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 REPPED: Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have reported that omega-3 fatty acid is highly effective in treating children with ADD, ADHD and bipolar disorder. The study was reported in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology in February 2007.
"Results from this prospective, open study of monotherapy with omega-3 fatty acids in the over-the-counter product OmegaBrite suggest that manic symptoms can be rapidly reduced in youths with BPD with a safe and well-tolerated nutritional supplement," wrote lead researcher Dr. Janet Wozniak. |
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 Soon, millions of children were put on drugs like Prozac, and the great push towards diagnoses of bipolar disorder was underway by the hopelessly corrupt psychiatry industry, which is wholly owned and controlled by Big Pharma.
When a sufficient number of children were drugged with antidepressants and amphetamines (like Ritalin), the drug companies realized there was still one non-drugged entity in a typical household that could potentially become a new revenue source: The family dog. |
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| The high-EPA supplement of Omega-3 fatty acids, called OmegaBrite, was tested for effectiveness and safety on 20 boys and girls with bipolar disorder, ages 6 to 17 years old, over an eight-week period. Half of the participants experienced a rapid 30 percent reduction in symptoms with no side effects.
"What this study shows is that every child with ADD, bipolar or any other mood disorder should be on OmegaBrite," said Dr. John Ratey, author of the best-selling Driven to Distraction and a well-respected expert on ADD. "And the only side effect is a longer life. |
| The psychiatric industry does not promote nutrition as a method for preventing or treating depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD or other mental or behavioral conditions. Instead, it works to keep consumers ignorant of such solutions and pretends that these diseases are caused by "brain chemistry imbalances" that can only be corrected with synthetic patented chemicals (pharmaceuticals). Essentially, modern psychiatry believes that all such disorders are caused by a pharmaceutical deficiency. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 I haven't discussed bipolar disorder primarily because so little research has been done on exercise's effects on it. Recently, though, a preliminary study clearly showed that hospitalized patients with bipolar disorder who participated in a walking program suffered fewer depressive symptoms and less anxiety compared to those who were unwilling or unable to participate. And giving bipolar patients a stable social routine has been shown to improve long-term outcomes. It's only been very recently that exercise started making its way into treatment protocols for bipolar disorder. |
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| This line of research might help us refine our definition of pediatric bipolar disorder," says NIMH director Dr. Thomas Insel. "The researchers are following up with more imaging studies of children with bipolar spectrum disorders and healthy children who are at genetic risk for developing the disorder to see if they also have the same overactivation" of this particular area of the brain.
Studying children who have bipolar disorder may provide valuable insights into the development and treatment of adult bipolar disorder, according to Leibenluft. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| Recently, though, a preliminary study clearly showed that hospitalized patients with bipolar disorder who participated in a walking program suffered fewer depressive symptoms and less anxiety compared to those who were unwilling or unable to participate. And giving bipolar patients a stable social routine has been shown to improve long-term outcomes. It's only been very recently that exercise started making its way into treatment protocols for bipolar disorder.
In some ways, exercise is even more important for prevention than it is for treatment. |
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| Our results also suggest that bipolar disorder likely stems from the impaired development of specific brain circuits," explains Dr. Ellen Leiben-luft of the NIMH Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program.
"This line of research might help us refine our definition of pediatric bipolar disorder," says NIMH director Dr. Thomas Insel. "The researchers are following up with more imaging studies of children with bipolar spectrum disorders and healthy children who are at genetic risk for developing the disorder to see if they also have the same overactivation" of this particular area of the brain. |
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 OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS
There is one study I know of that has examined the effects of omega-3 fatty acids on symptoms of bipolar disorder.7 Thirty patients with bipolar disorder were randomized to receive four months of omega-3 fatty acids in the form of fish-oil capsules or placebo. There was a significantly longer period before remission of bipolar symptoms in the omega-3 patients than in the patients on placebo. |
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| What Is bipolar disorder?
Symptoms of bipolar disorder differ in people of different ages. Bipolar children and adolescents have symptoms more continuously than adults. Children's symptoms are more varied and may include emotional difficulties or disruptive behaviors that are frequent or severe enough to interfere with academic or social activities.
Examples: Irritability, depression, anxiety, aggression, impulsive behavior.
Bipolar adults exhibit less obvious manifestations of impulsive behavior, such as excessive spending or traveling. |
| Helpfulfor diagnosis: If a parent has bipolar disorder and a child displays symptoms or has been diagnosed with a disruptive behavioral disorder such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the child may be bipolar.
Important: Mood and anxiety disorders and substance abuse often occur together.
Terence A. Ketter, MD, chief, Bipolar Disorders Clinic, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
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Tara Stevens, EdD, assistant professor of educational psychology and leadership, Texas Tech University, Lubbock. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 It should not be used in patients with bipolar disorder. The herb may have additive effects with other stimulants. were assessed before and after the time period, using both objective and subjective criteria. The results? Significant improvement in physical fitness, mental fatigue, and motor skills. The group taking rhodiola also rated their own subjective, general well-being significantly better than the placebo group rated theirs. |
| The National Institute of Mental Health breaks depression down into three categories (major depression, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder), but there are wide variations within each category, and the severity of symptoms varies with individuals and also over time. In everyday terms, depression is often ranked in terms of severity—mild, moderate, or severe. The 2002 study tested people with moderately severe major depression. We're not talking slight feelings of sadness or the "blues" here; we're talking real disability. Many of these people are completely non-responsive to drugs.
And guess what? |
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 Big Pharma money has so completely infiltrated modern psychiatric medicine that any person claiming diseases like ADHD or "bipolar disorder" are based on solid science should be laughed off the world stage. Modern psychiatric medicine is an empty sham, a medical hoax, an uninspired contrivance of scientific-sounding babblydeegook designed to mesmerize gullible parents into putting their children on dangerous patented chemicals that may ultimately kill them.
Even the psychiatric scientists who voted these fictitious diseases (like "ADHD") into existence have no idea what they really are. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| Population studies have shown that countries in which people eat a lot of fish have lower incidence of bipolar disorder. And some people use omega-3s as a stand-alone treatment for mood disorders and ADHD. One study showed that people who eat fish once a week slow the yearly rate of cognitive decline by 10 percent. The Framingham Heart Study followed nine hundred people for nine years and found that those who ate three meals with fish oil per week were half as likely to develop dementia. |
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 Three of the leading ten causes of disability (major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia) are mental disorders. The most serious of these problem may lead to suicide. In the year 2000, about 29,000 Americans took their own lives. More than 90% of them suffered from a diagnosable mental disorder. Men commit suicide four times more often than women, however women attempt suicide 2-3 times as often as men.3
How accurate are these numbers? Establishing just how many people suffer from mental illness—that is, national estimates of prevalence—is problematic. |
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 For patients with bipolar disorder, only under strict medical supervision should SAMe be considered (Kagan et al, 1990).
Reported side effects are rare and include anxiety, headache, urinary frequency, pruritus, nausea, and diarrhea. drug interactions
MODERATE RISKS
Tricyclic Antidepressants: Concurrent use of SAMe and tricyclic antidepressants may result in an increased risk of serotonin syndrome (hypertension, hyperthermia, myoclonus, mental status changes). |
| LITHIUM
Psyllium (Possible decreased levels of lithium)
Yohimbe Bark (Precipitates manic episodes in bipolar disorder)
LOOP DIURETICS
Ginseng
(Increases diuretic resistance) Licorice
(Additive effect of hypokalemia) Uva-Ursi (The sodium-sparing effect of Uva-Ursi may antagonize the diuretic effect of the loop • diuretics)
LOPERAMIDE HYDROCHLORIDE
St. John's Wort
(May result in delirium with symptoms of confusion, agitation and disorientation) Valerian
(May result in delirium, confusion, agitation or disorientation)
LORATADINE
Mangosteen (G. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| It's only been very recently that exercise started making its way into treatment protocols for bipolar disorder.
In some ways, exercise is even more important for prevention than it is for treatment. One of the first symptoms of depression, even before your mood drops to new lows, is sleep disturbance. Either you can't get up or you can't get to sleep or both. I think of it as sleep inertia—trouble starting or stopping. First you lose your energy, then your interest in things. The key is to get moving immediately. And do not stop. |
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| Arecent study has discovered that children who have bipolar disorder misinterpret facial expressions—believing these expressions to be hostile—more often than their healthy counterparts. This might explain why bipolar children often tend to be more aggressive and irritable and have poorer social skills than healthy children.
THE STUDY
Researchers at the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) measured the brain activity in 22 bipolar children and 21 healthy children using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). |
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| Clinical Management: Avoid Yohimbine use in patients taking valproic acid for treatment of bipolar disorder.
POTENTIAL INTERACTIONS
OTC Stimulants: These may have alpha-1 adrenergic receptor activity to potentiate hypertension when Yohimbine is given concomitantly. Clinical Management: Avoid concomitant use. overdosage
Overdosage leads to salivation, mydriasis, evacuation, hypotension and disorders of the cardiac impulse-conducting system with negative-inotropic effect. Death occurs through cardiac failure. |
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 Over the last ten years alone, there has been a forty-fold increase in the number of children being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. That's a 4000% rise in the number of children with this so-called "disease." Gee, why isn't the CDC involved? Any increase that large should be due to an infectious disease pandemic -- if it were real, that is. But there is no pandemic, no outbreak, and no real cause for alarm. The 4000% increase is due entirely to clever marketing, disease mongering and the takeover of psychiatric medicine by Big Pharma. |
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 It is well known among clinicians that in people who suffer from bipolar disorder, antidepressants can trigger a manic state, or "mixed state" that oscillates between mania and depression. Clinicians need to exercise particular vigilance with bipolar patients who are taking SSRIs, often needing to ensure that they take an additional mood-stabilizing medication. |
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 Besides their use for depression, studies have shown that fish oil is helpful for bipolar disorder, as well. To ensure that you get enough of the essential omega-3s, eat fish (salmon, sardines, tuna, mackerel, cod) two to three times a week. For more information on the use of omega-3 fatty acids in depression, read The Omega-3 Connection: The Groundbreaking Antidepression Diet and Brain Program by Andrew Stoll, M.D. (Free Press, 2002),
Caution: Be careful about the source and potential contamination level of the fish you're choosing. Oceans Alive (www.oceansalive. |
| ANTIPSYCHOTICS
Drugs in this class are mostly prescribed to people who have schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or other mental illnesses that involve breaks from reality. They are sometimes prescribed off-label—without FDA approval—for anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), insomnia, and for Tourette's syndrome (where the person has "tics," involuntary movements and uncontrollable vocal sounds). These drugs are sometimes referred to as neuroleptics, a term that means "to take hold of one's nerves. |
| They stabilize mood, and are used to treat bipolar disorder. They're also used for pain reduction when nothing else works, and to prevent migraine headaches. (Hint for migraines: try magnesium, 400-500 mg daily, which has actually stopped chronic migraines in a number of my patients.)
There are several classes of anticonvulsant drugs, and only a few are known to cause nutrient depletion: phenytoin (Dilantin), carbamazepine (Tegretol, Carbatrol, Epitrol), primidone (Mysoline), methsuxamide (Celontin), valproic acid (Depakote, Depacon, Depakene), topiramate (Topomax) and gabapentin (Neurontin). |
| While research has used 10 grams to successfully treat bipolar disorder, I have found that if omega-3 fish oil is combined with other supplements in this chapter they work together, and the required dose is more like 4-6 grams (4,000-6,000 mg). Note: To take this high a dose of EPA/DHA without swallowing a dozen capsules a day, you will need to use a highly concentrated fish oil supplement that's 90 percent composed of these fatty acids.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that's made in the skin during exposure to sunlight. |
| They are prescribed for a long list of conditions besides depression, including anxiety, bipolar disorder, chronic pain, eating disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
While antidepressants may be enormously helpful, even life-saving for some people, they are often overprescribed, at too high a dose, over too long a time, and often before a good medical evaluation has been done.
People are led to believe that the popular selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and similar antidepressant drugs are totally safe, and that they are repairing an imbalance in their brains. |
| Cautions: Since it is energizing, it may trigger a manic episode in those with bipolar disorder.
Dose: Use 100-300 mg of a product standardized to 3 percent rosavins and 0.8 to 1.0 percent salidrosides.
More Helpful Mood Enhancers
• Calcium: Low levels of calcium cause nervousness, irritability, and numbness. Dose: 1,000 mg daily.
• Iron: In premenopausal women, depression may be a symptom of chronic iron deficiency anemia. Dose: Up to 15 mg daily.
• Magnesium: Deficiency in this mineral can result in depression, confusion, and anxiety. Dose: 250-500 mg daily. |
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