Advances in Brain Research: Psychiatry

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

Albert Einstein

Introduction

Ref. 1 suggests that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are not two distinct identities, but rather are two points on a continuum.

"This meta-analysis provides direct evidence for familial coaggregation of schizophrenia and BD, a finding that argues against the view that these disorders are entirely discrete diagnostic entities. Rather, a continuum model is supported."

Van Snellenberg JX, de Candia T.

Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.

The quote is from Ref. 1.

Linus Pauling and Orthomolecular Medicine

Linus Pauling was always controversial and usually right (2, 19). Pauling's work has been carried on by Hoffer & Saul (3).

Saul

Saul is also controversial (4, 5). Saul feels that supposedly incurable diseases may be treatable (6). I agree with Saul on this. We simply do not understand some diseases that may be treatable. When we don't understand a disease, the treatments are trial & error, as is often the case in psychiatry. Saul is critical of the medical Establishment (8).

Saul is the editor of Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.

Challem

Challem favors nutritional treatments in psychiatry (9).

Kaufman

Kaufman, now deceased, favored nutritional medicine (11).

Hoffer

"Drugs make a well person sick. Why would they make a sick person well?" (Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.)

Multiple Sclerosis

There is even a vitamin theory of multiple sclerosis (14, 15).

Cancer

There are vitamin theories for cancer (16, 17).

The Food Allergy Theory

The food allergy theory, which is the theory I favor, is explained in Refs. 21-23. Dohan was one of the early doctors who favored this theory. He thought that schizophrenics were allergic to glutamine, which is found in milk and wheat gluten. Glutamine is an amino acid that is abundant in the brain.

My own view is that Dohan was close, but he had the wrong amino acid. My view is that the different forms of mental illness, including both schizophrenia and depression, are food allergies ot tryptophan. There is too much tryptophan in the brains of these unfortunates due to a metabolic error. I favor a diet very low in tryptophan.

Psychiatric Drugs

Unfortunately there have been very serious problems with psychiatric drugs (24, 25). These drugs, like many other drugs, are metabolized in the liver, which is supposed to protect the body from poisons. The body treats these drugs as poisons.

Conclusions

Because of the many serious problems with psychiatric drugs (26), they may not be the best treatments. Also they are very expensive, and often the taxpayers pay much of the bills.

"These data show that clozapine can cause memory impairment and it potentiates rather than reverses hippocampal lesion-induced deficits."

Levin ED, Christopher NC.

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurobehavioral Research Laboratory, Box #3412, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. edlevin@duke.edu

The above quote is from Ref. 27. Shock treatment also is harmful to memory. Shock treatment has a side effect of memory loss.

Because of these facts I recommend orthomolecular treatments. The food allergy theory is considered orthomolecular even though it does not involve megavitamins. This treatment would save the taxpayers massive amounts of money. A low protein diet is cheaper than the average diet. The patient also saves money because there are no copayments. Amazingly the Republicans, who are supposed to want to save money, have taken no interest in this.

References

1. Meta-analytic evidence for familial coaggregation of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Van Snellenberg JX, de Candia T.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009 Jul;66(7):748-55.

2. Saul AW. Review of Practicing Medicine Without a License? The Story of the Linus Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease by Owen Fonorow with Sally Snyder Jewell. J Orthomolecular Med, 2009. Vol 24, No 1, p 51-52.

3. Hoffer A, Saul AW. Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publications, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-59120-226-4.

4. Saul AW. Gemanipuleerd klinisch onderzoek. [Manipulated clinical research] Orthomolecular Magazine, 2009. Vol 27, No. 2, p 66-68. Dutch.

5. Hickey S, Saul AW. Vitamin C: The Real Story. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publications, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-59120-223-3.

6. Saul AW. It is always best to fight death. In: Langwith J. [editor] Death and Dying: Introducing Issues With Opposing Viewpoints. Greenhaven Press, 2008, p 41-44. ISBN-10: 0737739746; ISBN-13: 978-0737739749.

7. Saul AW. High-dose vitamin C therapy for major diseases. International Symposium on Vitamin C. Seoul, Korea. 25 Sept, 2008.

8. Saul AW, Hickey S. [Editorial] Unacceptable losses: hospital-caused deaths. J Orthomolecular Med, 2008. Vol 23, No 2, p 59-61.

9. Saul AW. Review of The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems - and Feel Good Again, by Jack Challem. J Orthomolecular Med, 2008. Vol 23, No 2, p 106-107.

10. Saul AW. Review of Obesity: Why Are Men Getting Pregnant? by Alexander G. Schauss. J Orthomolecular Med, 2008. Vol 23, No 2, p 107-108.

11. Kaufman W. [Saul AW, editor]. Nutrition illiteracy and nutritional inadequacy. (Published posthumously) J Orthomolecular Med, 2007. Vol 22, No 2, p 83-89.

12. Saul AW. Review of Death by modern medicine, by Carolyn Dean. J Orthomolecular Med, 2006. Vol 21, No 1, p 60-61.

13. 'Sunshine vitamin' protects against MS: Huge study suggests vitamin D reduces risk of debilitating disease. The Associated Press, Dec 19, 2006.

14. Munger KL, Levin LI, Hollis BW, Howard NS, Ascherio A. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and risk of multiple sclerosis. JAMA. 2006 Dec 20;296(23):2832-8.

15. Munger KL, Zhang SM, O'Reilly E, Hernan MA, Olek MJ, Willett WC, Ascherio A. Vitamin D intake and incidence of multiple sclerosis. Neurology. 2004 Jan 13;62(1):60-5.

16. Wright ME, Lawson KA, Weinstein SJ, Pietinen P, Taylor PR, Virtamo J, Albanes D. Higher baseline serum concentrations of vitamin E are associated with lower total and cause-specific mortality in the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2006 Nov;84(5):1200-7.

17. Jenab M, Riboli E, Ferrari P, et al. Plasma and dietary vitamin C levels and risk of gastric cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-EURGAST). Carcinogenesis. 2006 Nov;27(11):2250-7.

18. The Vitamin C Connection, by Emanuel Cheraskin, MD et al (Harper and Row, 1983).

19. How To Live Longer and Feel Better, by Linus Pauling, PhD, (Freeman, 1986).

20. The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease, by Irwin Stone (Putnam, 1972).

21. www.associatedcontent.com/article/1953868/more_mental_health_research_is_needed.html
22. www.associatedcontent.com/article/1945498/mental_hygiene.html
23. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/237845/the_link_between_food_allergies_and.html

24. Clozapine-induced fatal fulminant hepatic failure: a case report.

Chang A, Krygier DS, Chatur N, Yoshida EM.

Can J Gastroenterol. 2009 May;23(5):376-8.

25. Successful treatment of tardive lingual dystonia with botulinum toxin: case report and review of the literature.

Hennings JM, Krause E, Bötzel K, Wetter TC.

Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1;32(5):1167-71. Epub 2007 Sep 18. Review.

26. Clozapine-induced hypersalivation: a review of treatment strategies.

Sockalingam S, Shammi C, Remington G.

Can J Psychiatry. 2007 Jun;52(6):377-84. Review.

27. Effects of clozapine on memory function in the rat neonatal hippocampal lesion model of schizophrenia.

Levin ED, Christopher NC.

Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;30(2):223-9. Epub 2005 Dec 13.