Wednesday, December 5, 2007

High dose Vitamins

Just a note about some of my non-aboriginal related research, though, in some ways, it is, because aboriginal people have some of the worst nutrition in the world, thanks to being starved and then fed government commodity food.

I'm talking about high dose micronutrient therapy for psychiatric conditions. I thought to make this post today, because a local psychiatrist called me who wanted to get started in this area because I had seen one of her patients on call and had suggested Empower Plus and it had worked so well when medications hadn't, that she wanted to know more. So word is spreading thanks to patients who are doing well.

I'm starting a study on the use of Empower-Plus for mood disorders in January, and will appreciate referrals.

The logic behind this approach comes from a paper written by Bruce Ames, Ilan Elson-Schwab, and Eli Silver, called High-dose vitamin therapy stimulates variant enzymes with decreased coenzyme binding affinity (increased Km): relevance to genetic disease and polymorphisms , from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002; 75: 616-58.

Also see the research section of True Hope's web site at www.truehope.com.

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