Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment
Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment Books
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The first book specifically written for healthcare professionals as a guide to the orthomolecular diagnosis and safe, natural treatments of anxiety disorders. It includes: a synthesis of ancient and new in rank; guides the reader through the orthomolecular approach, including nutrient deficiencies and dependencies, intellectual allergies, and hypoglycemia; full descriptions of other orthomolecular treatment strategies, including niacinamide (nicotinamide), vitamin B-12, other B vitamins, inositol, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids; case descriptions, prescribing in rank, and side-effects. Anxiety disorders are the most common and debilitating psychiatric disorders in North America and patients struggling with anxiety have greater chances of developing other medical illnesses, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and hypertension.
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Anxiety is truly a mind/body problem. Each patient/client must be dealt with as an individual. One person may need mainly to deal with the problems arising from deep within his soul, even as another’s anxiety may stem directly from faulty nutrition of his brain cells – not enough excellent nutrients or too many terrible ones.
Many approaches have dealt with the psychological/emotional aspects of anxiety. When biochemistry is considered, drugs are the common approach. What about nutrients? Why is nutrition ignored? Don’t nutrients – vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fats – influence cells? If cells are influenced, won’t the organ made of cells be affected? Isn’t the brain an organ, just like the heart or liver? Doesn’t it make more sense to influence our cells with natural substances – orthomolecular substances – that the body knows how to deal with, rather than with poisonous drugs?
Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment, by Dr. Prousky, fills the gap between the psychological approach to anxiety and the drug approach. He has shown that certain nutrients can cool the mind and heart, especially when the anxiety is caused by nutrient deficiencies, common in our modern world of computerized food supplies, too often devoid of full nutritional value. This book does not offer a total solution to anxiety for everyone, but what it does do, it does well: what imbalances contribute to anxiety, which nutrients have been found helpful, what lab tests are revealing and more.
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Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment
by Dr. Jonathan Prousky, ND, FRSH
(intro. by Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C)) CCNM Press, Toronto, 2006
Anxiety affects many people. The nervous brain may have a survival advantage due to its hypersensitive danger-detection capabilities but prolonged anxiety can cause such acute discomfort that anyone who has experienced years of anxiety will consider it a mixed blessing, life-saving at its best, the bane of his existence at its most terrible. Author Dr. Jonathan Prousky, ND, FRSH does not urge drugging sensitive patients into sedation or oblivion, but instead he addresses the range of possible causes, even as outlining how health practitioners can base medical care on scientific and medical research and the development of safe, proven and effective treatments. The commonly-used benzodiazepine anxiolytic medications receive due mention, but Prousky recommends a restorative approach, using nutritional supplements which do not lead to getting larger doses, do not cause drug dependencies and do not trigger withdrawal symptoms, nor does the patient become overly-sedated, just restored to a normal mental state.
Readers seeking restorative care for anxiety will find this book fascinating, insightful and helpful. Each chapter of this 125-page volume offers scientific and medical references for medical professionals and lay readers who wish to verify the author’s in rank. Jonathan Prousky, ND an experienced health professional, offers his knowledge based on his careful study of the small-known field of restorative orthomolecular medicine and his years of patient care applying its principles and practices. For over 55-years a succession of scientific and medical professionals researched mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, psychosis, depression, attention deficit disorder and autism and cooperated to develop restorative orthomolecular medicine. Many books share their research, development, progress and success as does the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.
Even before their time, in the early 1900s, the then-common illness of pellagra caused hundreds of thousands of patients to suffer with dementia, dermatitis, diarrhea and death. Before dying, pellagra patients experienced psychosis and anxiety. Decades ago, Dr. Joseph Goldberger researched pellagra, determined that it resulted from a nutritional deficiency and not compulsory a recovery diet (later found to include niacin). Prousky and Hoffer judge that sub-clinical pellagra can still develop today if vulnerable patients live on processed foodstuffs which lack essential nutrients. Other problems, e.g. hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), can also disrupt brain chemistry and cause anxiety.
Opportunely, orthomolecular treatments can restore normal brain function by using nutritional supplements to refuel depleted brains, normalize enzyme biochemistries and cool over-activities, without the side attacks or toxic effects which often accompany high doses of prescription pills. Dr. Prousky has helped hundreds of nervous patients to recover and live well by applying the principles and practices of restorative orthomolecular and naturopathic medicine.
Not every patient recovers overnight. It can take time to diagnose the underlying problem and urge apposite treatments. Prousky does not offer fake hope, or suggest quick-fix small cuts. His book outlines the steps for proper diagnosis of the root cause(s) of each patient’s symptoms and trials of restorative regimens to suit each patient’s biochemical individuality. He clarifies how the aptly doses of the aptly vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzyme co-factors and even botanical medications, plant extracts long used by mankind for medicinal purposes, can heal anxiety.
Jonathan Prousky clarifies how restorative care can help anyone who suffers with anxiety to recover and live well. Let’s notice the concept: restorative orthomolecular medicine was researched, tested and found safe and effective by biochemists, physicians and psychiatrists who cooperated for over 55 years to help thousands of patients cope with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and psychosis. Let’s learn from this book how Dr. Prousky fine-tuned and applied the restorative treatments to heal anxiety.
review by Robert Sealey, BSc, CA
Rating: 5 / 5