Given my conviction that the vast majority of psychiatric conditions are caused by inflammation of the brain, most of the recommendations that I make to patients in my practice of holistic psychiatry are designed to support the immune system which decreases inflammation. Depression, anxiety, attentional difficulties, brain fog, and other cognitive changes are all mediated… [Continue reading]
Rebalancing Brain Chemistry / Dr Walsh
Tapering Psychiatric Medications
These days many new patients who call are interested in getting off of psychiatric medications. Often they do not feel that the medicines are effective, they hate the side effects, and worry about the long term consequences of ingesting synthetic chemicals. I was trained to believe that stopping a psychiatric medication was not a big deal; you… [Continue reading]
Rebalancing Brain Chemistry with Dr. Walsh’s Nutrients
I first attended one of Dr. Walsh’s Training for Physician’s in Mastering Brain Chemistry in Chicago in October of 2014. Fifteen months later, I am now participating in a second training in California after having regularly applied his method in my practice. These days I rarely see a patient without recommending simple laboratory testing of… [Continue reading]
Copper Toxicity and Psychiatric Conditions
Dr. William Walsh’s research and teaching about nutrient therapy for the treatment of psychiatric conditions changed the way that I practice. I now routinely order a few simple and inexpensive laboratory studies on almost everyone. The studies help me to identify biochemical imbalances commonly associated with psychiatric symptoms, which can be treated with protocols of nutrient therapy. Many patients… [Continue reading]
Histamine, Methylation and MTHFR
In October 2014 I attended a training for physicians offered by the Walsh Research Institute, where I learned about the use of vitamins and minerals to treat psychiatric conditions. Based upon the teaching, I ordered laboratory studies on myself, as well as almost all of the patients in my practice, and prescribed protocols to correct the imbalances revealed… [Continue reading]
