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]
Nutrient Therapy
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]
A Holistic Approach to Mysterious Chronic Illness
Sue Wang’s compelling account of her holistic healing journey, Messages from the Black Recliner, is a poignant and inspiring narrative that will resonate with many of my readers, particularly those suffering from chronic mysterious illness. She describes the way life as she knew it, was utterly derailed by terrifying and debilitating symptoms which began five… [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]
