Posted by jjjaspar on January 10, 2011, at 14:55:46
In reply to Re: Taking vitamins with antidepressants))49er, posted by Lao Tzu on January 6, 2011, at 20:14:47
> I have heard some success stories with EMPowerPlus, but I don't know how true they are. I've never tried it, and I probably would have if it wasn't so expensive. That leaves me wondering whether the manufacturers are trying to improve the health of people or turn a big profit.
As far as I know, it is a non-profit organization. Groups are trying to gather enough money to complete a double-blind placebo controlled clinical trial. Big Pharma has their fist in so much to do with anything medical/psychiatric - just blindly give psychotropics for life.
The Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (http://www.cabf.org) is non-profit and does NOT accept donations from pharmaceutical companies and doing a better study on EMPowerplus is one item on their list.
But bonafide research HAS been done on it, and IS being done on it, and many doctors have testified about it's efficacy. In the research literature, it is simply referred to as "micronutrients" but all the tests on "micronutrients" IS EmPowerplus.
Big pharma has billions to spend on devious manipulations to try to discredit something so simple.
I have two family members that have tried it. It partially helped both. A lot better than meds alone. In fact one got off meds entirely on it (with better stability than on the psychotropic meds) but after healing her gut and finding dairy made her crazy and stopped it, was able to get off the EMPOwerplus as well.
So yes, it is true, and unbelievable that more doctors don't use it. We have several doctors in our region who use EmPowerplus because yes - it helps many people.
If you go to their website - http://www.truehope.com - they have links to scientific research studies on it.
Have you read these books about real-life stories involving nutrition? - This one is about a family with 4 generations of mental illness "Nutrients Quiet the Unquiet Brain--A Four Generation Bipolar Odyssey
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0971799016?tag=itsnome-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0971799016&adid=0Z910WQGRVQKNKM6Y1QD&;
and this one is about one person, but the problem also spanned generations "It's Not Mental": http://www.amazon.com/dp/0971799016?tag=itsnome-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0971799016&adid=0Z910WQGRVQKNKM6Y1QD&;
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