tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post8914448750436203300..comments2023-06-05T11:51:38.383-04:00Comments on Evolutionary Psychiatry: Minerals, OCD, ADHD, and QuestionsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-17916259999868684492014-01-04T19:13:51.012-05:002014-01-04T19:13:51.012-05:00Have you had your adrenals tested? You might want...Have you had your adrenals tested? You might want to find a functional medicine practitioner and see if they might be contributing. Adaptogens can help in that case.FunctionalMedNPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04603031209174216866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-68293621519774777782014-01-04T19:10:44.667-05:002014-01-04T19:10:44.667-05:00After spending thousands of dollars to learn to tr...After spending thousands of dollars to learn to treat the cause not the symptoms, I still never know which forms of any given mineral to use. I know zinc picolinate helps with phase 2 detox, and mag threonate is the only one crossing the bbb, and p5p is the best absorbed b6 but since different forms exist, I imagine they serve different functions (or can). Any insight? Thanks!FunctionalMedNPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04603031209174216866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-53449726703216270782013-11-13T09:48:59.863-05:002013-11-13T09:48:59.863-05:00Hey!
tell me plz, what can i do with my pure ocd?
...Hey!<br />tell me plz, what can i do with my pure ocd?<br />DaniAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03193561096905394580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-19491328853098964822013-08-31T14:38:12.124-04:002013-08-31T14:38:12.124-04:00Dr. Deans, what’s your opinion on supplementing wi...Dr. Deans, what’s your opinion on supplementing with chromium Polynicotinate ? 200mcg a day. I believe it has niacin in it. 200mcg seems to be the lower dose with no side effects but I would still appreciate your thoughts on it.<br />I’ve been dealing with reactive hypoglycemia and though a paleo diet improved it, it didn’t solved it completely.I had AN in my teens, so I believe insulin resistance is a consequence of "refeeding".<br />I’ve heard this type of chromium is what some doctors recommend. Before I used to supplement with chromium picolinate (100mcg) but I didn’t see any benefits from it.<br />Maybe Chromium Polynicotinate from Solgar, 200mcg, is worth a try. It comes with 100 capsules but if I decided to try it I'll probably just supplement for a short period of time 2/3 months.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-14735386380374187652013-08-03T10:49:34.686-04:002013-08-03T10:49:34.686-04:00Obviously, human body chemistry is dynamic and the...Obviously, human body chemistry is dynamic and the narrow definition found in one test, or one metric parameter is not sufficient to support a conclusion about the dynamic picture of health. Any emphasis (focus) in a study will serve the chosen bias of those who pay for the study/research. Boogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04582068544613898006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-8753611331027928802013-07-30T14:14:03.337-04:002013-07-30T14:14:03.337-04:00Yes, I've looked into the pyroluria papers and...Yes, I've looked into the pyroluria papers and haven't found anything too solid, though it seems plausible that a certain percentage of people would have difficulty with zinc metabolism and would have certain symptoms related to that. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-48744676245960204332013-07-30T14:12:38.512-04:002013-07-30T14:12:38.512-04:00I find iron deficiency in my clinical practice not...I find iron deficiency in my clinical practice not infrequently. The recommendations for restless legs are to keep ferritin >40, and many of the women I test with sleep disturbance are in the teens or twenties. Also there are many patients walking around status post gastric bypass or sleeve these days and they aren't always followed that closely after a few years after the surgery for nutritional issues. Iron deficiency is very common in that population.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-54747627297836964802013-07-29T00:01:46.327-04:002013-07-29T00:01:46.327-04:00The approach of using minerals (and other non-mine...The approach of using minerals (and other non-mineral nutrients) in mental health was pioneered by people like Carl Pfeiffer and Abram Hoffer. Their work is continued today by people like William Walsh, not a medical doctor but a scientist of some type. He has written the book "Nutrient Power" specifically about this area.<br /><br />I have pyroluria myself which is characterised by a zinc:copper imbalance. Zinc levels should always be assessed in conjunction with copper to see the ratio. The doctors that treat this always look as plasma zinc and serum copper. There are many MDs/GPs and some psychiatrists using this approach successfully. Essential fatty acids are also important to address here. Unfortunately, pyroluria is on the fringes of medicine, so there are not many papers out there to support it and 99.9% of doctors don't know what it is or actively deny it exists.<br /><br />There is a practitioner list here: http://www.biobalance.org.au/patients/find-practitioners<br /><br />I believe there are more doctors in the US, but they just aren't on this list.<br /><br />Thank you for all the wonderful posts Emily, your blog is fantastic. <br /><br />Allison<br /><br />sallycinnamonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03437248293195579978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-48628359096658439562013-07-28T19:18:15.427-04:002013-07-28T19:18:15.427-04:00Iron is interesting for me personally, because doc...Iron is interesting for me personally, because doctors don't really tell you there's anything the matter with your iron levels unless you're anemic, or have extremely low ferritin I guess. <br />Here's a data point for you: I experience low dopamine symptoms (low motivation, executive functioning, movement) when my ferritin levels dip below 50. (Iron is important for dopaminergic function, I've found.) This occurs without any anemia, and I remain fully within the reference range for serum ferritin, so I do not actually get diagnosed with iron deficiency, but my physical symptoms match with the neurological/psychiatric ones (issues with cold intolerance + some other things that have the appearance of hypothyroidism -my thyroid is perfectly fine though). I think this may be an issue with studies on iron, and doctors' response to deficiency symptoms when labs look fine: the reference range is based on general population data, so some people will be completely fine at a level of say 30, while others are deficient. In the literature, I notice that in abstracts and conclusions they will tend to say ferritin levels should be above 50 in the populations they are studying (those with fatigue, or restless leg syndrome) to experience symptom relief. I am honestly getting the impression that there is a subset of people with psychiatric/hypothyroid symptoms (maybe mostly women?) who would be 'cured' by repleting ferritin levels, because their symptoms are actually from iron deficiency without anemia. I don't know. Just an n=1 and some speculation. But I do notice that iron deficiency tends to only be mentioned in the context of anemia, when apparently, some people's red blood cells hold on to that iron till the bitter end and instead divert iron from other things. Thought you might be interested, given the way people tend to eat these days (beef does not really have that much iron either. When I want iron, I go for spleen, heart, maybe elk/deer). Plus, if iron status is based on just being within the reference range, it may produce misleading results in studies. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com