anything
that is not "normal" for a person and they demonstrate unusual or bad behavior,
is a very strong clue that they have biochemical imbalance.
All of the bad traits were biochemically induced and caused the bad behavior traits. The
adrenochromes including adrenolutin and LSD 25, which mimics schizophrenia, were used.
These same biochemicals are in each person's body and stress as interpreted by the person
can and does cause the release of adrenochromes which cause bad behavior. Remember that
behavior is an extension of something on the inside of the total organism. These
adrenochromes are produced in many tissues throughout the person and are in no way only in
the adrenal glands.
These lists could and do go on for many, many
more symptoms of unusual behavior traits. If you wish to read all these studies, I can
assure you that you will have a very enlightening time. (See the bibliography).
One more very important thing to say about
these studies is that after Osmond took the LSD 25 he was asked by the other doctors how
long he felt it took the LSD 25 to wear off. When did he think he was back
to"normal" in his personality? Osmond wrote that he was well and back to normal
in three weeks. However, a very important observation was made by his wife who told
doctors it took almost three months for her husband to recover to his fully normal
personality. Now here you have Osmond, a brilliant doctor and scientist of discerning
capabilities and insight that had a major disperception into his own recovery. It is
extremely important to know because it demonstrates that denial and even recovery cannot
be viewed by others in the same way as the one suffering the bad or unusual behavior.
Now compare this list to the list that includes
apathy and indifference as generated from adrenolutin and you will see how different these
two biochemicals are. "Boy, I would rather she have apathy and indifference, that is
for sure." Sorry, you can't choose. Also, let's say that your loved one has both of
these that for many reasons ebb and flow, up and down and between one another, and all the
resulting behaviors. What do you have but massive confusion and the lack of function as a
civilized human being?
"But my loved one didn't take LSD 25 or
adrenolutin, so she shouldn't be the way they were." Your loved one has these same
types of things in her, too, and many more that can cause just as great a problem in
functioning. Adrenochromes are present in every cell. Years ago, some people with
psychotic reactions were thought to have had a problem in the amount of adrenochromes
being secreted by the adrenal glands. Surgeons took out adrenal glands thinking that would
solve the problems. However, it did not because all the other tissues of the person also
make adrenochromes even if the adrenal glands are removed.
The type of science as done by Hoffer, Osmond,
Symthies, and Altschul is incredible because it showed biochemically for the first
time a direct connection between biochemicals and behavior and established that behavior
was not a culture-based inducer and that behavior could not be changed simply by talking
about it. Freud and others for well over 80 years have given us information
exactly the opposite of the Hoffer, Osmond, Symthies, Altshul studies. We have consumed
the wrong information about behavior for all that time. It is truly a shame and very
embarrassing for all those that are in behavioral psychology to admit that they have
sought out the Holy Grail of knowledge in the wrong place. More damaging than that is all
those that have suffered from psychological therapy have not been helped because of its
ineffectiveness.
"Do you mean to say that it does not
help?" I maybe can't go that far but it can't cause the problems to go away and it
does not get to the root cause of behavior. In that sense it is worthless.
Remember, any and all new information in
a society that changes thinking for the good or bad is not integrated into that culture
without great hardship. Thinkers have never been appreciated and probably never will be.
Cultures resist change because change brings uncertainty and cultures don't like
uncertainty.
"How did they make Osmond well
again?" Extremely good question. Vitamin B3 (nicotinic acid). "That's all?"
Yes, that's all. "You mean to say someone with all those things of thinking they are
a rock in the sea, can't see straight, hears things, getting fears going all over the
place and all those other things is cured with vitamin B3?"
Not only Osmond and the others that did all the
experiments, but now some 40 years later all those people, in those 40 years that have
been helped or totally cured with vitamin B3. Now do you see why it is so important to
know how a simple little vitamin works?
"Do you mean to say that all those things of behavior were changed?" Yes, yes,
yes. "That's strong stuff." Yes, it is, but so is the information that
allowed for the connection between behavior and biochemical imbalance and then between
biochemically imbalanced behaviors and vitamin B3.
"Maybe I should get in touch with Hoffer,
Osmond, Symthies, or Altschul." You will find their numbers later in this book if you
wish to contact them, but their writings and knowledge is readily accessible to you
through their books, which include their continuing research even up to last month.
Also, if you will compare the two lists, the
apathy-indifference lists and the LSD 25 list of behavioral traits with the age grouping
lists you will see some similarities. Compare those with the TCM list of behavioral
symptoms and you will see some similarities as well. So my list is from various sources
and is not connected just to some studies. Through my own thinking I have come up with a
composite of other thinkers regardless of the source of their information; and I have
thought about what all these things mean to me, not in any ancedotal way but as a
scientist might compile the lists backed up by valid research.
So if your loved one were Chinese, American,
African, or whatever, it really doesn't matter if they have biochemical imbalance.
Biochemical imbalance is universal in all populations thoughout the world. Also, remember
biochemical imbalance is not only about behavior. It is about all illnesses.
Animal studies and their reactions
1.Docile became hostile (anger)
2)Restless and retching
3)Insensitive to painful stimulation
4)Would remain in one place for extended periods of time (apathy-indifference)
5)Cat became sexually excited and attempted to copulate with comatose dog (hallucination)
6)Cat walked in bowl of milk and did not lick its paws (apathy-indifference)
7)Let itself be placed in unusual positions without protest (apathy-indifference)
8)Spiders even had a distortion in the way the made their webs (hallucination-
genetic malfunction)
9)Disturbances in pigeons- continued to nest but did not drive away others and ceased
cooing
10)Homing birds would not return to normal place of origin but would stop some other place
along the way and only fly home when they were chased back home (genetic
malfunction)
11)When home these homing pigeons would fly to their nest but not chase others away. (apathy-indifference)
12)Unusually apathetic and disinterested in matters they normally would be concerned with
(apathy-indifference) All words in bold letters are my analysis.
Now I will give you a few symptoms, but I will not
tell you where they come from until the end of these paragraphs. See if you can figure out
the source of the symptoms or if your loved one has any of the symptoms. Here they are:
1)Introverted personality
2)Lethargic
3)Muttering to oneself
4)Giddiness
5)Highly excitable
6)Violent physical behavior
7)Agitation
8)Insomnia
9)Uncontrollable anger
10)Trance-like mental state
11)Palpitations
12)Tendency to be easily frightened
13)Fatigue
14)Decrease in food intake
15)Lusterless complexion
16)Unprovoked bouts of sadness
17)Crying
18)Loss of ability to differentiate clean from dirty
19)Abrupt onset of illness
20)Headache
21)Flushed complexion
22)Bloodshot eyes
23)Lack of judgement
24)Physical aggression
25)Destructive behavior
26)Spell of boisterousness
27)Overthinking
28)Anxiety
29)Grief
30)Anger
31)Dry, bitter taste in the mouth
32)Oppression in the chest
33)Acid regurgitation
34)Restlessness
35)Suspiciousness
36)Crying without apparent reason
I am certain you have found some that pertain
to your loved one. Now I will tell you that all came from journals dealing with
biochemical medicine in TCM. It does not make any difference of where geographically we
are talking about. Behavior has many traits the same throughout many cultures. It is not
necessarily a culture-based truth that our culture makes bad behavior, but rather
biochemicals that cannot work properly, or those that are missing, those that are trapped
within the person but can't work because other factors are not available. These are the
causes of bad behavior. If you compare this last group of symptoms to the above symptoms
and the age group lists from before, you will find even exact words in both and many
similar symptoms.
TCM List and My
Analysis (Looking Through Western Eyes)
1)Introverted personality apathy-indifference
2)Lethargic fatigue
3)Muttering to oneself poss. hallucination
4)Giddiness
5)Highly excitable
6)Violent physical behavior anger
7)Agitation
8)Insomnia
9)Uncontrollable anger anger
0)Trance-like mental state
11)Palpitations so-called physical
12)Tendency to be easily frightened
13)Fatigue fatigue
14)Decrease in food intake
15)Lusterless complexion so-called physical
16)Unprovoked bouts of sadness depression
17)Crying depression
18)Loss of ability to differentiate clean from dirty
19)Abrupt onset of illness
20)Headache so-called physical
21)Flushed complexion so-called physical
22)Bloodshot eyes so-called physical
23)Lack of judgement poss. disperceptions
24)Physical aggression anger
25)Destructive behavior anger
26)Spell of boisterousness
27)Overthinking
28)Anxiety
29)Grief
30)Anger anger
31)Dry, bitter taste in the mouth
32)Oppression in the chest
33)Acid regurgitation so-called physical
34)Restlessness
35)Suspiciousness paranoia ??
36)Crying without apparent reason depression
TCM may make a distinction in so-called
physical and mental traits but they think of both traits in the same way as an expression
of the total organism. That is why you might see palpitations along with tendency to be
frightened easily or headache along side with lack of judgement traits.
TCM treats the symptoms differently than we do
with non-trained biochemical medicine and orthomolecular doctors treat the symptoms even
differently from the other two. Later I will speak of TCM. In treatment for symptoms by a
non-trained biochemical doctor they would give Ritalin, Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac or any
number of drugs that cause a multitude of problems. A cycle is initiated in your loved one
plus the behavior has not changed a whole lot. However, you think it is working. The cycle
I mentioned is one of toxin build-up that may take on a variety of dysfunction's, either
immediately or in the years to come.
One principle to remember is that if it is not in the person naturally there is a
reason. Everything that needs to go into the person must be either there naturally or be
there by food to make needed natural substances.
There are many foods that supply those
nutrients that are essential for our wellness and these must be eaten, but all other
substances must already exist in the person. Anything, whether it is in gaseous, liquid,
or solid form, that does not have the nutrient blueprint that the body can read and
interpret, the body will try to expel. This expulsion is not so easy as urine or excrement
and may be in the form of cancer twenty years from now or in behavior in 20 minutes, after
the foreign body has entered your person.
So go ahead and protest all you want about culture-based behavior and I will tell
you it is biochemically based first, and for the most part biochemical, and only when
other aspects of behavior come into play do we think it is culture-based behavior.
Get to the root cause. Open the "gate" a little and you will see what I am
talking about. Read on and you will see some of the reasons that it is not culture-based
and why all the psychology books in the world cannot help without the correct biochemical
balance. If someone is in a coma you don't use Jung or Freud. The person in the coma has
different problems. The same is true with behavior. It is indeed a different problem that
you thought. Read on.
Let me
get personal for a few minutes and ask you a few questions about your daughter. At what
age did you see the first behavior traits that are on these lists and what traits were
they? "Well, I guess she was about age 11 or maybe 12. She got angry one day about
being told that she could not spend the night with a friend on Saturday night if she did
not clean her room and do the dishes before she left to go to her friend's house. She
refused and stayed in her room until what she thought was time to be picked up by her
friend's mother. The mother came and I told her that my daughter could not go because my
daughter had not done her chores that had always been her responsibility on Saturdays. Her
friend's mother understood and left our house. Our daughter started to scream that she
could do whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted, and knocked over a vase with her arm on
the way to her room. She slammed the door and started to throw things in her room. I went
in and told her to knock it off and we got into another argument. Finally, I told her to
think about what she had done and she would have to pay for the vase too."
"The next day she didn't talk much about
anything and didn't come out of her room until about 2 PM. I didn't force her to go to
church that day and, in fact, only my wife and the others went to church. She didn't want
to eat, she didn't want to talk about things, and I didn't know what was going on in her
mind either. My wife and I talked about various things we were going to do to her, and we
agreed that she needed stricter rules and that would show her that she can't do whatever
she wants whenever she wants. Well, since then we have given her a lot of rules and none
of them seem to work for very long. Then she gets into arguments with the others and one
sister she pushed down three steps in an argument."
"My mother said that our daughter needed
to have a doctor look at her. We took her to a doctor who said that she should see a
psychologist. We did that and the psychologist sort of sided with me and my wife and said
that we needed to have those rules and consequences, and that sooner or later our daughter
would learn just as other children learn what they can do and what they can't do."
If you don't mind I would like to stop you
here. You probably could tell me a great deal of worthwhile information, but I need to ask
a few more questions.
If we go through the list of all the behavioral
traits starting from birth, which ones stand out in your mind now? "Well, in the age
1-3 I don't see any, age 3-6 I don't see any. Age 6-10, I see her eating habits changed,
she argues with everyone, she doesn't want to talk except about what she commands, and her
anger has caused a little destruction; one time she pushed Carrie down the steps. She
isn't doing as well in her grades and there are probably some others that I can't think of
now. Why do you ask that question? Do you think she is biochemically imbalanced, as you
call it?" Yes, without question. The severity, the type and the length of time for
the traits to continue, and the major change in her "normal" person are clues.
Now you have given me things that are the so called "bad behavior traits" but I
need to ask you another question.
What kind of person was your daughter before
that Saturday night that you think started all these problems? "Well, I don't know if
I can put my finger on it, but she was always joining in whatever the family was doing,
she did her chores, always spent a lot of time with Carrie, was pretty good in school, and
even one time had straight A's. She was in the church choir, always worked for my wife's
mother in the summer three days a week, and I guess I would say she wasn't any different
that the rest of the children we have. She seemed pretty happy and smiling, laughing, and
the like, so that is why all this crap from her is such a surprise to me and my
wife." You say you were surprised by your daughter's change? "Yes."
That single clue is extremely important. I say
again, It is extremely important. Any and all clues that are not normal for your
loved one are paramount clues to something that is going on biochemically, and usually if
bad behavior traits are observed, then it is biochemical imbalance. No one ever
told you to look for it so you didn't know what to look for. You see what you see,
unless someone shows you how to see differently. So you saw it, but it didn't
have any meaning and life went on. Or did it? Life went on but the quality of life went
backwards. You told me your daughter was happy and did things that you liked and she liked
too, and you thought she was a good person and so on. She left this good stuff, as you
might call it, and made bad stuff that you don't like and that is where you, your loved
one, your family, and everyone else is now. Correct? "Yes, I guess that is correct,
but there are some more things too."
"Since all that stuff began she now curses
up a storm, won't listen to anyone, not even her grandmother, is about to be held back a
grade in school, is constantly getting into arguments with the teachers and being sent to
the principal's office. She doesn't wash her clothes that often, wears that same damn
sweater almost every day, and she doesn't baby-sit anymore because no one wants her around
with that chip on her shoulder. She won't eat when we eat, does not eat much at all, is
skinny as bean pole, doesn't want to try anything at all, is constantly trying to tell
everybody they are wrong, and that she has the answers anyway."
"I guess you could say she is a mess and
she got herself that way and there is not much we can do about it. You know, I have got
others I have got to think of too, and it is not fair to them if I have to spend all my
time with her and her problems."
"My wife and I used to go out Tuesday
night for supper and leave the kids alone, but we don't do that anymore because we get
back home and she has started a fight with them. We now stay home. You know I have tried
to sit down and talk to her so many times and sometimes I think she understands. A couple
of times she has been in tears and I think I am getting through then, but the next day she
is back to that same old crap."
"That was almost two years ago and it
seems like it has been forever with her doing all that stuff. It just doesn't make any
sense why some people act that way and others that have far less than she does don't act
the way she does. It doesn't seem fair. She wasn't taught to be bad and no one ever
mistreated her. All of our family loves her, so she's got all the love a person could
want. Why does she act that way? It just doesn't make sense. You know, my wife and I have
spent a lot of time and a lot of money, and she seems worse than when we started trying to
help with all those doctors. They are supposed to know what they are doing, and they just
tell us we are either going to have control her or put her on drugs or something. You
know, I don't like that drug thing but guess we will have to do it."
"You know, if someone had told me this kind of thing was going to happen I would have
never believed it. I never saw it in very many families until we had our daughter's
problems. Then I started seeing it all over the place. Several friends started telling us
to hang in there because they had relatives that were going through the same things too,
and we weren't the only ones with a problem child. I do get a little hacked off when my
wife has to call me at work to come home and help with a problem. You know, when my wife
and I go to bed at night, we try to remember the good times we have had with our daughter,
and I guess that is all we have of her that is important now because all of this other
crap is killing us inside."
"Our daughter hasn't had a good day in
months. I guess the last time I can remember was when she, my wife, and I went out for
pizza one night and we played scoop pool, you know that little pool table stuff. Boy, was
she in a good mood that night. I wish I could have bottled her then and kept her that
way."
"The next day, it was the same old crap
and it even got worse two days later. It's like she doesn't care about anything or anybody
including herself. Why do people act that way? It just doesn't make any sense and wastes
so much. You know, it will soon be almost two years and it is like she has lost two years
of her childhood; sort of wiped out and she still isn't changing and probably won't."
"You know, with people like that you try
to help and then after awhile you are are going around in circles just like they are.
Things that I used to do I don't do anymore because I am spending so much time trying to
help her or help the others because she caused them problems. I go around and around like
some little mouse in one of those wire cages. You know, I don't think any of this crap has
anything to do with smart people because I heard from a friend of mine that a doctor he
knows has a son just like our daughter, and a doctor should know what to do for his own
son, I would think. But it seems like it doesn't make any difference about whether you are
smart or not. I have always thought maybe it was because we moved to the city and got off
the farm where everyone was so happy. You know, almost two years is a long time for all
this stuff."
What I See In My Farmer Friend's Daughter
After
listening to your story I must regroup myself a little because what you have told me is
very painful for me to hear both from your pain, my empathy for you, and the resurrection
of my own previous pains which are in many ways similar to those you have experienced. I
am truly sorry you had to experience these pains. I am equally sorry that your daughter
had to experience them, too, and is still experiencing them. For you I can say that you
very much care about your daughter and that is very meaningful for your daughter, even
though nothing right now has changed for her. It can change, though.
May I quickly tell you a few signs that I see
from the things you told me about the bad behavior traits that you mentioned?
"Yes." If you look back on the list of symptoms in the age group age 10-12 I
will list all the things I have found that demonstrate biochemical imbalance. Here they
are. 1/2/4/5/8/11/15/18/21/22/24/26
age 10-13
1)Foul language
2)Not taking advice from anyone
4)Pushing others away in deep depression,
5)Refusing any and all attempts to calm the person, better to have stimuli of any kind
(strong evidence of racing mind thought disorder) than boredom; at least with stimuli they
feel they are alive. 8)Violence
10)Cruelty to objects
11)Growth spurts
15)Antisocial or gravitating to only one particular person
18)Learning that lies are a means of getting what they want.
21)Lack of smiles
22)Lack of laughter
24)Fatigue
26)Body language including eye contact, clarity of eyes, voice usage in terms of
intensity, pitch speech speed and volume, shoulders and body carriage, and odor.
So you see there are many, not just a few
clues, and the most important clue of all is that your daughter's "normal"
behavior changed. "Well, if it is that simple then we can all correct people's
problems with just making a list and then giving nutrients. We can help so many
people." You are correct. The list has to be things that come from behaviors
throughout various cultures to know that our list is not culture-based and that any
organism, even including animals, have similar if not the same behavior so that we know it
is biochemical. The list is very important but by itself it is meaningless.
The next step is to get the nutrients into your
loved one. The next step is to balance those nutrients. The next step is know what other
aspects of bad behavior inducing elements such as allergies or missing enzyme functions
are not working properly.
The next step is the severity of the
biochemical illness and what that has to do with biochemical individuality. The next step
is what you do with any or all of this information at any one point in the progression
toward wellness. So if you thought it was only a list and give a few nutrients, then you
must consider other things as well. That is one of the reasons why you must find an
orthomolecular doctor with insight and compassion for your loved one. For now if I were
you I would concentrate on the diagnosis from the list I have given you and get vitamins
B3, B6, zinc and vitamin C into your loved one, plus many of the other things I have
already suggested in terms of food choices; cutting out sugar and all the other
suggestions. Those stop-gap measures will help considerably for the time. Remember,
"heal thyself" as much as you can, but seek knowledge too, and that includes
finding an orthomolecular doctor that may do special tests to determine specific nutrients
abnormalities.
Life is not, nor should it be, a textbook list
of terms of what is good or bad or whatever, but you must learn what a few basic changes
do, how they happen, and how to correct things that give pain to your loved one.
How you know the nutrients are working
1.Appetite increases
2)Sleep improves
3)Lack of morning phlegm
4)Body feels better
5)Chores and routines with some responsibility start to return
6)Avoiding arguments- realizing they are calmer
7)Longer time to enjoy thoughts- theirs and others
8)Ability to listen- slowly developing empathy
9)Bright sunlight doesn't feel so bright
One of
the most telling signs of depression is that of verbal expressions. So listen. I
personally call them "flood-gate-disperceptions" (my phrase)
and maybe they fit into this or that classification of disperceptions, but I am simply
stating what I have found. The "flood-gate-disperception" is observed when you
may think you are having an normal conversation with your loved one and they ask you to
help with a problem. All of sudden they are not interested in you solving that particular
problem and they unleash as a "flood-gate," releasing torrents of emotions
conveying everything that is wrong . "She tried that with me once
and I told her to solve it herself. You know she is old enough." Back to the story,
please. Then they take a breath and start with five or six more problems. All, of course,
are not to be solved one by one in any kind of logical fashion and in fact your loved one
may not be interested in solving any of them but, yet, they want all their problems to go
away immediately. If you miss this type of clue to depression then you truly are
"clueless".
Even little children give you clues of these
things. This "flood-gate" is their reality at that moment. It is what they
believe to be true just as we have assumptions and trust in our assumptions that are our
own reality. Yes, it is an unusual reality they have, but do not say they are wrong in
their choice of their reality. It is the only one they may be capable of choosing right
then. Again look deeper into altering of biochemicals, and let them choose from a
multitude of realities to see if they choose a different one. They will, but when they are
so depressed they feel as though they only have one reality, as bad as though it may seem
to them and everyone else. Do not get into mental head games with your loved one. Show
them respect, love, compassion and help them find more realities to choose from. Who
knows- you might find something you have missed for yourself along the way.
These expressions of biochemically imbalanced
individuals are not typical frustrations but demonstrate full blown mental exhaustion with
what your loved one is experiencing. Just listen as best you can and if they "give up
a little bit," try to tell them they are of great value and meaning to you. Also,
tell them that you may not fully understand the depth of their anguish, but will try to
understand as best you can.
As I stated before, if you have not had a
lasting or deep depression yourself you may not even identify with the pain that your
loved one is suffering-or the disperception of what they are suffering. The disperception
is in fact that their reality at that moment and during that part of the depression is
obvious, so be certain not to tell them they are wrong or shouldn't feel that way. Put
yourself in "their skin" and see if you feel as they do. You might. The
conversation may be short lived or consume hours with them repeating and exhausting
everything 60 times. "I never had a depression. I didn't have time for one."
Good for you.
Apathy and indifference are two symptoms which
anyone can observe very readily when someone is in depression. However, if one thinks that
the depressed person is not in depression, or doesn't recognize or doesn't wish to see
depression then apathy and indifference may be interpreted as someone who doesn't give a
damn about anything or anybody. They may do any sort of annoying behavior with all
disregard for any other individual, animal, or even plant. They may leave opened food bags
on the floor, nothing is ever put away, toilets are not flushed, no attempt is made to do
anything that has any sign of function in life. Then you can see how someone who has a
"chip on their shoulder" is shunned with scorn because people do not wish to be
around this person. Neither do I like it, and neither does any thinking, feeling human,
animal or maybe plant either.
Even animals will sense the actions of an
apathetic, indifferent human, and the animal will hide or stay away. What do you do for
apathy and indifference? Try first to get the biochemcials in balance. Then what do you
do? Hang on for dear life. Try to minimize the number and the intensity of arguments with
your loved one. Tell them they must have biochemical balance. Tell them when some behavior
happens that is appalling that they must not engage in such a behavior. Realize to
yourself that it is not going to do a lot of good because the biochemicals are so far out
of whack. As long as their behavior is not life threatening to themselves or others there
is very little interceding that you can do. Set the rules you must have and the other
rules. Very little modification can be accomplished with biochemical illness this bad.
Even if you have ebb and flow of ups and downs in behavioral goodness, eventually your
loved one must get the biochemical balance back by supplementation.
Part Two of Depression- Attempts At Function
I will talk about vitamin B6 first. Vitamin B6
deficiency or vitamin B6 imbalance, and therefore a deficiency, will cause a poor
tolerance to stress, limited dream recall, sunlight sensitivity (burning rather than
tanning), pain in the upper part of the abdomen. Deficiency may also cause hyperactivity,
which may lead to learning disabilities, usually showing up in adolescence or slightly
later such as the freshman year in college. So far it doesn't sound that important. Hang
on because it is very important.
Also, this vitamin B6 deficiency will
demonstrate cyclic or periodic depression with marked evidence of apathy and indifference,
followed by attempts to regain one's reality. This, in turn, creates stress, failures, and
frustrations due to the lack of vitamin B6 and zinc. It is this second part of the larger
cycle that you have to be very cautious of since it is the time when psychotic attacks may
take place. So, you have a vitamin B6 deficiency, followed by a depression. Then, attempts
at functioning are failed, signaling the second part of the depression cycle. Then there
are more attempts at function and failures with a possibility of psychotic attacks.
The reason for the possibility of psychotic
attacks in the second set of depressive cycles is not fully understood, but it can be
because vitamin B6-zinc momentarily restores itself followed by a huge need for vitamin B6
and zinc when they already have a deficiency. Thus, there is a higher level of strain or
draw on vitamin B6-zinc when they attempt to function.
From all my reading I have found that two
individuals stand out in the research of Vitamin B6 and zinc. They are Carl Pfeiffer and
Eric Braverman. Their research will give you many, many reasons and how the vitamin B6 and
zinc actions and reactions work or don't work in your loved one.
One very important thing that you should be
aware of is that when your loved one is in depression they are trying by biochemical means
to restore their supply of vitamin B6 and zinc (a means of protecting the organism at all
costs, even if it means being in depression and pulling back from all stresses and, thus,
demonstrating apathy and indifference). If they did not go into depression would they, in
fact, die? I don't know, but it does demonstrate the massive amount of energy that the
organism will expend in order to protect the organism first, regardless of the quality of
life,which is a human trait, not a biological trait. So, you wonder why your loved one can
go through a depression of apathy and indifference, and then in a few days, or weeks
later, start to function again. You think they are back to normal, and then you find that
they cannot function at all. The ebb and flow of the vitamin B6-zinc with its fluctuations
is the cause.
Remember all you see is behavior, and that is
what you are judging. However, it is their biochemical imbalances that cause confusion for
your loved ones. These cycles go on for years and years if they are not changed
biochemically and with biochemical balance. So, you didn't know that the organism
had a "will" of its own. It does biochemically, and may have in other ways that
we don't know of yet, as well. There is a very definite reason for the depression, and as
bad as it is for your loved one it is telling you that biochemically the organism is
attempting to stay alive. After the depression and stress are brought on by the quest to
function by your loved ones, you will see them fail in their attempts to make things work.
Your loved one is having so much difficulty and you just think it is another part of the
psychological depression. So, you may think that one day they are better behaviorally, and
all things have changed for the better. They have not, and it is merely a readjusting of
the vitamin B6-zinc levels at that time to be followed by another cycle.
Let's say that when your loved one is in
apathy-indifference depression they restore 2 ounces worth of vitamin B6-zinc, and then
they come out of depression and start their attempts at functions. However, they need 7
ounces of vitamin B6-zinc. It is the extra need that causes stress, and that stress causes
a massive depletion of vitaminB6-zinc, far greater than when they were in depression. This
extra need for vitamin B6-zinc can and does many times cause many and all possible
behavioral problems including aggression, violence (self-inflicted or to others), and a
multitude of bad behaviors. All of these are causing an even greater call for vitamin
B6-zinc.
Over and over again, time after time, forever
if you want to put it that way. You may think all you have to do is to give them vitamin
B6 and zinc. You are correct. So do it. But also, remember that you don't know how much
they need, and that is a very big problem. Get to an orthomolecular doctor. In the
meantime, however, give them vitamin B6 and zinc.
If you
look again at the list of observations given by the doctors and psychologists while
observing behaviors of those that were given adrenolutin (an adrenochrome) you will see a
large portion of these on the list refer to apathy or indifference, or a pulling away
socially from almost all stimuli. This pulling away from stimuli occurs frequently, except
in certain cases, when the stimuli is directed or originated within the thinking of the
individual who received the adrenolutin.
It is only a theory at this point in my
research, but I have the strong suspicion that there are many biochemical pathways that
can be altered when adrenochromes mutate or change into adrenolutin and other
behavior-damaging biochemicals. If one pathway is such and such a biochemical reaction,
then we have apathy and indifference. If the biochemical, even on the same biochemical
pathway, takes a slightly different route we have anger, rage, and uncontrollable
behavior. I do also have a feeling that, depending on the prior biochemical balance or
imbalance of the the recipient of the adrenolutin injection, the pathway is governed or at
least given biochemical guidance by the prior existing biochemicals before the injection.
If, for example, someone with demonstrated anger or rage behavior was given this
adrenolutin would they have more difficulty than someone who had a relatively functional
biochemical balance?
Experimentation aside, I feel that some people
are depressed with one type of depression (and there are many different labels and
progressions of depression) such as apathy, and then transfer to another type of
depression in the course of the biochemical imbalance. So, some with depression can be
apathetic at one point in the progression of their depression, and demonstrate violence at
another point in their progression of depression. It may give you another thought in
regard to the almost "jeckyl-hyde" changes in behavior, the escalation of
arguments into full-blown rage, and the volatile, explosive demonstrations that we all
observe. If you had your choice as an observer you would probably opt for the
apathetic-indifferent form of depression as opposed to the anger, violent, rage type of
depression, since you think it is easy to deal with. It may be, but it is still horrible
for your loved one.
What if, however, your loved one thought they
were controlling their behavior, and all of a sudden they were in the midst of full blown
anger or rage and could not figure out how it got in their person. It is also my theory
that the greater the degree of fluctuations between these two types of depressive behavior
the more difficulty your loved one will have. They are directly caused by the severity of
biochemical imbalance. If you just got used to figuring out some part of the reasoning why
you thought you were a certain way behaviorally, and then found out that none of it made
any sense to you because of the radical change from apathy to rage, I know I, too, would
be confused.
Then, if you as a parent see these radical
changes from one to the other, and you yourself have just gotten used to one form of
depression it is difficult for you to know how to help your loved one. It is sort of like
defining the biochemical imbalance into another level of thinking such as, "my loved
is abnormal in her behavior, and this is a new abnormal for her abnormal behavior." I
also believe there is a direct connection between these changes and impulse control. If
you are apathetic and indifferent you really don't care too much, if any at all, about
what goes on around you. If you are angry about any and all things around you and are
"hell-bent" on changing any and all things that are wrong in your eyes, then you
have to use action to make these changes happen. These actions can be, in fact, impulsive
many times.
I do think there is some connection between
this crossover from the two types of depressive biochemical imbalance and suicide. The
suicide is something we all see and are so amazed by. We did not see any signs of suicidal
thoughts in our loved one. Yes, there are specific levels of seretonin and other specific
brain chemicals that, when altered or diminished below normal levels, may cause the
lowered impulse control, thus, the suicide.
However, I have a feeling that it is connected
to the crossover of adrenochromes or at least in conjunction with adrenochromes and brain
chemicals. So, what do you do? I don't know except as I have said before, "Get
the correct nutrients into your loved one." Theories, labels, descriptions,
and all the analysis in the world is nothing more than that. They cannot solve the problem
unless you make the engine in your loved one work properly with the correct fuel.
This section will be brief and to the point without any analogies. The total person is biochemically imbalanced, and fatigue is certainly one of the major clues to depression and to biochemical imbalance. Try to do things when you are physically exhausted, and see how well you can function.
Behavior
science philosophy can only help by trying to be as human as you can. You can't make this
engine of theirs work right now because it either has the wrong fuel or none at all.
Simple as that. Yes, it is shame and hard to take. Just ride it through. If they have been
taking their nutrients and have stopped taking them recently, depleting whatever reservoir
of nutrients that keep their depression at bay, then try to get them to go out for
something to eat or fix them some food. Again, there are no answers, and you have to try
and keep on trying. Sometimes it helps, and sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't, you may
feel horrible because you could not do anything. You know that even though the
"flood-gate" has ceased for the moment, the pain and anguish your loved one is
suffering from has not really gone anywhere. It is disguised in another form. You may have
day after day of this sort of flood-gate situation and wonder when they will "give
up".
First, why would you want them to give up?
Second, as long as your loved one is disappointed and can express it, even if it is with
anger, then you have more than the quiet, withdrawn recluse that cannot in any way feel or
express a part of their own decisions for their own destiny. Yes, you want it to go away,
but hopefully for the right reasons. You want it to go away and be replaced with a joyful,
full-of-life, participating human with all their own potential striving for the next
adventure toward the beauty of life. Good for you. You are finally getting out of yourself
and trying to understand the ugliness of this biochemical illness. You are trying to do
something about it, but still respect the virtues and abilities of your loved one.
"Where the hell is there any beauty in
this?" For me, as you, there isn't. However, you always must look toward the day when
there might be some beauty, otherwise, you, too, may have just disguised your own
depression. And what if only one nutrient was the cause of all this depression with all
its "flood-gate" emotions? (You may want to re-read Pfeiffer's story about the
young girl and zinc.)
Doctor choice is paramount - the quality of the individual human who "just
happened to be a doctor." The tests and the type of tests and the ability of the
doctor to interpret the tests in the progression of the disease are very important. This
last statement is extremely important because the doctor must take ranges given by testing
labs and make sense not only from the lab's analysis but what the doctor thinks it means
at a particular stage of the disease. This again reflects the "total being"- as
TCM doctors know that one herb or biochemical is necessary at one particular point in an
illness and that same herb or biochemical is to be avoided completely at another point in
the illness because it would be harmful perhaps even making a "new illness," far
worse that the original disease.
"But I can't get to a doctor, can't find
one, don't have the money for one, insurance will not pay for these special tests,
etc." I did tell you many times already that biochemical illness is a horrible
disease, and you have just started. You will survive, and I hope your loved one will too.
(On this last thought you should read several times the brief section on suicide and the
significance and understanding of it and how damaging biochemical illnesses really are.)
You can
do a few "stop-gap" measures in the meantime hopefully, for a
month or so. You must seek out ways to get your loved one to complete proper
orthomolecular care. You may also have various crises that alter even your plan to get
your loved one to proper care. Try to get the nutrients into your loved one.
I remember reading a story Abram Hoffer told of
a medical doctor in California who had a son 12 years of age who had a psychotic fit and
had to be hospitalized. The father, a medical doctor, worked with the other medical
doctors in the hospital, and all came to no good results for his son. The other doctors at
the hospital told the father that he should find a mental hospital for his son. In
desperation the father telephoned Hoffer in Victoria, Canada, and Hoffer instructed the
father to get niacin into the child. The father told the other doctors what he wanted to
do for his son. The other doctors told the father the niacin would "fry his son's
brain." Finally, in total desperation he asked his wife to make jelly sandwiches with
the nutrients crushed and covered with jelly on bread, but she was too reluctant to do so.
Finally, the father decided he would himself make his afternoon visits with the nutrients
covered with jelly on bread. The results in 12 weeks were outstanding and the son's
recovery was even classified as a "miracle" by the other doctors.
This was a stop-gap measure, and again it
wasn't. Obviously, the doctor's son was starved for the correct-balance of biochemicals in
his organism (the total person), and he responded in a short time. Hoffer has written in
detail of these situations, and I suggest your read this man's work, which is truly
amazing.
Hoffer did not guess at what the problem was
with the boy. Hoffer knew that it was biochemical imbalance and knew which nutrients would
help. Call it "cause and effect" if you wish, but there is much more going on
than that.
Do read the Hoffer-Osmond books dating back to
1960. Hoffer and Osmond and some few others have known some of these biochemical functions
since 1954, and, yet, the medical profession has denied their validity. You will find
another world of scholarship that truly is remarkable with the Hoffer-Osmond works.
Hoffer, as an individual doctor and researcher, also has many outstanding research books
that you should pursue.
(See bibliography.)
Who would you choose for a doctor for your son
if he was psychotic and in the hospital with an outcome of a mental hospital as a final
resting place regardless of the length of stay? I would choose Hoffer. Simple.
And there is another issue here that is also
disturbing. Not all people who have a psychotic fit and end up in the hospital have a
father who is a doctor, and a doctor that realized he did not have the answers for his
son. He had the vision to seek out knowledge from others who had the knowledge. Another
issue is that people assume that doctors "care" about your loved one's wellness,
but there are some doctors that do not. Even if the doctors did "care" about the
doctor's son they still would have had to have had the knowledge to know what to do with
it. So, sometimes when you think you are getting a straight-forward answer from a doctor
you may be getting trouble instead.
If you remember, I have a great interest in TCM
and one of the major reasons that TCM came about was for each member of that society to
know how to heal themselves. Each person in that TCM culture grows up from a very young
age with the understanding of how TCM works. Many years ago, and for centuries, a TCM
doctor was not paid until the patient was well. The doctor of TCM knew the family both
socially and physically, their desires, wishes, stresses and many more things. Try not
paying your doctor until you are "well". Also, your doctor will probably
determine that you are "well" from his perspective since he will want to be paid
his money.
Too much
lead, copper, and other heavy metals that are very harmful for the person, including
causing major behavior problems, can be taken out of the body by a process called
chelation (pronounced keylation). By vein, a non-harmful synthetic agent called EDTA is
given that will pull out all copper, lead, and other heavy metals and restore the body to
a biochemical balance. There is a drawback. When EDTA is administered it takes all of the
nutrients out of the body including zinc and all the ones you need. So all that it takes
out of the body that is good must be put back in, and that is done at the same time the
EDTA solution is administered.
Another problem for many people is the length
of the session for administration of EDTA, which takes usually three hours every three
days for as many as 20 to 60 sessions. "Does chelation work?" Without question.
"Is it harmful?" Not at all, if given by a skilled and trained chelation doctor
certified and trained under direct supervision of the national accrediting board that
supervises chelation treatment. "Is it costly?" It can be, with ranges from $60
to $90 per session. I know you are already running the figures in your mind, $60 times 60
sessions equals $3600. If your loved one was in a car accident and you have limited
insurance coverage or the insurance coverage you had would not cover your loved one's
problem, you would try to help your loved one, regardless of the costs. You probably
would, so don't be so frightened of the costs of chelation treatments. Another thing about
chelation is that it is for so many and all types of biochemical imbalances.
One chelation doctor I personally visited for a
problem I was having did nothing but chelation for heart patients. He had been doing it
for 22 years with great success that allowed the patients to avoid completely any and all
forms of heart surgery, plus restoring the patients' hearts to a healthy state and the
rest of their body to balance.
You can read about how the government has tried
and in many cases outlawed chelation in many states. A doctor in my home state of Kentucky
told me that when he sent in his insurance forms for reimbursement to the state head
office of the insurance company and if it had any unusual tests and certainly chelation
that the insurance company would not pay for it. The insurance company notified the
medical board of the state and the doctor was brought up on charges (and, in some cases,
prohibited from practicing medicine in the state).
This, in fact, happened to the doctor I was
talking to. This doctor had practiced an orthomolecular-type of medicine including
chelation for years and with great success to his patients. Then some 21 years ago other
doctors in the area took out a one page advertisement in the local newspaper telling of
this doctor and his procedures and that people should not use chelation. How would you
like to hire an attorney, fight 34 other doctors, prove malice and intent and all the rest
to prove you were right? So, the doctor finally gave in and started practicing so-called
traditional medicine.
I personally was in his office while he told me
this 25 minute conversation, even while other patients waited for him. It obviously was
still a sore spot in his life or he would have not taken the time to tell me the story. He
also told me to keep trying to find an orthomolecular doctor because he knew it worked.
Chelation is not a last ditch effort but should be used early on in disease, and then the
multitude of problems of the complications of different disease states would not get a
foothold. When you read about TCM you will find that I talk about "in" and
"out" in balance biochemically, and chelation is this in and out of proper
biochemical balance. Chelation and nutrient therapy will probably be the next step
in obtaining wellness for people in the Western world in the coming years. Chelation helps
to detox, and the nutrients will replenish the person and give biochemical balance.
For
thousands of years various cultures throughout the world have had religious customs that
utilize the fasting from food- the lack of eating. I do not recommend this unless under
the close supervision of a well trained doctor, who has done this procedure before and
knows what can go wrong, as well as the benefits of fasting. You may find something very
strange if your loved one fasts from food. She may over a period of three to four days
loose many of her bad behavioral traits.
The reason is that of purification of the
organism. This cleaning out of the residues of unused food products and the resulting
behavioral changes for the positive will show you very quickly that behavior is definitely
directly connected to the foods your loved one is eating. Do not try this on
your own. Read the Allan Cott book on fasting listed in the bibliography.
The use of tranquilizers has to be used sometimes in psychotic or severe suicidal situations, but if you can be advised of natural nutrients that the person is craving and needs to correct their imbalance then please never use tranquilizers. If your loved one is on them when you give nutrients at the same time be certain to "wean" them off tranquilizers very slowly over a period of weeks or months. If your loved one is on tranquilizers, seek an orthomolecular doctor .
CHAPTER 1
Review: Key words/Sentences
1)They are not demonically possessed
2)Biochemical illness is a combination of many diseases
3)Biochemical balance is paramount
4)Nutrients and the Marble Tournament
5)Why don't doctors know about biochemical illness?
6)What do you mean biochemicals?
7)What the biochemicals do do
8)Sharp turns and U turns
9)Withdrawn and quiet- anything that is not "normal" for that person
10)Milk, wheat, corn and sugar
11)Playing doctor
12)Which foods?
13)Pfeiffer and the girl with a zinc problem
14)Lack of empathy
15)Eating the same foods repeatedly
16)Verbal interaction response problems
17)Hazard signs- fires 18)Violent to objects, themselves, others
19)Bed wetting
20)Cruelty to animals
21)Always wanting more, nothing is good enough
22)Antisocial behavior
23)Resists changes
24)Rage of any kind
25)Obsessiveness for any of the senses
26)Gravitating to only one person
27)Fatigue
28)Foul language
29)Growth spurts
30)Experimenting with drugs, alcohol
31)Lies - deceit
32)Lack of routine
33)Overthinking
34)Lack of rituals
35)Blaming others
36)Finding a mate
37)Copper and its destruction
38)Your loved one must have zinc
39)Heal thyself
40)Tying specific behavior traits together
41)Just because you see one thing rather easily does not mean it is what you are really
seeing, but the result of something else. If you remember this principle of thinking in
terms of biochemical illness you will understand a better perspective in terms of
behavioral traits and where they come from.
42)Negative terms applied to one with biochemical illness
43)Parents' views
44)Views by one with biochemical illness
45)Floodgate disperceptions - everything that is wrong
46)For the first time, a direct connection between biochemicals and behavior and
established that behavior was not a culture-based inducer. That behavior could not be
changed simply by talking about it.
47)One principle to remember is that if it is not in the person naturally, there is a
reason. Everything that needs to go into the person must be either there naturally or be
there by food to make that natural substance.
48)Osmond and adrenolutin- apathy and indifference
49)Osmond and LSD25 - behavioral changes
50)Yes, it is, but so is the information that allowed for the connection between
behavior and biochemical imbalance and then between biochemical imbalanced behaviors and
vitamin B3.
51)Animal studies and their behaviors
52)So go ahead and protest all you want about culture-based behavior, and I will
tell you it is biochemically based first. It is for the most part biochemical and only
when other aspects of behavior come into play do we think it is culture- based behavior.
Very important clue- None of these behavior
traits were "normal" for Osmond in his normal personality as verified by other
doctors and even his wife. Anything that is not "normal" for a person and they
demonstrate unusual or bad behavior is a very strong clue that they have biochemical
imbalance.
All of the bad traits were biochemically
induced and caused the bad behavior traits. The adrenochromes including adrenolutin and
LSD 25, which mimics schizophrenia, were used. These same biochemicals are in each
person's person, and stress as interpreted by the person can and does cause the release of
adrenochromes, which cause bad behavior. Remember that behavior is an extension of
something on the inside of the total organism. These adrenochromes are produced in tissues
throughout the person and are in no way only in the adrenal glands.
53)My farmer friend's daughter
54)What I see in my farmer friend's daughter
55)How you know nutrients work
56)Depression
57)Doctor choice and tests
58)Stop-gap measures
59)Chelation
60)Chelation and nutrient therapy will probably be the next step in obtaining wellness for
people in the Western world in the coming years. Chelation helps to detox, and the
nutrients will replenish the person and give biochemical balance.
61)Fasting
62)Tranquilizers- if your loved one is on tranquilizers, seek an orthomolecular doctor
now.
CHAPTER 2
How bad can behavior get and why? Stress- our bad guy.
Stress of any kind can be
bad for the human organism. We need stress, however, so that we will have a
"will" to do things, think thoughts, socialize and function on this plane of
existence. The stress that I will write about here is negative stress that causes so many
biochemical problems. Thoughts, actions, and deeds do, in fact, cause the adrenal glands
to secrete hormones that affect the entire body in a split second of time, almost not
measurable even by technology.
The speed, amount of secretion, and its
interplay with all the various pathways including meridians, electrical pathways, and
biochemical pathways can cause devastating consequences. I will speak here only of
biochemical pathways, but do not forget that the other pathways, the energy pathway
("chi" in TCM) and the electrical pathways, are extremely important. It would
literally take volumes of words to explain these pathways, which are even more complicated
than biochemical pathways (at least to me).
There are certain biochemicals that are created
and some that are already made in the adrenal glands that are called adrenochromes. These
adrenochromes are activated and change into other substances which then have a different
function than their original purpose. They may, and do many times, originate out of no
known place, or reason, and your loved one may have this happen, too.
If, for example, you have nitrogen, a basic
element, by itself you do not have a problem. However, if you put the correct amount of
glycerin with it you have nitro-glycerin, a highly unstable and volatile chemical. I
intentionally use these two words "unstable" and "volatile" with a
specific purpose in mind.
"Wow, does she ever let it rip sometimes.
She doesn't even come up for air and lets it rip again. One night she lasted 2 1/2 hours
by the clock. She tore up her room, and it is a good thing they weren't my things or I
would have let her have it." Your loved one probably has the same type of reaction as
the nitro-glycerin, a chemical that is changed into biochemicals that make them
"unstable" and "volatile".
For many years without knowing, I have been
witness to my own anger, and the anger of others, and the step at which that anger turns
up the volume of biochemicals to get into a full-blown-rage. If you are angry with a
specific purpose and reason, and you have been wronged in terms of your moral code of
thinking, you will at least get over it in time with rethinking and reevaluations.
Some things take a great deal of thinking and
reevaluation, and along the way hurt replaces our thinking and reevaluations. But what if
your loved one cannot do those same procedures to arrive at a conclusion of how to deal
with hurt and anger? What if they have not just one mechanism that doesn't work but a
whole series of either "misfiring" biochemicals or biochemical imbalances caused
by deficiencies?
"Wait a minute. Are you telling me that a
gland the size of a small peanut can do all this?" You are correct. These
adrenochromes and their transformation are the root causes of a multitude of biochemical
illnesses.
Extensive research on adrenochromes was started
in 1951 by Hoffer, Osmond, Altshul, Symthies and others. Their research is so disturbingly
correct that one wonders why this research was not desalinated world-wide overnight. But
it wasn't. In fact, it was challenged, and many attempts were made to destroy the
research. The results these practicing psychiatrists and biochemists came up with to
demonstrate that adrenochromes do, in fact, not only cause humans to react in a certain
manner but also obtained the same results from animals. You can say, "Well, I am not
an animal and, therefore, information about animal studies is irrelevant." Nonsense.
There is a great deal to be learned from animal studies, and one very important
lesson is that the same biochemicals that exist in terms of aminochromes in humans also
exists in animals. The reaction of animals to changes in the aminochromes to other
biochemicals does alter their behavior in many ways.
"But
wait a minute- animals don't have behavior like we do." Precisely the point- they are
not to our knowledge, at this point, given the capacity to think and have a moral code of
right and wrong as we think of these aspects. Again, you are correct, but they do
demonstrate highly agitated, aggressive, violent reactions to over stimulation of certain
adrenochromes that cause changes in their biochemical pathways to other biochemical
substances. Now, my question to you is, "How do you expect your loved one with not
only one biochemical imbalance to have enough 'willpower' to overcome something so strong
as adrenochromes and their alterations, much less if there are many biochemical imbalances
going on?"
"Well, I give up - this is too
complicated, and if this tiny little gland is so important then there is nothing I can do
anyway. Besides I have to go to work." Wait a minute. Did you hear me when I said
again "biochemical imbalance? "I have to go, but I will be back later." Now
you may begin to appreciate the science of people like Hoffer, Osmond, Pfeiffer,
Braverman, Symthies, and so many others. If someone told you that gasoline does not work
in a diesel engine you would not put it in expecting it to run. You would put the proper
fuel in the engine that required that fuel. That is precisely what is done to correct some
biochemical imbalances.
Niacin, Vitamin C, Vitamin B6 and Zinc
Niacin, vitamin C, vitamin B6 and zinc
all help to alter adrenochrome changes to other biochemicals that cause many behavior
problems. "You mean to say adrenochromes and their biochemical changes caused my
loved one to curse up a storm and call me every name in the book such as 'you stupid
mother-fucking asshole,' and then 5 minutes later ask me to take them shopping as if
nothing had ever happened?" Yes, they do. The tragedy for me is that to this point I
have not been able to find enough research to find out whether or not there is a
sub-consciousness that they are "in" or if they are aware of their actions and
words. But, then again, they are not aware.
Anyone in our so-called culture would probably
feel some degree of guilt later, but it is as if these circumstances never happened in the
minds of your loved ones. "I will just get them away from all stress." Good
luck, because it is impossible, and what would be the purpose of life anyway at that
point? "Well, I'll get them away from as much stress as possible." You are
getting closer. How about trying to "calm the spirit" either with TCM and
unfortunately that is next to impossible to do, so far, except in special geographical
regions of the country. Try biochemical balance to "calm the spirit". I do not
have enough time, energy or knowledge to give you the differences between "calming of
the spirit" in terms of TCM or orthomolecular medicine, but there are some. Besides
that, you are in a hurry.
Every day you can read in the newspaper about
someone with biochemical imbalance and what they have done to society and the individuals
within that society. Violence of any imaginable kind. "Well, they are either out of
their minds, or we should just put them away." We do do that. Do you want to grow or
be clueless? Do you want to help your loved one or give all kinds of reasons to deny them
the chance to live to their greatest potential? It may not be as high in life as you think
you have come, but it is as high as they can go in their life- their potential. Your
reality may even at a later time be surpassed by theirs. "So all this just to take
the above mentioned nutrients?" Yes, because you must understand why and how things
got to where they are. Who knows? You might help someone else's family someday.
Don't miss "flood-gates".
Remember, you are not attempting to cure depression. You are attempting to cure the reason
why depression, an expression of the total person, the behavioral trait that we can easily
see, exists at the biochemical level. The treating of depression is faulty and, yes, it
makes the loved one feel better, and you and everyone else feels better. However, it is
not the total expression of what is going on with the biochemical illness.
Thousands of books have been written about
depression: its types, its origins, how to help with depression and the like. Hundreds of
books have been written on depression as part of other biochemical illnesses. Behavior
books are only of use in describing what depression is and its manifestations. Depression,
as explained and described in biochemical terms, makes sense because it is dealing with
the reasons for the depression in the first place.
For example, if you have too little GABA (a
necessary biochemical) you may have depression if there is too much stimuli, but to say
that you are depressed because you failed in a school project, and that you must
"talk your way back to a balance" of GABA in your person is very difficult, or
impossible. Talk all you want. It will not do any good and, in fact, may even do harm,
since while talking about the school project failure and all the stimuli you need to
discuss it and methods to deal with it, will also increase stimuli and increase your need
for more GABA.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) they have
a phrase for this called "calming the spirit," which is, in
fact, what needs to be done. It is a simplistic answer and requires great skill by the
doctor of TCM to bring this about. In biochemical terms we could just say, "Go take a
dosage of GABA and all will be well." Wrong, sometimes. Biochemicals work together in
balance and in pathways and energy fields, and a multitude of ways that would take volumes
to explain, even if I could explain them.
Yes, many manic-depressive patients do, in
fact, take GABA and have some good results. It is also given for other biochemical
illnesses such as alcoholism, but to say you have a magic bullet for your loved one's
biochemical illness is very foolhardy, and, perhaps, even damaging to your loved one in
the future progression of his or her disease.
"Well, what am I to do?" The first
thing to remember is that we as humans are total organisms, and what is treated in the toe
may affect the head. In some acupuncture points used in TCM, that is the case. The same is
true with biochemicals because all biochemicals are at the smallest levels of the body-
the cell, and even smaller levels as you will see if you read some of the scientific
research references listed in the bibliography. Also, when you think that this biochemical
illness that your loved one has is complicated, just remember it has so many things going
on that the change of one biochemical change can alter, and literally changes thousands of
other biochemicals. It is like looking into a kaleidoscope with all its colors and shapes
changing with the slightest change of your hand.
"Just tell me what to do." You, as I
once did, want a quick fix , which will probably not happen. First, you have to remember
that this biochemical disease may have and probably was going on for some time. It may
have been even years or perhaps since birth or before birth. Also, remember that behavior
is an extension of the organism just as sweat coming out of the pores, urine, excrement,
skin tags, gas, or tumors. But when we think of behavior we always think of it as a mental
thing, separated from sweat, excrement or the like. Again, I must caution that you are not
thinking in terms of "calming the spirit" (a behavior), which is a inner thing,
just as the toxin releases of urine, sweat, etc. are part of the person. Behavior
is an extension of something inside the organism governed by biochemicals and a multitude
of other aspects such as energy fields, electrical currents, etc.
So, if you want to get into the labeling game
you can come up with a completely new series of illnesses such as
biochemical-electronic-chi stagnation- in the third dimension of a progressive disease.
"What does all this mean?" I am attempting to get you to realize that the human
being you love, who has this biochemical illness, cannot be fixed by one simple pill and
"come back and see me in ten days Western medicine" as we have come to know it
unless it is the correct nutrient or nutrients.
"Just tell me what to do." It took
time for your loved one's illness to get to this place, regardless of how it started and
when it started. Think in total human terms- the total organism which includes mental,
physical, spiritual, and unlabeled things we don't even know yet, and, of course, behavior
which is the final thing as a human, that we as humans feel and see- the most important
aspect of our being.
Civilization is based on behavior and rightly so, but it is still an extension of something inside the organism that comes out. Simply by reading philosophy or studying folklore I am sure your can come up with many old adages and sayings that reflect that belief, such as, "he died of a broken heart", "heal thyself", "do no harm", "hope runs eternal", etc. These are all inner thoughts. Cultures that came up with these thoughts had a reason to express their pains and pleasures. They may or may not have come to the conclusion that behavior is an extension of the inner being. That part doesn't really matter, but what does matter is that we are a total human. The total human is what needs to be changed if any of parts are to be "fixed" (if that is an admissible term). "You are getting me farther away from how to help my loved one, and I am still waiting to find out how to help." Finally, if you have agreed with the principle of "total human" then you will understand more about the following. One biochemical by itself may not work. You will have to find an orthomolecular doctor that is open-minded to the illness your child has. He or she will do blood tests on the amino acids, vitamin c- plasma, hair analysis for heavy metals such as lead, copper, titanium, cobalt, etc. He or she may also order tests for digestive-protein metabolism including IGe2, 3, 4, copper-zinc ratios, various ratios of various amino acids, acid-ph balance tests (crucial since all biochemicals must be in balance and the acid-base-ph level is one of the primary levels of all cell development, and is, in simplistic terms, the basis for TCM.) Also, you will get tests for your loved one that you may not have known even existed.
They will
do hair analysis for heavy metals which can cause massive behavior problems as well as
other illnesses. They will do blood tests for mineral balances, especially copper-zinc
levels. They will do amino acids (22) tests and metabolic tests to determine protein
absorption,allergies,and major gut bacterial tests including candida,yeast and microbes.
They can now do many, many specific tests including some neurotransmitter tests, such as
seretonin.
There are varying degrees of accuracy and
validity to testing. Some are very accurate and helpful, and some are only a little better
than a guess. Some tests done on plasma are better than on whole blood. Some tests are
done when the person has food-fasted prior to the tests. All tests are simply indicators
of the possible directions your doctor might pursue for your loved one.
However, the tests will definitely help in his
or her diagnosis. Many will give exact reasons for your loved one's symptoms. Remember,
you might be thinking again about behavior with your loved one, and I caution you to
realize that the tests indicate biochemical imbalance of the entire organism. Behavior is
simply an extension of something inside the organism. Have your loved take the HOD
(Hoffer-Osmond Diagnostic test for depression-one of your major markers for illness).
One of the reasons you may not have known these
tests exist is that your local doctor, who a mere 7 years ago was cutting your grass for
extra money in the summer, went to the local state university, was only instructed in the
curriculum of that university medical school, now has a medical degree with a closed mind,
and probably the vision of a bad auto mechanic, and is now the "expert", and
your final hope for your loved one. If you thought your loved one is depressed, you
probably are too by reading the last couple of sentences. And you will hear that
"they" -meaning the medical association- are doing a fine job and give you
statistics about this and that demonstrating advances in medical technology and the
control of disease. "Image over substance" is what I call it. "Beware of
those that are not human in their fullest potential for they may harm you or your loved
one" because they are either "clueless", arrogant, or think they have all
the answers.
Another major guidepost to biochemical illness is fear, the perception or the
disperception of fear. I am not talking about being cautious and weighing
possibilities of pain or hardships of any given circumstance that may arise, looking at
things in advance, but fear that either is totally unfounded or fearless fear
without any reason to expect any consequences from one's actions. "How can fear be
fearless? That is double-talk." Not really. Their fear is so great that people with
biochemical illness sometimes feel the only way to get around their fear is to be
fearless. Therefore, they do not have any checks and balances to anticipate consequences.
Therefore, consequences do not exist. Even though consequences do exist they have the
disperception that no consequences exist. They will "show their fear who is
boss." They "will show everyone else" they are not fearful, too. They are
so confused and, yet, refuse help. It is sad, indeed. You will see below that many of the
disperceptions are fear-based. Some of these disperceptions may even lead to full-blown
hallucinations.
There are many saints in foxholes in a war. Yes,
there are because people close to death will go to any extreme to get away from pain. It
is part, perhaps, of our animal brain stem function or maybe just a desire to get away
from pain. The point is that people with biochemical imbalances attempt to do the same
thing that any "normal" person will do except they have fewer options as they
perceive reality.
If I said I am a thinker, cook, do my laundry,
cut the grass, perform music, socialize with various people, or thousands of things we do
whether we do them one time or have done them since early childhood then you will
understand my point. Then I have a variety of interests or choices within my larger
reality. These are choosing different levels of enjoyment and, in some cases, changing
realities yet still remaining the same person. If I now say to you that I can no longer
cook my favorite meals and socialize with my family and friends you would probably ask,
"why not?"
We all change into this and that reality as the
occasion arises and we give and obtain back from that experience something, even if it is
bad by our definition. But what if you could not "feel" that you were obtaining
anything of value regardless of what you did? When you always have a "misplaced
person-situation" in your interpretation of your reality then you will have problems.
In the minds of others you have just as many reality choices as everyone else, but in the
mind-spirit-person of the biochemically ill they "feel" they have but one
choice, even though it is confusing, painful and, in their feelings, meaningless. The
lack of choice in reality choosing is directly related to biochemical illness.
Let's say they do all the things that you
choose for your reality, trying to do them the same way that you do, but because of
perception and disperception on their part, they can not in any way "obtain or
give" to that reality in the same way that you do.
So many times people with biochemical illness
have what some call the "give-me" attitude . Nothing is ever
good enough for them. They always want more, regardless of what it is. An
addiction to one reality choice only - no other possibilities.
"But, wait a minute. I don't see
that." You may not see it except when the person is very depressed or having great
difficulties. Remember, hopefully, that your loved one is not ill 24 hours a day, 365 days
a year. You can communicate some things to them. However, one of the greatest problems in
figuring out when your loved one is ill during the day is when you think you are
"getting through" in a conversation and later you realize that nothing
was, in fact, received on their part. You may think that they just didn't want to
listen and were behaviorally bad people (and maybe they were), but just because you send
thoughts by ways of words to an individual that has biochemical illness does not mean that
it is always comparable to someone who does not have a biochemical illness.
Then
there is the "pushing" . People with biochemical illness push
everything and everyone away. That is why you see a change in their personality. You can
say, "Well, they did this and that last month and they were so happy with
themselves." Correct, they did do those things and they may do them again. You might
think, "all is well". However, they did those things and were happy with
themselves when the biochemicals were not going wild. People with biochemical disease will
push everyone away, lash out at their nearest relative or friend, and demonstrate any kind
of abuse (verbal, physical) to any and all in an attempt to get away from their pain.
(Whether you think their pain is "real" or not, it is "real" to them
and thus, "real"). So, you may have thought you and your loved were very close
to one another just a year earlier. You probably were, but they probably did not have the
biochemical illness.
"Pushing" may, and many times does,
cause you to finally feel that you cannot live in such turmoil. If your loved one is old
enough to live on his or her own, you may ask them to move out of your house. This, for
someone with biochemical illness, can and does set up a whole series of other or
unforeseen problems, for them especially, and some for you as well. If you have your loved
one live with a friend or relative it may be slightly better, but the friend or relative
is less likely to put up with your loved one's behavior than your are.
So pushing is so bad, so destructive, and so
hard to deal with for all people. You can't say to your loved one that you know how they
feel, because you really don't. You don't know how much information is really getting
through to them, and what is going to be effective the next day. You are so tired of them
pushing and pushing and to you it makes no sense in the world. To them, it probably makes
no sense either, but they may not even know they are doing it. Even if they do, they may
not really have a say in the matter since the biochemicals are governing this part of
their biochemical imbalance. Yes, it is a mess, and there are no easy or even worthwhile
answers. You might keep asking yourself why someone who wants love and understanding does
everything in their power to destroy even verbal communication much less exchange love.
You will have so many questions about "pushing" that you yourself could write a
book about it explaining what it is and all its different directions and the like, but not
one answer as to why they do it. It truly is one of the heartbreaking aspects of
biochemical illness.
Any other illness, it seems, brings people
closer together many times but not biochemical illness with behavior problems. (These are
obviously generalizations.)
Then others might say, "my child has
always acted that way, being abusive and violent." Sorry to say, but your child has
had a biochemical illness for that length of time. Then you come to lack of
reality choices and "pushing" together. Because your loved one with
biochemical illness has had to push you away they have even restricted their reality
choices farther. What a box to be in. And you may say, "Well, I don't care. What the
hell, it's their problem and they should get their act together or else." One
problem, two problem, many problem, how many problems? You think it is because they are
depressed and rude and just mean people and they got in with the wrong crowd of people.
(Much more on this later-since it is indeed very important.)
People with biochemical illness demonstrate a behavior that is a paradox-one thing seems one way but is another. You must remember that we are talking about behavior, which is an extension of some of the inner parts of the total person. Animals cannot talk the way we talk so they can't call you every four-lettered word in the book as maybe your loved one has. Animals will finally eat whatever is there for them to survive (even though there have been some studies where under certain conditions animals will starve themselves to death before eating a particular food because their biochemical-brain structure has been altered). Is it so different than anorexia? It is a biochemical change. Animals do change radically with sense of smell, one of their most prized abilities and treasures. Animals also respond either in positive or negative ways (for the lack of better terms), much the same way as humans. Animals also respond radically in terms of violence and aggression due to changes or biochemical imbalances. So don't think you cannot learn from animals. All of the above are random thoughts of biochemical imbalances.
"So, where are you going with this?" Biochemical illness does, in fact, alter behavior in humans and in animals. We think that our loved one wants love but pushes it away with all their might; they want to try to live a life to their potential but can't; they want to "feel" but their emotions are blunted; they want, want, want, and can't get anything they want. This is because their reality is not solid and fixed in their choice of reality long enough for them to have short-term working memory so that they have a "home base" to return when they do have confusion. I do not know if you realize the importance of short-term working memory but it is what gives a continual time line in all life's experiences whether or not we use them, deal with unanswered questions about particular life adventures, or simply know that we have them in reserve to help use our senses to know who we are. This statement at first may seem vague, but where I am going with this? If you cannot remember then you may feel you are doing something for the first time and because of the uncertainty may build anxiety or simply pursue that activity without any preconceived thoughts. You need to know who your are, and by trial and error and cause and effect you build a reservoir of experiences that you can rely on to hopefully predict your next adventure in life. When you smiled at your mother as a month-old infant your mother smiled back. When you were at such and such an age, a such and such action on your part took place followed by a reaction from someone or something else. But what if you smiled at your mother and she shouted back at you? Your internal memory would be different. Your program would be different. This is not only true of humans but of animals (and even plants as far as I am concerned). I am not talking about so-called "sixth sense" thoughts that are an entirely different thing, but I am talking about how programming the person is so paramount to the future of that human being.
Let me
give you an example. A time back I read in the local newspaper about a woman who had a
five-year old son in a local mental health day-care facility that was closing because of
financial problems. The child had been given some magnificent behavior label as stated in
the paper, and the mother was upset because she knew that her son did not have any place
to go with his problems.
The mother is a single working-mother with the
son, five years old, and a daughter, eight years old. I read the article with my breakfast
and began to think about the situation. (I shall call the woman Jane Hansen and the son I
will call Sam.) I spent the next two hours calling all the Hansens in the phone book
trying to locate Jane Hansen to no avail. I finally had two numbers that during the day of
calling did not answer, so at nine PM I decided to make just one last effort, and that was
going to be it for me. First number, wrong Hansen. The last number was the uncle of Jane
Hansen. I told him who I was and said that I might have some information that would be
helpful to his niece and her son. I told him I was going to bed in one hour, but if his
niece wished to call me before then it was alright. Five minutes later she called.
I told her of a number of things she could do.
She started telling me many things that showed that she did have some insight into trying
to help her son but knew nothing of biochemicals to aid her son. Where I am going with
this is that her son had many of the marks of biochemical-behavior illness including being
plagued with hallucinations, especially of huge bugs crawling down the wall and trying to
get him. How would you like to try to convince a five year old with limited solid,
concrete, verifiable, usuable memory that those bugs were not real to him?
First, he must have massive fear. No one sees
them, so he must know that his thinking is wrong and so on. Yes, even these things can be
changed, and a correct view of reality can be seen by the use of the correct biochemicals.
If a 14-year-old child saw bugs it would be entirely different since the 14-year-old has a
different memory base -a home base to rely on. Yes, this is called onset of the
biochemical illness, but I am talking additionally about short-term memory. Your loved one
may forget important things, not what they watched on television two nights ago or had for
lunch last week. So, if you see memory gaps or memory laps that are alarming then
be on guard for biochemical illness .
The total person we can and do help by
biochemical means, TCM and a variety of other ways, but we are mainly talking about
biochemicals here. Your loved one may want love or not even be concerned in any way with
it. The same is true of violence. If animals and humans are so close in this analogy, then
violent animals want to be nice, caring animals. I don't know, but I don't think it is
quite the same. I do think that many times violence is not a desire or wish by humans, but
because the biochemical imbalance is there that the loved one has no or very little
control over it, just as an animal that is violent has no control over its aggression or
violence. "Wait a minute, that sounds like that old crap that 'the devil made me do
it,' and I have no responsibility for anything. Therefore, I can do whatever I want, and
no one can say anything because I have a biochemical illness." I was wondering when
you would get to that point. The biochemically ill person does go in and out of the
biochemical imbalance from time to time and within the day, for days at a time and with
pauses that may last months with no behavioral problems, but they will have to be taught
as best they can that they must take nutrients, the importance of them, and they do, in
fact, have even a greater hardship (not less) to be responsible and cope with their
illness, and as many of the manifestations of its behavior as possible. The person with
biochemical illness must be taught that they will, in fact, have behavioral difficulties
that many others do not have. They must know what to do when they have unusual and
societal damaging behaviors. Any culture has the right to state and live by whatever moral
code they wish. If you are a member of that culture and moral code, it is your individual
responsibility to maintain your role in that culture. If you do not do so, that culture
may and many times does attempt to alter or change your behavior or finally do away with
you (meaning any variety of things). There is nothing new there except in instructing,
demonstrating, spending time and energy to attempt to get your loved one to understand his
or her significance in his or her chosen culture.
This is the difference for someone with
biochemical illness and again the reason why the nutrients must be in the loved one first.
Then changes in behavior will occur, and many times they will change so many parts of
their behavior (positive- for the lack of better term) without you realizing it.
Biochemicals first, then you will see a
behavior change (for the positive). So you may have thought I am a "bleeding
heart liberal that allows free will". Only somewhat. You may have thought that I was
saying that biochemical illness allows murder, violence, and all the like. I did not say
it allows for those things but gave you some of the reasons "why" it happens.
You must teach your loved one to be responsible on all levels including their love,
compassion and responsibility to the greater society of which they, as I, may sometimes
find disgusting. The "only s" or black and white issues of biochemical illnesses
are many, and it is difficult to say this or that specific illness since every person is
not only different biochemically but also behaviorally.
Thus, if you think about stress in these terms
you can see why simply going to the grocery for a loaf of bread can be stressful. It may
seem very unusual to us, but we are not in their reality.
"How do I keep them from pushing away? It
really hurts." I really don't know. It seems like all of a sudden one day something
and I don't know what will change biochemically and they will respond to one very small
thing, and I mean small thing. Then, for a long period of time they are extremely cautious
and never really trust in the same way that they had before the illness.
If you ask me if I think there is brain damage
with these types of biochemical illnesses I would say yes because the brain has gone a
different direction from what it might have gone from the indicators of brain function
prior to that. (And yes, as a means of communicating I separated the brain from the total
person). Do I think it is a lasting brain damage? I would say yes again, but we are
talking about "what ifs," what if this and that, and at some point it does not
make much difference. But what does make more sense is that the biochemically ill person
can and does recover, has and chooses more realities, functions and strives for their
greatest potential.
If any
of the common five senses are altered and a resulting bad behavior change occurs it does
indicate a biochemical illness. Smell, taste, touch, sight, and sound and the change in
behavior "with" or "toward" any of these is a strong indicator of
biochemical illness.
Wow, that Bach St. Matthew Passion performance
really was incredible and I really do not feel like talking and just want to enjoy the
recollection of all its beauty in my mind. Maslowe would say, "you had a peak
experience." I would say enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. The same can be said for food that
appeals to the sense of taste. The senses are there and give us brain-stem reasons for our
existence and perpetuation. They give us a reason to eat, a reason to hear- to stay away
from harmful animals or to be able to kill them for eating. I think you have already
figured out where I am going with these and other thoughts so I will not bore you with
more analogies about the senses. If, however, your loved one perceives distortion
of any kind, then, you should be on guard. Not always but almost always the distortion of
any of the senses will indicate something is not right biochemically.
The body of J.S. Bach (the giant of us all) was
exhumed 150 years after his death and some pathologists and the like in Vienna stated that
Bach had unusually large frontal lobe development, which the pathologists stated as the
reason that Bach could conceive of so many sounds and where they were all going at any
given moment in the music. I frankly do not know if unusually large frontal lobe
development would give someone the capacity to hear so many sounds and the organization of
these sounds (which is a separate issue).
Bach had another sort of uncanny ability with
his eyes. He, like all composers of his time, had to line their own paper with music
lines. The amazing part is that Bach had a very neat musical penmanship and not one of
hundreds of works ends the page with even a small margin left over. The entire page is
completely covered from beginning to end with music spaced properly without jamming in the
last few measures (as in comparison to Telemann, who wrote almost sideways to get it all
in). (As an aside, Bach spent the last years of his life totally blind until the last
three days of his life when he regained sight until his death three days later.) (Such
irony.)
It truly is remarkable in and of itself. Do you
realize how difficult it is to conceive of a piece of music in your head and how difficult
it is to see it on the page before it is on the page? Frontal lobe or not, I am amazed,
and, of course, very grateful that civilization has this Bach's music. "I heard some
of that Bach's music played at my niece's wedding. It wasn't too bad, but they should have
had drums with it." (Absolutely no comment.)
So, here we have an example of mixed sense
states that I know a little about. I am certain that through the ages there have been
many, not just a few, but they have not been documented. It, to me, is not so rare. Just
as "jin and jang," the opposites in oriental thought, we have good
("gifts") perceptions and bad perceptions. It is the bad ones (for the lack of a
better term) that I am concerned about here. So any distortion of the senses that have
negative behavior traits associated with them are your guideposts as indicators of
biochemical illness. That is a better definition.
Disperceptions (inappropriate responses to the stimuli- a thought disorder) - Anger - Rage - Brain Chemicals - Function - Survival - Fear.
Whenever
someone perceives fear as a threat to one's being it can be interpreted in many different
fashions and the ending result of this stimulation can not be predicted. Disperceptions
are, in fact, a choosing and partial predicting of the outcome of a situation that may or
may not become true as a result of a person's stimulation in the senses of the person
receiving the stimulation.
1) For example, if a bear in the woods is about
to attack you may percieve of this as a real threat to your well-being and take steps to
avoid the bear's attack.
2) However, if you see the bear in the woods as
a far distant object on a hill far away you may gauge the threat of attack as nothing more
than observing the bear.
3) If you see a picture of a bear in a book you
may not in any way see the bear as a threat but may in fact see the bear as a beautiful
creature of nature. Three levels of thinking have been given here- the real possibility of
an attack- the very remote fear of the bear charging across the distance to attack- and a
picture of a bear which possesses no threat at all of an attack.
If we become mixed up in our thinking we may
interchange these outcomes- dispercetions- and finally paranoia- fear when none is there.
If we think that we are simply looking at a picture of the bear and have no clue as to the
bear's attack when, in fact, we are at a close distance to the bear and about to be
attacked, we are having a disperception that may be harmful to say the least. If we are
looking at a picture and think the bear is about ready to attack then we are having a
disperception- we are choosing another reality that does not exist- we are taking thoughts
in one field of thinking and forcing this reality into another reality.
Disperceptions may also be seen as a
manifestation of what stimuli goes into the brain and the resulting reaction from the
person receiving the stimuli. If the reaction to a stimulus is given back to the person
sending the stimulus, the person now receiving the reaction-stimulus interprets it as to
whether or not the person receiving the original stimulus did, in fact, act in the
appropriate manner with the correct reaction when returning his or her answer of the
stimulation. If we say to the person, "run for your life to the gate to be protected
from the bear" and find that the person given the statement interprets it to mean
that the bear wishes to have ice cream, and, in fact, is ready to attack then there is no
question that the stimuli-statement did not go in the brain of the receiver or at best was
re-interpreted-disperceptioned to mean that no harm was going to happen. Plus, he
re-interpreted his own "will" to send his stimuli back to the sender that not
only was no attack going to take place but he had figured out that the attacking bear
really only wanted ice cream. So, from an attacking bear to ice cream in one short second
can change the course of actions for all.
Some might say that the person with the
disperception did, in fact, know more than the person sending the attack message, and the
person having the disperception could offer insight to the sender of the message if only
the sender would listen and observe the person with the disperception. So, we not only
know that the message may or may not have been received, but we do know that we were given
a response thought that was certainly not in the realm of our thinking or judging from
what message we had sent. You may say that your loved one doesn't have that kind of
problem in thinking. I hope not, but there are various levels of disperceptions that are
harmful. The first one that is obvious to anyone is disguise of truth. Let's say I have
reason to believe that my loved one is not telling me the truth about something that is
very important, and they do not respond and simply ignore my presence or give an answer I
know is a lie. Yet, to the loved one, they think they are, in fact, telling the truth even
when you point out specific evidence that they have lied to you. You might call this
denial of the evidence disperception.
Disperceptions - Misperceptions - Thought Disorder
1)Fear based
2)Lack of knowledge
3)Some knowledge but not complete enough to make accurate judgements
4)Control when no control is necessary (fearless fear)
5)Fighting the unknown (fearless fear)
6)Not knowing what they are fighting but the feeling of doing something even if it is
wrong in the eyes of society is better than not doing something- the quest to keep sanity-
the ultimate fear
7)Staying away from the society that does not understand the disease or chooses to punish
them for having their disease is their thought
8)They may come to this thought and withdraw from all people; society's fear is
superimposed on the fear of diseased person.
9)Forcing the disease on others as a means of having others find the answers for the
diseased person.
Now look back at the adrenochrome-LSD25 experiments by Hoffer-Osmond and see how these traits listed above are related to disperceptions.
Foul language with or without
disperceptions- There are no limits to the amount of foul, cutting, and harsh language
that people with biochemical illness will go to, regardless of the time or place, or the
person to whom they are directing their verbal assaults. There is certainly no one,
regardless of how much they know that their loved one has such confusion and should be
able to curb the use of such bad language. However, this is not usually the case. It is
the sort of language that can instill so much anger in the receiver by this verbal assault
that one must bring all of their emotional resouces to bare in order to keep from simply
"slugging" their loved one.
"You know, I haven't heard such bad
language come out of my daughter's mouth since me and bunch of boys used when we were in
elementary school." (Her problems may have a connection.) Back to the story, please.
However, do not harm your loved one.
There are times when in the simplest of
conversations you will have and you will get in return from your loved one, every
adjective four-lettered word, and this is when your loved one is in "normal"
conversation with you. Just imagine what happens when that same loved one becomes angry,
much less in a rage, where all the negative words in the English language come out so fast
that your loved one is like a machine instead of a human being. You may wonder if they are
even breathing while they are letting you have their assault.
This behavior can happen without
disperceptions, but it is almost unexplainable when your loved has a disperception, or a
series of disperceptions in rapid-fire sucession, and your loved one is so overwhelmed
that in some cases they literally are conscious physically, but unconscious mentally.
After many of these later described encounters your loved one will feel great exhaustion,
and if they relax for a few minutes will go to sleep from sheer exhaustion.
Foul Langauage and Tourette Syndrome (TS)
If you study the symptoms of Tourette syndrome (TS) you will find a varied list of symptoms, one of which is the use of foul language. Not all people who have TS have foul language, but some do. The only reason why I bring this up is that in TS foul langauge seems to come out of nowhere, and the person can not control that foul language coming out of their mouths, regardless of behavior modification. In TS, scientists have been able to some degree locate where in the brain this uncontrollable language starts, but very little effort has been sucessful in curbing foul langauge yet. I do not know if there is any connection whatsoever in TS type of foul langauge and your loved one's foul mouth, or the frequency and volume of usage of foul langauge, but I do know that when the severity of biochemical imbalance is observable your loved will increase the amount and frequency of foul langauge.
I was
raised by my grandparents since I was the age of two years old. When my Mom was in her
eighttieth year she got cancer of the stomach and intestines and over a period of four
months went downhill healthwise rather fast. She was an exceptional woman and just
happened to be my Mom. She faced unbelieveable hardships throughout her life including
losing her first born son to an accident at age 12, when he hit his head on a doorway
bringing in firewood. Infection set in but no doctor was called for well over 30 hours,
and finally he was taken by train to Cincinnati, Ohio and surgery was immdiately
performed. He died a few hours later. Mom and Grandpa never ever got over it in their
lifetimes.
They lost the family farm, the original
homestead farm, within a year, and grandpa and the family moved from job to job 7 times in
two states in the next 11 years. Mom as well as Grandpa had been raised in a strict but
caring German farming community in southern Indiana. Religious faith was a mainstay and in
their first and foremost thoughts always. Grandpa got killed when I was 8 years old from a
methane gas explosion in our basement on a Sunday morning. Mom took in washing clothes and
any and everything to keep my brother and me together. Ten months later I had a very
serious, life threating operation, and this was another thing that Mom had to deal with.
(Did I have a biochemical induced illness from the stress of my grandfather's death?)
Mom also had two sons, other than the one who
died, both of which had devastating experiences in World War II, as so many did. The
reason I am giving you all this preliminary information is to show what was her normal
behavior. Any deviation from one's normal individual behavior is a clue to
biochemical imbalance.
I am finally getting to my point of all this.
In all the years I lived with her until going to college I never heard from either one of
my grandparents even use the word damn, hell or any slang profanity whatsoever. I have
probably used more in this book than either one of them did in a lifetime.
As I mentioned, Mom was in the hospital with
cancer and had been operated on twice and was again back in the hospital. I was conducting
orchestral concerts in North Carolina and would call her every other day or so, and she
was doing as well as could be expected. A few days before she died I called and she
sounded very distressed and somewhat confused but communicated pretty well and still made
sense. I had told my uncles that as soon as they thought there was even a remote change
for the worst that they should call me, and I would be on my way home. I got the call one
day later, and I was on my way home.
When I got to the hospital Mom was in a coma
and the next evening she died, never coming out of the coma. Here is the point. Mom was
given high doses of mophine and other drugs for pain. My uncles told me later that all the
nurses on two different shifts refused to go near Mom's room and would do nothing to help
her even after the doctors told them that they had to care for Mom. The reason was Mom's
unbelieveable profanity. Words that not even the doctors and nurses believed a woman of
her age, and certainly not Mom, would use. Well, as I was told, it was so bad that they
wanted to move her to another room and all the like. Of course, it was difficult for me
then, and even now, to realize that Mom is gone, but in addition to that is to know that
when someone you love has been denied hospital nursing-doctor care because of profanity
and profanity induced by drugs and administered by those doctors and nurses is really hard
to take.
How could someone give someone something and
then basically deny that it had an effect, and the effect that it had? I knew nothing of
this situation until later by my uncles, Mom's sons, who had tried to do what they could
under the circumstances. I probably could not have done as well. Here was a woman who
never said more than damn, if she ever said that, and she was ridiculed, ostrasized and
care denied because they had made the profanity happen, and they could not even connect
one link to the other as to how or why Mom used profanity.
That was in 1975, and I don't think that
medicine has advanced very far into cause and effect since then either. Looking backwards
I now realize that we all do similiar things each and every day without realizing we give
our children the wrong foods, expose them to many chemical pollutants and the like that
cause monstrous behavioral problems, and we ask why our children have such behavior.
This has been a personal story of how even
those that are trained to know behavior didn't even recognize it as something they caused.
Additionally, they, as you, must realize that behavior as bad as it gets is biochemically
induced by upseting the balance of so many things. So, when you are really at your wits
end about your loved one's behavior try to step back and remember that it is biochemical
imbalance.
The severity of behavior is in direct
relationship to the amount of biochemical imbalance. However, we do not know what
biochemical imbalance individuality does to each of us. The same bad chemicals given to
one person may not cause a behavior problem as bad as the next person receiving the same
bad chemical pollutants.
The use of foul langauge is in direct relationship to the amount of
biochemical imbalance. When someone feels more wellness they speak with less foul langauge
or none at all, and as the stress increases, as caused by almost any foreign chemical
reaction, the foul language will increase. The same is true with all distortions of any of
the senses. Eventually, you will see full hallucinations and a break with reality in the
final stages.
I don't know if foul language is step 3 or 8,
or whatever step in biochemical imbalance, and in some ways it doesn't matter, except that
when your loved one goes into a cursing rage it does indicate that biochemical imbalance
is indeed there. Your loved one is expressing this biochemical imbalance verbally with his
or her foul langauge usage.
I will digress for a moment to show you how
disguised biochemical imbalance can be. We think we know the obvious signs of biochemical
imbalance. There are many, and I mean many, small behavior changes that you should watch
for. For example, let's say that a child that has always had the ability to follow
directions on a school multiple choice test one day because the biochemicals are not
working properly, asks the teacher several times to explain something he or she does not
understand. After several attempts to explain to the child the teacher may think the child
is just going through a "phase" of some difficulty, and, finally, in mental
exhaustion the child just skips that part of the exam. By itself the success or failure of
the test does not have earth shattering importance, but then the next day a few more
little things happen that don't make sense for that particular child. Within weeks the
child has great difficulty concentrating and the spiral of behavioral-frustrations has
begun. There were indicators but you missed them, and did nothing about them.
Now compare that to a child who at school one
day decides to toss a chair through the window. Then, everyone knows that this child has a
severe behavior problem and does. Whether the clues are obvious or small indicate some
degree of biochemical imbalance. I have already mentioned reality choices and limited
reality choices. When someone has wellness they choose more reality choices. When they
have biochemical imbalance they choose fewer or only one. It is totally a theory and I
don't have any research to back it up yet, but my feeling is that these small indicators
are the very first clues into the first stages of limited reality choosing. As I said, I
don't have any facts but simply my gut feelings. The little clues may go along for a few
weeks or several months, but if the biochemical imbalance is not restored it will go into
limited reality choosing and depression.
Trigger
words are special words that you say to your loved one. There are certain words that will
trigger an anger that is totally out of the ordinary even for your loved one. Many times
these trigger words lead to immense anger or full-blown rage. Some trigger words are
1)"no"
2)"I will not do that for you"
3)"you can't do that"
Escallation from a Few Sentences into a Full- Blown Argument
In just a
few brief seconds of any conversation and each sentence is precieved by your loved one as
something they don't wish to hear or understand, or if they are not even listening to you
and have a disperception that you did this or that (when in fact you have not) or your
loved one is so filled with confusion that you are simply the person who just happen to
talk with them they will release a fury of statements in such a rapid-fire fashion that
you cannot even respond regardless of how fast you make your mind work. It is an
impossible situation. Then, by not responding you may even get a bigger battle of
assaults. This is only by the third sentence. These are not what most people would call an
argument but really is out-of-control confusion. This is major thought disorder.
This can lead to the next step of how bad it can get- rage. When a child is young, say the
age of four or so, people simply say that a four year old has a major temper problem.
There is a difference between having a temper problem and the rage that I am speaking of.
Another example that demonstrates very well by reading these few sentences from a book by
Hoffer and Osmond in 1960 you will see just how far out of any logic a person on the wrong
biochemicals can go with a few disperceptions and thought disordered thinking.
Refer to both the experiments when
Osmond took adrenolutin and when he took LSD25. Remember a disperception is
forcing their reality into the real reality. Some are fear based, and some are not. Chemical
Basis of Clinical Psychiatry pg176-177 (Reprinted by permission) Subject was given
adrenochrome.
Remember a disperception is the forcing of their reality into
the "real" reality. Some are fear based disperceptions, and some are not. I have
put in key signals of biochemical imbalance markers to aid you in your thinking about what
is happening to this person. I have listed them with TCM or disperceptions or depression.
He (the doctor) persuaded me to give him 300
mg. by spray which I did at 12:45 P.M. Saturday. A few minutes later there was a mild
flush. (TCM) At 6 minutes, the positive after image became prolonged. At 11
minutes ears felt plugged. (TCM) Vision not normal .
(TCM) I swung my arm back and forth rapidly, he saw it as a series of stationary
arms. (hallucination) It was difficult to concentrate visually .
(disperception) At 15 minutes, the after image still was prolonged
(disperception) but ears felt normal. Facial flush was still present.
(TCM ) He had to concentrate very hard to read (TCM) a book. When he moved the book the
lines moved. At 19 minutes, vision began to become normal. At 37 minutes, he was visually
normal. The facial flush began to fade. He reported he was now normal and believing this
was so, I then left him.
At 4 P.M., I called his home. He seemed
rather distant and quiet. (TCM-depression) He informed me that after I left him,
he developed a type of over and irregular breathing (TCM) similar to
Cheyne Stokes. He felt quite relaxed after 30 minutes and decided to go home. He was
riding away from the hospital on his bicycle toward a tree which suddenly became
larger in size (disperception) as if it were blowing up.
(disperception)
His wife was not home when he arrived. He felt
lonely and went to find her. (?disperception-depression) Failing in this, he felt
depressed until just before four when his wife came home. (depression)
On Monday, he gave a more complete account of
what had happened. Saturday morning, he had a mild disagreement with his
wife over a misplaced photograph. (TCM) When he got home his wife was not in. He
decided that she had left him and returned to her mother in a far distant city.
(disperception) In confirmation of this he found the missing photograph which his wife had
placed for him in the living room before she went out. He construed this to mean
that she was much more disturbed by their minor disagreement than he had supposed.
(disperception) He noticed that she had left the vacuum cleaner in the middle of
the room and realized that this was another message for him, meaning that she was a neat
and orderly person who did not misplace things . (disperception) Shortly after
this he decided that she might have gone shopping and looking for the shopping
cart found it gone.(disperception) He then visited two stores where she
often shopped without success. (continuing disperception) On returning home he
counted all the suitcases (disperception) for if she had gone home, one would be
missing. One was missing which increased his worry as he became more certain that
she had left him. (disperception) A little later, he found it behind a door with
some clothing piled on it (they had recently moved into a new house). He then
suspected that she had started packing and stopped in the middle of her packing to
purchase her airline ticket. (disperception) But he also concluded from
this that she was still unsure about leaving him. (disperception) After this, he
became very depressed (depression) until a few minutes later when she returned
home from shopping. When I called him at 4 P.M. he suddenly remembered that he had taken
the adrenochrome and became very angry with me for forcing him to take the
chemical. (disperception) At 5 P.M. he flushed. (TCM) Thus was
noted by his wife and he then told her about the experience he had undergone. He then
recognized that he had repeatedly asked to be given adrenochrome. By that evening, he was
normal.
If you count the number of disperceptions you
have 15. There are 10 TCM traits. There are 3 depression traits. All of these things
happened in less than one 24-hour period. You read the paragraphs and you saw those traits
pointed out to you. Even if all of them do not make sense to you I am certain that many
do. All the underlined items in this brief story should be compared to the age-groupings
behavioral traits from before. Also notice a remarkeable similiarity in the TCM list.
Go ahead. Tell me that any of these embrace
quality of life with trust, dignity, honor and virtues that glorify life. The adrenochrome
induced behavior produces all negative time consuming confusion.
I also have a theory, but I do not have any
scientific data to back it up. My theory is that disperceptions have a beginning, middle
and resolution sequence. Beginning disperceptions are not as bad as mid-line
disperceptions and ending type disperceptions are not as bad as mid-line disperceptions.
Disperceptions are as if you are driving a car up a hill. You start from below, come to
the top of the hill, and then descend again.
I also believe that disperceptions happen in
cycles. I feel that observing just one disperception by itself is more rare than finding
that someone has had a series of disperceptions. I also believe there is a direct
connection betwen the severity of biochemical imbalance and the degree or magnitude of
disperceptions. The adrenochromes seem to have an ebb and flow, up and down. However, with
severe stress the person is never allowed biochemically to "come down," and thus
mid-line disperceptions can and do increase in intensity. Also, depending on the social
circumstances by others who try to stop the mid-line disperceptions you may be able to
alter the flow of disperceptions. This is why it is so important to calm a person's
thinking as much as possible.
The human organism, for whatever reason, is a
thinking creature. A person with blank-mind means they have few thoughts (at least that is
what we think). Because of the thought process our organism is organicallly acustomed to
think. This gives the organism a time-line reason to continue thinking. So, here we have
opposites again- thinking for good or thinking for bad (for the lack of better terms). I
have the feeling that when a person has disperceptions they are an outgrowth of the same
biochemical imbalance but the normal thinking process has joined another biochemical
pathway. You might think of these pathways as parallel roads. This part is not based on
any research yet. Here is what I think. I believe that disperceptions can come out of no
known place as well as being stimulated by parallel pathways. To me that is why a cycle of
disperceptions has a beginning, middle and end. Bad biochemical reactions interconnect and
diverge out of parallel pathways. You might be thinking that this has nothing to do with
your loved one. However, the severity of disperceptions is very important to know. You
must know the severity of their biochemcial needs. This will determine the amount and
timing of nutrients given. Then by seeing a lessening of severe disperceptions you will
know that the nutrients are working. However, if you still see severe disperceptions then
you know that the timing and dosage needs to be altered.
"But my daughter isn't that bad." I
certainly hope not, but everything is in varying degrees, and you are looking for those
things which are not normal for your loved one. If any of your loved one's problems get
into hallucinations then you do have a severe problem that must be dealt with by a skilled
orthomolecular doctor immediately.
Just
about anything you can think of can be destroyed in a fit of rage. The most precious
things you may have had for years. Things given to you by loved ones many years ago can be
destroyed in rage. Your loved eyes become dialated, and they will stare straight at you.
If their eyes were drills they would drill straight through you in a second. Their body
becomes rigid and muscles tighten. Obviously, their blood pressure goes up plus, all the
myriad of chemical changes in the adrenal glands work overtime to secrete almost lethal
amounts of cellular damaging chemicals that affect so many organs and operating systems,
including the brain. Many if not at all times they can cause physical harm to themselves
by punching a wall or breaking a window with their hand and not realizing that they should
be in pain. It doesn't seem to matter for a while.
The psychologist or psychiatrist or medical
doctor that does not understand biochemical disease will probably say that you as a parent
must control the situation, and there are consequences to your loved one's actions. Yes,
there are, but at the time that the rage is going on many pre-thought-out plans are simply
of no use. All you can hope to do is to calm your loved one down. Calming down may take
from as little as a few minutes, especially if a child is younger, to as much as 3 hours
or more. (There is no proof that the younger the age the less severe a rage is, but I
state my own thoughts here.) Do not attempt to touch or hold your loved one, if they are
large physically. They may have a disperception about who you are or what your are going
to do to them, and your holding them may instill paranoia in them. Do not attempt to shout
your way through it, or give more stimuli. Your loved one needs less stimuli, certainly
not more. "I know what I will do. I will just leave her alone." I do hope not.
Now I will just list a few of the many things that can happen in a rage.
You will see your loved one throw anything that
is available including television sets, chairs, refrigerators, bookcases, and all little
things that are laying around. They will punch holes in the wall with their foot or hand,
drive cars in the ditch, knock down a door in three punches, destroy any and all of their
things or anyone else's. There is just about nothing that would in any way surprise me
that could not be destroyed. These are objects- physical things. It is bad for all, but
when the rage turns to an assaultive personal attack you have another dimension.
In personal assault, you may not have any idea
that things are escallating so fast and before your can literally even take a breath to
ask them to calm down your loved one might be straight in your face two inches away with
all the appearing hate and anger of the entire world in his or her eyes, with the intent
to do you massive physical harm. Yes, you're damned right it is scary. You have to try and
learn whatever method you can to keep your loved one from going this extra step toward
physical assaults. When the rage is in process there is very little you can do except
protect yourself and your loved ones and stay physically away from your loved one. The
object rage may continue for some time after which a second or third assault may come your
way. This may go on for a few minutes at best to as much as two hours, going back and
forth from object rage to personal assaults. Sometimes you have to seek police or other
help, not only for your own protection but also for your loved one.
"Do I think there is a connection between
levels of rage from object to personal assualts?" Yes, I do. Object rage, as bad as
it is, is nothing compared to the personal assault rage for you or your loved one. The
adrenochromes are so far out of wack that it is a wonder any people survive, and some
obviously don't. This is heavy, heavy mental anguish for all, and I hope you never have to
encounter it. But you might. That is the reason I am going into some detail about it.
If you observe a young child getting angry and
throwing things at least on two occasions then even if I sound a little bit overboard you
must take this advice. They are setting up a pattern of behavior that is telling you in no
uncertain terms that they are biochemiclally imbalanced. There is no room for any other
opinion in my mind. Your loved one is telling you something very important by throwing
something across the room. Don't miss it. Deal with your own hurt later. You be the bigger
person and help, and also observe. Don't try to overpower your loved one in a throwing
rage if you know you can't physically get to them. Stay your distance so as not to get hit
by any objects or by them if it turns into physical assualts. If your loved one is so far
out of biochemical balance you will have no or very little impact on stating this or that
consequence. Many times after a rage many people will go into an almost instant depression
of total withdrawal. You aren't getting through to them and may, in fact, start another
round of rage. If you can stay in the house with your loved one so that you can be ready
for self-inflicted harm to your loved one including suicide, then do so. If you haven't
figured it out, this is the biggest red alert system firing off since physical war itself.
There are no rules for them or anyone else
because you may never have been in this situation and no one you know has either. Rage can
start from the most insignificant little thing, and after the rage you cannot image how
any of it happened. You know your loved one is truly crazy. I hate terms like that, but I
use it here because it is so strong and meaningful to most of the population reading this.
What is happening in more human, compassionate terms is biochemical imbalance at it worst.
Any and every biochemical system in the body has gone bad at the same time. It still is
not death yet, and the organism will go to any and all means to keep from dying. However,
this rage thing is so bad biochemically that it will destroy biochemical balance for days,
weeks or even months on end with just one mild rage, much less the huge rage I have just
mentioned. I really have my own opinion that rage may be connected biochemically with
brain-stem biochemicals but have no direct, valid proof.
I believe the same fight or flight animal
instincts come out in rage. There is no question about the adrenochromes and the fight or
flight induced biochemcial imbalance there, but I believe that the whole biochemical
system is so discharged that it is a wonder life can even exist at all. Your loved one
does survive but at huge biochemical costs. Behaviorists will say that you caused the rage
in your loved one by not listening to what their pains were. A certain degree of that is
true, but what if I told you that rage can and does come on without any outside stimuli
from you or anything else, not only in humans but in animals as well. If you were not
frightened before then start now.
This rage literally does come out of nowhere,
and I mean nowhere. I don't think it is thought driven, sensual drive by any of the
senses, and I certinly don't know where it comes from, period. No reason whatsoever and
rage occurs. If you think you are scared then how in the hell do you think your loved
feels later after they have experienced that type of rage and know that they can have it
again. They, in fact, don't have any control over it. That is bad, very bad. Then I can
almost say without any hesitation that even drugs must be used. I hate drug use of any and
all kinds, but if it will save your loved one's life for another day then do it.
I can give you another experience that is
personal and not backed up by any valid scientific facts. I was driving in a car going 65
miles per hour when I asked a passenger who had biochemical illness about rages that I
knew he had from time to time. I asked him if he knew when they were coming on. Did they
come out of no known reason? He told me as we are driving that he could have rage right
then if he wanted to. At first, I thought he was sort of joking, but I wasn't taking any
chances. I thought of changing the subject matter of the conversation, but for some reason
I didn't. I asked him how he could know and bring on a rage. He told me that he would get
into an argument with me and he would take whatever opposing view I took and eventually
turn the conversation into an argument, and then a rage. I didn't pursue the conversation
any farther but have always wondered if he could, in fact, be so cerebral in his thinking
and could he really do a rage, which is not an acted-out behavior.
There is
another part of the rage cycle that at first doesn't make any sense. Why would a person
who wants to destroy everything and sometimes everyone want people around afterwards? Do
you remember fearless-fear? Fearless-fear has raised its head. Your loved one is so
fearful and in so much pain that they can't even think of the thought of mental and
physical isolation. Yes, a mere five minutes ago they may have tried to punch you in the
face but they passed over into another biochemical cycle, still massively imbalanced, and
they cannot function in any way without the thought of knowing that someone is there, even
in some cases if it is a animal. How long are they in abandonment from this rage? I don't
know, can't find any, and I mean any research on this specific aspect, so I can't say how
long this abandonment goes on. Personally, I think maybe a few hours to as many as a few
days with ups and downs in those days. So if you thought that not only are you going to
get all the verbal abuse, object abuse, and maybe physical abuse and I said you have to
stay there with them you would say I a m missing a mental link. You have to do it. Get the
biochemical balance in them. Quick and easy, but when all these rages start you can't say
it is simple, because it isn't. "How often do rages occur?"
Rages may occur at any and all times,
predictable or not, which means any time of the day or night, anywhere, and there is no
way of even beginning to guess how often rages will occur. I can say that if you have 2
per month and you haven't done some biochemical balancing by then you are in for a huge
array of problems.
After the first rage do something then, right
then. If your loved one fell through a window and cut his or her arm you would do
something right then to help them. It seems, however, that when we think it is a mental
thing, which it is not, but biochemical, then we will wait and see how he or she does in
the next few days. This is very foolhearty and your loved one is in anguish and may not be
able to express in any words, whatsoever, as to what they are experiencing.
Personal Destruction- Suicide as the Ultimate Destruction and Many Things Before Suicide There are many books and behavioral guides written on signs to look for in the suicidal person.
Always remember to take any and all talk, as well as threats about suicide very serious. When you know that suicide is about to take place do whatever you must in order to stop it including calling the neighbors, police, ambulance, shouting for help, if you can't get to the telephone. There are, as far as I am concerned, no rules for good behavior for you to stop a suicide if it is momentarily eminent. There may or may not be any clues to your loved one's thought disorder, delusion, or psychosis. They may be totally running out of mind experiences and delusions with huge amounts of fear pumping huge amounts of lethal aminochromes. These change into adrenolutin and other biochemicals which destroy any form of reasoning or logic.
Piercing, Tatoos, Cutting, Cigarette Burns and What They Can Mean
Almost every society since the beginning of recorded
history has used some form of self-adornment whether it is simple lipstick or huge ear
lobe saucers or many others things. I have no problem personally with self-adornment.
However, if your loved one is having difficulty with society because of their
self-adornment then your loved one may wish wish to consider the consequences from
society. There is another thing that should be pointed up, though. If your loved one is
doing self-adornment for the wrong reasons, meaning they are trying to push society away
from them, then you have another entirely different issue. It may be a sign of depression,
and the root cause is biochemical imbalance.
Any kind of cutting or cigarette burns are not
self-adornment, especially in our society. In some African tribal customs scarification is
practiced as self-adornment but my feeling is that in our society cutting and cigarette
burns indicate a very severe depression symptom which, of course, is biochemical
imbalance. Many times there is an attempt to misread cutting and cigarette burns as
connected to trauma from sexual abuse. Your loved may have been abused, but it, too, is a
basis for biochemical imbalance because of the possible stresses caused by the sexual
abuse. If you see cutting or cigarette burns on your loved one get the nutrients into them
right then, get an orthomolecular doctor and do some tests.
Remember, there is a big difference between
self-adornment and self-inflicted pain. Cutting and cigarette burns are self-inflicted
pain.
Destruction Physically of Others-Violence- Including Murder Hierarchy of Pain Threshold
If you
had to choose which symptom of behavior is the less damaging to your loved one, and which
is the most damaging to your loved one, which ones would you choose? If you had to choose
which symptom of behavior is the less damaging to you, and which is the most damaging to
you, which ones would you choose? If you had to choose which symptom of behavior is the
less damaging to society, and which is the most damaging to society, which ones would you
choose? The purpose of these questions is to tell you that you must get down to the bare
essentials of the biochemical illness and realize just how bad it can be, and you will
also know at least for the moment where you are with your loved one's disease.
The most important point is that your loved
one is alive and from this you build everything else- pure existential philosphy.
There are many times that you will want to jump ahead in your reasoning and assume you are
in one place with your loved one's illness, but find that you are really, in fact, not yet
there. Even attempting to balance the biochemical nature of your loved one's biochemical
illness will take time, and I do not know how much time this will take. During this time
of biochemical readjustment you will still have to remember that the most important aspect
is that your loved one is still alive. Almost all of these biochemical illnesses
are preceeded by a depression or a depression within the time of the biochemical
imbalance. Depression is one of the most important landmarks to look for and you
should be very careful not to miss depression, especially in a very young person. Behavior
therapy will probably not be of much good since it is a biochemical illness, and when the
biochemicals get so far out of balance, logic, thought order, and impulse control are
usually the first things that you will observe. (Ask your docotr about the HOD test)
The demonically possesed myth and attempting to
judge the biochemical ill person by the standards of lies, deceit, etc. as examples of
going against spiritual training-culturally is very harmful. It doesn't make much sense to
us so-called normals that if someone breaks every religious commandment in the holy books
and should be allowed to have a license to do it when all the rest of us struggle to
maintain a devout place in our spiritual growth. I don't think I can answer or even begin
to answer anything about the religious commandments and biochemical illness, except to say
that if you judge your loved one by the religious standards set forth in our society then
indeed your loved has no chance whatsoever, and will surely burn in hell forever. Please
do not compare your loved one with such standards of commandments when they cannot achieve
those standards by their choices. You would not expect someone with a physical disease to
be able to do certain things. You would not expect a 12 year old Downs Syndrome child who
wets his pants to be able to do certain tasks that are not possible for them. Why, then,
can you give Solomon-type judgements to someone who has another type of diminished
capacity? At what point do you say they are no longer diminished and full participating
humans, and, thus, know by their choices? These types of questions and statements can go
on forever. I don't have any answers either. It is a very difficult situation. Will a
child that has a rage and kills himself go to hell? I don't know. Will a child who has a
rage and kills someone else burn in hell forever? I don't know.
The list of questions can go on and on. For now
just try to help your loved one, and even though spirtual life is without question the
most important part of our existence it must be placed on the back burner for now. The
biochemically ill person is not accepted as being biochemical ill and thus is expected to
correct his behavior without the possibility of doing that. The correct-balanced chemicals
are not present. A person with biochemical imbalance or illness cannot "will"
change- the basis of behavior psychology. If you put the wrong ingredients into an engine
it will not run. The wrong or imbalanced biochemicals exist in the ill person, and no
amount of "will" can effect something that is not there in the first place.
"Who caused this biochemical imbalance in the first place?" We all do every day in so many ways.
The lack of sleep, meaning that which causes the body and mind not to function properly, is a major problem for one with biochemical illness. There have been many studies done as to the desired amount of sleep required for optimal levels of efficiency in awake states. What may seem to be the maximum number of hours for one person may indeed be only a bare minimum or sub-minimum for others. Not only does each person require rest and restoration of the organism for mental tasks, but perhaps more importantly, sleep is required for cellular growth or regrowth which effects the entire person- mind and body. Even one hour less sleep can produce problems in digestion, lack of mental acuity, physical stamina, or other problems.
There are certain types of biochemical illnesses that are greatly affected by the change to the full moon and the subsequent changes in ocean tides. You may notice a certain pattern with your loved one during the days preceeding a full moon, during the day of a full moon, or a few days after a full moon. For many reasons that are very lenghty I will not get into any of the ramifications of the effect of lunar changes on biochemical imbalances, but just to say to you that you may have greater difficulty with your loved one because of lunar changes.
How to Help Them Lack of Eating/Correct This Problem
There are many things that can help your loved one in their biochemical illness, and certainly one that will is to eat at a regular time, the correct foods, and not miss any meals. Also, if you can get your loved one to eat a large breakfast and then diminishing in size the lunch and least at supper. Many times people go without eating and some start off their nutriental meal at noon time after having missed breakfast. The person is not doing his person any good and probably harm by not eating a large breakfast. Again please read the reference books, especially books that deal with hypo and hyperglycemia.
Tell them when disperceptions occur and consequences of disperceptions if the disperception is such that will get them into trouble are with family or society. You must be very careful when and how you tell them they are having disperceptions.
Tell them what signs of improvement they have made and how the biochemicals are helping them.
This is
extremely important because physical exercise gets so many natural biochemicals flowing. A
must to do.
Take on more of their responsibility
for them when they are having difficulty at different times.
They need to have a place they
feel secure in that is an escape place or a means of physically escaping by car if they
drive, etc., so that they are not constantly analyzing their illness as they say in TCM-
"overthinking". They need a break while they wait for the biochemicals to work.
Share whatever you can with
the person regardless if it may be painful- it is all they are capable of sharing and if
they will allow you to touch them on their arm .
They may be right in their analysis
of society but may have disperceptions as to how to effect change in society. In their
eyes they feel powerless and alone from society. Just listen. When the biochemicals start
to balance disperceptions will go away eventually.
Chapter 2 Review
"How bad can it get'?
Key words-sentences
1)Stress-our bad guy
2)These adrenochromes are activated and change into other substances which then have a
different function than their original purpose. They may and do many times originate out
of no known place or reason and your loved one may have this happen, too.
3)A great deal is to be learned from the animal studies. One very important lesson is that
the same biochemicals that exist in terms of aminochromes in humans also exist in animals,
and the reaction of animals to changes in adrenochromes to other biochemicals does alter
their behavior in many ways.
4)Niacin, vitamin C, vitamin B6 and zinc
5)"Calming the spririt" (your B6 and zinc, vitamin B3)
6)Behavior is an extension of something inside the organism governed by biochemicals and a
multitude of other aspects such as energy fields, electrical currents, etc.
7)Civilization is based on behavior
8)Total human
9)Find an orthomolecular doctor that is open-minded to the illness your child has.
10)Major guidepost to biochemical illness is fear, the preception of fear or the
disperception of fear 11)Fearless fear
12)Reality choices
13)The lack of reality choosing is directly related to biochemical illness
14)Give-me attitude
15)An addiction to one reality choice
16)Nothing was, in fact, received on their part
17)"Pushing"
18)Lack of reality choices and pushing together
19)People with biochemical illness demonstrate a paradox 20)Biochemical illness exists in
humans and animals
19)Short-term working memory
20)Biochemicals first, then behavior will change
21)If any of the commom five senses are altered and a resulting behavior change occurs it
does indicate a biochemical illness.
22)Disperceptions (inappropriate response to the stimuli- a thought disorder)
Anger-rage-brain chemicals-function- survival-fear
23)VerbalAssaults
24)Mom
25)Tourette syndrome (TS) and foul language
26)Any deviation from one's normal behavior is a clue to biochemical imbalance
27)Theseverity of behavior is in direct relationship to the amount of biochemical
imbalance. However, we do not know what biochemical imbalance individuality does to each
of us. The same bad chemicals given to one person may not cause a behavior problem as bad
as the next person receiving the same bad chemical pollutants.
28)The use of foul langauge is in direct relationship to the amount of biochemical
imbalance. When someone feels more wellness they speak with less foul langauge or none at
all and as the stress increases as caused by almost any foreign chemical reaction the foul
language will increase. The same is true with all distortions of any of the senses.
Eventually you will see full hallucinations and a break with reality in the final stages.
29)Trigger words
30)Escallation from a few sentences into full blown argument
31)Rage and object destruction
32)Abandonment and rage
33)Personal destruction- suicide as the ultimate destruction and many things before
suicide 34)Destruction physically of others- violence- including murder
35)The most important point is that your loved one is alive and from this you build
everything else. 36)Almost all of these biochemical illnesses are preceeded by a
depression or a depression within the time of the biochemical imbalance.
37)Religion and morality
38)Lack of sleep
39)Cyclic problems
40) How to help them- lack of eating/correct this problem
41)Listen
42)Care and compassion
43)Physical exercise
44)Take on more of their responsibility when they are having difficulty
45)Share whatever you can
46)They may be right in their analysis
What Goes in Must Come Out- Food and Behavior
We Are What We Eat
A four day rotation of food is primary to finding out allergies without biological testing for food allergies. Would you feel stupid if you found out the majority, or all the problems with your loved one's behavior are because they drink milk or eat some other food that causes them to go biserk? Not only does it happen. It happens many, many times. Again, read Hoffer's books or Philpott's books. The first thing is to sit down and limit, or take away all their "favorite" foods from any meals for at least four days. Then one by one introduce one of their favorite foods and see if there is any change in their behavior. It will become very obvious to you if they have food allergies, and you do not have to be a scientist to see the results.
The next step is extremely crucial. It is not just something to make them better in a small way. No sugar of any kind except from raw fruits and vegetables. No sugar in anything, and be especially aware of any processed foods which contain sugar. Sugar alone is a major problem for so many diseases that again it would take volumes to even discuss it. I am not talking about sugar-diabetes but many other biochemical illnesses that are involved with the consumption of sugar. (Again, refer to the reading lists.)
Artificial
Food Colorings- Artificial Flavors, Dyes, Mono-sodium Glutimate, Nitrates, Sulfides
I will discuss in some detail the food products
we eat in a later section but for now I will simply tell you to check every and all
packaged foods you buy at the store. If any of them contain any artifical colorings,
flavors, nitrates, mono-sodium glutimate (which is a brain activator stimulant), sulfides
or things that don't sound like vitamins or nutrients, do not buy them. You may find that
it does take energy and time to do this. Even not knowing how you eat I will estimate that
you probably eat 80-90% of all your food that has some of these in them. Forget
"junk" food. It is filled to the brim with the "bad guys". "All
these changes?" Yes, and there is more yet to come. You see as I stated, your loved
one's biochemical illness is going to take time, energy, and effort to change. I know you
can say that you wished you had known this information before. So do I, for you and also
for myself, as well.
While you are at the store purchase your supply of distilled water, and, in addition to drinking it, cook with it. Distilled water should not be confused with "drinking water" advertised as such. Distilled water does not have impurities including metals such as copper, that can be harmful because they may overload the biochemical system. See the section on copper in the water.
Suggested foods to stay away from:
Things to Stay Away from in Foods if You Can
1)Canned foods including vegtables, fruits, soups, especially acidic foods in aluminium
cans such as lemonade in cans.
2)Processed foods
3)Lunch meats
4)Meat enhancers
5)Dairy products including cheese
Suggested foods that may not harm your loved one as much as some other foods.
Remember that any food can be good or bad depending
on the biochemical make-up of your loved one. Many moons ago I remember reading a very
impressive two paragraphs about zinc in oysters in a book by Carl Pfeiffer. I was so
impressed by these two paragraphs that I spent many hours and, in fact, weeks reading and
researching everything I could get my hands on about zinc. Remember, this mineral called
zinc is only one of many necessary nutrients and a single nutrient can either be good or
bad dependent always on biochemical balance. (Just for my own pleasure- again I must say
in amazement that the Chinese figured biochemical balance out over 2500 years ago- truly
mind-boggling.)
There have been thousands of books written
about food telling of its nutrition value. But there is an incorrect assumption about the
nutritional values of food. I will list all the foods for you that you may consider as my
suggestion as nutritional. Then I will tell you that almost all in some way have foreign
chemicals in each of them.
The FDA has a list of 6000 chemical
combinations that can be used in the food chain industry from herbicides to chemical
flavor enhancers, to dyes, or whatever. We are truly in a crisis.
Forget for a minute that you are not going to
"take on" the big chemical firms because you must concentrate on the health of
your loved one. If you thought you were giving food to your loved one because you worked
hard to provide the money to buy the food, that your family history showed that you were
raised on these foods, and that you had trust in the government to protect you, then you
are not aware at all of the results of what all the above mentioned means. If you and I
went to the supermarket there would be at least 90% of all items have something bad in
them for us, in that store. Even though you do eat them, you should not eat them.
"Get off it, man. That is crazy, and I
will eat whatever I want, whenever I want." Yes, you might, but eventually you will
have some illness, whether it is behavioral connected, or cancer or whatever illness.
Maybe you want to be ignorant but I thought you originally asked me about your loved one,
and that is the one you seemed concerned about. "Yes, I am." Well, sit tight.
The soil does not have the nutrients in it that it did 20, 50, 100 years ago. The
nutrients that are the same ones that are necessary for the plant to grow are the same
ones that you need, too. You may not need the same amount of this or that nutrient as the
plant does, but you need the nutrients nonetheless. I don't think it would do much good
right now to list all the nutrients that are missing from the soil that grows your food
and mine, but the ones that are missing are extremely essential to us. Remember the
Pfeiffer story of the young girl that needed zinc desperately? Guess what? Zinc is one
that is missing from the soil and so is selenium, calcium, magnesium, and many, many more.
"Well, when I drive by in my truck and see
all those fields, they look healthy to me. In fact, they look healthier than when I grew
up on the farm. Those are big farms too, and some of them are that big agri-business
stuff." Yes, the big agri-business stuff does have healthy looking plants. Do you
remember my phrase, "image over substance?" You have it again right here. What
appears to be isn't necessarily so. The plants look healthy because they are shot full of
many chemicals that make them grow but have lost a great deal of their original
nutritional value in the process. Thus, you get less nutrition. You do get all the
chemicals you do not want- they are just thrown in, so to speak. These chemicals are part
of the 6000 I mentioned before.
"Well, I have been eating all those foods
for 43 years and I am still going, and I plan on living until I reach 100." Your plan
may be cut short, but again I thought we were talking about your loved one. "Guess we
were." If that isn't bad enough go one step before the plant and you get to the gene
splicing that in some cases causes the seed's inability to require such and such a
biochemical to grow. "You mean they tricked the seed too?" Wow, that came from
you? Sorry, that was rude. Yes, they tricked the seed to think it didn't need a particular
biochemical that it had always needed before perhaps for a thousand years of growth, and
they now have a plant that looks like the same plant but is really only say 95% or 82% or
75% of the original plant. With each generation of plant splicing the agri-business gets
better at figuring out how to keep the plant healthy, with a shorter growing season, a
plant that resists insects, some of which are very necessary to help with pollenization of
other plants. Image over substance No. 2. Here it comes again. This very food is picked
and processed before it can obtain the correct biochemicals from the soil, even if they
were there in the first place. "Yeah, I noticed those bananas are really green
now."
It is not only the bananas, but almost all
foods. Image over substance No. 3. Do you remember that little game we played about, air,
water and the nutrients adding up to a total of 100? Well, take this same game, and apply
it here. They have air and water for certain. And we need heat to make plants grow. A
plant that may have had say 20 mcg of selenium in it 10 years ago has a different amount
of selenium in it now.
Even if you can figure out the correct amount
of selenium your loved one requires at any one point and say that they are eating such and
such a food because it has selenium in it and expect to get seleneium they need,then you
are wrong. Image over substance No. 4.
"First, if you had let me have enough time
I would have figured out the nutrient game." Sure you would have. "Also, if it
grows and looks alright, I am going to eat it."
Let me interrupt for a minute. Then we get to
picking and packaging. Picking before the plant has had the chance to obtain all the
necessary nutrients and now putting things in this case foreign, non-biochemical agents on
the fruits or vegetables so that they appear and stay fresh for the consumer. Image over
substance No. 5.
Now any and all of these five "images over
substances" will and probably do, with a great degree of certainty, cause your loved
one to have some problems including behavior problems. "Now you are saying that a
green banana causes her to curse and stay home from school." (thought- I do know that
I am glad you are not a rocket scientist since we would probably get blown up.) I am
saying that any and all the various steps in the food chain can and will cause your loved
one problems.
Now if you want to take all the time to figure
out which one causes the problems, please, be my guest. You can figure them out but not
with this "so what" attitude. You must have information that is correct and
specific with valid research done by scientists that are in no way even remotely connected
with the food industry. Your loved one could be allergic to the oil-based chemical put on
the apple to make it appear shiny or the deficiency of a certain biochemical that should
have been in the soil where the fruit or vegetable was grown.
If you cloud the truth long enough and in so
many areas then even the sharpest of scientific investigators will have a difficult time
figuring out which chemicals at any one growing season are, in fact, the cause of a bad
chemical reaction in your loved one. Yes, it is true that your loved one can be tested for
such and such and the results show that you need this or that. However, if your child
needs a certain biochemical and if you are relying on the truth of the food industry to
give you accurate nutritional infomation then you are in for big suprise.
"Wait a minute. The govenment controls
those people." Total nonsense. It may have guidelines, restrictions, and on the
rarest of occasions fines or penalties if something is so horrible, but the government in
the agri-business format is nothing more than an observer many times and allows
big-business, agri-business, to do basically what it wants, when it wants, and how it
wants.
"Well, that's what we did when we lived on
the farm too, and we didn't bother anyone. The government didn't bother us either, so that
is the way it should be." I guess sometimes I just don't know how to respond to some
of your statements, but here's a try. "Wait. Let me tell you something about the way
we farmed, and it was good enough for us. You think you know it all. When we farmed our
140 acres we had a section where we planted vegetables, a section where we had corn, and
in another section we had wheat. We also had a section we left for the cows, pigs, and
chickens. The section we had for the vegetables, and they were the best tasting things you
ever had, was in back of the house so we didn't have to walk so far. We had a pond nearby,
and I guess that is why the vegetables were there. Boy, you know, you could see all the
way to the bottom of that pond and could see all the fish too. We didn't put a bunch of
stuff on our vegetables, but we did have a pile of leaves and junk about 12 feet high.
Sometimes, in the fall, it was even higher. That's the stuff we put on our vegtables and,
boy, did they grow. We not only had good vegetables but good meat, better than you get
nowadays. The animals ate whatever we had left over or they ate grass, and we didn't have
any of those sick animals like some of the farmers next door. They always had some vet
come out there and do this or that to some animal. Boy, I bet they spent a bundle of money
there. Anyway, our eggs were the best you ever had, and we always had more than we could
use. You know it is a shame, but you can't store eggs like you can apples or potatoes. And
we had enough food for everyone, and not very many people got sick like when we moved off
the farm and moved to the city, when I took that job at the aluminum plant. You know, the
one down the road between those two dead old oaks trees they never cut down."
"Anyway, we thought about going back to
the farm, but all those other people out there can't make a living at it even with all
those new herbicides and the like, and we don't know anything about them. It has been
almost ten years since we moved, and it is really hard work. So we probably will stay in
the city."
"There was only one time when we couldn't
get those vegetables to grow really well like they did before. That was when the farmer
next door starting using some new herbicide and had it sprayed on his fields. The wind was
blowing hard that day, and I bet you we got just as much on our vegtables as he did on his
field. You know, I think it took about three years before those damn vegetables would grow
right again and taste good. I always wondered whether that stuff did it to our vegetables,
but our neighbor was always a smarter farmer and always talked to all those people at the
feed store about all that stuff. So our neighbor knew what he was doing, I guess."
"You know, when we left the farm the
people that bought it from us and that same neighbor I was telling you about and a whole
bunch more farms right there all sold to some company from somewhere up North and then
those people started using really big machines. I bet some of those suckers cost more than
my house. That farm where I grew up had been in our family for over 145 years, but I just
got tired of it and decided to move to the city. You know, there are better things for my
kids and that stuff."
I am sorry to interrupt, but we must go on with
our story. With what you have just told me I probably could write another book for you. I
didn't really think I would be saying this, but you were doing the right thing and the
correct thing on your farm. It is a little difficult for me to tell you this, but I have
learned a great deal from you. "You mean I am smarter than you?" This time you
are. You have told me in your own words all the things that make life happen
biochemically.
You had natural bacterial-compost, clean water,
good soil, no artificial or foreign chemicals to life, and nature did the rest.
"Maybe I should go back and see if those people from up there want to sell it back to
me." I doubt they will, and even if they did I don't think you would have the same
good results you had as those years before. "Why do all those people from up North
always think they know more than we do?" I don't think it has anything to do with
where they come from but where they come mentally, or spiritually, or biochemically.
"I just heard you splitting all those parts of a person." Sorry about that, I
guess I came back to earth for a second and had to use jargon everyone thinks they
understand. Anyway, back to the story.
Suggested foods that may not harm your loved one as much as some other foods.
This is not in any way a book about dietary
nutrition. There are many wonderful books specifically stating which foods and how much
nutrient value is in each food. I will simply list the foods that may do the best for the
severe crisis that you and your loved one are in at present. The crucial nutrients
you must get into your loved one are Vitamins B3, B6, B12, Vitamin C, and minerals zinc
and manganese. If they will not take the nutrients by supplementation then try to get the
nutrients into them by way of eating.
I have intentionally listed foods in categories
of nutrients within these foods. I will speak later about the problems with even these
foods, but for now it is all you have. The most primary nutrients, even though you need
all the nutrients in balanace, are the following: Vitamins B3, B6, B12, Minerals
zinc and manganese.
A Few Words About What I Left Out of These Lists
I have intentionally left out the most basic allergic causing foods such as milk, wheat, corn and a few others. Your loved one can be allergic and have bad behavior because of brain allergies, and I have no way of knowing which food or foods your loved will have trouble with. Some of the listed foods here may be bad foods as well for your loved one. I have tried to limited the list and yet leave enough variety so that your loved one will have food choices. However, I have included beef and eggs which are many times allergy producing foods.
Vitamin B6 foods:
1) fish- tuna, trout, mackeral, sardines, halibut, salmon, cod, perch
2) potatoes
3) poultry- chicken livers
4) watermelon
5) bananas
6) meats
7) honey
8) avacados
9) prunes
10) spinach, kale, brussel sprouts, turnip greens
11) carrots
12) soybeans
13) nuts- walnuts, chestnuts
14) eggs
15) beans- lima, navy, garbanzos
16) brown rice
17) black-eyed peas
18) lean beef
19) lean pork
20) raisins
21) sunflower seeds
22) buckwheat flour
23) sweet peppers
24) cauliflower
25) cabbage
26) sweet potatoes
27) molasses
You will have a difficult time finding bread made out of substances other than wheat, but try.
Vitamin B3
foods:
1) fish- trout, mackerel, halibut, swordfish, salmon, herring, shrimp, haddock
2) poultry- chicken, turkey, goose
3) meat- beef, veal, pork
4) almonds
5) mushrooms
6) whole grains
7) potatoes
8) honey
9) eggs
10) rice- wild rice, brown rice
11) chicken livers
12) barley
Vitamin B3 foods are essential even though the list is short. This is another reason for supplementation.
Vitamin C foods:
1) kale, collard greens
2) sweet peppers
3) brussel sprouts
4) spinach
5) strawberries
6) cabbage
7) grapefruit
8) turnip greens
9) broccoli
10) cauliflower
11) oranges
12) turnips
13) cantaloupe
14) green onions
15) okra
16) beans- lima beans, soybeans, blackeyed peas
Vitamin B12
foods:
1) chicken livers
2) fish-sardines, trout, salmon, haddock, clams, oysters, tuna, flounder, scallops,
halibut, swordfish, perch
3) eggs
4) meat- beef
Minerals zinc
foods:
1) fish-sardines, clams, tuna, haddock, shrimp, oysters, clams, tuna, sardines
2) meat-round steak
3) nuts-pecans, Brazil nuts, almonds, walnuts, hazel nuts
4) oats, buckwheat, rye, soy
5) beans-lima beans, black beans, string beans
6) green peas
7) carrots
8) cauliflower
9) cabbage
10) butter
11) cucumber
12) eggs
13) chicken
14) garlic
15) spinach
16) lettuce
17) olives
18) grape juice
19) potatoes
Foods that
contain Vitamin B3 and zinc:
haddock
shrimp
beef
potatoes
eggs
Foods that
contain Vitamin B6 and zinc:
spinach
potatoes
cauliflower
carrots tuna
Foods that contain Vitamin B12 and zinc:
haddock
beef
eggs
tuna
Foods that contain Vitamins B3 and B6:
trout
salmon
mackerel
beef
eggs
pototoes
brown rice
chicken livers
honey pork
Foods
that contain Vitamins B3 and B12:
trout
halibut
swordfish
haddock
eggs
beef
Foods
that contain Vitamins B6 and B12:
chicken livers
trout
salmon
halibut
perch
eggs
beef
Foods
that contain Vitamins B3, B6, B12:
chicken livers
trout
salmon
Foods that contain Vitamins B3 and
B6 and zinc:
salmon
eggs
beef
Foods that contain
Vitamins B3, B6, B12 and zinc:
eggs
beef
Foods that contain
Vitamins C and B3:
None
Foods
that contain Vitamins C and B6:
kale
sweet peppers
brussel sprouts
spinach
cabbage
cauliflower
lima beans
blackeyed peas
Foods that contain Vitamins C and B12:
None
Foods that contain Vitamins C, B3 and zinc:
None
Foods that contain Vitamins C, B6 and zinc:
cabbage
lima beans
cauliflower
blackeyed peas
Foods that contain Vitamins C, B3, B6 and
zinc:
None
Foods that contain Manganese:
pecans
almonds
rye
carrots
brown rice
cabbage
walnuts
raisins
brussel sprouts
eggs
oranges
cantaloupe
brazul nuts
spinach
turnip greens
Foods that contain Manganese and Zinc:
pecans
Brazil nuts
Foods that contain Manganese, Vitamin B3 and
Zinc:
almonds
eggs
Foods that contain Manganese and Vitamin B6:
turnip greens
eggs
Foods that contain Manganese and Vitamin
B12:
eggs
Foods that contain Manganese and Vitamins B3
and B6:
eggs
Foods that contain Manganese and Vitamins
B3, B6, B12:
eggs
Foods that contain Manganese and Vitamin C:
oranges
cantaloupe
brussel
sprouts
Foods that contain Manganese, Vitamin C and
zinc:
spinach
Foods that contain Manganese, Vitamins B6, C
and zinc:
cabbage
I have not given you nutritional values for each food, which would be complicated, but if you look in a good nutritional book you will readily find that material. It is very important. Now You See Why They Said "Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables" As you can see there are many fruits and vegtables listed. That seems to remind us of that old phrase, "be certain to eat all your fruits and vegetables." It is biochemically sound to do so, but do not forget the protein either. If you investigate other nutritional books you will find many more foods in each vitamin category, but remember we are trying to limit the possibilities of brain allergic reactions to food, which cause biochemical imbalance that you see as behavior.
Two Foods commonly overlooked as extremely valuable. Two foods that are not always thought to be good for you are eggs and almost all nuts. Eggs we know are good for you but the scare is in the cholesterol business. Also, if you obtain range-fed chicken eggs you will be better off than the supermarket type. Nuts are extremely important with many necessary biochemicals, regardless of the fat content for now.
However,do not eat peanuts. The other thing about eating nuts is that usually we eat quite a few before we realize how many we have eaten. Even though by each nut they have small amounts of nutrients, if you add it up they will provide a great deal of nutritional value. If your loved one likes nuts and has no digestion problems with them, then by all means keep them out all the time. Also, remember all the other things we spoke of regarding 4 day rotations, distilled water and food artifacts, dyes, colorings, sulfides, nitrites, nitrates and mono-sodium glutimate.
Now that
I have given you a bare-bones list of foods that will help your loved one you must
understand some very important things about the purity and preparation of those foods. If
you say, for example, that your loved one can be nutritionally balanced with a big
fast-food hamburger because you saw lean beef listed, then you are already not
comprehending what you may have thought was going to be an easy task. The task of getting
the correct foods into your loved one will require great effort and thought. In terms of
where you get your food is crucial. You cannot think that you are just going to go to the
store and buy everthing on this list, and your loved one is going to spring back to life.
You have to find out if any and all foods have additives, chemicals, antibiotics given to
the animals that your loved is going to eat. This task alone will exhaust you.
You also have to remember to know with
certainty how the food your loved one is going to eat is free of all foreign chemicals
that will and do cause many biochemical imbalances. Also, you don't know which foods may
be causing food allergies that lead to a wild assortment of bad behaviors. So you get into
figuring out planting, what is in the soil, harvest time for that food, picking and
packaging, how fresh it is at the store and how long it has been on the shelf at the
store. If it is an animal product then you have to know how the animal was raised, the
foods it ate, the antibiotics it was injected with and all the other things we mentioned
with packaging. Finally, by the end of this book you may realize all the thousands of
things that our culture worldwide has done to "our nest". It truly is horrible
to think that we have so many "smarts" and miss the most basic one- "the
food we eat". Let me give a run-down on a small section of things to look for. Here
you go:
1.Know where all fish that you eat comes from, whether they are bottom fish or mid-stream
fish. Either can be a problem but particularly bottom fish, such as halibut or red
snapper.
2.Know where all your beef is grown, whether it is range fed and on what kind of grasses,
what antibiotics are used and where they are slaughtered. Know the type of slaughtering
house, where even good beef is contaminated because it is mixed with all other beef that
is full of antibiotics and foreign chemicals. Find an organic farmer who has
non-antibiotic animals grassed on grasses. This is not easy to do, and it costs more.
3)Eat only those fruits and vegetables that are in season. Even then be certain to peel
before eating. Even if you think peeling will get rid of the foreign chemicals remember
the foreign chemicals are on the inside of the fruit or vegetable too.
4)Do not eat processed foods, frozen foods, certainly no canned foods, nothing with any
kind of foreign chemicals in them. Just this last statement is probably enough to make you
go over the edge of sanity. It is very difficult to find the correct foods. It is a
full-time job by itself. Guess what? It was a full-time job in the cave-man days too, and
that is the reason they ate only whole foods that were in season. They also knew what kind
of animal meats they were eating.
And you thought that all you had to do was read
and implement the lists of foods. "Damnit, I have to do so many things already for my
loved one, and she still is a pain in the ass." Get away from yourself. You can help
her. Go ahead. Do all the definitions of what love is and what love isn't and none of it
will make any difference. Your loved one needs help, so do it. If you have to be angry
later I will give you many reasons why you can be angry, but for now just roll up your
sleeves and get to work helping your loved one get the correct foods. You may have to
change your family social customs and eat at least two of the three meals together, with
all the family eating the same foods your loved one is eating too.
You are going to have to show some effort to
change habits of "eating on the run" or "not eating at all" sort of
thinking. Maybe you can do it for awhile, but your loved one cannot. You probably can't
either, but yours hasn't shown itself in harmful behavior as you say your loved one has.
Some grocery stores will from time to time carry
fresh poultry, especially turkey that has not been injected with a 5-10 solution of
whatever foreign chemicals that company thinks it wants to put in their turkey and say it
is free of solutions. At first, you might think you are getting a fresh turkey or range
fed at that, and that will be healthy for your loved one. Wrong. Just because it says it
does not have the solution says nothing about how it was raised, slaughtered, where and
how it was packaged, and how long it has been in the store. It probably was fed in a grain
box with grain made with many, many foreign chemicals to cut down on infection of the
turkey while alive in those cramped eating facilities. These foreign chemicals are in each
and every cell in that turkey, and you are eating them too. You may not eat the solution
which is bad, but you thought you were eating something without foreign chemicals
completely. You are not. The same is true with eggs.
It is so sad that we have to spend so much time
and effort on food because of a bunch of power greedy food industrial giants who have no
wisdom as to the consequences of their actions. They may be smart, and that they are,
because of the ways they fool the public to buy their products. However, they lack any and
all shades of wisdom as to what they are doing to the life process.
The second part of the problem with your loved
one's wellness is one of food preparation. Remember this principle. Anything that
burns uses oxygen and this oxygen is then changed into oxidative materials that can damage
your health. The more brown a food is, the more oxidation is present. Fried foods
and especially foods cooked in heated oils are the worst. Try to bake as many foods as
possible, but this will not totally alleviate oxidation. There are many fine books written
on proper food preperation to prevent illness, including behavior illness. A few are
listed in the bibliography. Seek out other books too.
Remember, nutrients in the correct balance are for everyone or you as well may
have problems other than behavioral.
Review
What
goes in must come out- food and behavior
Key words-sentences
1)4 day food rotation
2)No Sugar
3)Artificial food colorings, artifical flavors, dyes, mono-sodium glutimate, nitrates,
sulfides
4)Distilled water
5)Suggested foods to stay away from
6)Suggested foods that may not harm your loved one as much and are important for their
wellness 7)The crucial nutrients you must get into your loved one are Vitamins B3, B6,
B12, vitamin C, and minerals zinc and manganese.
8)If they will not take the nutrients by supplementation then try to get the nutrients
into them by way of eating.
9)Vitamins B3, B6, B12, Minerals zinc and manganese
10)Vitamin B6 foods
11)Vitamin B3 foods
12)Vitamin C foods
13)Vitamin B12 foods:
14)Minerals zinc and managanese foods
15)A few things to watch out for
16)Anything that burns uses oxygen, and this oxygen is then changed into oxidative
materials that can damage your health.
17)Chelation
18)Fasting
CHAPTER 4
Addictions -
Cigarettes - Tobacco Products, Alcohol, Drugs, Food, Lack of Food, Sex, Spending
Money, Obsessive-Compulsive Traits
Many of the things your loved one will do in
terms of addictions are a direct result of their biochemical imbalance and all of its
manifestations, including cravings. Some may seem to start as mere experimentation
influenced by social peer groups. It may not be just experimentational and that is when
you will begin to experience problems with your loved one and they experience many
problems for themselves. I will go rather quickly with each of the addictions I have
listed here, but I will give you guidelines as to what you might be able to do and things
that do not necessarily work for them. Since any and all of these addictions can be very
damaging you may think that you have to control all their behavior.
I remember once talking to a policeman who had
a child who did not appear in any way to have a biochemical illness and functioned at a
very high level. I asked him what he thought was a method of trying to help someone with a
biochemical illness who was addicted and socially out of reasoning. His answer was to lock
them up in their room until they were 16 or 18 and then they would be OK. I was totally
dumbfounded to hear his answer and he was serious. His idea was to keep his child away
from others, to shield his child from harm from others. Also, his child did not inflict
social pains on others.
To me that is not only denial, but a
gross misinterpretation of how to deal with realities- his, his child's, and society's. He
answered all three realities in one sentence. You cannot and should not lock your child up
for biochemical illness or for any other reason unless it is suicide or something that is
indeed severe. Anyone that is locked up to get better will not only not get better, they
will get worse even biochemically. Unless it is suicide or total biochemical failure then
simply don't do it. Cigarettes are extremely addictive and as far as I am personally
concerned I would literally wipe out the entire tobacco industry in one law. I know
prohibition as such didn't work and neither would what I have suggested, but I do feel
that way. I have smoked for 38 years and it is one of the most difficult addictions to
change or conquer. It took me 7 weeks to get off of sugar entirely and I thought that was
a long time. Smoking is even more difficult than sugar addiction. There are many studies
about how the nicotine addicted brain and total person work so I will not get into
scientific data. It is extremely important but I will only say that part of the
biochemical imbalance is directly related to the addiction of cigarettes. You probably
know that over 100 different chemicals foreign to the body are in cigarettes, cigars, and
smokeless tobacco. This sets up another realm of biochemical imbalances by itself, plus
the other ones your loved has. There will be very little you can do that will not cause
more problems than it is worth about smoking. If you do not smoke you can and should
insist that your loved one smoke outside the house so that you and everyone else is not
affected by their smoke. You can many times refuse to buy cigarettes for them and should
refuse to buy their tobacco products. You should be extremely careful if your loved one is
at home alone and decides because they are home alone that it is alright to smoke and
leave a cigarette lit and forget about it, thus causing the possibility of a fire. You can
try all the bribe techniques and probably none will work. If they do you are indeed
fortunate on that issue. Now I will go to food which may on the surface seem to be
harmless and without as many biochemical consequences as tobacco. I pick this order of
addiction for a reason that I will get to at the end of this chapter. The food that I am
talking about is the volume and the type. There are many books written about obesity, what
causes it and how to manipulate your behavior and diet, thus controlling your volume of
eating. There are only a handful, and I mean handful, that talk about obesity and
biochemical illness. Even the biochemical books talk in general terms about biochemical
illness which can and does correct obesity problems, but very few talk about the very
specific nature of obesity biochemically. "Man, did you split the person into all
those diffent parts? I heard you." I am sorry about that.
So you will have to search carefully to find a
book that is more than some elementary version of self-help for obesity problems. See the
bibliography for these books. The behaviorist will tell you obesity is a disguise for this
and that emotion you have not dealt with properly. I simply say that that is defining but
not doing anything about the root cause, which is biochemical. Then the next thing is
specific foods that cause those allergies- brain allergies. Those foods cause addictions,
and the addictions cause brain allergies, and the brain allergies cause biochemical
changes, and the biochemical changes cause behavior that you don't like to see. I have
already talked about certain foods but if you are going to live in this next century then
you must become fully equiped with information about what is happening to our food and
what it does to you and your loved ones biochemically. The Doris Rapp book (Is This Your
Child?) is a wonderful place to start for general and specific conceptual information and
what to do about particular problems. She is another biochemical-thinking doctor in the
upper echalon of thinkers. Try all the subtle things such as buying certain foods less
often, then not at all. If they are young simply don't buy them period.
Drugs, Legal or Illegal, Including Food
This
section of the book will be very short, brief and to the point. There are many
biochemistry books with thousands of experiments with humans and animals and even some on
plants that will give you very specific information about the direct causes and effects of
drugs. Any foreign thing can come into the person by many different ways (the skin, food,
air or whatever) and it will alter the person. Many drugs, whether or not they are legal
or illegal as determinded by our society, will mimic exact symptoms of behavioral
illnesses caused by biochemical imbalance.
"Then you don't know which is which."
Very good, and you are correct. Some drugs mimic specific diseases almost exactly such as
LSD 25 and schizophrenia. There are many others we do not know about. What you do know is
that whether it is caused by genetic causes or drug usage the results may be the same in
terms of behavior. What you must do is get to the root cause of biochemical imbalance.
Correct the biochemical imbalance.
Some people eat the same food every day until
they build up an allergic reaction and then they become ill. Drug addicts are the same
except they may use legal or illegal drugs. Yes, maybe a food allergy is not as bad as
cocaine, but there are times when certain behaviors are worse with food allergies than
even with cocaine. Don't get into trying to define things again and just remember that it
is all biochemical imbalance and correct that. Just as you may have difficulty in trying
to get your loved one off of a food that is damaging to their behavior you will also have
great problems with someone who is addicted to alcohol or drugs.
Then there is another important thing you have
to consider, and that is the genetic coded information that the person's mechanisms read
as natural to the body. Because of faulty genetic decoders, your loved is now an addict
with all the behavioral problems you can think of. So, again, I must say that it does not
make any difference how biochemical imbalance started, you must correct biochemical
imbalance with nutrients. If your loved one is addicted to drugs, alcohol, or damaging
foods you have a problem pure and simple. Do remember that it is part of the overall
problem of biochemical illness too, and you will have to get them on the nutrients with
the hope of diminishing the source of the biochemical imbalance and eventually alleviating
it all together.
In my opinion, anyone who is biochemically
imbalanced stands a much better chance at addiction than those that are biochemically
balanced.
"You mean that now if she decided to take
drugs and smoke marijuana that it is part of the disease?" Yes, I am saying that it
is part of the problem of biochemical imbalance and if there is a genetic problem of
predisposed proclivity to drugs then you will have to understand where it comes from. Your
battles will go on and on. Hopefully for many reasons you may side-step a few problems and
they may not happen. Maybe your loved one has bad behavior and is not into drugs, alcohol,
or other damaging invaders, then you still have biochemical imbalance. In many ways you
are very fortunate that you do not have all these other masquerading bad behavioral
inhancers, too.
"Well, I hope my daughter is only
biochemically imbalanced and not on drugs." So do I, for you, but now you can see why
just because you might find out that your loved one, who has had biochemcial imbalance for
sometime, is now on drugs is no reason to say it is only their drug usage. Yes, maybe a
lot is now caused by drug usage but it is all biochemical imbalance, regardless of whether
they took every drug known to mankind.
There are so many levels of ups and downs in
trying to live with your loved one when they go from one thing to another, and each and
every thing is damaging their biochemcials even farther and you can't do anything,
especially when they are past legal age or an adult. There are laws to protect people from
others taking controls of their lives and abusing the individual's rights. These laws are
meaningful and should be there, but it does make it very difficult to have a 28 or 30 year
old that is so far out of biochemical balance and you can do nothing to help them. They
don't want help. You can't get them to recognize they need help. Yet you want to respect,
honor, and give them all the individual freedoms that they are entitled to. You still
can't help them.
Another thing about drugs particularly is that
it may start as experimentation and quickly become addiction. You may have within a period
of one month a major problem with even more exaggerated behavioral traits. Remember the
story of my Mom? That was with drugs and she only said foul words.
Many times when people are depressed they will not eat. Some of this may be caused by the lack of food tasting good because of low zinc levels. Zinc in simple terms increases the taste of food. It does many more things but for now just think of zinc as a taste enhancer. You must do everything you can to get your loved one to eat, especially vitamins B3, B6, zinc, and vitamin C foods. Also, try to get the supplements in them. In the case of zinc it is extremely crucial. Behaviorally, if you have to have a picnic, take them out for dinner, or whatever, you have to get food into them. Obviously, try to keep them away from all the harmful aspects of food that I have already mentioned. "I have a question. Are drug and alcohol addicts biochemically imbalanced?" Yes, absolutely, either through heredity or by their own first generation initiation.
Sexual
pleasures are not only natural but necessary for the human species. The sexual pleasures
that I will speak of here are of a different type. Any and all things on this earth have
opposites, regardless of what they are. So sexual pleasures as well can be interpreted as
good or bad simply by your point of view. Because biochemical imbalance affects logic and
judgement, your loved one may be one of those people who, in their attempt to get away
from the pains, use sex as a means of self-medication.
Anything can be used as self-medication,
whether it is food, drugs, alcohol, religion, reading, work, or anything you can think of
that is controlling or obsessive to that person and allows that person to get away from
the thoughts of pain that they are experiencing. I define obsession as anything that is
chosen for the reason of getting away from something, as opposed to doing something
because you like to do it by free choice. One is going away and the other is going toward.
One is going away from pain and the other is going toward pleasure.
If these choices for your loved one are to get
away from their pains is legal or less harmful then you may at first have no difficulty
accepting them. If I had biochemical imbalance and my method of getting away from my pains
is to listen to Bach, you might say that is wonderful. If I said my method is to take
cocaine then you would be alarmed and shocked. Any obsessive trait is an indicator of
biochemical imbalance.
"How do you know a person is not just
interested in listening to Bach, and it means nothing more than that?" There are
other clues that you have had and will have that will demonstrate how obsessiveness of one
thing caused by the lack of thought or thought disorder is obsessive in a damaging way.
"If you take away the obsession are they
better? I wouldn't let them listen to Bach because you said it was bad for them. I will
force them to face their problems and then they will get better." First of all, if it
would work it might be worth a try. You are talking about behavior that does not have its
own life but is part of biochemicals and in the case of bad behavior, biochemical
imbalance. Remember the organism wants to avoid pain at all costs, and being obsessive is
a way of getting away from pain. If you take something away from a person, what are you
accomplishing but taking it away? The problem is still there, the biochemical imbalance,
and if you wait a while your loved one will find another, maybe even more serious or
illegal, method to become obsessive about to get away from their pains.
Get to the root cause of thought disorder,
limited choices, which cause obsessive behavior and the like and you will come to
biochemical imbalance. Yes, depending on what the obsession is will determine how much
effort you want to put forth to alter the obsession or obsessions. Any and all
obsessive traits are very strong indicators of biochemical imbalance. Now I want
to spent a little time talking about more than one obsession and what it does indicate. If
you find one obsessive trait in your loved one, you should look for others as well.
Usually one with severe biochemical imbalance will demonstrate at least two obsessive
traits and they may be quite diverse. You may not connect any correlation between the two.
It is not the fact that you should connect any importance of the two different obsessions
but if you see two obsessions then you know with all certainty that your loved one is very
much biochemically imbalanced. The use of nutrients may have to be in the megadose ranges
to be effective and it may take a longer period of time before your loved one is fully
functioning and reaching for the greatest potential. So if you see more than one obsession
you may have to have more nutrients and longer. That is the difference between seeing one
obsession and more than one obsesssion. In this case, more obsessions require more
nutrients. This is not always true since, again, you must always consider biochemical
individuality and that by itself is the determining factor for success with nutrients.
An obsessive person who chooses to spend money as their obsession can drive you into the poor house very quickly. As I said before, all obsessive traits are very damaging in one way or another and spending your money or others or stealing for their obsession can and does cause many problems. I only mention it becasue some people overlook it and it does show up a lot more times than many people realize.
Obsessive-Compulsive Impulse Control
Now I
will try to pull the reasons for any and all obsessions together and give you some
additional information as to what they can lead to. All obsessions have a direct
relationship to impulse control and many have said it is in the brain. I personally do not
think it is in the brain only, and thus, I still maintain the total person thinking.
Regardless of where it is, impulse control is not governed as some would have us believe
by stimuli but by the filter pathway of nutrients being either blocked or not there at all
to function biochemically. That is why you could say we have a biochemical individuality
of impulse control.
If you think of a straight horizontal line and
have at the left side biochemical imbalance, what would be your next thought going to the
right-hand side on the line? For now, I will just give you a few possibilities in terms of
obsessions.
Any of the senses can be chosen and then very
specific obsessions within that particular sense. For example, let's say that it is
alcohol and you fear that your loved one will become an alcoholic with all the
disfunctioning traits alcoholics might demonstrate. You might think that it was taste but
it was thought disorder also, perhaps more than taste and probably taste didn't even enter
the picture.It was without question genetically based with a great deal of certainty.
The lack of control is what many people call
the lack of impulse control, but how do you control something that is controlling you? You
are simply trying to survive, and remember the organism will go to any lengths to survive
including confusion, pain, and even obsessions. So your choice of what is next down the
line of biochemical imbalance causing the lack of impulse control can be many things. At
this point in my analogy I can stop, because all I wanted was for you to realize that
impulse control, the lack of filters for stimuli, and obsessions are all connected. The
root cause of all of them is biochemical imbalance. You cannot change any one of them
individually, and only by changing the root cause will they change. All will change, and
that is the wonderful thing about it. They all will change with biochemical balance.
Drugs and behavior- which one is causing the behavioral biochemical imbalance? Starting to connect dots about nutrients and behavior?
Chapter 4
Key words-sentences
1)Addictions - cigarettes - tobacco products, alcohol, drugs, food, lack of food, sex,
spending money, obsessive- compulsive
2)Drugs, Legal or Illegal, Including Food
3)Lack of food
4)Sex
5)Any and all obsessive traits are very strong indicators of biochemical imbalance.
6)This is not always true since again you must always consider biochemical individuality
and that by itself is the determining factor for success with nutrients.
7)Spending money
8)Obsessive-Compulsive Impulse Control
Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids and Enzymes
Vitamins: Vitamin A
(betacarotene), vitamin B1 (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), vitamin B
(panthothenic), B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin B (folic acid), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin
B (biotin), vitamin B (choline), vitamin B (inositol), B17 (amygdalin), vitamin B
(paba-para-aminobenzoic acid), B15 (pangamic), Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E
(tocopherol), Vitamin K, Vitamin P (bioflavonoids).
Minerals: Calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium,
potassium, iron, copper, manganese, zinc, chromium, selenium, iodine, nickel, molybdenum,
vanadium .
Amino Acids: phenylalanine, tyrosine,
tryptophan, cycteine, taurine, methionine, homocysteine, arginine, ornithine, glutamic
acid, proline, aspartic acid, threonine, glycine, serine, alanine, leucine, isoleucine,
valine, alanine, gaba, glautamine, lysine, carnitine, and histidine. All amino acids are
made up of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen.
Enzymes: Co Q10
Fatty Acids: Omega 3 and 6 or Flax Seed oil
Getting
to the issue of nutrients, remember that all nutrients (biochemicals natural to the body)
will help and also harm. Everything must be in balance. The primary nutrients are
generally classified into vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes. The ones you can
use are the following: Vitamin B1 (thiamine)(100mg), B2 (ribiflavin)(100mg), B3
(niacin)(500mg), B6 (500mg), B12 (500 mcg), B5 (folic acid)(800mcg), Vitamin C (1000mg),
Zinc (50mg), calcium-magnesium 500 mg to 200 mg ratio, selenium (100mcg), Manganese (15mg
every other day), flax seed oil, per dosage and with three dosages per day with
meals always. (Mg= milligrams// mcg= micrograms; 1000 mcg=1 mg.) So be careful
that you have 800 mcg B5,100 mcg selenium, and 500 mcg B12 and not mgs of these.
Dosages are extremely important and the length
of time on nutrients until obtaining testing is extremely important. At some point you
have to realize that you are doing the same thing that I criticized the non-orthomolecular
doctors for, and that is that you cannot simply give pills and expect results. Yes, you
will get results, especially because your loved one's person is so starved and deficient
for the vitamins or minerals. It is like being on the hot desert for hours without water
and finally getting a cool drink of water. Your loved one is starving biochemically and
the only thing you see is behavior. I told you that you would find things out about
yourself during the course of helping your loved one.
"Who would ever think that my loved one
was starving? I feel horrible." Get past it. You have your loved one to think about
and there will be plenty of time for you to think back on your own personal adventure to
help your loved one. So your loved one is starved and not only starved but has behavioral
problems such as foul langauage, rage, drugs and the like and you now have vitamins,
minerals, amino acids, and enzymes.
The next step is to get them inside the person.
That is again not so easy since many biochemically ill people feel nothing will help them
even after they admit that there is something wrong with them. In addition, biochemically
ill people sometimes feel paranoid and feel you are trying to control them in so many
ways. They have disperception after disperception. All you are trying to do is help. They
will not take the nutrients. People in the psychological profession state a phrase that I
personally am tired of hearing. People will only help themselves when they are in deep
pain and see no other way out of their mess. I believe if you can get your loved one to
take four or five dosages they will be far more likely to continue because they feel
better.
However, when they get to a certain point of a
week or two and really feel better, but in reality a great distance from total recovery,
they will refuse to take any more nutrients. You have another level of persuasion to
contend with. This goes on for weeks on end. You must attempt to be present and subtle,
but watch your loved one actually take the nutrients so that you can be certain that they
are working, and your loved one is not playing a game about taking the nutrients. There
are a few nutrients that I will recommend for cases of emergencies, such as after a
full-blown rage.
Obviously, the chances of you getting your
loved one to take these amino acids is remote, but they will work to take the edge off the
person's anger and hostility. They are GABA (500mg), Taurine (500mg), Glysine (500mg) and
Lysine (500mg). Give them to your loved one as soon as they will agree to take them, and
another of the same dosage two hours later. All nutrients for now should be taken with
food even if it is a cookie or piece of bread. There are certain nutrients that work
better taken without food, but that is an issue that your orthomolecular doctor can
address. So for now take all nutrients with food. This will help problems with an upset
stomach. Asking a person to take nutrients when they are in a rage or in a high anger
state is next to impossible, but perhaps you can get younger children to take them.
My personal story of nutrients
A few
years ago I did not feel good physically and took one of my every five years physical
exams. I had to be stopped on the treadmill at 7 minutes. (I am 56.) I asked the doctor
what was going on and he informed me that I was about to have a heart attack if I
continued. He stated that he would call and arrange for me to have an angiogram and
angioplasty the next day. Wait a minute. Cholesterol was 260, etc., risk factor ratio of
9.63, HDL 27, LDL 198, triglycerides 175, meant it was bad, etc. The next morning at 8 am
I called a heart doctor. He would take me in in 30 minutes. I went, he did his visual
physical exam and verbal history. "You must have a angiogram to be safe. While we are
in there with the catheter we might as well do the angioplasty. We can do it
tomorrow." This is what I was told. Still, wait a minute. So I said I would think
about it and walked out. That was on Wednesday and I was very sacred to say the least.
On Sunday, I went to Barnes and Noble bookstore
and purchased about $500.00 worth of books on alternatives to by-pass heart surgery and
started reading 3-6 hours at a time.
On Monday, I went to the health food store and
purchased approximately 104 different herbs and vitamins. Here is a list of what I took.
Flax seed oil, Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6,
B12, folic acid, Garlic, psyllium, oat bran, chromium, carnaitine, lysine, gamma oryzanol,
COQ10, pectin, hawthorne berry, evening primrose, vitamin E, grapenol, proline, DHEA,
magnesium, shiitake mushrooms, fenugreek, kelp, black cohosh, glutamine, potassium,
choline, biotin, guggul, celery seed, inositol, tyrosine, St. John's wort, gluthathione,
ginger, lomantium, taurine, pycnogenol, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, superoxide dismustase,
ginkgo, cysteine, livatox, selenium, molybdeum, distilled water, cayenne, zinc, japanese
green tea, lauric acid, guar gum, siberian ginseng, paba, bioflavonoids, kombucha,
calcium, rutin, quercetin, hesperin, manganese, food enzymes, spitulina, grapefruit peel
extract, motherswort, ornithine, arginine, glycine, slippery elm bark, turmeric, and
others that I didn't even keep track of on my dosage lists. I took many if not all four
times per day and I took all at least two times per day.
I had never believed in vitamins and thought
mind over matter was all that counted for good health. I continued to read all my books,
ordered more books, was obsessive-compulsive and almost out of control with fear that
maybe I did not have enough time to correct my problems.
I decided after two weeks (actually 17 days)
that I wanted the heart doctor to do another blood cholesterol test. Cholesterol was 170,
etc., risk factor ratio of 4.6, HDL 37, LDL 95, triglycerides 189. Two weeks later another
test. Cholesterol was 170, etc., risk factor ratio of 4.8, HDL 24, LDL 116, triglycerides
140. I had been megadosing 104 herbs and vitamins four times a day for two weeks and had
no fat, etc. The doctor asked how I did it. I showed him my legal pad with two pages
filled with dosages, when I started, etc., and told him I did not have any idea of how I
reduced the cholesterol. He stated that I should give him the names of a few of these
vitamins so that he could put it on my chart. The only one he was familiar with as he
stated to me was vitamin E. I was dumbfounded. He was the doc and I with my tiny
thimble-full of knowledge knew more than he did. "So what?" Well, it proved to
be something of great importance once I got past my disappointment in the doctor.
I also asked him to do LPa2, homocysteine, and
fibronogen tests and amino acids tests. He said he could not make sense of the results but
said he would order the tests. Then he put on my chart, as I could see, that I would call
back to set up a time for the angioplasty. Obviously the tests never took place there, nor
did the angioplasty even to this date, nor will it. I spent the next two months reading
and compiling information of mechanisms, biochemical pathways, neurological systems and
the like and began to increase my thimble-full of knowledge.
Now that I know a little more about nutrients I
strongly suggest that you not go the megadosing route that I went. It can be very harmful
and work against your desired results. It is different now in terms of asking me the
question of which ones worked. I do know now probably with great certainty which ones did
work but that is after extensive reading on specific research within each and every
nutrient. At this point in my quest to learn more about nutrients I have read a great deal
about research that includes TCM, herbs, botanical influences on health, electric fields,
health hazards and just about anything I can get my hands on. My fear-obsession at the
beginning has turned into a nice friend (my reading) that I would have never thought I
would have had an in interest in pursuing.
I am fortunate that our publishing company is
far enough along that I can take the many hours per day to pursue my reading and thinking.
I probably am obsessed with my reading even now, but I have tempered it with a different
type of philosophy for me that tells me it is worthwhile. The nutrients have given me not
only time to live but have enhanced the quality of my life. (The bookstores love me, of
course.)
There is so much research, valid research, that
is backed up by studies done half way around the world by people who have no connection to
other researchers and yet come to the same conclusions. After awhile you start to do a
mental chart and even later a physical paper chart of all the research that is available
say, for example, on Vitamin B6.
There are some nutrients that have had so much
exhaustive research that literally the books and research papers would weigh many, many
tons. There are other nutrients that are researched very little and you have to weigh that
information with greater caution until others in different research projects either
confirm or deny the results of the finds of the original research. In a way it is like a
mystery novel unfolding.
There are many things that I have read that I
will go back and read for the fourth time to make certain that I got it correct. So when I
say that such and such nutrients will do thus and so, it is not just my thinking but far
more importantly it is backed up by the many researchers and clincians who have done the
"hands on" research. So if I say niacin or zinc or vitamin C or B6 are extremely
necessary I mean it as strongly as I can say in written words.
One word about clinicians and the term.
Clinicians may or may not be researchers as well. If they are, as in many cases of the
research that I have based this book on, you will find information far more practical and
meaningful since these clinicians have tried their methods on humans as well as animals,
and even in some cases on themselves before testing results on their patients. How many
medical association-type doctors (non-biochemically trained, non-orthomolecular) do you
know of that do that? None that I have ever come in contact with. Any profession has
people that lack vision, insight, or openmindedness, but it seems like the
non-orthomolecular doctor has arrived at total knowledge. Therefore, why should they
continue to study, much less do research on themselves which is risky, or do research on
animals so that they could help their patients? So that is another difference in the
quality of the human being that "just happens to be a doctor" as in the case of
a biochemically trained or orthomolecular doctor.
There has been so much worthwhile research on
biochemicals over the last 60 years that it is in fact a wonder that it has never made its
impact into the curriculum of medical schools of the non-trained or non-orthomolecular
type doctors.
Back to nutrients. So there is a difference in
how you will view the nutrients. You may end up doing the same thing that I have and that
is to research out all the available information you can get your hands on and weigh it
out for its merits and doctor yourself. I don't think you will have to do that if you find
an open-minded orthomolecular doctor. Then you can use their minds.
I would still suggest you learn more than the
basic principles of biochemistry. "I had chemistry in high school and never really
liked it. I wasn't any good at it." Think. I am not talking about 2x=4y but basic
principles of how the biochemicals work. Anyone with two ounces of sense can understand
most research in biochemistry. There may be studies here and there that at first don't
make sense to you, but if someone tells you zinc, the mineral and trace mineral at that,
works in over 600 enzyme reactions in the body you do not have to do any equations or
calulations to figure out that zinc is indeed important. Then you figure out how it works
with other nutrients. Then you figure out what tests or evaluations are necesary for an
accurate test of your own amounts of zinc. Some tests are highly accurate and meaningful
to an orthomolecular trained doctor; other tests are questionable in their validity and
provide only some usable information; some nutrient tests are not even available- they
don't exist. You don't go to an orthomolecular doctor and say, "Doc, I want all the
tests known to mankind on nutrients done on me." It is not that way. Also, some
biochemically trained doctors practice as the TCM doctors do. They will take a history of
your symptoms and they have a very good, if not precise, idea of what your problem is and
correct it with or without any elaborate testing. "That is the same as non-trained
biochemial doctors, so what's the difference?" The difference is huge. The body
responds to the natural substances within the body with nutrients which are natural to
your body.
Antibiotics, drugs, and all the
artifact-non-nutrient based materials are not natural to your body. "But, antibiotics
work." Yes, they do, but only to a certain degree and then they start take their toll
of damage on you. "Do you mean to say that all of the medicine that I take is harmful
to me?" Most all of it. Nutrients are not alternative forms of medicine but
the natural ingredients for wellness. They are medicine, if you want to call it
that, the way it should be in your body.
"Well, let's get on with it for my loved
one. What should she take?" There you go with that damn quick fix again. Open your
mind a little and invest something of your time and energy, and who knows? You might even
learn something. (Sorry about that, but your quick fix idea does get to me.) "I have
a grandmother who has heart trouble and she takes 13 different pills. Some she takes twice
a day. Are you saying that she doesn't need them and she should stop?" Yes, she
should stop but only, and I mean only, under the direct supervision of well-trained
orthomolecular doctor.
"You mean all those pills she takes may be
hurting her?" They probably with much certainty are. "Wait a minute. I am sorry
I brought it up. I just want to know about my loved one's recovery." Why do you think
that biochemical illness is only behavior? You are going backwards in your thinking. All
biochemical illness has different and varied ways of telling us the total person is not
working the way it should be and that the behavior or whatever else it is whether it is
gallstones, heart, liver problems or whatever, it is connected to the total person. Just
sit still and think for awhile. It will make sense. "I still think you are
wrong." (no comment.) Finally, back to nutients.
Frederick Klenner and Vitamin C
Dr.
Frederick Klenner was a medical doctor for many years in Reidsville, N.C. He came by way
of the use of vitamin C in megadoses as a result of knowing that a plant-like tree called
boneset, which contained 30 times the amount of vitamin C as in one orange, would help his
patients. His story and the discovery is quite interesting to read. Please do so.
The main point of Klenner's use of
vitamin C was the megadose volume of vitamin C and the timing of its use. He found that
vitamin C in large doses (50,00-300,000 milligrams) would reduce symptoms, reverse
symptoms, and aid in the healing of many problems by altering toxins, viral infections,
and hosts of other invaders. He was the first to suggest 15,000 milligrams per day for the
healthy person without disease.
Klenner and Irwin Stone were the pioneers that
established research and the practical application of vitamin C usage before Linus
Pauling, who continued their research and applications with the vitamin C. Klenner was not
a researcher but the use of vitamin C on his patients and their recoveries could be called
his research. It worked for his patients so Klenner used it. Simple. If it works do it.
There are so many things that Klenner used
vitamin C for in his patients. I will give you a short list which includes the following
uses: encephalitis, viral pneumonia, sudden infant death syndrome, severe burns, wound
healing, carbon monoxide poisoning, leg cramps, shock, toxins from snakes, spiders, and
other poisonous insects, diabetes, mononucleosis, cancer, barbituate posioning,
cholestrol, lockjaw, heat stroke, intoxication from alcohol, glaucoma, arthritis, sunburn,
smallpox vaccination allergic reaction, tetanus, pre- and post- surgery wound healing and
many, many more.
The remarkable thing about Klenner's use of
vitamin C and his meagdose usage by vein injections was the sometimes immediate results.
As soon as the vitamin C was injected the patient became better. Many times certain
problems would be alleviated within minutes. If you have severe problems I suggest that
you find someone like Klenner (now deceased) who understands how meagadoses of vitamin C
work. As I have said before, there are a few nutrients that are very special in their role
to wellness and vitamin C is among the best of these, along with vitamins B3, B6, and
zinc.
I am very glad that Pauling won the Nobel prize
for biochemistry, but it is also a shame that people like Klenner and Stone have been
almost forgotten.
Dosages
/ Continued Thoughts - Our Automobile Journey (Our Engine Type, Fuel Needs, and Terrain)
We are going to take a auto journey. Before I
start to tell you about dosages, let me give you an analogy. If you have a large
automobile it probably requires a large engine. It probably requires more fuel than a
smaller auto which has a smaller engine. So the first thing we have to decide on is the
type of fuel we use. It may be gasoline, electrical-powered, sun-powered, or diesel fuel.
This is the type of engine requirement for fuel. This is our vitamins B3, B6, zinc and
vitamin C. If we are driving across country from Maine to San Francisco we try to plan to
have enough fuel for that journey. How well our engine works, its size, weight, etc. will
govern how much fuel we need and use. The same is true with nutrients. We have a problem
here though because we have biochemical individuality which means every person interprets
his or her own need for fuel in a different way.
With our auto journey we have been given
information based on test trials by the manufacturer that give the upper and lower limit
guidelines for minimum and maximum use of a particular fuel. With nutrient dosages we
don't have a manufacturer's guide, even though many tests and much research has indicated
some guidelines.
The next aspect of our auto journey across
country is the type of terrain. We have flat areas, mountains, low lattitude, high
lattitude, and various other aspects such as wind, rain, snow, etc. All of these determine
how effectively our engine can perform. With nutrients, terrain is stress. We have
internal stresses and well as external stresses. Many times it is rather easy to see how
external stresses affect the organism. If you have had a slightly stressful day you may
have diarrhea the next day. You may have tight-feeling skin, blood-shot eyes or the like.
They appear to be physical symptoms. However, what if you continued to experience stress
day after day and the stresses were more than slight stresses? Think of it as traveling in
the mountains of the Continental Divide. Then stresses require greater nutrients. We get
back to biochemical individuality here because each person interprets the need for
nutrients as caused by stresses in a different manner.
To this point we have been talking about
external stresses. Now we come to a very big one. Internal stresses can be even worse in
their ability to drain nutrients from the organism. Internal stresses are very difficult
to talk about, and at this point even very little language to describe internal stresses
has been fully developed. Internal stressors are all those things that for whatever
reasons cause the organism to interpret itself in need of "something". What is
that something? Yes, it's nutrients, but probably much more such as "chi" and
electrical energy, which we will talk about later in the chapter on TCM. I bring up the
differences in stresses, external and internal, to show you that you may think that such
and such stress had a great effect on you or such and such stress had very little effect
on you. We may have diarrhea, a bad behavior problem, or a protein metabolism problem from
stresses experienced the previous day. It may also be from stresses you suffered twenty
years prior.
There is another aspect that internal stress
has. Internal and external stresses work together. Anything that is out goes in and
anything that is in goes out. (Later you will see this in detail in TCM.)
Let me give you an example. I remember reading
some research about a woman who was fully psychotic. She was in such bad shape mentally
that she had to be strapped to her bed in the hospital. Over a period of weeks she was
given vitamin C daily, but it was not until the dosages reached 45,000 mg daily that she
had full recovery and no psychotic symptoms of any kind. Yes, she was like you and me.
Then the doctors tried to figure out a way that she could be released from the hospital
with a lower dosage of vitamin C. They started at 40,000 mg daily. Yes, you guessed it.
She became fully psychotic again. They increased her dosage to 42,000 mg daily and she
still had psychotic symptoms. Then back to 45,000 mg daily and she was well again.
"Do you mean only 3000 mg daily of vitamin C made her crazy or normal?" You have
rather harsh words, but you are correct. Just 3000 mg daily made the entire difference.
Back to our terrain or in nutritional terms-
our stressors. No one knows at this point whether problems are caused by external or
internal stresses or the interplay between them. You have just been told of the Klenner
research and how it relieves symptoms, including increasing the ability to withstand pain.
We assume at this point that nutrients relieve pain rather than blocking pain orginators
or receptors.
The person who researched the idea of
biochemical individuality was Roger Williams, a brilliant researcher and an especially
great thinker. Without an understanding of his contribution to orthomolecular medicine
almost all nutrient dosages would be meaningless. It would be like a shot in the dark,
never fully understanding how biochemicals work.
There is one other part about the
psychotic-normal woman who required 45,000 mg daily of vitamin C. Dosages may last one
hour or ten hours but probably not more than 24 hours. The woman required dosages two
times per day every 8 to 10 hours to regulate her needs. Personally, I can tell you that I
had heart angina pain and had just started to megadose nutrients and herbs. I could only
go approximately three hours without feeling a need to have another dosage.
As time went on over several months I could
extend the dosages to five hours, then six hours, etc. The pain was still not there.
Finally, the pain went away entirely. Please, do not think of angina pain as heart pain
but a malfunction of the total organism with specific symptoms showing up as heart angina
pain.
For your loved one there is a huge difference
between one dosage per day and four dosages per day. Personally, for severe problems go
for the four dosages per day route. Your loved one's bad behavior, an extension of
something inside the organism, may need four dosages per day for a short time or for an
extended period of time. Your loved one may have an organism "gas tank" that can
utilize a lot of nutrients very fast. The gas tank may be big or small.
So let me bring you up to date in our
cross-country auto journey (dosages). We have engine type, size, fuel type, and terrain.
Dosages might be compared to gas station stops or refueling stations along our journey.
Let's say we are driving over the Continental
Divide and our engine fails completely. We have gas in the tank but the engine is not able
to use it. We have already mentioned enzymes and sequence order of biochemical balance.
When the engine fails it is the same thing - a failure of biochemical sequences even if
nutrients are present in the organism.
You will
remember that Osmond was injected with adrenolutin in one experiment and LSD25 in another.
You asked the question as to how the doctors corrected his behavioral difficulties. I told
you that they gave him nicotinic acid (vitamin B3). However, there is one additional thing
that I did not mention which is very important. Osmond and others reported in their
diary-type personal analysis that the effects of nicotinic acid (vitamin B3) would loose
their efficiency. When they took more nicotinic acid all their behavioral difficulties
would go away. I have already mentioned the disperception of the length of recovery time
that Osmond thought. I do not want you to think that Osmond took nicotinic acid one time
and all of his reactions to adrenolutin or LSD25 went away. Osmond and others who did
these experiments needed nicotinic acids in varying amounts and for varying times for each
person.
There is another special consideration here
too. Osmond was an intact, healthy person by general standards and did not exhibit any bad
behavioral traits prior to injection. What would happen, however, if he had many
biochemical imbalances prior to injection? This is what may be the case with your loved
one. She may have many biochemical imbalances going on and then have stress induced
adrenochromes go wild. The results may, in fact, cause rage or any of the bad behavioral
traits already mentioned. Then you get back to biochemical individuality.
So please do not think that if you are giving
3000 mg daily of nictonic acid (vitmain B3) that you can't go to 4000 mg daily or 7000 mg
daily if you need to. Also, first you have to obtain biochemical stability with megadosing
many times. Then you can use less time-restricted dosages. Also, you may have to increase
the amount of each nutrient. Remember, you are only seeing bad behavior traits as your
guide. When they disappear you will feel you have biochemical balance in your loved one.
You probably do. (Vitamin B6 repeated from before because of its importance)
The Three B's
(not Bach, Beethoven and Brahms) Vitamins B3, B6, and B 12
I will talk about vitamin B6 first. Vitamin B6
deficiency or vitamin B6 imbalance, and therefore a deficiency, will cause a poor
tolerance to stress, limited dream recall, sunlight sensitivity (burning rather than
tanning), pain in the upper part of the abdomen, and hyperactivity, which may cause
learning disabilities usually showing up in adolescence or slightly later such as the
freshman year in college. So far it doesn't sound that important. Hang on because it is
very important. Also, this vitamin B6 deficiency will demonstrate cyclic or periodic
depression with marked evidence of apathy and indifference, followed by attempts to regain
one's reality thus creating stress, failures, and frustrations due to the lack of vitamin
B6 and zinc.
It is this second part of the larger cycle that
you have to be very cautious of since it is the time when psychotic attacks may take
place. So you have a vitamin B6 deficiency, followed by a depression. Then attempts at
functioning are failed, which is the second part of the depression cycle. Finally, more
attempts at function are made and failure results in the possibilty of a psychotic attack.
The reason for the possibility of psychotic
attacks in the second part of depressive cycles is not fully understood, but it can be
because the Vitamin B6-zinc momentarily restores itself followed by a huge need for
vitamin B6 and zinc when they already have a deficiency. Thus, there is a higher level of
strain or draw on vitamin B6-zinc when they attempt to function.
From all my reading I have found that two
individuals stand out in the research of Vitamin B6 and zinc. They are Carl Pfieffer and
Eric Braverman. Their research will give you many, many reasons why and how the vitamin B6
and zinc actions and reactions work or don't work in your loved one. One very important
thing that you should be aware of is that when your loved one is in depression they are
trying by biochemical means to restore their supply of vitamin B6 and zinc (a means of
protecting the organism at all costs, even if it means being in depression and pulling
back from all stresses and thus demonstrating apathy and indifference). If they did not go
into depression would they, in fact, die? I don't know, but it does demonstrate the
massive amount of energy that the organism will expend in order to protect itself first,
regardless of the quality of life, which is a human trait and not a biological one. So,
this is why your loved one can go through a depression of apathy and indifference and then
in a few days or weeks start to function again. You begin to think they are back to normal
and then you find that they, again, cannot function at all. The ebb and flow of the
vitamin B6-zinc with its fluctuations is the cause.
Remember, all you see is behavior and that is
what you are judging, but it is the lack of biochemicals that cause confusion for your
loved one. These cycles go on for years and years if they are not changed
biochemically and with biochemical balance. So you didn't know that the organism
had a "will" of its own. It does biochemically, and may have in other ways that
we don't know of yet, as well. There is a very definite reason for the depression, and as
bad as it is for your loved one it is telling you that biochemically the organism is
attempting to stay alive.
After the depression and stress is brought on
by the quest to function by your loved one you will see them fail in their attempts to
make things work. Your loved one is having so much difficulty and you think it is just
another part of the psychological depression. So you may think that one day they are
better behaviorally and all things have changed for the better. They have not and, in
fact, it is merely a readjusting of the vitamin B6-zinc levels at that time to be followed
by another cycle.
Let's say that when your loved one is in
apathy-indifference depression they restore 2 ounces worth of vitamin B6-zinc, and then
they come out of depression and start their attempts at function. However, they need 7
ounces of vitamin B6-zinc. It is the extra need that causes stress and that stress causes
a massive depletion of vitamin B6-zinc, far greater than when they were in depression.
This extra need for vitamin B6-zinc can and does many times cause many and all possible
behavioral problems including aggression, violence (self-inflicted or to others), and a
multitude of bad behaviors all of which are causing an even greater call for more vitamin
B6-zinc.
Over and over again, time after time, forever
if you want to put it that way. You may think all you have to do is to give them vitamin
B6 and zinc, and you are correct. So do it. But also remember that you don't know how much
they need, and that is a very big problem. Get to an orthomolecular doctor. In the
meantime give them vitamin B6 and zinc.
Remember, the organism will go to any and all
extremes to protect itself and all you see is behavior. Wow, what a mess in our thinking.
We think we are helping our loved one and are so far from the reasons for their
difficulties.
Insanity is another very obvious means the
organism has to protect itself. The person would rather go insane, with all breaks from
any and all realities and yet still remain an organism, than die. The same protective
mechanism for insanity is also at work in the ebb and flow of vitamin B6-zinc,
depression-attempts to function cycles.
I have already mentioned lunar cyclic problems
that may occur with your loved one. I do not know if there is always a direct connection
with the ebb and flow of vitamin B6-zinc that runs at the same time as lunar cycles, but if there is then you may have greater
difficulties than just the ebb and flow cycle by itself.
So remember, depression has two parts,
if we can call it that. The first I call apathy and indifference and the second is
attempts to function that include stress which are caused by attempts at function.
(Go back and read all the apathy-indifference statements made by the Hoffer experiment
with adrenolutin in Chapter One. Remember that those are only one part of the cycle.)
These attempts at function are "will" determined we think, but I think they are
really biochemical. These attempts deplete the vitamin B6-zinc so fast and so thoroughly
that you can get flood-gate after flood-gate, failure after failure, pain after pain,
confusion as to why things don't work and even violence, aggression, hostility, or even
murder. If you are not afraid now, I don't know how to scare you.
Guess what? You at this point are only
observing the pains of your loved one and you are not "in their skin" and don't
feel their pains as they do. If you did, you would be just as overwhelmed as they are.
"Strong stuff isn't it?" Yes, it is strong stuff. I don't want to get into all
the reasons why vitamin B6-zinc are so extremely important but if your remember the
Pfeiffer story of the little girl with the oysters then you can see how important a
vitamin or mineral are.
This vitamin and trace mineral are primary nutrients- an absolute must for your loved one. If you don't take these you will without any question have problems .
Starting to "connect dots" about
nutrients and behavior- Vitamin B6 and zinc direct relationships
1)Quiet and withdrawn- may be restoring vitamin B6 and zinc. Quiet and withdrawn
disappears with supplementation of vitamin B6 and zinc.
2)Paradox of pushing is removed slowly by vitamin B6 and zinc or in some cases in as few
as 8 hours.
3)Foods that cause behavioral problems because they alter the nutrient needs no longer
cause as much allergic damaging behavoiral traits with Vitamin B6 and zinc. These
nutrients remove a great deal of the problems but in no way removes all food allergic
reactions and resultant behaviors. B6 and zinc change all or parts of depression cycles.
4)A list of signs for biochemical imbalance that are directly related to vitamin B6-zinc
deficiencies in depression (in 2 states-) a) state of depression- antisocial, limited or
no sense of humor, lack of smiles, no laughter, foul language, lack of empathy b) attempts
at function state- all the hazard signs, fire, violence to objects, others, themselves,
cruelty to animals, resist changes because they are stressful, obsessive behaviors, being
boss because it takes less stress to be boss, all diminish or disappear. c) these
depression cycles go on for years and years if they are not changed biochemically and with
biochemical balance.
5)Copper causes many behavioral problems and copper is balanced with zinc and, thus, less
of the behavioral problems as per copper as the cause.
6)Flood-gates diminish or disappear when vitamin B6 and zinc are given.
7)Aminochromes are stabalized and inactivated into forming harmful adrenolutin, which
causes very bad behavioral traits. Extremely important.
8)Disperceptions are lessened or disappear, especially disperceptions that are fear based,
with vitamin B6 and zinc
9)Greater reality choosing
10)Less "give me" attitude and in many totally disappears
11)Pushing paradox is diminished or disappears
12)Short term memory returns and is fully functional.
13)Foul language diminishes and may disappear after several days
14)All of the senses are improved depending on the severity of biochemical imbalance.
15)Fearless fear diminishes and in a few days disappears
16)Verbal assaults lessen but may be one of the last things to deal with as a parent.
Empathy is difficult for the biochemically imbalanced to develop. You will see less verbal
assaults but it will not go away until some degree of empathy is present.
17)They become more "normal" for their own "normal" self
18)Caution- suicide is a very difficult problem. Even though your loved one shows many
signs of recovery be very much on guard with suicidal thoughts they may have. When they
are biochemically balanced you will be able to back off of your worry about suicide a
little since you can see that time after time they show very solid evidence of biochemical
balance in their behavior.
19)You can take on less of their responsibility because they can now handle more due to
vitamin B6 and zinc.
20)Very improved appetite especially because zinc, which activates the taste senses, and
vitamin B6 increase the need for volume of food.
21)Regulated Sleep is more peaceful, regenerating and dreams help to discharge emotions
especially with vitamin B6.
22)Cyclic problems will disappear with vitamin B6 and zinc.
23)Your loved one feels less desire to analyze each and every thing, less racing mind
thoughts because of vitamin B6 and zinc.
24)Your loved one has a desire for and participates in far more physical exercise and thus
feels better. This is a direct result of vitamin B6 and zinc.
25)You can a have normal conversation with a beginning, middle, and an end with verbal
interchanges that make sense to you and your loved one without long winded discourses on
the values or lack of values of each and every thing on the planet. This a direct result
of vitamin B6 and zinc.
26)Sugar desires may be diminished but they will not fully go away
27)Because you can have normal conversations now, you can talk to them about any or all
the addictions they may have and they will many times alter their addictions.
28)Daily routines return, desires to return to rituals, social customs and daily chores
are initiated and obtained by your loved one.
29)Removes fatigue associated with depression.
30)I must tell you of one of the most satisfying aspect that you will immediately notice
that I haven't talked any about. Because your loved one can now deal in the proper manner
with more activities and the stress that those activities cause, they will be able to
enjoy almost all activities as an adventure and have a reason to do it. They have a joy
about what they are doing regardless of what it is. This is truly remarkable that vitamin
B6 and zinc can do this. I have personally seen it over and over again. I don't know if it
fits into any charting category somewhere, but for me it is extremely important. It is as
if there is "will" to do with joy. All of this is also biochemically enhanced,
induced, and perpetuated. Truly amazing what a few nutrients will do.
Now that is what vitamin B6 and zinc do. These
are not my thoughts or wishes but clinical evidence from patients throughout the world.
Even if you only got of few of these wonderful behavioral changes it will be well worth
it, and you get them all.
You have probably never in your entire lifetime
thought of so many things that you thought were behavioral traits that are in fact
directed by biochemicals and even specific biochemicals at that-vitamin B6 and zinc.
"I feel a little better and I think I will
get her to take this B6 and zinc and see what happens." Good for you, but we are not
in any way finished with our analysis of Vitamin B3, another big nutrient with huge
positive behavior enhancing properties.
Here is Vitamin B3 (Niacin, nicotinic acid, niacinamide)
Vitamin
B3 does all the same things as vitamin B6 and zinc with the following exceptions, but
before I point up the exceptions let me stress the point that Vitamin B3 works in a
different biochemical pathway than vitamin B6 and zinc to achieve its results. Neither is
an exclusive or a replacement for the other and you can't choose which one you think will
do the best biochemical balancing job for your loved one. All three nutrients are
necessary and essential. There are things that vitamin B3 does that are better than
vitamin B6 and vice versa, so just take them all and don't forget the zinc, please.
The exceptions that I spoke of are:
1)Vitamin B3 does not work to balance out high levels of copper as well as does zinc.
2)Foods that cause behavioral problems because they alter the nutrient needs no longer
cause as much allergic damaging behavioral traits with Vitamin B6 and zinc. These
nutrients remove a great deal of the problems but in no way remove all food allergic
reactions and resultant behaviors. Vitamin B3 has limited action for this result. This is
based on the very limited research available at this point.
3)Regulated Sleep is more peaceful, regenerating and dreams help to discharge emotions
especially with vitamin B6. This is not so much with vitamin B3.
I must now go back to one very important
difference, however, regarding adrenochromes. Of all the research that I have gathered
Vitamin B3 works better at adrenochrome stabalization in my opinion and thus works for
more severe cases of particular types of psychotic behavioral disorders.
Yet, even this statement can be challenged by
defining the type of disorder and vitamin B6 seems to work better for another type of
behavioral disorder and so on. Please, don't even think of choosing. There has been some
extensive research done that says that certain types of behavioral disorders should not
receive vitamin B3 because it will make their behavior worse. However, my personal opinion
is that that is not something that you can decide on, and you need to seek out an
orthomolecular doctor to help you through this issue. In the meantime have your loved one
take vitamin B3, vitamin B6, zinc and vitamin C.
I hope by now you can see how some of the
various things are fitting together on a biochemical level and the reason why biochemical
balance is so necessary for wellness of any kind and that includes behavioral traits. I am
giving you simple, easily understood concepts of what happens, but please, do read the
very specific research books. "Well, I will try, but to this point I was just barely
hanging in there on what you said. If the research books are that complicated I might have
trouble understanding them." Give it a try. You need to know from the research first
with first hand science.
What Percentage of Our Population has Biochemical Illness and Behavioral Illnesses?
I will
give you figures and then tell you how I came about these figures. Hang on to your hats.
We have over 8% with full symptoms of schizophrenia, 15-20% with physical handicaps that
are caused by biochemical imbalances, either before birth or shortly thereafter, and
another 20% with very specific behavioral disorders not counted in the schizophrenic
group. That totals to a wopping 48% of the total population. Almost any behavioral illness
you can think of has a biochemical imbalance root to its cause if you investigate those
illnesses far enough. Many things which we call culture-based abnormalities such as drug
use, prostitution, alcoholism, gambling, obsesssive traits of any kind which show up in
behavioral damaging directions have biochemical imbalance as their root cause.
"Wait a minute. You mean a prostitute who
sells her or his body is biochemically imbalanced?" Yes, that is correct. Remember,
you are only seeing behavior and not seeing the root cause. You can say that they chose to
do that profession and that they should know better. You may be correct that far in your
thinking but you must carry your thinking on a step farther.
Any and all stress as interpreted by the person
has a variety of ways that the person interprets those stresses. If those stresses get
into the genes we have one problem, but I will not talk of that one until later in the
chapter dealing with heredity. However, I will talk about the 20% of people with general
behavior problems. If you have limited logic, limited mental resources, limited reality
choosing, and limited insight into consequences then you have a wide-open area that causes
people to have behavioral problems. Remember, these are caused by biochemical imbalance so
all the talk, incarcerations, judgements, and ridicule in the world are not going to come
close to solving the problems. If your loved one is in school you probabaly have already
heard of some youngsters that have been labeled trouble-makers or misfits. Your son or
daughter goes to school with them. You can say that your son or daughter doesn't act that
way and they don't associate with misfits. You are talking about a social-cultural view. I
am talking about biochemicals. It doesn't matter if you have a child that has an IQ of
138, is on every honor program the school has to offer, or is involved in every activity
the community has to offer. If your child becomes biochemically imbalanced you will have
your own "misfit" and they too will be labled just as you labled others as
misfits. Then you will change your tune because you will see first-hand what can happen
with biochemical imbalance. Public schools in the U.S. are not even close to the problems
of biochemical imbalances and are still preaching social-Freudian adjustment behavioral
nonsense that is a waste of time.
Take your city's population. Take out 48% of
its population which leaves 52% of all others to function and help all the other 48% who
have biochemical imbalances. See if you too are not exhausted at the idea of helping
others. It is truly staggering to think that one in five children going to school has a
biochemical imbalance that does show up in behavioral problems of some kind. It is a
wonder the world functions at all. I have already talked about what stress can do and I
will talk about it again later as well, but you must remember that stress of any kind,
including biochemical imbalances which cause stress, are very damaging. You can play games
with the figures if you want. Your son or daughter is not schizophrenic. Then we are down
to 40% of the population. You can say that your son or daughter dosen't show any
behavioral signs of biochemcial illness.
Biochemical imbalances cause many different
diseases, not just behavioral illnesses. These illnesses may take years to develop. Even
though your child is only ten or twelve years old now and is fine, that is no indication
that they will not start college and have a major illness or even behavioral illness. The
other disgusting thing about our culture is the overt disregard for any others that
suffer. We will help a child with a physical ailment. We will join and support special
olympics for mentally retarded children. We will go out of our way to show compassion for
many with any form of physical problems. That is wonderful. We should be doing that. We
should continue to do that. We also have to recognize that a seond grader who has
behavioral problems caused by biochemical imbalances has just as much rights to the same
dignity and respect we showed for all those others I have already mentioned. "I don't
have to like them and their parents can take care of them," might be your answer.
In blunt terms I will say you are stupid,
uncaring, very selfish and do not see the process of life. Yes, I said you are stupid and
uncaring and I mean it. You are stupid because you think that it does not affect you or
your loved one. It does and will for a long time. It will also affect your loved ones even
when you are gone because they will have these same so-called misfits that need their
help. Maybe your children will be smarter than you are. Maybe they will be forced to help
the so-called misfits. Just because the problems are not on your door step now does not
mean that they will not be.
At some point either directly by biochemical
imbalance in your own children later or by their social interactions for years to come
your loved ones will have these problems. Another reality you may not want. It is here
folks, so just get down to the business of helping. Certainly, the sooner the better. Yes,
it is so much easier to correct biochemcial imbalance at a younger age.
Forget Parent Teachers Associations for awhile
and form a Better Living Through the Correct Biochemicals Association at the school or
anywhere else. Someone thought PTA associations would help with other situations and they
did and still are of some value. Form your own biochemical associations. Yes, right in the
schools, churches, or wherever. You are not going to correct so many problems until you do
something biochemically to have balance. You might as well start now.
I personally spent over 7 years in the Boy
Scouts, Sea Explorers, etc. and can tell you that the study of biochemicals and their
effects on behavior would be a very good thing to study for a merit badge. Think up your
own ways to help others with biochemical imbalances.
A few thoughts on the nutrient supplement business.
In 1997, people in the U.S. spent over 5 billion
dollars on nutritional supplements. If you use a figure of $60 per month times 12 you get
$720. Then take that divided into 5 billion dollars and you get 1,388,888 people who
purchased nutrient supplements. Really that is far less than I would have thought and it
does show just how far we are from an understanding of what nutrients do for wellness in
our population. If you total up all the prisoners, the outcasts of society as we label
them, the schizophrenics and specific label mentally ill, all those that have major
biochemical imbalances and thus major illnesses including behavioral illnesses, then you
would have far more than 1,388,888 people. But I forgot that most of the last group that I
mentioned does not take nutrients in the first place.
I have never liked statistics much because of
the very impersonal nature of the numbers and I don't care much for it here either because
these statistics indicate that we as a population are truly like sheep and follow whatever
lead is put in front of us. In much of what we have been talking about it has been for the
most part from a negative point of view about illness, and very little has been said about
the wellness that is effected by nutrients. Wellness is not the same as the lack of
illness, and wellness and the quality of life that it brings about are the things
that so many people are missing.
Review
vitamins, minerals,
amino acids Key words-sentences
1)Vitamins, minerals, amino acids
2)My personal story of nutrients
3)Nutrients are not alternative forms of medicine but the natural ingredients for
wellness.
4)Vitamins- The Three B's (not Bach, Beethoven and Brahms) Vitamins B3, B6, and B12
5)Depression has two parts, if we can call it that. The first I call apathy and
indifference and the second is attempts to function that include stress which are caused
by attempts at function.
6)Vitamin B6 and zinc. This vitamin and trace mineral are primary nutrients- an absolute
must for your loved one. If you don't take these you will without any question have
behavioral problems . Vitamin B3 (Niacin or nicotinic acid, niacinamide)
7)What percentage of our population has biochemical illness and behavioral illnesses?
8)A few thoughts on the nutrient supplement business
CHAPTER 6
Social Aloneness, Loneliness / Others with Disperceptions
One of the many difficult and
constant aspects to see in your loved one's biochemical illness is that of loneliness and
aloneness. Your loved one will feel so isolated as if no one cares at all that they exist.
Part of the problem is disperception and the other part may be that of our culture and its
inability to deal or share with those that don't seem to fit. They may be classified as
misfits or social outcasts and the like but the fact that they have this "paradox of
pushing" that I mentioned earlier causes many of the biochemically ill to invest
large amounts of time with others who likewise have just as many disperceptions or in some
cases more disperceptions. Each person in a group (not even necessarily a
"gang") keeps tossing their own disperceptions into the pot of confusion. Your
loved one does the same and because of the confirmation by others with disperceptions it
gives confirmation to your loved one's disperception. A bond is formed. You can ask why
they didn't choose someone without disperceptions or confusion to bond with, but it
doesn't happen that way. "Why didn't they choose me?" (unanswered) Let me give
you an example. We all, as intact thinking humans, may think that any system or authority
can at any time be corrupt just as we put our trust in them to be our representatives in
society. If you take the police, for example, there may be 4 out 10 police people that you
feel are not always fair in their dealings with people when the police are performing
their duty. You may say, "No, I believe only 1 in 10 is more accurate." Whatever
you choose you have shown shades of evaluation- a variable. You did allow for humanness.
But let's say that your loved one says that all police people when performing their duties
are mean, hateful, will beat you up physically just because of your appearance and
language, and the police people will follow you around until they "get you".
That is a disperception going into paranoia- a fear when there is no reason for fear. We
can stop right there, but there are even more disperceptions of seeing things "only
in black and white" - "one way or the other" issues. Not all police people
are going to treat you this way. Yes, some will, but to carry with you every day this lack
of seeing the total truth about a situation on a regular basis will and does build
disperceptions.
Every reminder of the police will activate
these disperceptions all over again, again and again, for many years. Even when your loved
one is somewhat biochemically balanced there are times when they may still give
rationalizations as to why they believed the way they did. So to bring up a conversation
about the police as to whether they are good or bad will activate a
disperception.
"How do I know when they are no longer
having disperceptions about the police in this analogy?" You may think that because
your loved one has not mentioned it for some period of time that they have integrated it
into their personality and have realized that their reasoning was not right because they
only saw humans as good or bad, as in the analogy of the police. But you may be greatly
surprised when you find that one remark can and does "trigger" a complete flood
of disperceptions about the police.
"So, do I talk about it or do I keep quiet
about it and hope it will go away?" For the time do not bring it up. They will
anyway. I have already told you it will not go away until the biochemicals are balanced.
Many if not all disperceptions will go away then. It is not about the police, and it is
not about disperceptions, but is about biochemical balance. It is like that old adage
people use when they say such and such is the "root cause" of something.
Here we are talking about root cause, not just
the police or any disperception but the original source of the problem. Let's carry this
police analogy a little farther. Let's say that your loved one is stopped for a speeding
violation and has a disperception that that particular policeman is going to physically
harm them or at least give them a verbal barrage of abuse. As a defense, your loved one
gets into a verbal argument that escalates in a few sentences to a physical duel with the
policeman. Your loved one's adrenal glands start their fight or flight overdrive
secretions of masive amounts of biochemicals that cause great harm to him or her. Yes, it
is true that the adrenal gland secretions are there for the dual purpose of providing
almost super energy that also protects, but the secretions can be very damaging and do
affect reason or logic either in a positive or negative way. Any secretions will alter the
biochemical nature of our person. So we have the biochemical root and the behavior as its
extension. The situation is the stimuli, and the stimuli is increased. Everything
including the secretions increases as well.
In the ensuing moments your loved one is tossed
to the car and hits his head and is unconscious. You might say it was an accident and at
this point it really doesn't matter (more later).
Your loved one is then taken to the hospital
and is in a coma. You sit by the bed and wonder just how this could have happened. You too
are confused, but you now know that the disperception, whether or not it went into full
paranoia on the part of your loved one, caused part of this. Yes, you can say that the
policeman should have known that he had a person with a disperceptions. If you didn't know
that your loved one was having disperceptions and you say you know your loved one well,
then how could you expect a policeman that does not know your loved one to know about your
loved one's disperceptions? Your loved one is in a coma and you are so tired of seeing
your loved one go from one set of pains to another. They get out of one mess and before
they have a chance to recover they are into another. The spiral is never-ending. Let's go
another step with our police analogy.
Let's say that your loved one did not hit his
head and ended up having a physical fight with the policeman. The end result is that your
loved one is in jail for assualt and is found by the court to be guilty and must serve six
months in jail.
Then think of all the missed opportunities, the
new pains, the uncertainty of the new harsh surroundings with all the others who have even
greater boichemical problems than your loved one, forced into the same environment as your
loved one, and your loved one must deal with these new stimuli, without even having a
inkling of prior experience with this sort of life.
Another thing you will hear over and over from
people with disperceptions is they "will die for their principle". That is an
admirable trait if it is truly for a great cause, but if it is a disperception and not a
great cause I simply call it a waste- a huge waste. It is that fearless-fear I spoke of
earlier. And what about all the criminals that rob people, assault their wifes or
husbands, children, or kill people? Yes, it will finally be established that they too have
a biochemical illness.
"Do you mean to say that everything in
this whole wide world is biochemical?" To some degree that is true. Why do you think
it is so important to find water on Mars? "What did you say?" Yes, water on
Mars. Because water implies that oxygen and hydrogen, two of the most essential elements
for life, are there. If the correct biochemicals are all there then we might have some
form of life .
Back to our analogy. "Do you mean to say
that all criminals and all behaviors are not just regulated by but are directly controlled
by biochemicals?" I say it is regulated for the most part but controlled in others.
That is why some people have no control over their actions whether physical or mental
(yes, I know I used these terms). The person with polio had a virus that affected that
person's biochemicals, which affected his or her muscles and the like in the spinal
column. They had difficulty walking or moving because of the biochemical imbalances
causing the muscles and the like not to work properly.
"Are you saying all illness and all
disease is biochemical?" A certain large portion of all diseases or illnesses are
biochemical in origin but I do not want to be forced into a box on this because there are
so many more things going on. The electrical body fields, the "chi" energy
force, is just as important and it may even be more basic than biochemical origin,
bacteria, fungi, viruses or whatever. (My personal feelings are that the electrical body
fields- the "chi"- will, in fact, become the final answer even though I do not
in any way have such proof.)
"Wait a minute. This thing is getting out
of hand. You said that criminals are biochemically ill, that all illnesses are biochemical
and that all life is biochemical." Yes and no. Yes and no. Yes and no. Criminals have
disperceptions that get them into the mess and continue to have disperceptions along the
way building layer after layer of disperceptions. Not only is illness biochemical but
there are other things that contribute to illness as well. Life is biochemical as well as
other things.
"Then if all these things are biochemical
what is the purpose to life since you think you know it all and we are predetermined by
our biochemicals?" You know, sometimes you are like a rock in my shoe. I am saying
that biochemicals can alter life and all its behaviors for the good or bad, but there are
things that come into the picture as well and these other things may, in fact, be
"will, religious belief, chi" or whatever. I am saying that we have one of many
known causes or roots of the origins of criminality, illness, or life. "Are you
making another excuse to let everyone who has biochemical illness off the hook without any
responsibility for their actions? They come into my house and I have a 38 pistol and I
will blow them away." Wait one damn minute. No one said anything about .., never
mind.
"You are still making excuses."
Absolutely not, but I am saying the root cause is biochemical (at least at this point for
this book) and one with biochemical illness must be taught as well as possible to realize
that biochemical imbalance can cause disperceptions. These may cause that person to do
things they may not want to do when they are in remission or have the biochemical illness
in check. We have talked about this before but I must stress the importance of trying to
get the nutrients into your loved one. It is paramount to the possibility of limiting or
removing the likelihood of disperceptions that might get your loved one in serious
societal conflict and consequences of their actions against society. How would you like to
have the nutrients given to you in jail? Guess what? They work only to find that you have
to serve the sentence-consequence of your previous disperceptions.
There are disperceptions and there are
disperceptions, but the ones that will be most damaging are those that will go against
those authority figures that cannot for the good reasons of that society yield or bend.
Your loved one is only protected by faith, luck, or circumstance but sooner or later one
with disperceptions that goes against the wishes of the larger society will cause great
hardship to themselves and others. Some people with biochemical illness seem to slide by
on the edge of society and never become involved in the severe consequences that society
delivers. However, they too are merely buying time until something will happen that will
cause them to be involved and suffer the consequences.
So it is next to impossible and may be
impossible to get through to your loved by explaining disperceptions especially when they
are biochemically imbalanced. Even when you think they are having "good days"
and you think that by having conversations you are imputing aspects of their
disperceptions that seem to make sense to them. You feel you are "getting
through" to the point that you have solved this or that disperception. You will
probably find less than two days will go by and you find that nothing of the merit of your
previous conversations about the consequences of disperceptions is retained or in any way
implemented in their thought process or logic. Again, that is when you worry.
To me personally, a disperception is a stimuli
that has gone wild, has no place to rest, and flies around in the person (mind-soul) in
such a way as to cause confusion. Every time the thought (the disperception) is brought up
it becomes almost a life-death situation for your loved one. You also wonder if their
brains or whatever measuring devices they have are working at all. Believe me, at those
bad times when they have these disperceptions their mechanisms are not working.
Also, they may even be having a disperception
that they are not having a disperception, and it goes endlessly into a fury of confusion
for them and everyone else. Making sense out of disperceptions is really difficult and in
some cases next to impossible. Do not buy into their reality that they are, in fact,
correct for your reality if you know they are really "off the deep end" of
logic. It does not help them or you.
Back to criminality for a moment. Most
adolescents with biochemical illness usually have at least one friend or aquaintence that
probably has biochemical imbalance too that is in jail or has been in jail. Logic would
tell you that your loved one would learn from this, but they don't. In fact, they may have
another disperception and say that they will not have to suffer the same consequences that
their friend suffered because they know what they are doing and feel that somehow
intelligence or "street smarts" will keep them from jail.
First, they are not necessarily smarter or have
more logic. In fact, they have the same types of disperceptions many times and this gives
you even greater cause for concern.
"What would you do if your loved one was
in jail now'?" Remember my statement of existential philosophy when I told you the
most important thing about your loved ones is that they are alive, regardless of how
difficult their life may be. Help them in jail. Get the nutrients into them. Obviously, it
makes it harder because you have to contend with authority, administration, and
procedures. Your loved one might serve one day or 20 years in a jail, but you have to
remember that you are trying to give life by lessening as much confusion as you can.
"God, I couldn't get the nutrients into them when they were not in jail and now I
have to get the nutrients into them while they are in jail." Yes, it would have been
easier before jail but do you want to have denial or disperception or non-reality that
your loved one is not in jail? They are, so do something to help.
This brings up a very important project that I
know would help the criminal incarceration system. By means of nutrition and supplemental
nutrients, all inmates who elect to have nutrients and nutrition should have such
administered by a resident biochemist-orthomolecular psychiatrist who would also act as a
guide for the progress of that individual. Those that do not elect to have
nutrients-nutrition therapy would be placed in a separate facility or until they wish to
partake of the nutrients. First, it would be obvious in a matter of weeks which group was
progressing in social function, work detail, and adjustment to life circumstances even
within the jail.
The other group would have much higher rates of
problems including violence, anger, and the like. This in a small way has been done in the
detention facilities of Virginia and Michigan for some time now with outstanding results.
The only problem with the Virginia experiment is that it only restricted sugar intake and
a few of the worst offenders that cause biochemical illness. It did not specifically
include dosages of particular vitamins-minerals such as Vitamin B6, zinc, and Vitamin B3
(niacin), which are extremely crucial nutrients to biochemical wellness. And even if they
did include these in some cases they would have to consider the biochemical individuality
of the prisoner, and some prisoners may need exceedingly high doages.
The costs would actually be minimal since the
choice of all foods would have to be screened for all additives, just as I suggested for
your loved one. The four-day rotation diet, etc. are the same for a prisoner. Remember, I
told you that regardless of "when", disperceptions will appear again and
again until the biochemical balance has been achieved. Why do you think that a
prisoner who spent time in jail, served his or her sentence and is released is in any
better shape biochemically than when they went into prison? If anything, due to the stress
of prison life they are worse biochemically. Even if they are not worse (which I believe
they are) they certainly are not better. If you think that prisoners deserved to go to
jail the first time then you are in for a big suprise when you find that they are worse
when they come out. It is only a matter of time because of their dispercptions. "So
now you want to do away with prisons and give them candy for their hateful behavior?"
"You are really not in this world." I
did not say one word about getting rid of prisons and certainly, if I read you correctly,
candy is not an option because of the sugar. "You have an answer for everything. How
do you know it is a disperception anyway? You say everything is a disperception." If
you want to go back we will. Thought disorder or lack of logic, aggression, violence and
the like are caused by biochemical imbalance. Animals given the same bad biochemicals
react and act the same as do humans. Thousands of scientific studies in thousands of
different places throughout the world say the same thing over and over again.
"So what? I can't believe that these
people who do horrible things are not just horrible people. They don't have the same
thoughts I do about life." What did you say? "I said those people don't have the
same thoughts about life that I do." Are you listening to yourself? Did you hear what
you said? No, they might not think the same thoughts about life that you do because they
don't have the same thought processes and all its available systems to weigh and measure
out the consequences of their actions. Have you forgotten "pushing" and all the
other explanations of how and why their thoughts are not the same as yours?
Don't tell me you have not been angry.
"Yes, I have, but I don't carry it as far as they do and I certainly don't plan out
robbery or beat my wife or kids. I don't have to have someone to help me figure out things
all the time and be my shield. I don't go from one thing to another without any direction.
I have a job, a family, friends, a meaning, a purpose to life, and know who I am."
Okay, my turn. I first hear your anger loud and
clear. If you turn all those positive things that you have chosen for your
"reality" around and make all of them negative because of thought disorder you
will know how and why they feel so confused. They have nothing of what you have. They may
not even be jealous or envious of what you have. They do not have one of the most
important things that you do have and that is thought of place, deed, and freedom. They
are locked into their diminished capacity, have desires that for whatever reasons they
cannot obtain, and a confused purpose with so many thought problems that if you or I had
this imbalance we might think of wanting to cut out our brains because we know that it
fails us. It is all we have, and, yet, we don't want to live like this.
So personally, I don't care if you call it
disperception, misperception, thought disorder, or a thousand different names. It is the
feeling of the magnitude of the illness that I am trying to get you to identify with.
At first, you might say that it is sympathy, empathy, simpatico, kindred spirits or
whatever that I am trying to get you to develop with your loved one. Words have never been
able to give the full impact of feelings and never will. I have given you information over
and over again with logic and meaningful examples and still you refuse to believe that
this is the reason for your loved one's difficulties.
My turn, finally. Do you remember when I said
that you will have to dig deep within yourself? It is now time for you to show me. Yes,
show me. Give me words that show me you understand something. Show me something of
yourself.
"First, I still have a hard time with all
that behavior stuff and where it comes from and all those fancy words meaning this and
that. I have a difficult time when every time there is a behavioral problem you say it is
not their fault and you come to their defense. I have a hard time with the disperception
part mostly. If I think a certain way then others surely think in a similar way even
though it may not be exactly the same. So why are they so far off the deep end and cause
so many problems?" Is it my turn yet? "Yes, I guess." I guess the most
important first thing I can say to you is that which is almost spiritual and has a purpose
that is connected to something you and I will never really understand. Your purpose and my
purpose is not defined. By the process of life we think at various times we have
discovered life's meaning and purpose but we are only acknowledging the process of life,
and we constantly change and hopefully grow.
"Oh, I forgot. There is one more thing.
That TCM stuff. How does it work?" (No comment) Even though you may have not realized
it you have indeed grown as the very anger of the questions and statements you have just
made reveal.
Earlier you could not have asked those
questions and could not have had the rebuttals to defend your viewpoints. You did not have
the anger of knowing that you too have to search and do whatever you can to help. It is
strange how your anger is a good sign that something was getting through to you.
As one human to another I am truly sorry that
you too must go through pains like this. I would much rather tell you about Bach or
perhaps take a walk in the woods, but the reality of life has dealt us a different set of
circumstances for this time. Wouldn't it just be a hell of a lot simpler to take the
nutrients? "I still don't believe it all." Just hang in there. You will.
Now, where were we? Oh yes, I was talking about
prisons and nutrient care. There are certain things that seem always to get down to
principles. Principles that will affect and effect people, give them a purpose, a reason
that for the first time in their lives they may have. It does have a direct bearing on all
of us even if you are so inclined to only worry about how much you pay in taxes but not to
say anything about all the virtues of life, your own and others, that are extremely
important. My idea is not original or unique, and it may never be used, but it is a
principle to take very seriously. Then there is the problem of releasing prisoners early
because of overcrowding. Wow, this would be a much better way to solve that problem as
well.
As I mentioned before, your son or daughter
knows of some friend or aquaintence that has been in trouble with police-court
authorites.
Let's say, for example, they are living with other 18-22 year olds and the aquaintence has
no money, is addicted to illegal drugs, and decides one day that his manic-depressive
lithium is not to be taken and robs a liquior store, getting away with twenty dollars. The
in-house liquor store camera gives the evidence that it is so and so the person is
immediately arrested and starts the process of police-courts-jail. The aquaintence knew
full well to take his lithium so that he could maintain biochemical balance for his
particular illness but he had the disperception that it was not necessary. He was going to
be in a fearless-fear state and rob the store to get money. For $20 all of this happened.
It costs more than $20 for the policeman, the courts, the jail and the problem is still
there.
"Give it up. All you say is
disperception, disperception. When are you going to get off this subject?" Simple. When you and
others get the correct biochemical balance into as many people as possible and an effort
is made and established that there is a direct link between behavior (good or bad) and
biochemicals. That's when. I of all people hate this disease and all its manifestations,
changes; cutting down people without a chance; without the possibility of a future; the
same joys and pains that I have experienced denied to them; the harsh and never ending
destruction of principles that they may ever acquire denied; and so many overwhelming
pains that this disease causes. I do not compare myself to them nor them to me except that
in each of us there is some good, regardless of how horrible a human may be, and
regardless of how horrible the acts they may commit. It is this good that I want to see
blossom from an equal start in life. Fairness, as you can tell, is very important to me
and certainly, I believe in fairness for those that have not been treated fairly through
no fault of their own, by the biochemical imbalance.
I have been on this "jag" for some
time now and I do hope your loved one never has to face the police-court-jail system.
However, there may be other things that your loved one will have to face.
Probably as time goes on someone will eventually come to understand on
another level. The point here is that we have pushed the origin about as far as I have
knowledge and I can't offer much more. The original purpose of the analogy is to say that
when conversations such as, "Did you hear what the police did to so and so person and
the so and so person didn't do a thing?" This may or may not be true. From this one
experience people with disperceptions build their whole moral code about the police. Then
because your loved one has friends with disperceptions too, they will agree with one
another that all police are very bad people. Confirmation of the disperception.
Similar situations can be said for religious
disperceptions, the institution of the church, and schools. Any authority figure is fair
game for disperceptions. Bigotry in any form such as racism is a disperception of
"lumping" or putting "all" of something in a category and then calling
it, meaning "all", as such and such a truth. So disperceptions with family,
school, church, police, the government, the armed services, the work ethic or anything you
want to think of is destroyed in the mind of your loved one with disperceptions. What are
they left with? Not much. Their entire previous social network and fabric has been in one
thought "wiped out". Now do so see another reason why they are lonely?
Remember the "pushing-paradox" of
depression? Well, your loved one may not show demonstratable signs of depression now, but
the damage to the entire person is evident. Some people might say that this is negative
thinking, and it is, but your loved one is left at an age when short-term memory is not
working, they have forgotten what it was before the biochemical illness, and they are
literally left with only a "shell" of socailization. (Don't even think of
saying, "they made their bed and let them sleep in it.")
Take away your family, people at work, at
church, and all the things you like to do and see if you are lonely and alone, even if you
do not have disperceptions. You will be, too. Another set of losses to put on the tally
board of biochemical illness. If there is any value to your loved one being with
disperceptive others it might be that if your loved one becomes suicidal, you have those
people with disperceptions to help keep your loved one from committing suicide. Such a
twist. No, you can't even help your loved one sometimes. How are you going to help your
loved one and all of your loved one's friends? What a mess. "I will just get my loved
one away from them." Sometimes it happens. Sometimes your loved will see enough
things that they don't like about certain friends and alter his or her social patterns.
Remember, even though your loved one has friends that may not be healthy for him or her,
it is all he or she has chosen. Without at least that he or she may get very suicidal or
at least confused in a different way. It is still not a good situation.
Also remember, all those friends need
biochemical balance too. So let's see. We have lost social fabric, probably physical
health, mental health, all the "will determined directions" for a good future so
that your loved one can grow to their greatest potential. "Will this ever stop?"
Yes, if they have the correct biochemicals in balance. "So simple?" Yes, so
simple.
After your loved is started on biochemicals
that begin to balance their person they will have to learn a new social fabric as well as
relearn who they were if they liked themselves or not before the biochemical illness.
"I would give anything so that my loved one never had this biochemical illness."
So would I. If you are truly willing to give anything, then do so. Give them
biochemicals.
Are you beginning to see yourself in the doctor from California with his son in the
hospital? I think you are and good for you. "Maybe?" Starting to connect
dots about nutrients and behavior?
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Key words-sentences
1)Social-Aloneness, loneliness, others with disperceptions
2)Disperceptions will appear again and again until the biochemical balance has been
achieved.
3)So personally, I don't care if you call it disperception, misperception, thought
disorder, or a thousand different names. It is the feeling of the magnitude of the illness
that I am trying to get you to identify with.
4)There are many root origins
5)After your loved is started on biochemicals that begin to balance their person they will
have to learn a new social fabric as well as relearn who they were if they liked
themselves or not before the biochemical illness.
Heredity and Trauma-Induced Biochemical Imbalance
"Wow, she looks just like Alice (my wife). That's what I told my
mother by phone from the hospital when our daughter was born." Yes, she probably does
and for very good reasons. Genetic materials are passed on to their offspring.
I do not wish to get into a long, involved discussion of heredity, but there are a few
basic points that are very important. Just as you said that some of your daughter's
physical features demonstrated physical traits that are also present in your wife, you
should carry your thinking on to include other areas as well, such as mental- emotional
and spiritual. You probably have already figured out how my mind works by now and so the
next question will probably not be a surprise to you. If physical features are transferred
genetically to your loved one then why do you not think behavior and all its
manifestations will also genetically transfer? They will and do. But before I go
on, I must caution you not to think in segmented parts of the total organism. For your
terminology I will give you a quick rundown.
Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual,
biochemical and all the non-labeled things such as "chi", electrical currents,
and the like are genetically transmitted to your offspring- all the good as well as all
the bad of any and all of these. If we have to play the segmenting game for a
second then behavior, a part of mental-emotional and biochemical, etc., etc., etc., is
also genetically transferred to your offspring. "No one in the family ever acted the
way she does." As I told you before, all biochemical illnesses can be observed from
different viewpoints. Some may be what you call physical and others may be mental or
behavioral.
If you have a good memory and an open, non-
judgemental mind I can recommend the following. Do a chart of each individual in your
blood-line family back as far as you can remember. Call it a biochemical chart
if you like. I say open, non-judgemental mind so that you will not try to put your own
particular interpretation to someone's behavior and give yourself incorrect information as
a result. Try to be as objective as possible. It is not a chart to tell yourself which
family members you liked and which ones you disliked. It is about genetic traits whether
they are physical, mental, spiritual or even things than don't fit into any of these three
categories.
At first you may find yourself looking at
behavior traits, not thinking about physical traits and probably not about spiritual
traits, the most difficult traits to analyze, or all those other non-labeled traits.
Within each of these categories you will start to find great similarities and great
diversity. Some are taller or shorter, heavy or light weight, and the list goes on and on.
The main point you should be looking for is health- the spiritual, mental, and physical
health of the total organism. You probably at first thought this chart would be an easy
task, but soon you will find that you do not really know that much about your family. You
may have to reassess how you look at things in general.
"What does the spiritual growth of my aunt
have to do with my daughter's behavior?" Fair enough. If you put this
"seed" of thought in your mind and think about it over a period of time you will
find little things that at first may seem unimportant; but do not toss them away in your
thinking because they may be directly helpful for your loved one later.
Let me backtrack for a second on the question
you asked regarding you aunt's spiritual apsect of her total person and its relationship
to your loved one's behavior. At first you might think this is a huge leap in thinking and
there is no way they are connected and there is no importance. As you will remember, the
total organism is affected by so many aspects, as in TCM, and this is the kind of thinking
that I am trying to get you to develop. If you can stretch your thinking to include the
possibility that even the spirit is a part of a person, you will easily understand how bad
behavior comes from a biochemical imbalance. It is not a mind game but a very important
level of thinking that is necessary so that you see the total person and how genetic
materials are passed on. Even the ability to hear sounds or music and to distinguish
certain tones is genetic. "Well, if that is the case then the children of
J.S. Bach
should have been even better composers than their father." Not so quick to judgements
with limited knowledge. Genetics, like biochemicals, have a myriad of different levels of
influence and genetics, like biochemicals, are not easily defined and projected into a
cause-effect answer.
Back to your loved one. You may find that you
know of three cousins on your mother's side of the family that died of heart disease in
their early fifties. Or you may recall someone that was allergic to corn, and you remember
family get-togethers when your aunt would eat corn and start to talk for hours, forcing
everyone to listen. But you never thought anything about it other than that was good old
aunt Jane. I am not trying to get you, or me for that matter, to predict or ascertain
certain behaviors with food, but I am trying to get you to think of possibilities of how
your daughter came to where she is now.
I have already mentioned certain foods and what
they can do to certain people with certain biochemical imbalances, but here I am just
trying to get you to load up your barge of thinking with many aspects of family histories
so that you can see their influence by way of heredity on your loved one. Heredity plays a
huge part.
"There you go again with, 'They didn't
have any control over what they did.'" I am not saying they don't have control over
what they do but there are other things such as heredity, food, toxins, biochemical
deficiencies, trauma, etc., etc., etc., that cause part of your loved one's behavior to be
what it is. "Boy, when and if I ever find out what she is really responsible for, I
am going to let that part have hell." Simplistic, I guess. I don't think it will
happen, so I have no fear for your loved one on that issue. You know I keep repeating this
throughout our conversation, but you haven't done it yet.
Simply get the correct nutrients in her and
find an a orthomolecular doctor who cares about your daughter's biochemical illness. Have
the tests done, read, and utilized and some of your behavior problems will indeed go away.
You will then have no need to talk about heredity, your aunt Jane, or whatever. It is the
simple way to go, so just do it. Or stay with me and learn a few more things that may be
of help to you and your loved one and everyone else in your family.
"You know, sometimes I think you think
that if you say everyone else has a problem then it is okay for my daughter to have a
behavior like hers. It is sort of like your way of saying there is no hope for any of us
and everything is going to be the way it is and don't struggle, just go along with it.
Maybe you are the one with depression. It sounds like you don't control anything." I
can't, nor will I, get into a discussion of what I control or don't control here since it
really does not have anything to do with what we are talking about. You do raise a very
important point in your statement. You do not have as much "control" over
certain aspects of life as you may think you do and, therefore, enjoy, cherish, and be
eternally thankful that you have as much beauty as you do have. You do have some
"control" (if you have to use that word) over life (if you have to use those
words), but there are things that are present in each of us that make us who we are as a
total organism.
"You mean to say that I can have one part
of me that is just fine and another part of me that is a mess and that mess will cause me
problems?" In your terms yes, yes, yes. It seems like it is as if I keep giving
you analogies backed up by fact after fact, scientific study after scientific study,
without any of my personal feelings or insights and you want all things to be controlled,
governed, fit into little boxes in your mind or feelings, and come up with simplistic
answers of what life is and what life is not. You do raise good questions sometimes and
you, as I, are trying to see some things for the first time, some things that can't been
seen the way we have always seen things before, with no reference points to anchor our
feelings. However, you will see some things of value when you are looking for other things
that you don't find.
"How can you tell me what to look
for and then tell me to find other things I am not looking for? That doesn't make any
sense at all."
Let me give you a few very quick questions and
just answer them yes or no without any discussion or other questions as to what they might
or might not mean. Here we go. Does food have anything at all to do with behavior?
"Yes." Is your daughter only behavior and nothing else? "No." Is your
daughter alive? "Of course she is." Just yes or no answers, please. Do you know
anything about biochemicals? "Yes." Does your daughter look like your wife?
"Yes." Did your daughter always have the same behavior she does now?
"No." Do you have other members of your family that have similar behavior to
that of your daughter's? "No."
"Why are we doing this anyway, I know all
that stuff and so what? It still hasn't changed a thing for my daughter." Maybe it
hasn't yet, but it will. You, like the doctors who treated the young boy in California
(remember the Hoffer story) didn't know what to do and they had lots of knowledge. It was
the boy's father, who happened to be a doctor, but more importantly a person who sought
out knowledge that made the difference for his son; and it was Hoffer who had the
knowledge to give to the doctor so that he could help his son. So do you see why
knowledge by itself is not important unless it is utilized in the correct way?
You must also seek knowledge that at first you
might think has no merit or reason but later find out it is the most important knowledge.
So when you look for one thing you might not find it but find something else far more
important.
"You never did finish something you were
saying about genes." Right. You know about organ transplants and you may have read
about certain rather odd things that have happened when the organ recipient has the new
organ in them. One case involved a woman's overpowering urge to have a McDonald's
hamburger and another person all of a sudden liked rock-heavy metal music. Each of these
people did not have any desires in the new directions before the transplant. After some
investigations it was found that their donors have, in fact, had strong desires for the
same new desires that the recipient now has. It really is not so strange if you think
about it because the tissue or organ tissue materials that were transplanted contain all
the genetic materials of the donor and thus it is simply the transfer of genetic materials
from one person to the other rather than thinking of it as an organ. However, the point I
wish to make is that of the unusualness of the particular desires being passed on.
Both of these involve two of the senses-
taste and hearing. If the probability or proclivity to desires is passed on then you can
understand that many behavior traits (an outlet for the five senses) are in many tissues
of the body if not all tissues of the body. So heredity, whether we are talking about
physical, emotional-mental, or spiritual, are passed on in genetic terms, even now in
transplanted organs as well as conception. If we have to keep on splitting the parts of
the person we could probably agree for our reasoning here that behavior is an outgrowth of
the mental-emotional. Thus, you can see that behavior traits can and do transfer by
genetic materials. I do not believe that behavior is only emotional-mental but for the
analogy here I think you see my point. There has not been enough scientific study about
organ transplantation and how behavior traits transfer to ascertain how much or to what
degree genetic transplanted materials affect the recipient.
Trauma-Induced Nutriental Deficiencies
Now I want to tell you a
little bit about trauma-induced nutrient deficiences. They are passed on by genetic
(hereditary) materials to the next generation and for several generations. "You mean
to say that what happened to my grandmother, who is now dead, made my daughter the way she
is?" Yes, it is possible, but I am not saying that is the reason. Trauma,
physical, emotional, or spiritual, can and does alter biochemicals and biochemical balance
and in all cases makes a nutrient deficiency even if it is for a short period of time.
"There you go with that damn peanut again." Accidents, illnesses of any kind
including flu, fungi, bacterial, bad food poisoning or anything that is interpreted by the
person as good or bad that causes stress (and all do), change biochemical balance. Some of
these biochemical imbalances we recover from because of our detoxing mechanisms and some
we don't recover from. They can be gene damaging and when you pass your genes on in the
form of children you are passing on what you are at that second in time of inception.
"You mean if I have a car accident after I make love it is alright but if I have the
car accident before I make love that my kid is going to be like my daughter?" I don't
know if it will be like your daughter or if the close time frame you spoke of is correct
or if the car accident will change your biochemicals enough to cause genetic changes.
However, if there is enough severity of
biochemical deficiency for a long period of time then you will have an offspring with
those same deficiencies. Their reactions to their biochemcial imbalance will not
necessarily demonstrate itself the same way your biochemical imbalance does. They may have
bad behavior.
Of course you understand that you are
only giving half of the genes, and some of them are stronger than others. This, too, makes
a difference in your child. For our reasoning, trauma affects you and your unconceived
child in a biochemical way and this biochemical change, if allowed to get into the genetic
pathway, does remain for many generations until biochemical imbalance is corrected. At
that time a new mutated genetic code starts, but the genetic code will never go back to
the original state which may not have had the biochemical imbalance.
"How does this happen?" If you eat
the same food day after day for 10 or 20 years you will probably build an allergic
reaction to that food. "If I am allergic then why don't I sneeze?" Allergies are
not given a chance to react because you keep eating the same food, just as an alcoholic
keeps supplying his drug, so that the person does not have a withdrawal or allergic
reaction. That's what addiction is. It doesn't have a chance to have withdrawal.
"You mean now you are telling me
that a certain food that I eat is the cause of my loved one's behavior?" Think
backwards. I have already told you that, but now I am giving you a little bit different
approach to the same situation. If your were an alcoholic before your daughter's birth and
had a deficiency of certain nutrients, your daughter may have those same deficiencies.
Your daughter may not necessarily be an alcoholic, but she will have other illnesses.
When we talk about time-line heredity
illnesses you will see how behavioral illnesses are initiated in the person from inception
but do not show up until maybe ten, twenty, or even fifty years later.
You also have to consider your wife's
biochemical state before your daughter's birth. So when you said that you have three other
children and they don't act the way your loved one does, then you can see how biochemical
illness in one family can and does disguise itself. Some may be like your difficult
daughter, some may have kidney stones, some may be allergic to certain foods, or some may
even be color blind. All biochemical illness in a family will present itself differently.
If the problems came from both parents then the problems are greater.
"Wait a minute. Can you back up and
give me some main points since you started talking about trauma?" Yes, of course. Trauma
causes stress. Stress interpreted as good or bad is irrelevant for us now. It causes
nutrient deficiencies. Then these nutrient deficiences are passed on by way of altered
genetic coding information to your offspring and their offspring or for many generations
until the biochemical balance takes place. Any kind of trauma can cause these
deficiencies. The amount of nutrient deficiencies depends on how well the detox mechanisms
work. Food allergies that we spoke earlier, and alcohol and drugs of any kind are a direct
link to your offspring. That gives you some of the basic things I said. So when
you think your loved one is really not part of you because "you don't act the way she
does," then, she is simply showing it differently. "It would have been easier if
she had had kidney stones." Ridiculous, accept reality for what it is. She doesn't
have kidney stones. She could have had, but it came out in behavior.
Do you remember when we first started
talking about how much of this or that nutrient some people need to be healthy?
"Yes." Now you can see biochemically the degree of deficiency that a particular
trauma may create.
In one of the Pfeiffer books there is chart showing that the basis for many mental illnesses is fear as its bottom part of the triangle and all mental illnesses above it with various degrees of severe mental illnesses increasing as you get to the top of the pyramid. It is really quite a good way to think of many mental illnesses.
I have already told you a few things about my Mom and her stuggles in the course of telling you about her drug induced profanity behavioral change. Now I will tell you my theory, without any valid data to back it up, but using similar scientific data as stepping stones throughout my theories. So it is not necessarily anecdotal or without data but just not a scientific study to confirm data. If you went through many years of stress you would have some reaction to that stress regardless of how severe it was or how long it lasted. But at that point no one really knows what it does in each individual biochemically. We could say that one person recovered from the major stress of a trauma in days or even hours, yet it may take years for others to recover biochemically from that same stress-trauma. I believe that my family had a stress induced biochemical illness that mutated into genetic materials and was passed on to many family members from stresses caused three generations ago. Just because stress-induced genetic alterations occur does not mean in any way that all of these will show themselves in behavioral form. Remember that biochemical imbalance can and does show itself in many, many illnesses aside from behavioral illness. By doing an extensive biochart on my family I have come to several conclusions. Not all stresses make genetic changes.
There is no way to predict which stress makes genetic changes. In each generation there will be diversity of illnesses, not just one type of illness such as cancer, for all second generation stress induced genetically altered people in that second generation. The third generation seems to get more specific to the types of illnesses, but it is foolhearty to predict with any certainty as well. There are certain physical traits that geneticists know of that skip a generation and the like, so I am using this sort of logic to say a similiar thing. In our third generation we see a full blown example of the biochemical imbalances that were started three generations ago. Second generation people showed very definite signs of particular elements of biochemical disease that the third generation now have. There is no question in my mind that these second generation people had "mild forms" of the same biochemical imbalance, but did not have the same full blown evidence as did the third generation .
How to avoid it? You can't, especially if it is genetic transferred. To correct the problem is the only way you can go and that is not an assurance that it will not be passed on anyway to the fourth generation if it is in the genetic materials which cannot be altered again to right the genetic materials. The only thing that can be done is modification per each and every generation from the third generation on. The same is true of any kinds of diseases- all are caused by biochemical imbalances that get into the genetic materials, mutate, and change the genetic material, which is passed on to the next generation.
Without knowing it your family may be more inclined to all die of heart problems or cancer but you never connected the illnesses and the number of illnesses to a specific disease. So when someone, who is in their 80's or 90's makes that statement of a long life and say they have good genes, you can really understand what they mean.
I do not like mathematics and never have. I was fairly good at it but didn't like it and still don't. However, I do know that if you do a law of probabilities of anything genetically and come up with outllandish numbers by a third generation then the numbers can't be that far from logic. I know of five members in our family that have the same biochemical behavioral illness as confirmed from tests. That by itself is hard to believe when you have only 18 living family members. Then there was direct evidence of two or three others (non-tested) who may have it from all evidence of similar or worse behavioral problems associated with the same in the other five. Then there is very strong evidence of two others in the second generation with the same biochemical imbalance behavioral illness.
Now do your logic. So let's see. We have 5 and 3 and 2 more that equals 10 people with the same biochemical imbalanced illness out of 18. Then add 2 second generation people who are now dead so that makes a total of 10 out of 20 or 50% from the first generation to the third generation with the same exact biochemical imbalance illness. Now do you see why I have spent so much time and energy trying to get to the bottom of the problems biochemically in my family? I am talking about behaviors that are the same from one part of the family to the other with people living thousands of miles away, at various ages, at various mental IQ levels, abilities, and all the criteria you may wish to use. These people are experiencing similar if not exact behavioral traits, the damaging ones. When I came to this conclusion I was totally dumbfounded and checked all my thinking and information over and over again and cut everything that could in any way be subjective and I still came back to what I have just told you. So you might say, "Well, your family doesn't have a chance in hell of having a normal, meaningful life." In some cases so far you might be right for some of those that do suffer hell, but that is the reason for getting biochemical balance and why it is so vital to my family.
I hope with all my goodness that this never is the case with your family, but once it is in the genes it is almost a certainty. Unless it is corrected and altered genetically, it will pass on to the next generation. I have looked for genetic information that can help me understand how we can change our family gene tree but next to gene splicing, and it would have to be very specific gene splicing (and our science in gene splicing is not that advanced yet), it will not be happening.
"Do you mean to say that my daughter is me?" Yes, without any doubt, but that does not mean you will both have the same illnesses. She demonstrates one way and you say you don't exhibit any of the behavioral things she does. I have to take you at your word until proven otherwise.
You know, to this point you have only given me one clue about yourself that might have anything to do with specific behavior that your daughter has, and that was when you said you and a bunch of boys in elementary school cursed up a storm. By itself it means absolutely nothing, but if you give me ten clues and tell me your daughter acts the same way and you deny that she is you then I can't even begin to undertstand how you can say that. If you told me that when you were her age you acted the same way but it only lasted a few months and because your father instilled the fear of God into you, I would say wait a minute. You had the same biochemical illness your daughter now has and just because for some reason your biochemicals changed for the better and you never did it again does not mean there is not a very definite genetic connection between you and your daughter's behavior. The fear of God may change your biochemicals for the good, but I doubt it; at least not the way you are saying it. So can you see why a biochart can be useful? It can give you insights into something that may have a reason why some cousin or uncle, son or daughter threw a chair through the window in a fit of anger. It is not about anger. It is about genes. It is not only about genes. It is about biochemical balance and wellness.Japanese POW and Their Children
During World War II and the Japanese encounters many American and Canadian soldiers were taken by the Japanese as prisoners. The length of time that some of these prisoners served varied. Some were there for three or four years and others were there for a relatively short time of maybe only a few months. During the length of stay these prisoners were not fed anything that could be called nutritional and obviously underwent great stresses, physically and mentally (sorry for the terms). You can read this very detailed research in one of the books in the bibliography, but the main reason why I am telling you this story is because not all of the prisoners responded biochemically the same after the war when they returned to civilian life.
So we have strong, compelling evidence for biochemical individuality. The other thing is that many needed huge megadoses of nutrients and some very specific nutrients to right their biochemical imbalance. Many needed these meagadoses for an entire lifetime and their biochemicals were damaged from that specific series of events of imprisonment. The point I am getting to is that many of their children born after they returned to civilian life were also biochemically imbalanced and many had the same biochemical traits as their fathers. So the length of time, the type of stress, the length of time of recovery, and many more aspects of biochemical imbalance are there in this very important study.Abuse and Biochemical Imbalance
Any kind of stress can and many times does cause biochemical imbalance, whether it is in a car accident, or child abuse, spousal abuse or any kind of abuse. The problem for any abuse is the age of the abused victim. All abuse is wrong without question, but abuse to a young child is so harmful biochemically. When a child of three or four years of age is abused, for example, the biochemical imbalance is even greater it seems than when someone is older. I believe this to be true, although no confirmed biochemical studies have been done to confirm or deny this statement. I personally don't think it can be proven because of the biochemical individuality of each and every one of us. It would make so much sense if abuse shelters would give nutritional meals plus nutrients to all who have been abused as soon as they arrive at the shelter, or as soon as the abuse victim can be helped biochemically. I do know from the Klenner studies and his practice of using huge megadoses of vitamin C that those suffering from a multitude of so-called physical ailments regain their physical health, such as tissue repair, wound healing, and the stress of injury especially after surgery. They will recover faster, more thoroughly, and more completely. Again, I must say that I cannot separate the physical side of the person from the total of the person and I do believe that all parts of the person are affected by meganutrient dosages as early as possible. This includes victims of abuse. I have not found one study that has used nutrients, and certainly not mega- doses of nutrients for abuse victims. I don't think that any clinical studies have been done. However, such studies would be quite useful.
I also believe that the timing of the megadose treatment is extremely crucial. So in conclusion, it is the type of nutrients, the dosages, and the timing that are involved in aiding abuse victims or anyone who has undergone severe stress, and again I do not separate the types of stress. The person interprets stess as stress, regardless of the origin of the stress. It is better to think of stress as biochemical imbalance and say that we have varying degrees of biochemical imbalance. Use whatever scale of labels you wish. Obviously, some biochemical imbalance would be considered severe and others mild, but again you always have to take into consideration the governing principle that all of us are biochemically individuals. Thus, no fixed appraisal would have much merit except in conversations from one orthomolecular doctor to another.Japanese POW and their children
I am personally responsible for my loved one's behavior genetically.
Abuse and biochemical imbalance.
My Family History Starting to connect dots about nutrients and behavior
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heredity
Key words-sentences
1)Heredity and Trauma-Induced Biochemical Imbalance
2)Genetic materials are passed on to offspring.
3)Behavior and all its manifestations will also genetically transfer
4)Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, biochemical and all the non-labeled things such
as "chi", electrical currents, and the like are genetically transmitted to your
offspring- all the good as well as all the bad of any and all of these.
5)Biochemical chart
6)So do you see why knowledge is by itself not important unless it is utililized in the
correct way?
7)Trauma, physical, emotional, or spiritual, can and does alter biochemical balance and in
all cases makes a nutrient deficiency even if it is for a short period of time.
8)My Family History
9)There is no way to predict which stress makes genetic changes.
10)Japanese POW and Their Children
11)Huge megadoses of nutrients and some very specific nutrients to right biochemical
imbalance. Many needed these meagadoses for an entire lifetime and their biochemicals were
damaged from that specific series of events of imprisonment.
12)I do know from the Klenner studies and his practice of using huge megadoses of vitamin
C that those suffering from a multitude of so-called physical ailments regain their
physical health, such as tissue repair, wound healing, and the stress of injury especially
after surgery, recover faster, more thoroughly, and more completely.
13)The timing of the megadose treatment, in my mind, is extremely crucial.
14)Abuse and Biochemical Imbalance
This chapter was probably one
of the most difficult for me to write. It is difficult because so many times especially
older children or adolescents will not take their nutrients and regardless of what you do
they will backslide into full biochemical imbalance. "If you are giving the nutrients
why does this happen?" They are not taking them is the point. They refuse and you
can't even begin to figure out why they have taken them for some time and all of a sudden
decide they are now not going to take them. This causes you to go into panic because you
know the nutrients work for your loved one. "How could they be so stupid not to take
them?" That is the thought that goes around and around in your mind. I don't have an
answer, period.
Yes, we do know that even very bright,
intelligent people with manic-depressive labeled disease have similar problems. One is Kay
Jamison, who has written several wonderful books on her illness, and even she cannot fully
understand why she does get off her lithium. She has known for many years what the disease
does do to her. So if someone who has a great deal of medical and psychological training
in her own specific disease cannot figure it out, I do not feel so horrible that I can't
figure it out. It still doesn't solve the situation. All I can say is that once they get
started back on one or two dosages again for some reason then they are more inclined to
stay with it for awhile. There are ups and downs for long periods of time, perhaps even
years.
By the time you see the effects of biochemical
balance there is no one that can ever persuade you that the biochemicals don't work for
your loved one. You don't have that question. In some ways, that in and of itself makes it
even more difficult for you to think that you can't get the nutrients in your loved one.
So don't think you are the only one in the world with the problem of keeping your loved
one on nutrients. You are not. Does any of this make sense about jelly sandwiches and
nutrients? I certainly hope so. Always remember that your loved one did not ask for this
biochemical imbalance and you did not want them to have it either. All of the backsliding
will come as a surprise but you will get past the shock of it after the first three or so
times.
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I have personally called these
doctor's offices to make certain that they do, in fact, practice orthomolecular medicine.
It was time consuming but it will prove to be very important to you. Some time ago I was
seeking an orthomolecular doctor and after driving some considerable distances I found
that both of the doctors that I talked with either only did chelation for heart disease or
was no longer doing any orthomolecular nutrient therapies because of state medical board
restrictions on orthomolecular medicine practice. Thus, I have personally called many if
not all of the doctors I list here to be certain of exactly what they practice in the form
of orthomolecular medicine now. I hope this will be of more help to you. I have left blank
spaces so that you can add an orthomolecular doctor to this book. A blank indicates that
no orthomolecular doctor was found in that state. As you will see there are very few
orthomolecular doctors that do complete orthomolecular care in North America. However
there are over 6000 orthomolecular doctors in Brazil. Even Brazil is ahead of us in
healthcare. Also some doctors do telephone consultations that will help you decide on the
direction you can go to correct biochemical imbalances for your loved one. Here are a few:
Sherry Rogers, MD, NY (315) 488 2856 and Doris Rapp, MD, Arizona (602) 905 9195 and NY
(716) 875 0398
Alabama
E. Cheraskin, MD, DMD, 904-6 2217 Highland Ave South Birminghah, , AL 35205, (205)
934-4750 Humphry Osmond, MD (retired) Tuscaloosa, Al 35401, (205) 556-2951
Alaska
Denton, MD, 3201 C St., Suite 602, Anchorage, AK 99503, (907) 563-6200 Robert Rowen, MD,
615E 82nd Ave., Anchorage, Ak (907) 344-7755
Alberta
A special thank you to Dr. Max Vogel for the list of doctors in Alberta.
Max Vogel, MD, 5011 14 A St SW, Calgary, Alb, Canada T2P 3Y5, (403) 243-3357 (retired)
James Mayhew, MD, 3604 52 Ave NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2LIv9 (403) 284-2261
Richard Johnson, Suite 222, 4935 40th Ave. NW, Calgary, Alberta T3A 2N1, (403) 202-0724
F. Logan Stanfield, MD, 20625 12 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G 1A2 (403) 265- 6171
Jeanette Soriano, MD, 4935 40th Ave. NW, Suite 110, Calgary, Alberta T3A 2N1, (403)
202-0003, (403) 547-4623
Lawrence Kotkas, MD, 2402 20th Ave S, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, (403) 328-6727
Tres Trethart, MD, 862 104 St, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6E 4G6 (403) 433 7401
Ken Wiancko, MD,Suite 205 9509 156St., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5P 4J5, (403) 483-2703
Bud Rickhi, MD,TCM, Research Center for Alternative Medicine855 8th Ave. SW, Suite 300,
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3P1, (403) 233-0917
Arizona
Doris Rapp, MD, 8179 E. Del Cuarzo Dr., Scottsdale, Az 85258, (602) 905-9195,
Buffalo, Ny (716) 875-0398 David Hawkins,MD,Sedona Az,(520) 282 5446
Arkansas
A.M.Worrell, Jr., MD, 3900 Hickory, Pine Bluff, Ar 71603, (870) 535-8200
British Columbia
Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, #3A-2727 Quadra St.,
Victoria, BC, Canada V8T 4E5, (250) 386-8756
Erik T. Paterson, MD, #12 1000 NW Blvd., Creston, BC, Canada VOB 1G6, (250) 428-7887
California
Robert Cathcart, III, MD, Allergy, Environmental, & Orthomolecular Medicine, 127 2nd,
Los Altos, CA 94022 Richard Kunin, MD, 2698 Pacific Ave., San Francisco, CA 94115, (415)
346-2500
Bernard Rimland, PhD, (Autism research), Autism Research Inst., 4182 Adams, San Diego, CA
92116, (619) 281-7165
David E. Comings, MD, Dept. Genetics, City of Hope Med Ctr., Duarte, CA 91009, (626) 359-
8111
H. Casdorph, MD, 1703 Termino Ave. #201, Long Beach, CA 90804, (310) 597-8716
Whitaker Wellness Inst., 4321 Borth St., Newport Beach, CA 92660, (714) 851-1550
John Smythies, MD, Ctr. Human Research/ U.C.S.D., La Jolla, CA 92093 (research)
M. Rosenbaum, MD, 45 San Clemente Dr. B130, Corta Madera, CA 94925, (415) 927-9450
Priscilla Slagle, MD, 16542 Ventura Blvd, Suite 306, Encino, Ca. 91436, (310) 826-0175
Phillip Taylor, MD, 325 S. Moorpark Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91361, (805) 497-3839
Barbara Lundeen, PhD, FRSH, 2733 E. Garland Ave, Fresno, CA 93726, (209) 222- 2555
Michael Lesser, MD, 2340 Parkker St., Berkeley, CA 94704, (510) 845-0700
John Wakefield, MD, 18988 Cox Ave., Suite D, Saratoga, CA 95070-0000, (408) 366-0660
Harvey Ross,MD Los Angeles,Ca.
Michael Weiner MD, Mill Valley,Ca. James Privitera,MD, 105 N. Grandview,Covina, Ca. 91723
(626) 966 1618
James Julian,MD, 1654 Cahuenga Blvd,Hollywood,Ca., 90028 (213) 467 5555
Stephen Langer, MD, 3031 Telegraph, Berkeley, Ca.94705 (510) 548 7384
Colorado
Jake Paul Fratkin/ TCM, 3065 Center Green Dr., Suite 140, Boulder, CO 80301, (303)
541- 9055
Nicholas Nonas, MD, 3535 S. Lafayette St. #213, Englewood, CO 80110-3954, (303) 694-2626
Connecticut
Robban Sica, MD, 325 Post Rd., Orange, CT 06477, (203) 799-7733
Jerrold Finnie, MD, 333 Kennedy Dr., Torrington, CT 06790, (860) 489-8977
Beth Martin, R.N., 57 North St. Suite 122A, Danbury, CT 06810, (203) 743-0039
D.C.
G.H. Mitchell, MD, 2639 Connecticut Ave. NW #C-100, Washington, D.C. 20008, (202) 265-4111
Delaware
Vincent Vinciguerr, DC, 1800 Naamans Rd., Wilmington, DE 19810, (302) 475-3200
Florida
Grable, MD, 7563 Philips Hwy 206, Jacksonville, Fl 32256, (904) 296-9355
Terry Brant, TCM, 831 #C North Third St., Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250, (904) 241- 9680
Ray Wunderlich, MD, 452 94th Ave N, St. Petersburg, Fl. 33702, (813) 822-3612
Stephen Grable, MD, 7563 Philips Hwy 206, Jacksonville, FL 32256, (904) 296-9355
Shirley Hartman, MD, 7563 Phillips Hwy suite 206, Jacksonville, Fl, 32256, (904) 296 9355
Robert Rogers, MD, 2170 W State Rd 434, Suite 190, Longwood, Fl, 32779, (407 682 5222
Alephenbert Robbins,D.O., 400 S Dixie Hwy Suite 210, Boca Raton, Fl, 33432, (561) 395 3282
Martin Dayton, D.O., MD, 18600 Collins, Miami,Fl., 33160 (305)931 8484
Georgia
Stephen Edelson, MD, 3833 Roswell Rd Suite 110, Atlanta, GA 30342 (404) 841-0088
David Epstine, DO, 427 Moreland Ave. #100, Atlanta, GA 30307, (404) 347-970
Young Shin, MD, 3850 Holcomb Bridge Rd. Suite 438, Norcross, Ga 30092, (770) 242 0000
Hawaii Idaho
Illinois
HRI-Carl Pfeiffer Treatment Center, 102 E. St., Woodstock, IL 60098-2345, (815) 338-2345
Indiana
David A. Darbro, MD, 2124 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46227
William J. Walsh, PhD, 1804 Center Point Dr., Napperville, IL 60563, (630) 505-0300
John R. Tambone, Noretwest Clinic, , (317) 253-7230
Iowa
Ballard Chiropractic Office, 602 Main St. #370, Huxley, IA 50124, (515) 597-3636 Kansas
Charles Hinshan, MD, 1833 N. Rock Road Court, Witchita, KS 67206 (316) 682-3100
Jeremy Baptist, MD, PhD, 5811 Outlook, Shawnee Mission, KS 66202 (913) 432-0625
Olive White Garvey Center, 3100 N. Hillside Ave., Wichita, KS 67219, (316) 682-3100
Hugh Riordan, MD, 3100 N. Hillside Ave., Wichita, KS 67219, (316) 682-3100
Ronald Hunninghake, MD, 3100 N. Hillside Ave., Wichita, KS 67219, (316) 682-3100 Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Arthur Weisser, DO, 184 Silver St., Waterville, ME 14901, (207) 873-7721.
Manitoba
Maryland
Carol Englendes, MD, Jeanne Hubbuch, MD, 1126 Beacon St., Newton, MA 02161, (617) 965-7770
Bruce Rind, MD, 11140 Rockville Pike #520, Rockville, MD 20852, (301) 815-3000
Binyamin Rothstein, DO, 2835 Smith Ave. #203, Baltimore, MD 21209, (410) 484-2121
Arnold Brenner, MD, 8622 Liberty Plaza Mall, Randallstown, MD 21133, (410) 922-1133
Paul Beals, MD, 9101 Cherry Lane Suite 205, Laurel, MD 20708, (301) 490-9911
Kelly Dorfman, 10828 Tuckahoe Way,N. Potomac,Md.20878 (301) 340 2239
Massachusetts
Thomas LaCava, MD, 360 W. Boylston St. #107, W. Boylston, MA 01583, (508) 854-1380.
Teri Kerr, RD, 304 Shelburne Center Rd., Shelburne Falls, MA 01370, (413) 625-2745.
Daniel A. Kinderchier, MD, 65 Newburyport Turnpike, Newbury, MA 01951, (978) 465-6077
Michigan
Oscar Apoian, DO, 25411 W. Warren Ave., Dearborn Heights, MI 48127-0000, (313) 274- 0641
Vahagn Agbabian, DO, 1105 Pontiac State Bank Building, Pontiac, MI 48342-0000, (313)
334-2424
James Nutt, DO, 420 S. Lafayette, Greenville, MI 48838, (616) 754-3679
Minnesota
Paul Nash, DC, CCN, 1081 Wayzata Blvd. #300, Minnetonka, MN 55305-0000, (612) 541-5669
William Brauer, MD, 2545 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55404-0000, (612) 871-2611
Mississippi
Missouri
Garry M. Vickar, MD, 1245 Graham Rd., Suite 506, Florissant, MO 63031, 314-837- 4900
Charles Rudolph, DO, 2800-A Kendallwood Pkwy, Kansas City, MO 64119, (816) 453-5940
Montana
Ralph Campbell, MD, 514 N. Finley Pt. Rd, Polson, MT 59860, (406) 887-2565
Nebraska
Nevada
C. Ibarra-Ilarina, MD, Biomedical Health Center, 6490 S. McCarran Blvd. #C24, Reno, NV
89509, (702) 827-1444
New Brunswick
New Hampshire
Michele Moore, MD, 103 Roxbury St. #302, Keene, NH 03431, (603) 357-2180.
Keith Jorgensen, MD, 44 Birch St. #304, Derry, NH 03038, (603) 432-8104.
New Jersey
Princeton BioCenter, 862 Rt. 518, Skillman, NJ 08558, (609) 924-9423
Majid Ali, MD, 320 Bellville Ave., Bloomfield, NJ 07003, (973) 586-4111.
R. Russomanno, MD, 350 Bloomfield Ave., Bloomfield, NJ 07003, (973) 748-9330
Allan Magaziner,MD, 1907 Greentree Rd., Cherry Hill,NJ 08003 (609) 424 8222
Roberta Morgan,MD, 1930 Rte 70 East, Cherry Hill,NJ 08003 (609) 489 0505
New Mexico
New York
Jose Tobias, MD, 935 Northern Blvd. Great Neck, NY 11021, (516) 487-7116
Serafina Corsello, MD, 175 East Main St. Huntington, NY 11743, (516) 271-0222
Place for Achieving Total Health, 274 Madison Ave. #402, New York, NY 10016, (212) 213-
6155.
Physicians for Complementary Medicine, 24 W. 57th St. #701, New York, NY 10019, (212)
397-5900.
Sherry Rogers, MD, 2800 W. Genesee St, Syracuse, NY 13219, (315) 488-2856
Kenneth Bock,MD, 108 Montgomery St., Rheinbeck,NY 12572 (914) 876 7082
Alfred Zamm,MD, 111 Maiden Lane, Kingston,NY 12401 (914) 338 7766
Mitchell Kurk,MD 310 Broadway,Lawrence ,NY 11559 (516) 239 5540
Jeffrey Kopelson,MD, 221 Clock Tower Commons,Brewster,NY 10509 (914) 278 6800
Newfoundland
North Carolina
North Carolina Preventative and Wellness Medical Center, 4016 Barret #210, Raleigh, NC
27609, (919) 787-0084 Center for Complete Health and Education, 404 Hope Mills Rd.,
Fayetteville, NC 29304, (910) 423-4086
John Wilson, MD, Great Smokies Medical Center, 1312 Patton Ave., Asheville, NC 28806,
(704) 252-9833 Charles Wiley, MD, Box Hwy 184, High Cntry Sq., Banner Elk, NC 28604, (704)
898-6949
North Dakota
Nova Scotia
Ohio
Douglas Weeks, MD, Preventative Medicine Group, 24700 Center Ridge Rd. #317, Cleveland, OH
44145, (440) 835-0104
Jay Nielsen, MD, Celebration of Health, 122 Thurman St. #248, Bluffton, OH 45817, (419)
358-4627
Oklahoma
William H. Philpott, MD, 17171 SE 29th St., Choctaw, OK 73020, (405) 390-3009
Ontario
Steven Carter, 16 Florence Ave., Toronto, Ont., Canada M2N 1E9, (416) 922-0133
Gregory Schilhab, 16 Florence Ave., Toronto, Ont., Canada M2N 1E9, (416) 922-0133
Oregon
Ronald L. Peters, MD, 565 A St., Ashland, OR 97520, (541) 482-7007
John Gambee,MD 66 Club Rd.,Suite 140, Eugene,Or 97401 (541) 686 2536
Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State Univ., 571 Weniger Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, (650)
327-4064 (research only)
Pennsylvania
Christiane Siewers, MD, 135 Freeport, PA 15215, (412) 782-4700
Philip Bonnet, MD, 1086 Taylorsville Rd. Washington Crossing, PA 18977, (215) 321-8321
Leander Ellis, MD, 2746 Belmont Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19131, (215) 477-6444
William Shay, D.O., 19 Anthonys Mill Rd. Barto, PA 19504, (610) 845-8400
Total Health Medicine, 505 Poplar St. Room PG02, Meadville, PA 16335, (814) 337-7429.
Maulfair Medical Center, C.G. Maulfair, DO, 403 Main St., Topton, PA 19562, (610)
682-2104, 800-733-4065 Harold Buttram,MD, 5724 Clymer Rd.,Quakertown,Pa 18951 (215) 536
1890
Prince Edward Is. Puerto Rico Quebec
Rhode Island
Peter Himmel, MD, 321 Main St., Wakefield, RI 02879, (401) 783-6777
Saskatchewan
South Carolina
Allan Lieberman, MD, 7510 North Forest Dr. N. Charleston, SC 29420, (803) 572-1600
Hugh Fredenburg, MD, 1092 Boiling Springs Rd., Spartamburg, SC 29303, (864) 591-0944
South Dakota
Tennessee
Richard Wanderman, MD, 5575 Poplar Ave, Suite 112, Memphis, TN 38119, (901) 683-
2777
Texas
Billie Sahley, Pain and Stress Clinic, 5282 Medical Dr. #160, San Antonio, TX 78229, (800)
669-2256
Acupuncture and Herb Ctr., 2301 N. Collins, #118, Arlington, TX 76011, (817) 261-5577
Utah
Vermont
Charles Anderson, MD, 175 Pearl St., Essex Junction, VT 05452, (802) 879-6544.
Virginia
Elmer Cranton, MD, Mount Rogers Clinic, Inc., 799 Ripshin Rd., Trout Dale, VA 24378, (540)
677-3631 Washington
Sandra Denton, MD & Jonathan V. Wright, MD, Tahoma Clinic, 24030 132nd Ave. SE, Kent,
WA 98042, (206) 631-8920
Bradford Weeks, MD, 6456 S. Central Ave, Clinton, WA 98236, (360) 341-2303
Ralph Golan, MD, 7522 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115, (206) 524-8966
Richard P. Huemer, MD, 3303 NE 44th St., Vancouver, WA 98663, (360) 696-4405
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
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They will do hair analysis for
heavy metals which can cause massive behavior problems as well as other illnesses. They
will do blood test for mineral balances especially copper-zinc levels. They will do amino
acids (22) tests and metabolic tests to determine protein absorption as well as all sorts
of allergy tests for candida,yeast and good and bad bacteria. They can now do many, many
specific tests including some neurotransmitter tests, such as seretonin.
There are varying degrees of accuracy and
validity to testing. Some are very accurate and helpful and some are only a little better
than a guess. Some tests done on plasma are better than on whole blood. Some tests are
done after the person has food fasted prior to the tests. All tests are simply indicators
of the possible directions your doctor might pursue for your loved one. However, the tests
will definitely help in his diagnosis. Many will give exact reasons for your loved one's
symptoms. Remember, you might be thinking again about behavior with your loved one. I
caution you to realize that the tests indicate biochemical imbalance of the entire
organism and behavior is simply an extension of something inside the organism. You will
probably never spend money any better or wisely than on these tests. So just do it.
I have left blank spaces so that you can add
any orthomolecular testing centers or labs to this book. A blank indicates that no
orthomolecular testing was found in that state.
Lab Test Centers
US/Canada State
Alabama
Alaska
Alberta Research Center for Alternative Medicine TCM plus
new medical advances 855 8th Ave. SW, Suite 300, Calgary, Alberta T2P 3P1, (403) 233-0917
first rate facility for alternative medicine.
Arizona Analytical Reseach Lab, 86550 N. 22nd Ave., Phoenix, AZ
British Columbia
California
Anitbody Assay Laboratories, 1715 East Wilshire Blvd., Suite 715, Santa Ana, CA 92705,
(800) 522-2611 Immunosciences Laboratory, 1801 La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035,
(310) 287-1884 Pacific Toxicology Lab, 1545 Pontius Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, (310)
479-4911, 800-32-TOXIC Immuno Diagnostic Labs, P.O. Box 5755, San Leandro, CA 94577, (415)
635-4555 Tyson and Associates, 12832 Chadron Ave., Hawthorne, CA 90250, (800) 433-9750
Aeron Biotechnology, 1933 Davis St., Suite 310, San Leandro, CA 94577, (800) 631-7900
Colorado
Connecticut
D.C.
Delaware
Florida
American Medical Testing Laboratories, 1 Oakweed Blvd., Suite 130, Hollywood, FL 38020,
(305) 923-2990
Immuno Laboratories, 1620 West Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311, (800)
231-9197
Georgia
Meta Metrix Medical Research Laboratory, 5000 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Suite 110,
Norcross, GA 30071, (800) 221-4640
Metamix Inc., 3000 Northwoods Pkwy. #150, Norcross, GA
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
1)HRI-Carl Pfeiffer Treatment Ctr., 1804 Center Point Dr., Naperville, IL 60563, (606)
505-0300
Tests: Amino acids, mineral balances, seretonin, hair analysis for heavy metals, and many
other specific tests through clinical facilities and outside labs. High caliber of testing
and diagnostic procedures.
2)Doctors Data, 170 W. Roosevelt, West Chicago, IL 60185, (708) 231-3649
3)Norsom Medi Labs Ltd., 7343 West Wilson Ave., Harwood Heights, IL 60656, (708) 867-9709
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Olive Garvey Ctr., 3100 N. Hillside Ave., Wichita, KS 67219, 316-682-3100 Bio Lab,