Dr Michael Galante 1
Pesticides are a major problem today, especially in more rural areas, although winds can carry them into urban areas as well. Pesticides have long been known to be extremely toxic to the bugs and the foliage they are aimed at killing. But the industry has sought to conceal from the public the toxic effect of these substances on humans. Pesticides are a real problem even in suburbia, where people with small children have lawn care. There is a big risk to children and their pets playing on lawns...
Dr Lenden Smith 1
I've been working with a chemist out of Spokane, Washington, whose name is John Kitkowski. He started doing experiments with animals by taking blood samples from them and finding out that these horses were low in calcium, or magnesium, for example. So he would put standard feed out in the corral, and then he would put standard feed plus calcium, or magnesium, or zinc, and let the animals go out and freely eat. They would smell everything and eat only what they needed. If they were low in...
Dr Richard Tan
I have been diagnosing a lot of patients with candida, and sugar affects them greatly. Quite a few patients that I am seeing have memory lapses, are forgetful and depressed, and they have seen other doctors who diagnose the depression and give them antidepressants. When I go over all the system reviews, I find that it is more of a systemic problem along with the candida, they also have some sinus problems, achy bones and joints, stomach upsets, and gas. They often say that they have cravings...
Brittany A Patient Of Dr Harold Buttram
I am Brittany's mother. Just after she was born, when she was about three weeks old, she started having recurring ear infections. She was always going on antibiotics--literally every two weeks--until she was about two years old. At that time a friend introduced us to an allergist in Massachusetts, who put her through allergy testing and treatment. We changed our daughter's diet after finding that there were certain foods to which she was severely allergic, such as chicken, sugar, and dairy....
Dr Alfred Zamm
The standard conservative medical school textbook, The Textbook of Pharmacology by Goodman and Gilman, contains the following passage about mercury, Doctors very rarely make the diagnosis of mercury poisoning because the symptoms are so varied. It comes in many disguises. To paraphrase the text Mercury poisoning is like a ghost. You don't know it's there. It comes and goes, in different masks. Some years ago, I wrote an article called The Removal of Dental Mercury--Often an Effective Treatment...
Dr Alan Spreen 2
I'd love to say that correcting thyroid function is a panacea. While it doesn't work 100 percent of the time, if a patient comes in complaining of fatigue and depression that is linked with the physical findings of foods not digesting well, and cold extremities, then an underactive thyroid may be the root cause. People come and say, Oh, my husband says, 'Don't touch me with your feet at night because they're just ice cold.' These are the same people who are comfortable in a room when everybody...
Dr Abram Hoffer
Here is a classic case A high school teacher and principal of about 45 developed a severe depression. In fact, I believe he was misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic. He exhibited what we call a straightforward, deep-seated, endogenous depression. He was in a mental hospital for about a year or two, and then discharged. He was so depressed that no one could live with him. His wife divorced him and eventually he was living with his aunt, who looked after him as if he were a child. As a last resort, he...
Jenny A Patient Of Dr Spreen
I came to be treated by Dr. Spreen only after first following the conventional route in medical treatment. In 1988, I was in my fifth year of infertility treatments, had taken multiple infertility drugs, and wound up severely depressed, which caused me to lose 35 pounds in two months. I couldn't sleep, I had panic attacks, the whole horrible group of symptoms associated with depression. The doctors put me on the conventional Xanax treatment for three years before I met Dr. Spreen, who was...
Dr Doris Rapp 1
Mood disorders often lead to battering of family members and intimates. Husbands batter wives, wives batter husbands, they both batter the children, and boyfriends batter their girlfriends. Mother battering, I might add, is very common. Many of the children I treat beat, kick, bruise, bite, and pinch their mothers. When some individuals have typical allergies and environmental illness, if they have a mood problem and they can become nasty and irritable and angry, all I ask is, what did they...
Alison A Patient Of Doctor Buttram
As Alison's mother, I can honestly say that Alison was born crying. She cried for the first two years of her life. I took her to a clinic at the time and found out she was allergic to corn, wheat, and bananas, which caused her to cry every day, all day long. I took her off those foods, and she became a normal, happy two-year-old. She did well for quite a while until she got a problem with a vitamin deficiency, which caused her to be uncontrollable. I couldn't do anything with her. If I wanted...
Dr Ray Wunderlich 1
When we assess people's hormones and glandular functions with good chemistry, we can help make them less sensitive to the toxic assaults of the environment. While there are no such things as panaceas in medicine and we want to beware of unwarranted enthusiasm and zeal, the hormone DHEA is probably the closest thing to a panacea in medicine that we have found as of yet. It is the so-called mother hormone of the adrenal which is antidepressant and seems to be able to counter a lot of the allergic...
Dr Gary Vicker
I have patients who have been diagnosed as having schizophrenia, and while I don't argue with the diagnosis, it hasn't captured the whole essence of what is going on with that patient. I prefer to see it as an incomplete diagnosis, rather than as a misdiagnosis. Very often the goal, in the schizophrenic diagnosis, is just to subdue behavior. When people are in such states of distress that their behavior is inappropriate, or agitated, or out of control, the goal is primarily to treat that...
Dr Sidney Baker
I presented a paper on magnesium at a conference in La Jolla, California, a few years ago. At this colloquium, there were magnesium experts from all over, mostly academic people, and mostly people who had jobs like running an intensive care unit or a cardiac care unit, or a department of immunology or obstetrics and gynecology. Everyone there from every medical specialty was saying, Isn't it amazing that our colleagues are not aware of the very lengthy published information on the prevalence of...
Dr William Goldwag 1
When we have patients who are depressed and we can get them moving, the depression is greatly alleviated. Of course, drugs have changed the whole treatment of depression greatly, but the impact exercise can have on depression has often been overlooked, and it needs to be re-emphasized. People who are on antidepressants may improve, but the way for them to really get back to functioning well--back in touch with their environment, back to work, back in relationships with their family--is to get...
Dr Alan Spreen 1
The big buzzword of today is chronic fatigue syndrome. This refers to the kind of incredible fatigue that makes people unable to get out of bed in the morning for weeks at a time. Most fatigue onsets slowly. A person gradually feels less energy than they had a few months or years previously. They just can't do the things they did before. Physical and emotional fatigue go hand-in-hand. Fatigue tends to affect mental functioning, so that a person feels that their memory is not as good as it once...
Dr Helen Schleagle
I have had a lot of clinical experience with controlling moods by using amino acids. Right now, I am quite concerned about the current effort by the FDA to ban amino acids, which takes away the right of individuals to help themselves. In a sense, it's like banning proteins, which is ludicrous. So I hope that people will fight this reactionary effort on the part of our government to make amino acids available only through physicians--which will cost a person far more. I have treated patients...
Helen A Patient Of Dr Helen Schleagle
I had hives, some kind of an allergic response, about five years ago and it progressed to the point where I had hives on my vocal chords. It was a pretty serious allergic reaction, for which I was first treated with antihistamines. Later, I was treated with prednisone. When small doses of prednisone given every other day didn't help, my doctor began increasing the dosage until I was taking 70 mg every day. After about six weeks I started declining physically from taking this tremendous dose. I...
Dr Ray Wunderlich 2
A 30-year old worker from an orange juice plant in Florida, who was a chemist and had been working there for about three years, came to me because she was depressed, irritable, and anxious she felt like her brain was in a fog. I did a chemical analysis of this patient I looked at her blood--her red cells and her plasma--her urine, and her hair. The results showed that she had excesses of five toxic metals arsenic, cadmium, lead, aluminum, and copper. Now, she had an occupational exposure to...
Dr Michael Schacter 3
In the case of some people who suffer from eating disorders, they may be suffering from a zinc deficiency. A few years ago, Alex Schauss presented a paper about a number of patients who were suffering from anorexia nervosa. He found that they were zinc-deficient by using a simple test called a zinc taste test. The person takes some zinc sulfate solution in their mouth, and if they describe it as having a bad taste, they usually have sufficient levels of zinc. On the other hand, if they can't...
Dr Lenden Smith 2
The man who discovered the paradoxical effects of stimulant drugs on hyperactive children was Charles Bradley from Portland, Oregon. In 1937 and 1938, he found that most children with hyperactive syndrome came from difficult pregnancies, especially troublesome deliveries. They were the second twin or born with the cord around their neck. They were premature, or born with a collapsed lung or too much bilirubin. A number of things might have interfered with the oxygen supply to the brain. It was...
Dr Lenden Smith
I would like to discuss depression in children and adults and the nutritional approach to the problem. Apparently it's getting more frequent as we hear about the rising tide of suicides in adolescents and even in children as young as eight, nine, and ten. It just seems ridiculous that such a thing should overwhelm a child in what is supposed to be the happiest time of life. I evaluate children and adults who are depressed. For some of them there is no apparent reason for their overwhelming...