When you're stuck on pills...

[Christ_empowered]

...try Orthomolecular. Reading over some of the posts lately, I've noticed that, despite our best efforts, some (many?) of us will be on long term meds of some sort. In a weird way, I'm lucky that many of my problems were/are psychiatric in nature. Frustration with conventional psychiatry (here's pills...what, you're not doing better? That's ALL YOUR FAULT!) led me to Orthomolecular medicine, which was used mostly for severe psychiatric conditions.

I'm stuck on Abilify. Lately, I've also been taking a low dose of Trileptal, an anticonvulsant that's basically being used to reduce my agitation levels so I don't freak out. The OM set up has helped me get results w/o side effects, while also getting significant side benefits (regrowing hair, improving skin health, better immune system, better control of allergies).

Although OM was most heavily pushed on schizophrenics, the basic idea (high dose vitamins, amino acids, select botanicals+carefully selected and dosed pharmaceuticals) can be applied to just about any health situation. Look at statins. Statins can reduce Coenzyme Q10 levels signficantly. Supplemental COq10 can reduce side effects from statins. An OM protocol to improve cardio health (including reducing cholesterol and triglycerides) can prevent life long dependence on statins. This is a lot like what OM can do for mental illness cases such as mine: reduce side effects, improve results, and possibly lead to a life w/o the medication after the symptoms have improved enough.

www.doctoryourself.com

That site has all kinds of OM info, covering all sorts of conditions. He takes an anti-pill approach that I don't share. I try to keep my pharmaceutical use minimal, but I'm mostly concerned with results, not dogma, so I'm certainly not stridently against careful use of pharmaceuticals.

Just thought I'd share.

 

[tim-from-pa]

Supplements are one thing you know I like to push, too, and maybe I should be a little more persuasive about them than I already am. You are one person here on the right track. Right now it's just a battleground to get many people out of their brainwashed stance of "low fat" "low sodium" (I call it salt because if I eat sodium I die because pure sodium is toxic -- I don't know why they can't talk normal), low cholesterol and whatnot.

And if you look at threads involving people with medical issues, any dietary advice boils down to "what to avoid" never "what to eat" instead, and if it does involve that, the advice they receive is equally idiotic. Anytime someone avoids something, for every so-called "bad" ingredient they avoid, they miss out on a tenfold benefits of nutrients that would more than counteract the bad. Egg yolks is one excellent example. I can't for the life of me understand the lame-brained philosophy of eating just the albumen and then ditching the more nutritious part of the egg.

So.... people don't die of heart disease (which was virtually non-existent a century ago) because they ate the cholesterol in an egg yolk, but because they avoided the yolk, and cheated themselves out of vital nutrients that help the heart.

However, once these delusions are cleared up, then maybe one day I'll get back to vitamins and minerals. Of course people will say, "I do already take them and still have medical problems!" When asked to show their vitamins, they will pull out a bottle of one-a-day or Centrum Silver or similar do-nothing supplement and claim they tried everything. No clue whatsoever.

Here's an excerpt example of what I say.... Anyone serious and listening? You decide based on other comments (not only on this thread, but others as well).

http://www.christianforums.net/showthread.php?t=44117&p=671563&viewfull=1#post671563