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"In recent years, chemical exposure has increasingly been linked to a variety of "subclinical" mental health symptoms (behavior changes, cognitive decline) as well as neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, attention deficit disorder (ADD), and mental retardation. "The human brain is a precious and vulnerable organ," says Philippe Grand-jean, adjunct professor at Harvard School of Public Health and the study's lead author. "And because optimal brain function depends on the integrity of the organ, even limited damage may have serious consequences...." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to mental health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Supplementation with polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids (PUFA) can improve mental health rating scores in people with schizophrenia. Altered PUFA levels may contribute to the abnormalities in neurotransmission seen in the disorder. Can Perinatal Supplementation of Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Prevent Schizophrenia in Adult Life? Das UN. Medical Science Monitor, 2004 December, 10(12):HY33-HY37." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to mental health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Oregon and Arizona. He is the research director of the life sciences division at the American Institute for Biosocial Research, and is the author of The Health Benefits of Cats Claw: Its Role in Treating Cancer, Arthritis, Prostate Problems, Asthma, and Many Other Chronic Conditions. Tel: (206) 922-0448 PRISCILLA ANNE SLAGLE, M.D., has a private practice in Palm Springs, California. Specializing in nutritional medicine and psychiatry, she treats most illnesses from the perspective of diet change, nutritional supplementation, and natural hormones as needed. Tel: (800) 289-8497 www.theweayup." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to mental health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Resource for non-drug approaches for mental health. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)—http://nami.org: Nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. National Institute of Mental Health—www.nimh.nih.gov: Excellent resource on all aspect of mental health and illness. Chapter 8: Prescriptions for Other Conditions Books Alschuler, Lise, N.D., and Karolyn Gazelle. Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrated Approach for Treatment and Healing." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.) "Resource for non-drug approaches for mental health. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)—http://nami.org: Nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. National Institute of Mental Health—www.nimh.nih.gov: Excellent resource on all aspect of mental health and illness. Chapter 8: Prescriptions for Other Conditions Books Alschuler, Lise, N.D., and Karolyn Gazelle. Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrated Approach for Treatment and Healing." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"She works as a nutritional consultant at SAFE, a drop-in center run by and for people with mental disorders. 3762 W. 11th Avenue Eugene OR 97402 Tel: (541) 683-8720 edelman@boragebooks.com LEANDER T. ELLIS, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist who has 30 years of experience studying the effect of allergies, infections, nutrition, and other physical factors on emotional conditions such as anxiety, depression, autism, and autoimmune diseases. LYNNE FREEMAN, PH.D., has her doctorate in counseling and psychology and is the director of the Open Doors Institute in Los Angeles, California." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to mental health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. National Institute of Mental Health—www.nimh.nih.gov: Excellent resource on all aspect of mental health and illness. Chapter 8: Prescriptions for Other Conditions Books Alschuler, Lise, N.D., and Karolyn Gazelle. Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrated Approach for Treatment and Healing. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 2007. Hyla Cass, M.D., and Kathleen Barnes." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"If you have been prescribed an anti-depressant, a so-called psychotropic drug (for mental health problems ranging from schizophrenia to severe depression or eating disorders), a drug that influences the heart, your cholesterol levels, your endocrine system (i.e. anything at all hormonal), or a cancer drug—buy or borrow the books listed at the end and find out its commercial and biological history first. Again: your business is to become healthy, not make the undertakers wealthy. 9." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"About 25% of Americans and Canadians will suffer from a mental health illness at some point during their life. There are many different mental illnesses, varying in their effects on disability, mental function and Mental disorders are the leading cause of age groups. This is a large and disability in North America. complicated health matter. Probiotics and the B Vitamins Probiotics do not reside in the brain and as such cannot offer any direct benefit to mental health. Nor is it likely that probiotics will be found to cure mental illnesses." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. National Institute of Mental Health—www.nimh.nih.gov: Excellent resource on all aspect of mental health and illness. Chapter 8: Prescriptions for Other Conditions Books Alschuler, Lise, N.D., and Karolyn Gazelle. Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrated Approach for Treatment and Healing. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 2007. Hyla Cass, M.D., and Kathleen Barnes." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Mental Ability and Mental Health The concept "you are what you eat" applies not only to physical health, but also to mental health. Diet affects ideas, perceptions and even dreams. Eating a raw food diet definitely provides the nutrients the brain needs to get rid of brain fog, make the mind sharper and give one a "competitive edge" at work. One's short-term memory sharpens. Concentration and mental stamina improve. A raw fooder is also more alert, as excessive energy expenditure needed for digestion of cooked food is spared. The raw fooder doesn't fall asleep after eating dinner." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Toronto, M2N 1E9 for booklets containing mainstream studies showing the beneficial effect of vitamins and minerals for mental health problems. This article is dedicated to my friend Lynne Burke of Orangeville, Ontario. Stoned by Prescription Vitality Magazine October 2003 Imagine the media informing you that a jumbo has gone down, killing all on board. Imagine being informed of such an event every single day of the year—year after year for four decades. That's about 140,000 people a year." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"So, if you applied these principles to physical or mental health, it could mean that we could use The Field to direct influences 'back in time' to alter pivotal moments or initial conditions which later bloom into full-blown problems or disease. If thought in the brain is a probabilistic quantum process, as Karl Pribram and his colleagues propose, future intention might influence one neuron being fired and not another, setting off one or another chain of chemical and hormonal events that may or may not result in disease." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Director of Child Psychiatry at the National Institutes of mental health. I learned that about half the kids with PANDAS had ADHD, that about half also had depressive disorders, and that about one-third had coexisting anxiety disorders. Apparently, PANDAS just cooked the brains of these poor kids. These children also often had facial tics and obsessive-compulsive problems-^" did Alisa. "I want you to check Alisa's antistrep antibodies," I told Liza. I told her which ones to check. "Tomorrow'' Liza, said that Alisa had never had strep throat in her life, but I still insisted." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Paul Meier, a popular radio talk show host and the owner of a chain of mental health clinics. His book Blue Genes was published in 2005 with help from Focus on the Family, a national group popular with many Christian conservatives in Iowa and across the country. The book was a kind of spiritual guide for those dealing with depression or anxiety. It described the new psychiatric medicines as offering "opportunities for healing that truly reflect God's care and love." In one of the book's stories, Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The nonprofit health groups Screening for mental health, Inc., and the Magic Foundation were just two of the dozens of organizations collecting money from the pharmaceutical industry each year. By 2006 most nonprofit groups representing patients in the United States had received funding from the industry. The American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and the Alzheimer's Association each received significant sums of corporate cash. It was hard to find a patient group that did not take the money. Some nonprofit organizations aggressively solicited the industry's cash." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"They are, however, scientifically proven complementary methods that, if practiced regularly, can impact your mental health and behaviors that lead to proactive, aggressive disease management. The first step toward reaping the benefits of any stress-management techniques is to identify and acknowledge the presence of stress in your life. For many people, chronic stress has become "natural," and they don't even admit it's a problem. Lisa, for example, is a forty-one-year-old single working mother of two teenagers who has type 2 diabetes." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"There are links to colic and mental health issues in parents. Postpartum depression can be both linked to colic and worsened by colic. So it goes both ways. "Moms who are depressed are more likely to have colicky babies, and colicky babies are more likely to make postpartum depression worse. We also know," he went on, "that babies who are colicky are often more comfortable if they're breastfed. But moms who are depressed are less likely to breastfeed. So it's a vicious cycle that goes back and forth." Nutrition is one of the main topics he'll discuss with the parent of a colicky baby. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Feed Their Brains We've already discovered that food can affect mood, motivation, and mental health in the long run. The good news is that the proper food can also provide great energy boosts right now. There is a reason people get the munchies when they are studying hard or really straining their brains. The brain is a highly metabolically active organ. While it is operating at full power, it is hungry for the right kinds of fuel. If fed properly when it is at work, the human mind can sharpen its memory, enhance motivation, improve reaction time, and cope with stress much more efficiently." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Ensuring your intestinal tract has a healthy flora of probiotics may reduce the risk of low levels of B vitamins in your body, thus promoting mental health. The B vitamins are also involved in the metabolism of energy. B vitamins are required for the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. In other words, you cannot make energy without B vitamins. Feeling energetic can improve your mood. B vitamins are a great way to boost your energy and feel great. In addition, our mood is greatly affected by our intestinal well-being. When we overeat, we can feel uncomfortable." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"It will also bring you profound intuitive insights regarding your physical and mental health, as well as provide answers to questions regarding the meaning and purpose of life—insights critical to getting to your story behind the story. If you so choose, you can use meditation to move into expansive states of spiritual awareness, a worthy ideal for the person of faith and the scientific humanist alike. Clearly, meditation is a gift from the gods for people with health problems. It is also so easy a child can do it. So why isn't everyone meditating?" - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Getting that help from a trained mental health professional who specializes in trauma can help you to overcome depression, apathy, and a host of other seemingly unrelated issues. 5. Food Is the Only Pleasurable Thing I Have, So I'm Not Giving It Up While you might think the declaration that food offers your only comfort smacks of pathetic, pitiable sadness, it actually broadcasts defiance.You tell the world that you can't find any other option, that you don't enjoy the gifts others offer, that life stinks, and so you'll take care of your own needs, no thanks to anyone else." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Depending on your underlying physical and mental health, menopause can be tumultuous or calm. Chinese medicine recognizes that if a woman's yin energy is strong, she will have less trouble than if it is weak. That is, if there is strong yin to balance the yang, the body and the mind will be balanced. But if the yin is weak, then the yang energy rises, and hot flashes, headaches, and tempers will flare. There will be insomnia, breast pain, and spiritual upheaval—that is menopause as many of us know it. So how do we gain better yin energy?" - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"You may not be totally surprised that scientists can now prove happiness correlates strongly with behavioral and mental health benefits, such as higher pain thresholds, better adherence to treatments, and healthier life choices like diet and exercise. But what may surprise you is science can also substantiate that happiness improves physical responses such as better heart attack survival rates, reduced incidence of stroke, enhanced natural killer-cell activity in cancer patients, less intense allergic reactions, and better resistance to colds." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"The contest is not between drugs and psychotherapy or any other specific "mental health" approach. The potentially earthshaking contest takes place between drugs and real life, between an artificially distorted mental life and a clear mind and spirit. How we approach life often comes down to the nature of our last resort. When we are down and out, when we can't seem to control anything or to endure our circumstances, when our thoughts and feelings have become our own worst enemies, where do we turn? Modern pseudoscience tells us we have no choice; pills must be our last resort." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "BEWARE mental health SCREENING MY EXPERIENCE WITH PARENTS being forced to drug their children has been limited to particular circumstances exemplified in this chapter: overzeal-ous school psychologists unleashing child protective services upon parents who refuse to knuckle under pressure to drugging their children; overzealous state hospital doctors attempting to seize control of a child from his drug-resisting parents; and most commonly, divorced parents going to court to compel their ex-spouse to drug their child." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Never before had he seen a mental health professional. In deposition, however, Sam's doctor defended his prescriptions by declaring under oath that Sam came to him in a state of severe, long-term anxiety and depression. The doctor's sparse medical record did not mention any serious prior mental problems. When parties to a conflict have strong interests in promoting their own viewpoints, it can be very difficult to decide who's telling the truth about past events." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Andy had been in the hands of mental health professionals and been taking medication for one month. He was not quite twelve years old. Andy's method of death was eerily similar to several other victims of medication madness whose cases I have evaluated. He hanged himself on gym equipment in a manner that required him to hold himself aloft while he strangled and lost consciousness. Staff from the family treatment center wrote a posthumous case summary, stating that "Andy had never made a previous gesture toward suicide or self-harm, and had never identified a plan to harm himself." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"They provide persuasive "scientific" explanations for mental health symptoms, while deflecting consideration of the evidence that, in many cases, lifestyle changes and short-term counseling offer more enduring benefit. Not coincidentally, their approach is also the best way to sell more drugs. Though successful in the short term, these biomedical interventions undermine the natural motivation provided by patients' symptoms to make the real and lasting changes that would lead to sustained improvement in the quality of their lives." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"A healthy mind promotes health in the body, and a healthy body sustains mental health. There is evidence that people who are psychologically adjusted within their family, community, and natural environment are less prone to disease, and those who enjoy good health are less likely to engage in antisocial and antiecological behavior. Creating, or contributing to, coherence in and around us is not an abstract ideal but a norm for optimal functioning. Nature is coherent, and so is the universe." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

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