Brain Chemistry Diet
In this video, Michael Lesser spends about 25 minutes speaking on "Brain Chemistry Diet" at the 30th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Michael Lesser
MICHAEL LESSER, M.D. is a pioneering Orthomolecular Psychiatrist trained at Cornell University Medical College, New York City, NY and the Albert Einstein Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Dr. Lesser, along with the late Linus Pauling, Ph.D., was one of the Founders of the Orthomolecular Psychiatry Movement, which focused on nutritional and vitamin therapy to regulate brain function. In 1975, Dr. Lesser founded the Orthomolecular Medical Society and later Nutritional Medicine, a communications company that sponsors major world conferences on Nutrition and Vitamin Therapy. In 1977, he testified before the U.S. Senate on “Nutrition and Mental Health.”
He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed Journal articles on the subject of Orthomolecular Psychiatry. In his groundbreaking book, The Brain Chemistry Diet, Dr. Lesser shows how identifying your brain chemistry type can help you conquer depression, reduce stress and maximize your mind—without prescription drugs. Instead, the Brain Chemistry Diet plan relies on a natural, safe and effective nutritional approach to regulating mood and boosting brainpower.
Currently, Dr. Lesser practices in Berkeley, CA and can be contacted by phone 510-845-0700, fax 510-845-0700, email MV [email protected] and website www.nutritionandvitamintherapy.com. He provides consultations both in his office and by telephone for clients all over the world.
Transcription
Thank you very much. I hope you can all hear me. All right. Let me know if you have any difficulty. My talk today on the brain chemistry diet, if you aren't able to get all of it in the half hour that we're speaking, this new book has just come out this year by the same name. The brain chemistry diet and the Cancer Control Society is selling it here today at a discount price.
The reason why I think this this topic is important for this audience, even though you're primarily concerned with cancer and other degenerative diseases, is because we all know that mood is very important in total health. And when we look at a holistic view of health and so it's important to be happy or as happy as you can be in the circumstances at all times to build up your immune system and to improve your overall health. So the strategy is here, although they're primarily designed to deal with brain chemistry problems, have a broader application to all of general health. And what this book tries to do is, is two things. One, redefined psychiatry in positive images. I guess I'm kind of an a..
Psychiatrist of the anti psychiatry movement in that I feel that psychiatry, although it's a noble profession, has done a lot of harm in the way that it's been used because psychiatrists see people through a glass darkly. And so the best thing that can happen to you if you go to see a psychiatrist is that he will diagnose you as without mental illness. Otherwise, it winds up being a matter of paying for a lot of expensive insults with names like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, hysteria and society neurosis, panic disorder. So there's this emphasis on the negative. They're seeing the glass half empty all the time that I think is detrimental and actually snowballs and creates a lot of problems of its own, especially with the younger patients who are going through a lot of identity confusion.
And now, of course, psychiatry seems to be getting into younger and younger age brackets, as evidenced by the current issue of Time magazine, which toxic. But the epidemic of bipolar disorder among teenagers.
So it's important that we look at these different types of individuals. I think in a fairer sense, a more balanced prospectus and also and now we're getting the second mission of this book, which is to try to devise some real therapies that really do help and that are not dangerous.
And so for this, I rely upon the earth, the molecular medicine that I've studied for the last 30