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Facing The Challenges of Our Times With Naturopathic Psychiatry

As our modern world gives rise to a new set of mental illness, naturopathic medicine has the potential to emerge as a leader in the field of psychiatry. Indeed, the psychiatric drug crisis shows clearly that mental illness cannot be treated safely by the sole manipulation of neurotransmitters. Physicians who prescribe drugs with suicidal side effects are murderers. Responsible psychiatrists have responded to this crisis with a more and more popular form of psychiatry: holistic, alternative or integrative psychiatry.

What is Alternative, Holistic or Integrative Psychiatry?

This new branch of psychiatry considers the whole person and uses psychological or medical procedures in addition to pharmaceutical drugs. It may use acupuncture, nutrition, supplements, lifestyle changes, psychotherapy, massage, yoga, meditation, exercise and many other procedures commonly used by naturopathic medicine. Alternative or holistic or integrative psychiatry does not just patch up the symptoms it also look for the possible physical cause of mental illness.

What is Naturopathic Psychiatry?

Naturopathic psychiatry looks for the cause of mental illness in both the physical emotional and mental aspect of human beings. It investigates possible medical conditions such as hormonal and nutritional imbalance, heavy metal toxicity or unresolved past psychological traumas. Naturopathic psychiatry aims at eliminating psychotropic drugs. It uses many therapeutic tools that studies have shown to be as efficacious as drugs: Exercise better than SSRI's to fight depression, mindfulness better than benzodiazepines for anxiety, proper nutrition and good sleep for clarity of mind and positive psychotherapy for cultivating happiness.

Naturopathic psychiatry empowers people to control their lives and their mind.

Naturopathic psychiatry leads people to their spiritual journey.

Naturopathic psychiatry helps individuals to find purpose, meaning and joy in life.

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Patients often ask how the coffee enema works to detoxify. This article by Gar Hildenbrand, excerpted from "How the Gerson Therapy Heals," 1990, explains the Biological Basis for the Coffee Enema.

The coffee enema is capable of removing circulating toxins and partial metabolites for one specific reason, and that is that the coffee enema not only dilates bile ducts – which Dr. Max Gerson knew – we now know, from the work of Wattenberg, Sparnins, and Lam at the University of Minnesota, Department of Pathology, Minneapolis, that coffee stimulates an enzyme system in the liver, glutathione-S-transferase, that is capable of removing a vast variety of electrophiles from the bloodstream. Electrophiles are referred to in popular literature as free radicals.

Electrophiles are atomic particles with one or more electrons in unpaired spins. They have an affinity for electrons and they want to get involved where they should not get involved. They are charged particles, and they will damage membranes of cells and they will inflict disturbances in cellular metabolism.

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