Nutritional, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorders
In this video, Eva Edelman spends about 26 minutes speaking on "Nutritional, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorders" at the 38th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Eva Edelman
EVA EDELMAN, AUTHOR received her B.A. Degree in Psychology in 1970 from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She continued her education with two years toward a Masters Degree in Mathematics, interrupted, at the end, by her growing fascination with the emerging field of Natural Medicine. She then studied under Bernard Jensen, D.C., John Christopher, N.D. and other pioneers in the health field. She has now worked for over 30 years as a Nutritionist, Herbalist, Health Educator and Journalist.
In 1996, Eva Edelman completed her encyclopedic book called Natural Healing for Schizophrenia: A Compendium of Nutritional Methods. Updated editions continue to come out every few years.
Eva's latest book, Natural Healing for Bipolar Disorder: A Compendium of Nutritional Approaches published in 2009, may well be the first comprehensive volume on the subject.
These books integrate research from Orthomolecular Nutrition, Brain Biochemistry, Herbology, Endocrinology and Environmental Medicine. Her books also contain quotes from patients and doctors along with extensive references.
For more information Eva Edelman may be contacted at her office in Eugene, Oregon by phone 541-683-8720. You can find her newsletters and books through her website www.boragebooks.com.
Transcription
Can people hear me all right? Sounds like it.
Okay, so orthomolecular psychiatry, which is nutritional psychiatry, began in 1952 in Saskatchewan, Canada, with a half a dozen double blinds that actually introduced double-blind to psychiatry, to the field of psychiatry in general.
Dr. and Usman were giving megadose vitamin B3 and vitamin C to some trial patients. And what they found was tremendous recovery, higher than what they found is the average.
That you could actually expect have said that God must have been on their side and this side of researchers. But this was based also on a free radical theory of schizophrenia, basically, that oxidize adrenaline, adrenaline and perhaps oxidize other oxidized, stimulating neurotransmitters were the cause. Well, since then, since then, B, three and C have become the centerpiece of schizophrenia therapy. And even mainstream psychiatry knows that mainstream medicine knows that pellagra and schizophrenia, so flagrant and scurvy tend to have a psychosis sometimes. And that treating scurvy or pellagra with vitamin C and vitamin B three correspondingly also heals the psychosis that occurs. But somehow they don't tend to believe that that could happen if you don't have scurvy. So. Well, in fact, most mental patients tend to have levels of vitamin C very similar to what occurs with scurvy.
So B, three and C have become the centerpiece of that shit up of nutritional treatment of schizophrenia.
And since that time later around this center, there have developed their been developed, especially by Dr. High Fat Dr. Karl Phifer, bio types, biochemical types that could narrow in on what different subgroups of individuals with schizophrenia might need.
The first one is called his to Panya, a low blood histamine. Dr. Walsh now points out that this actually may have to do with over methylation of brain stimulating brain neurotransmitters. So it's low blood histamine over methylation in the brain. And low folic acid. So kind of different than you'd think of methylation in relation to the heart. Well, actually, the brain and the body can have different biochemistry going on.
Like you could have cerebral diabetes, but not body diabetes. And similarly, methylation can occur like that. In fact, this group with over methylation in the brain tends more to have those kind of symptoms of under methylation in the body, high homocysteine and so on.
So and they need folic acid for both. So anyway, so, um, so this particular type has to Panya tests have classic symptoms of schizophrenia, paranoia, psychosis, voices talking to each other, saying bad things to the person.
And on the other hand.
So the brain's overstimulated, but the body is often fatigued and depressed and metabolism