Posted by KayeBaby on March 24, 2007, at 17:13:29 [reposted on March 25, 2007, at 4:35:00 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Give it a whirl..., posted by Squiggles on March 24, 2007, at 8:18:48
> I'll try to keep an open mind on this subject
> and read up on it. The broad application of orthomolecular treatments ranging from psyhiatric disturbance to cancer is rather disturbing and smacks of snake-oil panacea. However, i have not seen the statistics, nor read all the literature. I'm willing to follow its development as it seems to have become quite a hot avenue of "research".
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> Certainly, it has not been recommended to me as a medical alternative to lithium by any of my doctors, though i did have a nagging, disturbing doubt at one point when i was tested for magnesium after K-induced seizure and stroke. I would have thought that hospital care would have been a better option. But i did recover in my own bed after a month of excruciating headache and blood pressure swings, and vertigo, and incontinence. I felt as if i was run over by a truck. It seemed so obvious to me that the convulsions/stroke from withdrawal were the cause, and not a magnesium problem. I may just not understand the test and confuse it with orthomolecular medicine.
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> Squiggles
Squiggles,
The magnesium test that you had isn't really an application of orthomolecular medicine. This is a guess but mineral/electrlyte imbalances or deficiencies are often checked because and imbalance gives rise to many life threatening conditions.Which, of course, begs the question that if it is accepted that Vitamin/mineral imbalances or deficiencies can have profound negative consequences (such as death) them why should it be such a leap to assume that it could cause more subtle dysfuctions?
My mother-in-law had an episode of acute psychosis in her late 60's. She was admitted and was found to have pernicious anemia (b-12) high copper and a few other imbalances. She was put on a short course of anti-psychotics and given b-12 shots and other corrective supplements and she is now in her mid 80's and well.
She was treated by a garden variety psych. so this must be something that they look for as a matter of course. More likely, she had an older Dr. that attended to first things first.
It might be intersting to look up info on some of the known and mainstream medical accpted disease states produced by nutrient deficiencies and see the wide range of physical AND mental symptoms they present.
Pellegra, Scurvy, Pernicious Anemia, BeriBeri(which I believe means 'I cannot, I cannot' if memory serves me)
Take Care,
kaye
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